From wdwora2 at uic.edu Mon Oct 6 08:49:49 2014 From: wdwora2 at uic.edu (Walter Dworak) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:49:49 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] SIG Meeting Reminder Message-ID: <54329DFD.4060201@uic.edu> Just a little reminder that there will be a SIG SysAdmin meeting today as scheduled. Congregate in the CS tunnel behind the ACM office at the usual time, 5:30PM. The goal today will be to make sure people have projects and get some traction on them. More details will be given at the meeting. -Walter Dworak From nzbessinas at gmail.com Mon Oct 6 12:46:17 2014 From: nzbessinas at gmail.com (Niko Bessinas) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:46:17 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] No SIG-BUILD Meeting Today 10/6/2014 Message-ID: There will be no meeting today. However, I will be starting a discussion on the Google group later today. Please sign up there if you have not already. There will most likely be a meeting this Thursday. 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At first, Linux may be a daunting thing to handle... With all these terminal commands and unfamiliar toolsets. We hope that after learning about Linux, you will understand a bit more about the operating system and perhaps gain an appreciation for all the Linux goodness! :-) If you are a CS major, then you are bound to dabble with Linux at some point or another, so get a jump start on learning more about Linux! The sessions will cover the following topics: - Working with Code - Using the Shell - Installing Linux - Remote Access and SSH - Using Linux at UIC Each presentation will be presented in SELE 2254 or around the LUG/ACM office area. Check out the LUG website (lug.cs.uic.edu) for the most current information about when/where each session will be happening. If you have any questions, please let us know by beginning a discussion on the ACM/LUG listserv or by contacting one of the LUG officers directly. Hope you're ready for a Linux-filled week! 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More details on the competition can be found here. http://mcicpc.cs.atu.edu/ ~Sean Deitz From wdwora2 at uic.edu Mon Oct 13 16:05:10 2014 From: wdwora2 at uic.edu (Walter Dworak) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:05:10 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] SIG SysAdmin NO NORMAL MEETING THIS WEEK Message-ID: <543C3E86.5030406@uic.edu> Sorry for the late email, there will not be a normal SIG SysAdmin meeting this week due to LUG Linux Newbie's week. Feel free to either go there or work on a project idea. I will have a special meeting time later this week as discussed last week, I will follow up with details. Walter Dworak From jgensl2 at uic.edu Mon Oct 13 19:45:56 2014 From: jgensl2 at uic.edu (Jeff Gensler) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:45:56 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] LUG Newbie Week THIS WEEK!!! Message-ID: <763fc239522897e0bd8aa972851b4600.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> Greetings All! A quick reminder that LUG's spectacular newbie week is happening RIGHT NOW! Come drop by the CS Lounge Area at 5:30pm all this week for awesome and informative talks! Here is what we have lined up: * Tuesday: Using the shell * Wednesday: Remote Access and SSH * Thursday: Installing Linux <3 * Friday: Using Linux at UIC I hope to see YOU there! Best, Jeffrey Gensler Vice President, LUG From nzbessinas at gmail.com Thu Oct 16 12:31:54 2014 From: nzbessinas at gmail.com (Niko Bessinas) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:31:54 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] SIG-BUILD Meeting Today 10/16/2014 Message-ID: There will be a brief meeting today in the CS tunnel. We'll have an update on the status of parts and an intro to a new project by Mac Carter. As usual, 5pm. See ya there! ------ -Niko -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wdwora2 at uic.edu Fri Oct 17 19:37:37 2014 From: wdwora2 at uic.edu (Walter Dworak) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:37:37 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM Office Workstations Software Update Message-ID: <5441B651.9060309@uic.edu> The workstations in the ACM have now been updated from the old 32bit to a new 64bit image. As part of this transition, there may still be overlooked issues or missing software. If this is the case, please send an email detailing the issue to sigsysadmin at acm.cs.uic.edu. An important note is that any software compiled locally under your account to be run on the workstations will no longer work and will need to be recompiled for 64bit. This also applies to precompiled 32-bit binaries you may be using. Walter Dworak ACM SysAdmin From wdwora2 at uic.edu Mon Oct 20 13:42:06 2014 From: wdwora2 at uic.edu (Walter Dworak) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:42:06 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Late reminder about SIG SysAdmin meeting Message-ID: <5445577E.3040909@uic.edu> Meant to send this in the morning, but there will be a meeting at 5:30PM in SEL 2264. Walter Dworak From aphelp6 at uic.edu Mon Oct 20 13:20:17 2014 From: aphelp6 at uic.edu (Anthony Phelps) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:20:17 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] LUG Events This Week In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello everyone, These are the LUG events for the week. *Monday October 20th at 5:30pm in the CS Lounge (SELE 2260)*there will be a*LUG general body meeting*. Because this message is a bit last minute the meeting will probably be very short. We will be discussing our new constitution, some new groups forming within LUG, and try to set a regular meeting schedule. Info about the new constitution and groups can be found at http://lug.cs.uic.