UIC ACM

Meetings as usual. SIG-Build, and not a general meeting this week.
Preparing for E-Week, so check out the events going on there.

~ACM President, Sean Deitz

ACM Meeting this Thursday, at 5:30 pm in SEO 1000.
Speaker is a secret, so attend to find out.

Installfest this Saturday. Come let us teach you the wonders of Linux, or just get your OS fix.

Meeting times are as specified last week.

LAN Party was fun, sorry to those of you who missed it. Our next one will probably be our big one.

~Come get involved, Sean Deitz

Come join us at the ACM LAN Party this weekend! Starting Saturday, 2:00 pm.
Installfest is next weekend! Come install Linux.

Thank you to everyone who showed up at last week’s Microsoft recruiter meeting. Attendance well exceeded expectations. I hope you’ll continue to attend our other meetings, though I accept that we probably won’t have that good attendance again.

Come stop by the ACM office to get involved.
If you’re willing to do tutoring, send an e-mail to sdeitz2@uic.edu.
If you have the feeling you’ll require tutoring, drop on by, or send an e-mail to tutoring@acm.cs.uic.edu.
It’s past the time to drop, so get help early on, so you’re not lost later.

Our schedule for SIGs for the semester is about set, so here it is.

Monday: 5:30 pm - SIG-Code
Tuesday: 5:30 pm - Flourish Planning Meeting
Wednesday: 5:30 pm - SIG-Game Meeting
Every Other Thursday: 5:30 pm - SIG-Build - Meets on those Thursdays on which there is no ACM meeting. That means this Thursday!
Friday:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - SIG-Lug
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - SIG-DROID
6:00 pm - SIG-Fun Movie night!

So, there it is, I don’t think I’ll post it again every week, hopefully people can scroll down to see it. If there are any updates, let me know and I’ll post any sort of irregularities or updates to topics that people might be interested in.
This is all I can do, it remains to you to get involved. Get out there and do it!
This week’s movie is Terminator 2. Note that this week, it will start 20 minutes later than usual, at 6:20.

~Too late to drop, too early to give up, ACM President, Sean Deitz

Our first meeting of the semester will be this Thursday, January 21st, at !! 5:00 pm !! in the Fort Dearborn B room, on the third floor of SCE. Note that this is a different room and time than we usually meet. At this meeting, a Microsoft recruiter will be talking about how to craft your resume, in addition to the SIGs presenting their plans for the coming semester.

Come stop by the ACM office to get involved.
If you’re willing to do tutoring, send an e-mail to sdeitz2@uic.edu.
If you have the feeling you’ll require tutoring, drop on by, or send an e-mail to tutoring@acm.cs.uic.edu.

Meeting times for the semester will be decided at this Thursday’s meeting, but here’s what should be going on this week.
Tuesday: 5:30 pm - Flourish Meeting: Flourish Planning meetings are every week now. 2 months remain until the conference, so things are heating up. It’s earlier than it usually is, so don’t be caught off guard. Get on the Google Wave for instructions, come to the meeting with questions and suggestions.
Wednesday: 5:30 pm - SIG-Game Meeting: There’s been some activity over break, but we’ll need to start strong if we want to get this game finished by this year. There’s much to do, so get your tasks, and complete them, so we’ll have something to talk about and somewhere to progress at the meeting. We shouldn’t do tutorials every time.
Thursday: 3:30 pm-5:00 pm - SIG-Build: Conducting inventory, organizing structure for the coming semester, accepting ideas for projects.
Friday:
5:00 pm - SIG-Lug: Discussing activities planned for the coming semester, planning speakers, and otherwise checking in.
6:00 pm - SIG-Fun: Movie night! Movie TBA. Join us for fun and popcorn!

~See you at this week’s meeting, ACM President, Sean Deitz

Another exciting semester here in Spring 2010 at UIC. Hope you all had a wonderful break, and are prepared for another intense semester. We’re looking forward to your participation.
With a new schedule comes new classrooms, so if you’re lost, check out the UIC Mega Pathfinder (Link on the left). Don’t be late, find your classes on time. Recommend it to your friends.

Our first meeting of the semester will be next Thursday, January 21st, at !! 6:00 pm !! in SEO 1000. Come hear about what we have planned for this semester, and bring your ideas for what you want to do, and how you want to get it done. All of the SIGs will be presenting their current status and plans for the coming semester, and we’ll be reviewing progress over the last semester.

Come stop by the ACM office to get involved.
If you’re willing to do tutoring, send an e-mail to sdeitz2@uic.edu.
If you have the feeling you’ll require tutoring, drop on by, or send an e-mail to tutoring@acm.cs.uic.edu.

