From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Thu Apr 1 09:32:43 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:32:43 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Fwd: Guest Speaker from Google@Chicago Message-ID: <92da05c83476028bb5fa98a9f7d27695.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Fwd: Guest Speaker from Google at Chicago From: "Anushka Anand" Date: Thu, April 1, 2010 8:02 am To: sdeitz2 at uic.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean would you forward the following to all undergrads or ACM students...which mailing list you have? Thanks, Anushka -------------------------------- Hey there CS students, We have a guest speaker from Google's Chicago office at our usual social tomorrow, *Friday April 2nd at 4pm* in *SEO 1000* Come by for FREE pizza, pop and the following presentation. *Speaker: *Jon Trowbridge *Title: *"Distributed Systems, Where Easy Things Are Hard" *Abstract: *Leslie Lamport memorably defined a distributed system as "one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." In this talk I'll start with a trivial program and discuss the things that can go terribly wrong when splitting the task it performs across two machines. Best, Anushka (CSGSA President) http://www.cs.uic.edu/CSGSA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Thu Apr 1 09:35:08 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:35:08 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: Chicago Chapter ACM - April 14 - No-Nonsense, Google Android Workshop] Message-ID: <9a16480ecb060c57f78c6b9ef22d6427.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Chicago Chapter ACM - April 14 - No-Nonsense, Google Android Workshop From: "Greg Neumarke" Date: Thu, April 1, 2010 12:09 am To: sdeitz2 at uic.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This information is also on the Chapter website at: http://www.chicagoacm.org/ THIS MONTH'S MEETING: A joint ACM/Loyola University Computer Science Department meeting No-Nonsense, Google Android Workshop Speaker: Uki Dominque Lucas Wednesday, April 14, 2010 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Social Hour 6:30 pm - Presentation Loyola University - Water Tower Campus 820 N. Michigan, Chicago IL 60611 Beane Ballroom (13th Floor, Lewis Towers) COST Free. (General Admission, No Reserved Seats) However, Please RSVP on the Chicago ACM website (chicagoacm.org) for this event, to best help our group with upcoming joint ACM/Loyola University events. Loyola will be providing some light refreshments at this event. Also feel free to "brown bag" it and bring in food from the outside to eat during the social hour. TOPIC ABSTRACT The Chicago ACM and Loyola University present a no-nonsense, hands-on Android workshop where you will create your own Android App! Android is a Linux-based mobile operating system from Google for smart phones. Android-based smart phones represent the fastest growing segment of the market with now over 50 available models to choose from. This presentation will cover various Android apps including bar-code scanners, SMS service, using the Google API, custom settings and User Interfaces. If you bring your laptop, you can participate and follow along with the presentation to take advantage of this opportunity to learn about the largest growth area in mobile applications. To follow along with the workshop you will need: * the Android SDK * Eclipse IDE (3.4 or newer) * Android Development Tools (ADT) Eclipse plugin. Setup instructions are found at: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. Optionally bring your Android phone along with a USB cable. Windows users, only, will need to install the USB Drivers found at http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/USB_Drivers/ Plan on charging your laptop prior to the event due to the possibility of limited power outlets. SPEAKER INFO: Uki Dominque Lucas, principal at the Revere Group, is an Internet software entrepreneur and technology evangelist. Uki has over a decade of Agile management experience and work with developing start-up companies. Uki has been a proud mentor to scores of very successful programmers while always staying hands-on with the forefront of cutting edge technology. Uki frequently gives talks and seminars on a variety of Google technology topics, the Android platform and Social Media. And as a leader and developer in the Chicago Android development community, Uki organize conferences, events and workshops for Google and Motorola attracting more than 500 participating Chicago Android developers. RESERVATIONS Please make your reservation as soon as you know you are coming. RSVP by filling out this quick form: http://www.chicagoacm.org/rsvp or by replying to this e-mail ( greg at neumarke.net ) From bdenne2 at uic.edu Sat Apr 3 19:02:26 2010 From: bdenne2 at uic.edu (Bryanna Denney) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:02:26 -0600 Subject: [Acm-announce] ++LAN, April 10th-11th Message-ID: So, this is it! Our big LAN party of the semester is this next weekend, April 10th to 11th. Entry is just $5 for the preregistered and $10 at the door. We are starting setup and check in at 1pm on Saturday. If you want to setup by Friday night, come help us prep. The location is in SEL 2262. (The eastern section of the building, red hallway.) If you get lost or locked out, call the ACM at 312-996-5947. Pick a seat if you are going to bring your rig. If you are just playing console