Categories – Announcements

We are delighted to offer a limited number of registration reimbursement grants for the upcoming Practical Reproducibility Tutorial/Hackathon at the IC2E Conference, which takes place in Boston, MA on September 25, 2023. Read on for details of this offer and how to apply.
 

Calling all Chameleon users interested in reproducibiliity! As you have seen in our last month's changelog we are trying to make reproducible experiments on Chameleon more visible -- and now we are also organizing a hackathon that will help you package your results to be easy to reproduce on Chameleon via Trovi. Please, take a look and see if you can join us in Boston for a day of good ideas, good discussion, and good fun making experiments (including your experiments) more accessible! 

Join us on Tuesday, August 1st at 10 AM CT for a webinar that showcases how to teach machine learning using inexpensive and easy to find self-driving cars. We will present an educational module that allows students to configure an inexpensive off-the-shelf self-driving vehicle, generate training sets by driving the vehicle, and train models based on those driving sets, evaluate the quality of the training by observing the car in practice, and ultimately refine the training and watch the improvements.

The educational module is suitable for both educators and self-learners, open-source, and it can be highly configurable for specific classes based on individual or classroom needs. This webinar will demonstrate an end-to-end educational module that aims to bridge the gap between theory abstractions and practice in an easy-to-follow manner. – please, check the registration link here.

More opportunities for Chameleon Users interested in reproducibility! The Chameleon team will host two Bird-of-Feather (BoF) sessions on Reproducibility at the USENIX ATC/OSDI 2023. The hour long BOFs will be held on Monday, July 10th and  Tuesday, July 11th in the 7-10PM time slot with more specific time and place to be announced at the event. 
 

Calling all Chameleon users interested in reproducibility! The Chameleon team will host a Practical Reproducibility for Computer Science Hackathon, taking place on June 29, at 11:00 PT, at ACM REP ‘23 at Baskin Engineering 2 - Room E2-599 in UC Santa Cruz.

Our friends at FABRIC have recently updated their FABRIC/Chameleon Trovi artifact. It's full of interesting examples to check out.

We are delighted to announce the keynote speaker for the Chameleon User Meeting: Fraida Fund will give a keynote entitled "A Roadmap to Deeper Learning Using Research Infrastructure". Fraida is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and has extensive experience in using open access experimental platforms for research as well as teaching. She will share with us several ways to use experimental research infrastructure to create meaningful and engaging experiential learning opportunities.

The Call for Presentations at the Chameleon User Meeting is out! We invite you to share your resaerch as well as your experiences working with the Chameleon testbed! As in prior years, to facilitate this discussion we are soliciting proposals for brief presentations (15-20 minutes) based on your resaerch or education work with Chameleon. The deadline to submit presentation proposals is April, 3rd, 2023 and as in prior years the top ten submissions will be awarded travel support to the meeting. 

Chameleon will organize two BOFs on the topic of reproducibily at the USENIX FAST'23 conference.

The BOFs will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday 02/21-22 to discuss how to best package storage experiments on Chameleon for reproducibility. We will present several experiments patterns that should help you package your own experiments as well as actual packaged experiments for reproducing. Chameleon staff will be around to answer questions and provide technical help in packaging and reproducing experiments. 

The date for the Chameleon User Meeting in Chicago has been set to May 2-3. We will be back very soon with a full announcement and call for presentations but in the meantime please block the time in your calendar because we are all looking forward to seeing you here!