Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2016-01-23 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by dzaefn. In attendance were Voting members: andersk, dzaefn, medasaro, slz Associate members: achernya, alex_c, bbaren, kcr Prospectives: andreas, foner, ignacioe, nchinda2, phuvp, snp Guests: '() Administrivia: dzaefn: I nominate Miguel Young for membership. He has organized SIPB IAP. [seconded] foner: I would like to poke the actual secretary for something. Project Reports: Miguel: SIPB IAP is over the hill; most of the classes happened last week. There will be another teacher party coming up to celebrate the lack of anything blowing up or catching fire. The sipb reading group will meet tomorrow to discuss neural nets alex_c: I will be teaching a class next semester. foner: This Wednesday, there will be a class on civil disobediance at the media lab, on "Building a toolkit for non-violent resistance". andersk: There was a new Barnowl release. Other: mcyoung: I went to the IS&T help desk in E17; it looks "very interesting". I think the design was inspired by Google's material design [?] is leaving for the west coast and will miss us all Other Other: achernya: The internet is completely awful and I don't understand how it works. Somewhere in the Middle East it takes more than one second to get to google.com. [many second this notion of frustration] dzaefn: MIT Nano construction progress has been high; the building is quite done. mcyoung: It's cold. It's windy but it was snowing this morning. dzaefn: The current line of forecast is that between 1am and 5am tomorrow morning, .8 inches of rain are expected to fall in this area. dzaefn: I won the Chicken McNugget competition with 75 nuggets. The prize for winning was 20 McNuggets. The meeting was adjourned at [??:??]. Minutes taken and submitted by nchinda2.