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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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XNA and You

January 9th, 2009

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**

xna_littlegamers

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Arcade Smackdown + CS Building Mini-Golf

December 1st, 2008

Come to CS 209A this Thursday the 4th at 7:00PM for our final meeting of the semester!  We will be hosting a Street Fighter 2 tournament on our newly finished Arcade Cabinet and there will be a mini-golf course organized throughout the CS building.

This will be a joint meeting between ACM General, SIG-Security, ACM-W, and UPE.

When: December 4 at 7:00PM

Where: CS 209A

P.S. – There will be free pizza for all!

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The Microsoft Meeting – Recap

November 21st, 2008

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.

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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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Arcade Cabinet Build #3

October 23rd, 2008

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

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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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AI and Small Game Development

September 25th, 2008

Tonight at 7:00PM in CS209A we’ll be having our weekly meeting. We will be voting on a constitutional amendment, so it’s important that you come! The main event for the meeting is AI and small game development. We’ve got the creators of last year’s MegaMiner AI tournament coming in to talk about the game development process, the winner of the tournament coming in to talk about his AI, and more!

Also, after the meeting we will be holding another Virtual LAN (VLAN). The winner of the Warsow match will get a free pizza from Domino’s!

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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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