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=constitution *Tuesday October 21st at 5:30pm in the CS Tunnel (SELE 2268B)*there will be a meeting of the*LUG's 3D Printing group* (/dev/print). Come to learn about our 3D printer. Learn how it works and how to use it. See http://lug.cs.uic.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=print for updates and details. *Wednesday October 22nd at 5:30pm in the CS Tunnel (SELE 2268B)*there will be a meeting of the*LUG programming languages group*(/usr/share/dict). Come learn new programming languages and concepts that you might not encounter in classes but that will help to enrich your skill set. See http://lug.cs.uic.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=lugcode for updates and details. *Friday October 24th at 5:30pm in the CS Lounge (**SELE** 2260)*there will be a meeting of *LUG We*b (/var/www). They will be exploring new and emerging web technologies. 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At the Laboratory for Computational Population Biology, we explore the growing interface between Population Biology and Computer Science, from genetics to social interactions.? Click here to visit Professor Berger-Wolf's website. ?Hope you can make it :)? ?Emily? -- Emily Austin Vice President of ACM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From collinbrady1993 at gmail.com Mon Oct 20 21:41:59 2014 From: collinbrady1993 at gmail.com (collin brady) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:41:59 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] ACM SpOOktacular HalLANween LAN Party/movie night Message-ID: Hello everyone, hope your semester and midterms have been going well because its time again for a LAN PARTY! This time around we are going to have a few special things going on, first amongst them is anyone who comes to the LAN party dressed in costume will have the $5 attendance fee waived. We will also be showing a late night Halloween movie in the tunnel, what movie you ask? Well that's a secret, you'll have to stay up late to find out! The LAN party is going to be starting at 1 pm on Saturday October 25, please don't show up before then, you won't be able to get in. The LAN party will still be $5 as mentioned and go towards pizza. One last note, because of the LAN party there will be no movie night the week. Chancelord of Funtertainment, Collin Brady -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ejanerose at gmail.com Wed Oct 22 14:29:20 2014 From: ejanerose at gmail.com (Emily Austin) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:29:20 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Reminder WiCS Meeting Today Wednesday October 22 at 5pm in SEO 1000 Message-ID: Hi all, There's been some discussion about ACM and WiCS recently with the plans to renovate the CS Lounge. If you want to learn more about WiCS I suggest you go to the meeting today Wednesday October 22 at 5pm in SEO 1000. Everyone is welcome: women and men. I also encourage if you want to hear about WiCS but are afraid of "being the only man in the room" go anyway. Remember there aren't many women in Computer Science so often there is one or few women in the room. >From Siham: Come hear about our plans for upcoming events and even be part of the planning yourself! Also, a group of us have spent the last week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and a lot of us will be at the meeting so you can also come and hear about our experiences and what we did the last week! Tea and cookies will be served :) Hope to see you there! Siham Hussein -- Emily Austin Vice President of ACM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ejanerose at gmail.com Thu Oct 23 01:04:54 2014 From: ejanerose at gmail.com (Emily Austin) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:04:54 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Reminder ACM Meeting with Prof Berger-Wolf Today Thursday October 23 at 5pm in SEO 1000 Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here's the information on the talk. Hope you can make it! :) Title: Computational Animal Ecology Abstract: Computation has fundamentally changed the way we study nature. Recent breakthroughs in data collection technology, such as GPS and other mobile sensors, high definition cameras, satellite images, genotyping, and crowdsourcing, are giving biologists access to data about wild populations, from genetic to social interactions, that are orders of magnitude richer than any previously collected. Ecology, being the science of connections among living organisms and their environment, among different biological scales, from organisms to the planet, is particularly well positioned and is in need of those data. Such data offer the promise of answering some of the big questions in ecology but only if we can have the methods, both computational and ecological, to take those data to scientific insight. This combination of ecology, technology, computation, and data science is the emerging field of computational ecology. In this talk I will show how computational approaches can be part of every stage of the scientific process of understanding why animals do what they do. I will present our developing Image-Based Ecological Information System , which is a large autonomous computational system that starts from image collections (from tourists, scientists, camera traps, drones, etc.) and progresses all the way to answering ecological and conservation queries, such as population sizes, species distributions and interactions, and movement patterns. I will demonstrate, using our computational framework for analysis of dynamic social networks , how the data obtained from such a system can be used