From sdeitz2 at uic.edu  Wed Mar  3 10:17:27 2010
From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:17:27 -0600
Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM General Meeting
Message-ID: <b73ddb868b75a92d408508f987c6ba5a.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>

Tomorrow, Thursday, March 3rd, 5:30 pm, please join us in SEO 1000 to
listen to a talk being given by Professor Sol Shatz, the Associate Dean
for Research and Graduate Studies.  There will be food and beverages
served.


Also, if that's not enough meeting for you, here's another.

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Subject: Chicago Chapter ACM - March 17 - Polyglot and Polyparadigm
Programming
From:    "Greg Neumarke" <acm at chicagoacm.org>
Date:    Wed, March 3, 2010 10:11 am
To:      sdeitz2 at uic.edu
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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


           Polyglot and Polyparadigm Programming

     Speaker: Dean Wampler, Ph.D.,
		  co-author of "Programming Scala" (O'Reilly)


  Wednesday, March 17, 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.

  Although there will be no food served at this event, you are free
  to "brown bag" it and bring in food from the outside to eat during
  the social hour.

TOPIC ABSTRACT
  Is one language and one modularity "paradigm" right for your
  entire application? This talk argues that modern applications are
  easier to implement and evolve when they combine
  appropriately-chosen programming languages and paradigms.

  Emacs demonstrates the use of multiple languages. Most features
  are written in a scripting language (Emacs Lisp) that runs on a
  C-based kernel. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are also used in
  this way.

  While object-oriented programming is great for modeling domain
  concepts, functional programming improves robustness, especially
  for concurrent applications, and aspect-oriented programming
  addresses "cross-cutting concerns".

SPEAKER INFO:
  Dean Wampler, Ph.D., is the co-author of "Programming Scala"
  (O'Reilly) and a software developer for DRW Holdings in Chicago.
  He writes about Polyglot Programming at polyglotprogramming.com
  and he speaks at conferences on this topic. This interest lead to
  the forthcoming special issue of IEEE Software on "Multiparadigm
  Programming" (Sept-Oct 2010), for which he is a guest editor. He
  is also the founder of the Chicago-Area Scala Enthusiasts. He
  created two open-source projects, Aquarium, an AOP library for
  Ruby, and Contract4J, a Design-by-Contract library for Java.

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 )



~Hope to see you all at the meeting, ACM President, Sean Deitz



From sdeitz2 at uic.edu  Thu Mar  4 09:39:05 2010
From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:39:05 -0600
Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: [Inter-acm-chicago] Google Summer of Code info
 sessions in Chicago]
Message-ID: <c79bd30b8242390eb1d31315a8cc619b.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>

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Subject: [Inter-acm-chicago] Google Summer of Code info sessions in Chicago
From:    "Borja Sotomayor" <borja at cs.uchicago.edu>
Date:    Thu, March 4, 2010 9:29 am
To:      inter-acm-chicago at mailman.cs.uchicago.edu
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Hi everyone,

I will be giving Google Summer of Code information sessions at DePaul
and UChicago next week. Anyone is welcome to attend, so please feel free
to forward the following details to your chapters. My schedule for next
week is still fairly open, so if your chapter is interested in hosting a
GSoC info session, just drop me a line off-list.


DEPAUL GSOC INFORMATION SESSION
March 10th (Wednesday) at 4:30pm

DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media
243 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago IL.
2nd floor, Academic Success Lounge


UCHICAGO GSOC INFORMATION SESSION
March 11th (Thursday) at 6:00pm

Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 255
1100 E 58th St
Chicago, IL
http://maps.uchicago.edu/mainquad/ryerson.html


Cheers!
-- 
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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/
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    "Dis maschine vill run und run!"
          -- Kurt G?del (on the Turing Machine)
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From bdenne2 at uic.edu  Tue Mar  9 14:10:02 2010
From: bdenne2 at uic.edu (Bryanna Denney)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:10:02 -0600
Subject: [Acm-announce] For Friday, March 12th: Serenity
Message-ID: <a7840b3c1003091210x5faefbc1x3935e9ed2bef3c6b@mail.gmail.com>

*Serenity*
[image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Serenity_One_Sheet.jpg]
Friday the 12th
6pm
CS Lounge (SEL 2260)
Popcorn and Candy!
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From sdeitz2 at uic.edu  Tue Mar 16 21:19:42 2010
From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:19:42 -0500
Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM General Meeting!  Also news for Week 10
Message-ID: <6d0817599212513ec5d3b55deae698b1.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>

There?s a general meeting this Thursday at 5:30 pm in SEO 1000.
Nemanja Stefanovic will be presenting on using OpenFrameworks
(http://openframeworks.cc) to create an OpenGL
interactive app that also runs an HTTP server and can accept input over
that server for interactive displays.