Meeting times for the semester will be decided at next Thursday’s meeting, but here’s what might be going on this week.
Monday: 5:30 pm - SIG-Code Meeting: We’ll be taking it into a new direction this semester, so be there to shape the transformation, or just to observe the metamorphosis
Tuesday: 5:30 pm - Flourish Meeting: Flourish Planning meetings are every week now. 2 months remain until the conference, so things are heating up. It’s earlier than it usually is, so don’t be caught off guard. Get on the Google Wave for instructions, come to the meeting with questions and suggestions.
Wednesday: 5:30 pm? - SIG-Game Meeting: There’s been some activity over break, but we’ll need to start strong if we want to get this game finished by this year. There’s much to do, so get your tasks, and complete them.
Thursday: 3:30 pm-5:30 pm - SIG-Build: Conducting inventory, organizing structure for the coming semester, accepting ideas for projects.
Friday:
5:00 pm - SIG-Lug: Discussing activities planned for the coming semester, planning speakers, and otherwise checking in.
6:00 pm - SIG-Fun: Movie night! We’ll be watching The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. Join us for fun and popcorn!

~Looking forward to a good semester, ACM President, Sean Deitz

Happy holidays. Hope everyone is enjoying their break.
Looks like no SIG-Game meetings this break, so we’ll see you all in the office Monday, first week of classes.

SIG-Code will be meeting to decide on what topics to cover, so if there is a language or book you would like to study, as a group, send it to the list, so we can decide on what we want to do and get right to it.

~ACM President, Sean Deitz

ACM activities are mostly cancelled this week.

There was no SIG-Code yesterday, and no SIG-Game on Wednesday.
There will still be a Flourish planning meeting on Tuesday.

Next week, all ACM activities resume as normal.
SIG-Code will be taking ideas for projects and scheduling for next semester on Monday at 5:30 pm.
Flourish will be planning for activities and duties over break.
SIG-Game will have the last meeting of the semester, so there will be some summary of where we’ve gotten so far, and will continue with the teaching sessions for the newcomers.
Professor Kenyon will be talking about graduate school at the final ACM General Meeting of the semester. Have the questions you never thought to ask about your future answered.
Finally, we’re having a pre-finals party on Friday. Come watch a movie with us at 6:00 pm, and we’ll get you all the relaxation you need to study hard for finals. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Good luck with your studying, and have a happy Thanksgiving!

~Sean Deitz, ACM President

No ACM General Meeting this week.

All meetings are at 5:30 pm, in SEL 2262, unless otherwise specified.
SIG-Code meets on Monday to continue their study of Perl.  We’re reaching the end of the tutorials, so if anyone has project suggestions, or somewhere to go from there, that’d be cool.
Flourish Planning meeting occurring on Tuesday.  Help search for sponsors and speakers.
SIG-Game meeting on Wednesday.  Help us get together a playable game before the semester runs out.
SIG-Fun movie night will continue on Friday at 6:00.  We may continue with favorites from last time, or we might cook up something new.

Also, be aware of the SIGs starting up next semester.  SIG-Droid will be working off of the Android platform, so whether you’re interested in tooling around with the SDK or seriously producing some phone apps, be sure to check it out.
SIG-Build is our hardware-aware comrades’ attempt to make use of the older machines in the office, and to make people aware of the inner workings of Computing Machinery.  Building a computer out of whatever parts are available to them, it is their task to bridge the gap between software enthusiasts and those with technical knowledge about the components of a system.  This is knowledge you won’t want to miss out on, so definitely reserve some time for their meetings and tutorials.

~Get things done now, as time runs short before you know it, ACM President, Sean Deitz

SIG-Code meets as usual, on Monday at 5:30 pm to continue learning Perl. Sean will not be there on account of an Engineering Council meeting, so someone else take the lead, preferably one of those who demonstrated some proficiency with the language.
The Flourish planning committee is meeting this Tuesday at 5:30 pm. Get involved in our spectacular Open Source conference!
SIG-Game meets on this Wedsnday. It’s a good time to progress, so work on it if you have time.
This Thursday, we have a General meeting at 5:30 pm in SEO 1000. At this meeting,
Dr. Eriksson will present his most recently published work, “VTrack:
Accurate, Energy-Aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones'’,
presented last week at SenSys 2009 where it received the ‘best paper’ award.
He will also briefly touch upon other related projects, including
“Cabernet'’ a system for opportunistic vehicular content delivery using
open WiFi access points, and “The Pothole Patrol'’, a mobile sensor network
for online road surface quality monitoring. After the presentation,
attendees will be invited to take a look at the custom-designed hardware
used for these projects.
Definitely worth attending.

Finally, SIG-Fun Movie night will be at 6:00 pm in 2262 SEL.. We will be watching *movie yet undisclosed*, so come and share in the fun.

~Keep busy, ACM President, Sean Deitz

SIG-Code continues rocking with Perl, meeting Monday at 5:30. We’ll be continuing on for a while longer, as it looks like there’s sufficient interest. If you’ve got any other ideas, make them known.
Flourish Planning meetings are every other Tuesday at 5:30, starting next Tuesday. To get involved our our awesome open source conference, start attending.
SIG-Game did not meet last week, and there haven’t been any submissions for the past week. Being busy is understandable, but don’t forget about us completely.
This Thursday, everyone should be at the CS Scavenger Hunt, starting around 3:30 pm, in ERF 1043. Great prizes, great food, and a good competition. Come and enjoy with the rest of us.
SIG-Fun continues their movie night every Friday with a wide arc from computing, watching Live Free or Die Hard. Stop by around 6:00 pm, and enjoy a movie and some candy.

It’s a good time to get involved, don’t miss it.
~Sean Deitz