to understand social structure of endangered species and its implication on the species survival. -------------------------------------- Bio: Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she heads the Computational Population Biology Lab. Her research interests are in applications of computational techniques to problems in population biology of plants, animals, and humans, from genetics to social interactions. As a legitimate part of her research she gets to fly in a super-light airplane over a nature preserve in Kenya, taking a hyper-stereo video of zebra populations. Dr. Berger-Wolf has received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. After spending some time as a postdoctoral fellow working in computational phylogenetics and doing research in computational epidemiology, she returned to Illinois. She has received numerous awards for her research and mentoring, including the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the UIC Mentor of the Year and Graduate Mentor awards. -- Emily Austin Vice President of ACM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nzbessinas at gmail.com Thu Oct 23 14:10:40 2014 From: nzbessinas at gmail.com (Niko Bessinas) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:10:40 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] No SIG-BUILD Meeting Today 10/23/2014 Message-ID: Just to be clear, there is no meeting today. However, I will be in/around the ACM office after 3:15pm today until early-mid evening and if you'd like to stop by and see the one box of parts that's arrived thus far, feel free to stop in. ------ -Niko -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ejanerose at gmail.com Sat Oct 25 10:39:39 2014 From: ejanerose at gmail.com (Emily Austin) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:39:39 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Upcoming ACM Events Message-ID: Hi all, Here is a list of upcoming meetings and events for this semester. Please refer to the ACM calendar for SIG related events. *Thursday, October 30 at 5:30pm in SEO 1000*: General Body Meeting with company Neohapsis: Securing the mobile economy. Two consultants and one HR representative will be at the meeting talking about careers in security, research, answering questions, etc. Check out the website: http://www.neohapsis.com/ ?*Thursday November 6 at TBD in SEO 1000*: CS Scavenger Hunt. Go on a hunt with classmates and friends, win prizes, and eat food! Note: The CS Scavenger Hunt is a department sponsored event not run by ACM. *Thursday, November 13 at 5:30pm in SEO 1000*: ACM Alumni present College->Career Tips! Come hear from alumni and remember why you're spending your time and money in college. ?*Thursday TBD at 5:30pm*: ?ACM Information Meeting presenting what people did this semester. SIGs and officers will give and update on activity. Please contact myself or acm-officers at uic.edu with questions. Emily -- Emily Austin Vice President of ACM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From wdwora2 at uic.edu Mon Oct 27 09:58:12 2014 From: wdwora2 at uic.edu (Walter Dworak) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:58:12 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] SIG SysAdmin Meeting Canceled 10/27 Message-ID: <544E5D84.2020500@uic.edu> Unfortunately I will not be able to hold the meeting today due to schedule complications. Walter Dworak From nzbessinas at gmail.com Mon Oct 27 11:11:37 2014 From: nzbessinas at gmail.com (Niko Bessinas) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:11:37 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] SIG-BUILD Meeting Today 10/27/2014 Message-ID: There will be a meeting today 5pm in the CS Tunnel/IT Lab. Almost all of our parts have come in so we're no longer a lame-duck SIG! ------ -Niko -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jgensl2 at uic.edu Tue Oct 28 15:38:10 2014 From: jgensl2 at uic.edu (Jeff Gensler) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:38:10 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] LUG meetings THIS WEEK! Message-ID: <11175aeecee12da6bfeddd258117f196.squirrel@webmail.uic.edu> Hello All! A friendly reminder that there will be a LUG Cloud meeting *Wednesday* from 5pm to 6pm in the CS Tunnel. We will be covering CoreOS basics with etcd, fleetctl, and docker. If you are curious about cloud development or Linux containers, please stop by! Also, LUG Web will be meeting this Friday at 5:30pm! This week, they will be diving deep into Drupal with Drupal Hook System! Email clee231 at uic.edu with questions. I hope you are all having a great semester! Don't forget to stay up to date with ACM and LUG events on their calendars at (https://acm.cs.uic.edu/calendar/) and (http://lug.cs.uic.edu/). Best, Jeff Gensler Vice President, Linux Users Group From ejanerose at gmail.com Thu Oct 30 10:43:04 2014 From: ejanerose at gmail.com (Emily Austin) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:43:04 -0500 Subject: [Acm-announce] Meeting with Neohapsis Thursday, October 30 at 5:30pm in SEO 1000 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder meeting today Thursday, October 30 at 5:30pm in SEO 1000 to hear from the security company Neohapsis! Emily On Oct 25, 2014 10:42 AM, "Emily Austin" wrote: > Hi all, > > Come to the meeting this Thursday, October 30 at 5:30pm in SEO 1000 to > hear from the security company Neohapsis! > > Securing the mobile economy. Two consultants and one HR representative > will be at the meeting talking about careers in security, research, > answering questions, etc. > > Check out the website: http://www.neohapsis.com/ > > > > ?Emily? > > -- > Emily Austin > Vice President of ACM > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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