UIC ACM

WHAT: ACM Presents Michael Burk in Interview Process, Free Food
WHEN: Thursday November 7 5:30 PM
WHERE: SEO 1000

Michael Burk is a UIC graduate who worked at Microsoft and now works
at NVIDIA.  Michael has extensive experience with interview process at
places such as Microsoft, Google and Nvidia and he would like to share
it with you.  He is also accepting Resumes.

Come join us for some food and to gain knowledge that will apply throughout your career.

Ramon Franco
ACM@UIC
President 2007-2008

Who: Association for Computing Machinery and LUG
What: ACM General Meeting and presentation by Zlatan Klebic and FREE PIZZA
Where: SEO 1000
When: November 1, 5:30pm-7:30pm

Hello Everyone,

On Thursday, November 1st, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will be having a general meeting. Come join us and enjoy some pizza as the Lug will be hosting the following talk:

Building user friendly database applications in Linux using xWidgets GUI Framework(a pure C++ API) and with PostgreSQL C API. By Zlatan Klebic, a distinguished open source community member with the Chicago Lug and IT Manager with the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.

Also, if you’re interested in joining the ACM, please bring your $10 membership fee. Membership persists for one year and includes the following:

- Discounted ACM merchandise
- ACM library checkout access
- Account on the ACM Server
- Web hosting on the ACM Server
- Subversion and database access
- Just about any compiler on the ACM server
- Many many more!

If you have any questions, please let me know at rfranc4@uic.edu

Regards,

Ramon Franco
ACM@UIC
President 2007-2008

Who: Linux User Group
What: IBM WSUG Open Source Lab
Where: IBM Innovation Center
When: Thursday, October 25 @ 5:00pm
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IBM WSUG Open Source Lab - Part II

October 19th, 2007
This coming Thursday, Oct 25. We will be going again to the IBM innovation center to continue with the series on Websphere. This is great for all of us that wanted to get started and learn all about WebSphere and experiment with it.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about java, eclipse, and developing internet applications with websphere community edition. Even if you didn’t join us for the first session we are just starting with the fun part: so come this time, is not too late!

Please, if you are coming, RSVP to rserra3@uic.edu!!!!!

Agenda
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5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Welcome & Pizza
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm EJB 3.0/JPA Overview
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm (1) Identify Use Cases & Domain Model
(2) Develop Application using EJB3.0/JPA 1.0

In WebSphere Users Group meeting, we will continue our four-part workshop entitled, “Building and Deploying a Solution Using IBM Open-Source Offerings.” We will be picking up where we left off last month, working with WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 and the Eclipse 3.3 environment to design, develop, deploy, and administer a dynamic web application. By the end of the four-part series, we hope to have a fully-functional web application using nothing but freely-available tools from IBM and other members of the Open Source Community.

In this month’s session, we will be looking at the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 architecture, focusing specifically on Session beans and the new Java Persistence API to build the domain model for our project.

Last month, we came up with five great ideas for potential applications to build in our lab. We set up a blog to discuss these project ideas, which you can find here:

** Blog URL: http://wascelab.wordpress.com

Please vote your favorite application by clicking on the title of the entry and leaving a comment.

FREE PIZZA!

Who: Anyone!
What: Programming Contest
Where: SEL 2260 (CS Lounge)
When: Thursday, October 18 @ 5:00pm
Why: Programming, Pizza, and Fun!

Hey Everyone,

This Thursday, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is holding a local programming contest in preparation for Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Please join us for some team-based programming, free pizza, and tons of fun.

This event is open to anyone willing to be in the programming contest as well as anyone interested in helping us run the ICPC one at a later date.

Come on out this Thursday, for UIC’s official Halo 3 Release Party!

Who: Everyone!
What: Halo 3 Release Party
When: Thursday, October 4th (1:30PM - 8PMish???)
Where: SEO 1000 (10th floor)
Why: TO PLAY HALO 3!!!

BRING YOUR XBOX 360 AND HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING A COPY OF
HALO 3!!!

