Missouri S&T ACM

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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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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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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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 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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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

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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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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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