See the latest and greatest at the 2007 Technology Fair. Register to win an HP Laptop and other cool prizes! Hosted by the UNL Computer Store and Information Services and sponsored by Adobe, Apple, Dell, HP, Gateway, Lenovo, Sony, and others. Breakout sessions include Teaching with Tablet PCs, Blackboard Content Management System, Automatic Call Distribution, Data Back-ups, Podcasting, Spam filtering and more! For more info go to http://sales.unl.edu or visit any UNL Computer Store location.

The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures will host a talk - "Being German in the Americas: Cultural Transfer in 19th-Century German Immigrant Literature," Professor Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, associate professor of German & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. "

The Internet has been a remarkable success, but many in the research community that contributed to its design now point to limitations and vulnerabilities that are stressing its underlying architecture. This has led to a call for new, clean-slate designs, but it is widely acknowledged that a "red flag day" for transitioning to such a new architecture is not realistic. This talk addresses this delima, and shows how wide-area network testbeds, such as PlanetLab and ViNI (and eventually GENI) can provide a platform for continually reinventing the Internet. Larry Peterson is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium and Chair of the planning group for NSF's GENI Initiative. He is also a co-author of the best selling networking textbook Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (3e).* His research focuses on the design and implementation of networked systems. Professor Peterson recently served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, he has been on the Editorial Board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select Areas in Communication, and he has served as program chair for SOSP, NSDI, and HotNets. Peterson is a Fellow of the ACM. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.

This is the second event in the Colloquium Series: "Celebrating 30 Years of Women's (and Gender) Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln." Issues to be discussed will include: reasons for pursuing a career in these fields, joys and challenges of work in these fields at UNL, and what is being done to promote greater participation by women in these fields.

Saxophonist, Larry Gwozdz will give a recital on Tuesday, Oct 2 at 7:30 pm in Kimball Recital Hall. The repertoire will include works by Johan Friedich Fasch, Roger C. Vogel, Gary Powell Nash, and UNL faculty member Randall Snyder. Tickets: General admission $5, student/senior $3, available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.