Bring your friends and come on out to show off your Halo sk1LLz. We will
have some XBoxs set up for you to try it out. We will be ordering some
pizza. There will also be a presentation on Microsoft’s XNA technology,
given by Patrick Wheeler (UIC’s on campus Microsoft representative).

This event will be co-hosted by Microsoft and the ACM. Come on out and
get ready to have some fun playing some Halo 3 and hanging out with other
gamers from around campus.

-Brian

Once again we are going to be celebrating our Installfest soon. Samir Faci has been working hard to put together an event with interesting talks and lots of fun: http://lug.cs.uic.edu/install/
We will be helping you install linux, we will have free food, and very interesting talks about developing under linux, the future of KDE, security, etc.
See the schedule for more details: http://lug.cs.uic.edu/install/schedule.html
Feel free to bring your PC, and we will help you giving it a Linux refresher!
Thank you!

What: Trip to the IBM Innovation Center
Where: The IBM Innovation Center
When: Thursday, September 20th from 5:00PM to 9:00PM (RSVP Required)
Why: To network with industry professionals

Hello Everyone,

Come and join the LUG and ACM in this cool outing! It will take place Thursday September 20th from 5:00PM onward. RSVP is required.

From IBM:

“Our first tech talk will take place at the IBM Innovation Center in downtown Chicago at 71 S Wacker. IBM representatives will be providing a tour of their data center and discussing IBM’s commitment to the open-source community. In particular, they will be highlighting the upcoming release of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0, a free Java Application Server based off of the Apache Geronimo project. This talk will also be in conjunction with their monthly WebSphere Users Group meeting, providing a chance for students to mingle with industry professionals.”

This is a great opportunity to network!

If you are interested in coming, RSVP to: rserra3@uic.edu including your full name for building security purposes.

We will be meeting in the ACM office at 4:45PM on Thursday prior to heading out to walk to the Innovation Center.

Regards,

Thomas “Nasi” Sakkos
Association for Computing Machinery
Internal Public Relations Officer
Computer Science Undergraduate
University of Illinois at Chicago

Are you new to Linux or to UIC’s Linux Lab?

The LUG will be hosting a three week event were we are going to cover the
basics of Linux.

- Part 1: Intro to getting around the OS, directory structure,
checking your email, and various essential skills required to use Linux.
- Part 2: Programming in Linux (compiling using gcc, g++, gdb, java,
intro to makefiles, etc.)
- Part 3: Linux productivity tools (gnome, kde, open office, gimp,
inkscape, and much more.)

The event will take place Monday 10, 17, and 24 of Sept. at 5:30PM, in SEL
2262.

Thank you!

PS> If you are interested in having your own CS Linux account - and have
access to the Linux Lab - please contact me as soon as possible at rserra3@uic.edu.

Where: SEO 1000 (10th Floor)
When: 5:30PM (TODAY!)

Come Join us this Thursday, September 6th at 5:30 pm for our 1st General Meeting. We will discuss all the fun events that are coming up this year as well as present one of our Special Interest Groups (SIG) the Linux User Group.

Pizza and refreshments will be available.

Afterwards come join us in the CS lounge for our evening movie along with popcorn.

Ramon Franco
ACM @ UIC
President 2007-2008

Interested in helping create a real game? (Not those wimpy CS course games)
Have some art skills? Want to learn?

Join SigGame!

SigGame (Special Interest Group for Game Development) will be meeting next Friday, high noon for our first annual meeting of the school year. Bring your bathing suits and leave your laptops behind, since we’ll getting together at the University’s pool!

I’ll be giving an introduction of what Caffeine and SSH are, then I’ll give an overview of the game engine, my envisioned architecture and plans for the feature. That being said, I’ll go over the immediate plans for the next few weeks, and assign projects to anyone who is interested. Chris may also go over the basic design for SSH. There is a LOT of work to be done, and not just coding!

I welcome anyone who is interested in joining SigGame, regardless of programming knowledge or experience. If you’ve always been interested in game programming, game design, game art or just like playing games…. come join us!

Date: September 7, 2007
Time: 12:00PM
Length: Roughly one hour, give or take
Location: Student Recreational Center Pool (737 South Halsted Street Chicago)