Young Zach (9) and his dad drove down
from Lynchburg to Blacksburg to take one of
LCBB’s first Arduino workshops in 2013.
Local Blacksburg tech leaders Rackspace and Tech Pad have been separately bringing quality STEM coding classes to Blacksburg and the New River Valley for a while now. My own company and Internet/cloud hoster Rackspace has been running monthly Let’s Code Blacksburg! (LCBB) programming & technology workshops since 2012. Local coworking space Tech Pad has been running nearly weekly programming series with their Blacksburg Coder DoJo group for over a year now, and other local tech experts from around town have been running the New River Valley 100 Girls of Code workshops since this past summer.
The leaders of these STEM coding groups like to occasionally meet to discuss and assist each other with various community opportunities, but recently we huddled around the idea of coordinating efforts around a single “Blacksburg Week of Code“. This focused, three day set of coding opportunities (from December 10-12th) is being offered in conjunction with the global “Computer Science Education Week” (December 7-13) efforts being evangelized by the Hour of Code STEM programming movement. The now global Hour of Code movement proclaims, “Every student should have the opportunity to learn computer science. It helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic and creativity. By starting early, students will have a foundation for success in any 21st-century career path.” Continue reading
In this talk, we will cover several types of Physical Attacks that IoT hardware designers should know about. Physical attacks are a type of cryptanalysis, or the analysis of information systems in order to discover the hidden aspects of devices and systems using their implementation properties. Fault Injection is the force used to change the physical behavior of the running device to discover additional security information or ways into the system. Physical attack
After graduating from Virginia Tech in 2000, Jon started working in games in 2001. Fairly in-over-his-head, he managed to ship a multiplayer-only game called Savage: The Battle for Newerth in 2003 at S2 Games, and then joined Infinity Ward in 2004. At Infinity Ward he worked almost exclusively on multiplayer and shipped Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Modern Warfare 2. In 2010, Jon and large group of Infinity Ward employees started Respawn Entertainment, where he is now a Lead Programmer. He shipped Titanfall in 2014 on Xbox One and PC, which used a massive amount of Azure cloud-based servers to host the game servers. He is eager to talk about Titanfall’s online tech and ready to answer your meanest questions as best as he can.
down and raise a family, but it is also a technology rich environment where you can regularly reach out with other like minded technologists and cutting edge academia. Our location literally allows Rackers to live on the side of a mountain and still have a picturesque 10 minute commute time — that is, unless you prefer just officing from home. Combine the awesome outdoor living with a nice low cost of living and thriving local tech community, and you can see why Rackers love the higher quality of life we experience here in “Racksburg”.