games, just register and bring a game/controller. (I'm bringing my Wii....) Seating is going to be strictly enforced. REGISTER HERE! -> www.acmlanparty.com. We have 5 sponsors this time around, so get ready for some sweet prizes. They include: ThermalTake, Cooler Master, Asus, Alienware, and Crucial. I have already received 2 caseswith products and swag from ThermalTake and 2 cases from Cooler Master. More prizes to come.... We are officially running the following tournaments: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 L4D2 Rockband Trackmania: Nations Forever Can't Touch This: Case Contest (come by 3pm) We are officially running the following servers: TF2 CS: Source Check out the site for the schedule and tournament rules. I'll be updating the prize database as I get packages in. Tell your friends! We invite anyone who thinks they're good enough to beat us! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Thu Apr 8 10:04:14 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:04:14 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM Elections! Message-ID: <1b05ea2b7551f4f2e078f5b693d26840.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> Don't forget, ACM Elections are tonight, at 5:30 pm, in SEO 1000. Come and participate in DEMOCRACY! (Reminder, only members of international ACM have votes which actually matter) Determine next year's leadership, and thus the path which the association will take. ~ACM President (but not for long), Sean Deitz From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Thu Apr 8 20:51:25 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:51:25 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM Elections! Message-ID: <26c764cd78262a69e347ebec7c289adb.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> ACM Elections have ended! And our new officers are in. Chairman: Mike Hutcheson Vice Chairman: Andrew Suh Treasurer: Aisha Halim Secretary: Tom Phillips Congratulations to them, they?re now in charge. The old officers will be shadowing them for the next month, so if you have any requests, please make them of the new staff, so we can put them through their paces before their term begins. ~Ex-ACM President, Sean Deitz From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Fri Apr 9 17:47:00 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:47:00 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM LAN Party Message-ID: <1bdb5fdf57e54f1e1e559cd6a6e209a9.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> Our big LAN Party of the semester is this Weekend! Sponsors include Thermaltake, ASUS, CoolerMaster, Alienware, and WMS. Sign up immediately at http://acmlanparty.com/alp/index.php! Festivities begin tomorrow at 2 pm! ~ACM President, Sean Deitz From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Mon Apr 12 13:56:20 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:56:20 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Last ACM Meeting of the Year Message-ID: Make sure you guys RSVP for Stump the Profs, this Wednesday. It would be a shame to miss having it for a year. The last ACM meeting of the year will be next Thursday, April 22nd, at 5:30 pm in SEO 1000. Microsoft will be coming to talk about cloud computing. Specifically... ? Every few years, a revolution changes the way we use computers. Think of huge mainframes in the 1960s, minicomputers in the 1970s, personal computers in the 1980s and smartphones over the last ecade. Cloud computing is poised to be the next big paradigm shift in the computing landscape by bringing together advances in technologies like Virtualization, massive scale computing, communication formats and flexible data protocols. With advances by Microsoft, Amazon and other leaders in computing, this field is slated as the fastest growing segment of the technology industry in terms of investment, development and recruitment. Join us in the Cloud Computing session to learn more about this exciting development and about Windows Azure ? our internet-scale cloud services platform, which provides an operating system and a rich set of developer services that allow you to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities. ? Bio: Krishna Kumar is an Academic Relations Manager at Microsoft where he partners with universities in the Midwest (WI, IA, IL, IN, MO) around their teaching and research needs. He also leads the academic effort around Azure nationwide by working with early adopters around cloud research and curriculum incorporation. He is also in the process of putting the finishing touches on a developer focused book on Azure for Addison-Wesley to be published in Summer 2010. He tweets at @KrishnaOnAzure and administers the http://AzurePilot.com portal. Krishna has been with Microsoft for 9 years in various roles working with multiple technologies, all of them developer focused. Forever the perennial student, he is finishing up his third Masters degree from Northwestern University in Medical Informatics. He lives with his wife and 1 year old son near Chicago. 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Therefore, the pdf is here. http://acm.cs.uic.edu/~sdeitz2/GoogleApril27th.pdf ~ACM Ex-Chairman, Sean Deitz From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Tue Apr 20 16:50:50 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:50:50 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: [Inter-acm-chicago] Details of visit to Google Chicago] Message-ID: <739f97c08874b3f13846ba068499494e.