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S3 – Student Speaker Series – OpenGL with SDL

April 20th, 2009

In the last installment of ACM’s Student Speaker Series ACM President Ben Murrell will be giving a talk on OpenGL with SDL.

It will be a great time!! Tell all your friends!!
**Free Snacks and Refreshments**

When: Tuesday April 21st @ 7:00
Where: CS 209A

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Big Events in the Next Two Weeks

April 16th, 2009

ACM is having two big events in the next two weeks: MinerLAN and the MegaMiner AI Tournament.

MinerLAN:

Semesterly LAN party.

Quick Facts:

  • Who: Students with skillz!
  • What: A LAN party for computer gamers all weekend long.
  • Where: The EMan 103 lecture hall on the Missouri S&T campus in Rolla, Missouri.
  • When: Friday April 24th at 7:00pm till Sunday April 26th at 1:00pm
  • Why: Why not?
  • How much: $10 per person
  • Who do I contact: Jeff King
  • How do I get there: Instructions on how to get to the Missouri S&T campus here.
  • Register with PayPal at http://www.minerlan.com/ or register with Cash at the ACM meeting the thursday before (April 23rd)

MegaMiner AI Tournament:

  • Semesterly AI Tournament.
  • Will be held this Saturday and Sunday.
  • From Noon Saturday until after 1:00pm on Sunday
  • $10 fee per team (a team is 2-3 people)
  • Food and caffeine provided throughout
  • Awesome prizes
  • Register at http://www.megaminerai.com/

Hope to see you at both of these great events!

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S3 – Student Speaker Series- iPhone Development

March 19th, 2009

Join us on 4/7 (on a Tuesday, not Thursday) for a talk on iPhone development. IDC LLC (Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative) is a company created by Missouri S&T students and is currently managing a project with iPhone development. One of their representatives will be giving the talk.

**There will be Snacks & Drinks too!!**
When: 4/7 @ 7:00pm
Where: CS 209A

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Data Center Tour

March 2nd, 2009

Join us this Thursday for a Data Center tour from ACM Co-advisor Eric Sigler!

When: Thursday, 03/05 at 7:00pm

Where: CS209A

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Career Fair Dinner

January 27th, 2009

ACM will be hosting its semesterly Career Fair Dinner on the evening of the career fair.

When: February 17th @ 6:00pm

Where: Alex’s Pizza,  Driving Directions, Walking Directions

Who Will be coming: Sandia National Laboratories, Garmin, NAV-AIR, Nucor Yamato, Gateway EDI, and GE Aviation.

This will be an RSVP only event!!!

We are now accepting RSVP’s, email acm@mst.edu to RSVP now!

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Sun!

January 22nd, 2009

Sun campus ambassador Jasenko Hosic is coming to talk about Sun technologies! He’ll be focusing on OpenSolaris, ZFS (Zetabyte File System) and Zones and Containers within Solaris.

Jasenko will also have OpenSolaris install discs available – so bring your laptop if you want to give it a try!

When: Thursday, January 29th @ 7:00pm

Where: CS 209A

**FREE PIZZZA**

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The Microsoft Meeting – Cloud Computing and Xbox 360!

November 17th, 2008


Join ACM this Thursday to listen
to Clint Rutkas from Microsoft talk about
“Cloud Computing” and how it
will fit into Microsoft’s next OS.
After the talk we will have three four
Xbox 360’s set up playing Gears of War 2!

There will be FREE PIZZA!(for ACM members)

When: Thursday, November 20th @ 7:00pm

Where: CS 209A

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MinerLAN and MegaMiner AI

November 7th, 2008

Join ACM next weekend (11/7-11/8) for two very exciting events!

MinerLAN:
What: Big LAN party. With tournaments for Call of Duty 4, Starcraft, Counter Strike:Source, and DoTA.
When: 11/8 from 8:00am (you don’t have to show up that early!) to Midnight.
Where: To be Announced.
How much: FIVE BUCKS ($5)
$1000 worth of Prizes, courtesy of Lockheed Martin!!!

Register Online NOW

Mega Miner AI Tournament:
What: Big AI Tournament, MechMania style. The game is an RTS. You have 24 hours to write an AI, and then after that is done, we have a big tournament to determine the winner!
When: 11/7 5:00pm to 11/8 6:00pm(24 hours plus 1 hour for tournament)
Where: CS 207
How much: FREE
PLUS, There are $200 worth of prizes, courtesy of Lockheed Martin!!!

Register Online NOW

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Virtualization and the new Windows Exploit

November 6th, 2008

Join us this Thursday to hear former
ACM President (and current Vice-President),
Josh Eads, give a talk on Virtualization.

Topics covered include: general overview,
security exploits, and cool uses.

Miles Strombach, Sig-Sec Co-Chair, will
be giving a talk on Vulnerability MS08-067.

Which could allow an intruder to run code
remotely as admin on your PC!

Thursday 11/6 @ 7:00pm in CS 209A

FREE PIZZA!!

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Programming Competition

October 9th, 2008

Think you’re a hotshot programmer?

Prove it this Thursday against Rolla’s finest!

Winning team will have an opportunity to go to the ACM ICPC regional programming competition, representing Missouri S&T

Thursday, October 9th @ 7:00pm, in CS 209A

**THERE WILL BE PIZZA FOR EVERYONE**

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Employer Dinner

September 17th, 2008

Join Missouri S&T ACM on the night of the Career Fair for dinner with employers at Panera Bread. Nucor-Yamato Steel, Lockheed Martin and Cerner and expected to attend. Dinner is at 6PM on Tuesday(9/23). It will be free of charge, but space is limited, so RSVP is required.

Contact Andrew Schrader at arstk8@mst.edu if you have any questions, or want to RSVP.

See you there!

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Free Warsow Tournament

September 16th, 2008

ACM will be hosting a free Warsow tournament on Saturday, September 20 at
7PM until 8PM. The tournament format will be free-for-all, and the winner
will receive a free pizza delivered to him or her by an ACM officer at
any time next week (within reason, and subject to officer availability).
Warsow 0.42 is required for this tournament–we suggest downloading the latest
unified ZIP from warsow.net.

Game servers for Warsow and Armagetron Advanced are running on
acmgame.device.mst.edu on their respective standard ports. We will be looking
to add additional servers in the future, as time and hardware restrictions
allow.

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Student Design Showcase

September 11th, 2008

Come join us this Thursday to hear
presentations from various student
design groups, including:

MR SAT, Robotics Club, Solar Car,
Solar Home, and Formula Car.
There will also be a special election
for the position of Vice President.

Don’t Miss Out!!!
Thursday September 11th at 7:00pm in CS 209A

Contact information for the groups is as follows:

Thanks to all the groups that presented, and congratulations to our Vice President for this semester, Josh Eads

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Graphics on The Grass

August 28th, 2008

Join your Missouri S&T ACM Thursday night on the CS Building lawn for cool graphics demos, Rockband and FREE PIZZA.
Plus it’s a great time to meet people with similar interests and socialize!

Thursday August 28th
CS Building Lawn

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