CS 1025 01 - Week #11 October 24 thru 28



Monday, October 31st



  1. Ghostbusters and Walter Peck and the Ectocontainment System. Walter Peck, of the EPA, wants to shut it down. He succeeds in getting a court order and shuts it down.

  2. Gozur the Gozerian: http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Gozer. CHOOSE.
    C H O O S E is a key concept of the entire Ghostbusters movie and it being a metaphor for problem solving.

    How does this relate to the WAGGLE DANCING BEES? Mr. Staypuft?

     
    During this time, a man named Walter Peck switched 
      off the Containment Unit, releasing all the captured ghosts 
      which started to roam around, waiting for Gozer. 
    
      Unfortunately for the Ghostbusters, Vinz was able to successfully escape 
      and locate Zuul. Though the Ghostbusters were able to make it to the 
      building, they were too late to stop Zuul and Vinz from completing their 
      ritual and summoning forth Gozer, transforming the bodies of Dana 
      Barrett and Louis Tully to the Terror Dog forms of their possessors in 
      the process.
    
    Gozer appeared out of the Temple of Gozer in the form of a female 
      covered in strange slime-like clothes. The Ghostbusters (specifically 
      Peter) sent Ray in to confront Gozer first, to which Ray ordered Gozer 
      to cease all supernatural activity. 
    
    Gozer asked Ray if he was a god, then started blasting the Ghostbusters 
      when he said no.  The Ghostbusters attempted to blast Gozer, 
      but their streams were deflected. The "nimble, 
      little minx" then vanished, causing the Ghostbusters to think they had won. 
    
    But then Gozer demanded that the Ghostbusters "Choose the form of 
      The Destructor!" - the form Gozer would assume to destroy them with. 
    
    While Winston, Egon, and Peter were able to clear their minds, Ray 
      accidentally thought of something, "...something that could never, ever 
      possibly destroy us! Mr. Stay Puft!". But Gozer took this form and 
      attacked the Ghostbusters as a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
    
    While the Ghostbusters burned some of Gozer's new form with their beams, 
      it wouldn't hold the creature back for very long. The Ghostbusters then 
      crossed the streams and forced the gate closed as Gozer looked on in 
      horror, causing the entire top of the building to be consumed in a 
      powerful explosion, incinerating the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and 
      banishing Gozer back to its hellish realm. Zuul and Vinz Clortho went 
      with Gozer and Dana and Louis were reverted to their human forms. Though 
      the Ghostbusters had saved the city, the destruction that they caused 
      got them kicked out of business.
    
  3. Scene where the thought of Mr. Staypuft pops into Dr. Raymond Stantz' head.

  4. Cross the streams - extreme problem solving tactic. "I love this plan. I'm excited to be part of it!" says Dr. Peter Venkman.

Wednesday, November 2nd


  1. Ventana VENSIM - System Dynamics Modeling with VENSIM.
    Unconstrained Population Growth was introduced.

  2. The Elevator at the Sedgewick Hotel and never having tried out the unlicensed nuclear accelerators ahead of time. Heading up to the 12th floor to face first slimer, the Ghostbusters have no experience whatsoever with their equipment. What is TPR? Hint: Crossing the streams.

  3. Ventana VENSIM 10 questions due onn Friday, November 4th: vensimNov2nd2016 - 10 questions - to gain some familiarity with VENSIM tool.

Friday, November 4th



  1. Assignment: VENSIMAssign11_11_2016.pdf - VENSIM Population model is due one week from today on 11/11/2016 Friday.

  2. Assignment: VENSIM - System Dynamics Modeling with VENSIM.
    Unconstrained Population Growth was introduced that has a source Rate (Births) and a Rate going to a sink (Deaths).
    Send the email attachments to:  jacobson@cs.uni.edu
    
                 TO:  jacobson@cs.uni.edu
            SUBJECT:  VENSIM Assign
    
       What to attach in the email message:   1. The Word document with the
                                                   GRAPH of births, deaths,
                                                   and population.
    
                                              2. The Vensim model file,
                                                   which will have an
                                                   extension of .MDL.
    

  3. See Week #10 under Wednesday, October 26th for the TEST #1 Extra Credit Points.

    See Week #10 under Monday, October 24th if you want to see the pages from the test again.

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