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Inter-acm-chicago] Details of visit to Google Chicago From: "Borja Sotomayor" Date: Tue, April 20, 2010 4:35 pm To: inter-acm-chicago at mailman.cs.uchicago.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi fellow ACM-ers, All the details for this year's visit to Google Chicago are now available here: http://sites.google.com/site/chigsoc/ As discussed previously on this mailing list, the visit will be on May 7th at 6pm. I encourage you to send an announcement to your ACM mailing lists. Besides passing along the above URL, please remind students that they need to register for this event before May 4th by filling out this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG1ZVVItdWhMX3hUSTBHcXZ6Wllha2c6MQ In case it can be of use, here's the announcement I sent to our own ACM list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Borja Sotomayor Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:08 PM Subject: [ACM] Visit to Google's Chicago offices on May 7th @ 6pm To: acm at cs.uchicago.edu, undergrads at cs.uchicago.edu, phd-students at cs.uchicago.edu Hi everyone, The University of Chicago's ACM student chapter, in collaboration with Google, has organized a visit to Google's Chicago offices on May 7th (Friday) at 6pm. You can find more information about this event at the following website: http://sites.google.com/site/chigsoc/ This is the third year we organize this visit and, like last year, the visit will revolve around a series of "lightning talks" delivered by Google engineers and by Chicago students accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code program (accepted students will be announced April 26th). The purpose of these talks is to share knowledge on interesting technologies, and will provide a unique opportunity for students to learn about a variety of Google projects and meet the developers behind those projects. Food will be served before and after the talks. Also like last year, we are organizing this visit with the ACM student chapters at DePaul, IIT, Northwestern, and UIC. Google needs a list of attendees beforehand so, if you want to attend this event, please use this form to register (before May 4th) http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG1ZVVItdWhMX3hUSTBHcXZ6Wllha2c6MQ If you did not attend this event last year, you can find more information about the past two visits (including photos) at the following posts on the Google Open Source blog: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-of-chicago-meets-google.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/05/spreading-summer-love-in-chicago.html If you have any questions about this event, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers! -- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science Ryerson 257-C, 1100 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/ Haizea: http://haizea.cs.uchicago.edu/ ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? "Dis maschine vill run und run!" -- Kurt G?del (on the Turing Machine) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ ACM mailing list - ACM at mailman.cs.uchicago.edu https://mailman.cs.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/acm _______________________________________________ Inter-acm-chicago mailing list Inter-acm-chicago at mailman.cs.uchicago.edu https://mailman.cs.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/inter-acm-chicago From bdenne2 at uic.edu Wed Apr 21 08:08:00 2010 From: bdenne2 at uic.edu (Bryanna Denney) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:08:00 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Movie Night April 23rd - Minority Report Message-ID: Sig-Fun presents: [image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Minority_Report.jpg] Friday, April 23rd 6:15pm CS Lounge (SEL 2262) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Wed Apr 21 18:27:56 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:27:56 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: Last ACM Meeting of the Year] Message-ID: <9b756f16a518fa9f5c6937d74c8943e6.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> A note, the food for the meeting tomorrow will be at the WMS Gaming meeting in 1043 ERF, at 4:30 pm. ~Sean Deitz ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Last ACM Meeting of the Year From: "Deitz, Sean M." Date: Mon, April 12, 2010 1:56 pm To: ACM-ANNOUNCE at acm.cs.UIC.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure you guys RSVP for Stump the Profs, this Wednesday. It would be a shame to miss having it for a year. The last ACM meeting of the year will be next Thursday, April 22nd, at 5:30 pm in SEO 1000. Microsoft will be coming to talk about cloud computing. Specifically... ? Every few years, a revolution changes the way we use computers. Think of huge mainframes in the 1960s, minicomputers in the 1970s, personal computers in the 1980s and smartphones over the last ecade. Cloud computing is poised to be the next big paradigm shift in the computing landscape by bringing together advances in technologies like Virtualization, massive scale computing, communication formats and flexible data protocols. With advances by Microsoft, Amazon and other leaders in computing, this field is slated as the fastest growing segment of the technology industry in terms of investment, development and recruitment. Join us in the Cloud Computing session to learn