Also, don't forget about Flourish this Friday and Saturday, all day.
http://www.flourishconf.com/flourish2010/
Be there!

~Sean Deitz



From sdeitz2 at uic.edu  Tue Mar 30 12:17:08 2010
From: sdeitz2 at uic.edu (Deitz, Sean M.)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:17:08 -0500
Subject: [Acm-announce] [Fwd: Hey look, elections announcements]
Message-ID: <a591e889d0d1e5d67116cda9fafc8109.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu>

To quote Gary, President (Chairman) of last year.

'''
Hello fellow ACMers,

It is April and my term as President is quickly coming to a close.  The time
has come to release the reigns of the ACM from my iron-fisted grasp.

In one week [next Thursday] (on 4/8 at 5:30pm in SEO 1000), an election
will be held and we will vote on the four main officer positions of the
ACM and
choose the appointed ones.  I will describe them below.
If you wish to run for one of these positions, make sure to be ready to
answer questions and have a platform to run on when April 8th rolls around.
And remember, if you don't get elected for one of the positions, you can
still put yourself up for another (and another, and another, until you get
elected out of pity...).

Elections will be held in the following manner.  For each position, a
candidate will get up and speak their piece and get asked questions.  Then
all candidates will be ushered out of the room and the other ACM members
will discuss them and then write down their pick on a small piece of paper.
 This piece of paper will be dropped into some container.  Then all the
votes in the container will be counted, the candidates will be called back
into the room and the result announced.  We will then move on to the next
position to be elected.  After the four main officers are elected, they will
choose the appointed positions.

Now this part will really separate the really responsible candidates from
the slackers.  If you wish to run for office, please respond to this email
saying so.  It's in your own best interest to get voters on your side early.

ELECTED POSITIONS
--------------------------------

President - You are in charge of things happening.  Everything that goes
wrong in the ACM is your fault (along with the occasional thing that goes
right).  Your job isn't to boss people around so much as to remove obstacles
to getting things done and then, if needed, kicking people in the butt until
it's done.

Vice President - As second in command, you are required to take almost as
much responsibility as the President for what the ACM does.  Your job is
partially to assist the President, but a large part of it is taking charge
of some of the things the President has no time for (such as LAN parties, in
my case).  The job basically ranges from lackey to pretty much co-President,
depending on how you want to play it.

Treasurer - The lifeblood of any organization is its funding. You are tasked
with paying people, balancing the books and acquiring more funding.  This
requires a very detail-oriented and responsible person.

Secretary - A secretary keeps all of the data about the meetings, any
decisions that are made and often fills out some paperwork when needed.
 This position has to be filled by someone who can attend all meetings and
is pretty organized.

APPOINTED POSITIONS
-----------------------------------

Network Administrator - The network administrator takes charge of the ACM's
network and systems.  This is a job that teaches you a lot of skills about
how to do almost professional system administration (including pleasing your
users: us).  This requires someone with a lot of technical skill, or someone
bright enough to learn it fairly quickly.

Public Relations - This is someone who is skilled with communicating to
students/faculty/corporations.  They would be tasked with advertising
ACM events,
getting corporate sponsors and reaching out to other ACMs.

Webmaster -  Preferably this is someone who has experience using
HTML/CSS/MySQL/etc.  Someone who has some idea of what looks good would be
nice as well.  You would be responsible for updating, maintaining and
improving the ACM site.

Gary Turosvky
ACM Chairman

P.S. Remember that you have to be a UIC ACM member in order to vote (that
is, you paid us $10 in the past school year and you got a receipt from us
saying you are an ACM member).
'''

So, the time of my bronze-fisted reign has come to an end.  We need
persons of honour to step up and take charge of next year.  ACM has been
revitalized, now ambition and valour are required to declare and
instantiate a new era for the Association of Computing Machinery.  Take
part in the compilation of a better organization!

~ACM President 2009-2010, Sean Deitz
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