Missouri S&T ACM

Stephen Horn from Volition (video game company!!!) will be returning to Rolla to present on April 23rd at 5:00PM in CS209A. Stephen is a former UMR grad and ACM member.

Note: This meeting is at 5:00pm instead of 7:00pm because of the CS Awards Banquet.

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The Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative LLC has posted a recording of the iPhone Development talk they gave at the Student Speaker Series meeting on April 7th. The video is available for viewing here.

They’re also looking for people that are interested in working with them on their wide range of projects – if you’re interested, head over to their website and learn about the positions available today!

Presentations

On April 9th at 7:00pm in CS209A, Kate Holdener will be presenting about a yet to be decided topic. Kate is a recent PhD graduate from Missouri S&T (May 2008), and she will be able to speak from the perspective of a fresh grad in the working world.

We will also be having OFFICER ELECTIONS.  So it is very important that all paid members come to cast their votes!  Please come if you are interested in running for office.

FREE PIZZA TOO!!!!

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On February 26th at 7:00pm, Sam Handlang from FlightSafety will be coming to speak to Missouri S&T ACM. FlightSafety’s visual simulation systems division is located in St. Louis, MO and they are the largest simulator manufacturer in the United States.

Stay tuned for more details!

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Patrick Edgett and Zach Zeman will be covering reverse engineering during the second presentation of the Student Speaker Series.

When: Tuesday, 02/24 at 7:00pm

Where: CS209A

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The MegaMiner AI tournament will be held from Saturday, April 18th at 1:00pm to Sunday, April 19th at 1:00pm. For more information, visit the Missouri S&T ACM AI website.

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This semester, MinerLAN will be held on the weekend of April 24th-26th.

For more info or to register, go to http://www.minerlan.com/

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Clint Rutkas from Microsoft is coming back to Rolla on February 12th!  Clint will be talking about cool stuff he has done. He ensures us that he’ll have no problems talking about himself and his projects and you better believe it. Clint has worked on projects ranging from a homemade segway to an automated bartender – come to our meeting to learn more!

After the meeting, we’ll be having another Xbox360 event. Clint is bringing the Xbox’s back and we’ll be setting up for Gears of War 2 or Halo 3 – be sure to join us!

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Join us for the first speaker of the Student Speaker Series, Nick Pegg. Nick’s presentation is entitled “Using the Android Platform for Fun and Non-profit” – he’ll be talking about the Android platform and how to develop your own applications within it.

When: Tuesday, 02/10 at 7:00pm

Where: CS209A

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This semester, ACM and ACM SIG Security are teaming up to give you S3 – The Student Speaker Series.

The aim of the series is to introduce Missouri S&T students to cool technologies that they’re interested in. The series will occur in addition to the regularly scheduled ACM and ACM SIG Security meetings. The series will consist of Missouri S&T students giving walkthrough/workshop style presentations for their respective technologies.

When: Tuesday, 7:00pm

Where: CS209A

Series Schedule:

• February 10th – Nick Pegg – Android Development
• February 24th – Zach Zeman and Patrick Edgett – Reverse Engineering
• April 7th – Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative LLC - iPhone Development
• April 21st – Ben Murrell – OpenGL with SDL

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Come out to the first ACM meeting of the semester!

Eric Sigler from IT will be giving a walkthrough on making a simple 2D game using Microsoft’s XNA framework.

Where: CS 209A

When: This Thursday (1/15) at 7:00pm

Why: Cool presentation and **FREE PIZZA**

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I added Josh Eads’ and Miles Strombach’s presentations to the new Presentations page. We’ll be adding slides and other presentation material from speakers to that page when they come and talk at meetings, so be sure to check it every once and a while for the latest presentations!

Josh’s Presentation – What is Real?

Miles’ Presentation – MS 08-067

Presentations Presentations

We had a pretty good turnout for Clint’s talk on cloud computing. Afterwards, we played Gears of War 2 on the 4 Xbox 360’s he brought down. There were prizes ranging from a copy of Windows Vista to a copy of Gears of War 2 to Microsoft t-shirts. Clint also left us with some prizes for the next MinerLAN – thanks Clint!

Clint’s website is http://www.betterthaneveryone.com/. In addition, he recorded his presentation and will be posting it to Channel8. We’ll link to it when it’s available.

Meetings recap

Josh and I painted the MAME cabinet today – we put on two layers of primer and two coats of black paint. The cabinet should be up and running for the December 4th meeting!

Josh is painting one of the sides in Ben's basement

Projects

Come out on October 23rd and help us work on the Arcade Cabinet!

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