more about this exciting development and about Windows Azure ? our internet-scale cloud services platform, which provides an operating system and a rich set of developer services that allow you to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities. ? Bio: Krishna Kumar is an Academic Relations Manager at Microsoft where he partners with universities in the Midwest (WI, IA, IL, IN, MO) around their teaching and research needs. He also leads the academic effort around Azure nationwide by working with early adopters around cloud research and curriculum incorporation. He is also in the process of putting the finishing touches on a developer focused book on Azure for Addison-Wesley to be published in Summer 2010. He tweets at @KrishnaOnAzure and administers the http://AzurePilot.com portal. Krishna has been with Microsoft for 9 years in various roles working with multiple technologies, all of them developer focused. Forever the perennial student, he is finishing up his third Masters degree from Northwestern University in Medical Informatics. He lives with his wife and 1 year old son near Chicago. 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At the Chicago Code Camp you will see both new and repeat presentations by recent ACM speakers Dean Wampler, Dave Bost, Ola Bini, Aaron Erickson, Marc Temkin and others. Topics range from Scala, .NET, Functional Programming to Ruby, jQuery and Clojure. Subjects also include Geospatial Databases, Mobile Development, Cloud Computing and Deployment. Code Camp speakers come from Thoughtworks, Magenic, Microsoft and ObjectMentor, consultancies and include independent developers. Our practice is to limit our e-mail to you to tell you about our monthly meeting. But the Chicago Code Camp is an event that we think you will want to know about, tell your colleagues about, and attend. We'll see you at our next ACM presentation on May 12th, "What Ever Happened to Software Quality?" with Conrad Weisert. Thanks for reading, The Board of the Chicago Chapter of the ACM Chicago Code Camp details: http://www.chicagocodecamp.com/ Our website, with May 12th meeting info: http://www.chicagoacm.org/ From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Mon Apr 26 11:29:59 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:29:59 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: [All-grads] REMINDER: Google Tech Talk TOMORROW] Message-ID: <58602cab6bfdf1530318c3f8c22a19f7.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> In case you didn't hear. They're pushing this one pretty hard. ~ACM Ex-Chairman, Sean Deitz ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [All-grads] REMINDER: Google Tech Talk TOMORROW From: "Santhi Nannapaneni" Date: Mon, April 26, 2010 10:41 am To: all-grads at cs.uic.edu all-ugrads at cs.uic.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%% Google Tech Talk - Life as a Google Software Engineer - Scholarships for CS - Internships for CS/ECE - Come to See this Innovative Company SCE 605 TOMORROW 3PM to 4PM %%%%% _______________________________________________ All-grads mailing list All-grads at mail.cs.uic.edu https://mail.cs.uic.edu/mailman/listinfo/all-grads From sdeitz2 at uic.edu Thu Apr 29 10:11:32 2010 From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:11:32 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: [Fwd: Chicago Chapter ACM - Related Event - Chicago Code Camp - May 1]] Message-ID: <8d066713ded34be04c1ad6f07c399318.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> It's coming up, so here's another reminder. ~Sean Deitz ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: Chicago Chapter ACM - Related Event - Chicago Code Camp - May 1] From: "Deitz, Sean M." Date: Thu, April 22, 2010 6:10 pm To: ACM-ANNOUNCE at acm.cs.uic.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Chicago Chapter ACM - Related Event - Chicago Code Camp - May 1 From: "Greg Neumarke" Date: Thu, April 22, 2010 1:29 pm To: sdeitz2 at uic.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Chicago ACM member or attendee, The Board of the Chicago Chapter of the ACM wants to inform you about an upcoming event that features several past Chicago ACM speakers. This event, the Chicago Code Camp, takes place on May 1st (Saturday), is a free event, and takes place at IIT Chicago. At the Chicago Code Camp you will see both new and repeat presentations by recent ACM speakers Dean Wampler, Dave Bost, Ola Bini, Aaron Erickson, Marc Temkin and others. Topics range from Scala, .NET, Functional Programming to Ruby, jQuery and Clojure. Subjects also include Geospatial Databases, Mobile Development, Cloud Computing and Deployment. Code Camp speakers come from Thoughtworks, Magenic, Microsoft and ObjectMentor, consultancies and include independent developers. Our practice is to limit our e-mail to you to tell you about our monthly meeting. But the Chicago Code Camp is an event that we think you will want to know about, tell your colleagues about, and attend. We'll see you at our next ACM presentation on May 12th, "What Ever Happened to Software Quality?" with Conrad Weisert. Thanks for reading, The Board of the Chicago Chapter of the ACM Chicago Code Camp details: http://www.chicagocodecamp.com/ Our website, with May 12th meeting info: http://www.chicagoacm.org/ _______________________________________________ Acm-announce mailing list Acm-announce at acm.cs.uic.edu http://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/acm-announce