Association for Computing Machinery

Fall 2009 Game Night 1

Date: Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Time: 7-10pm
Location: NAC 7/107

The games for this game night are:

• - Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2004
• - Counter Strike
• - Halo (Portable)
• - Wii (games TBA)
• - PS2 (games TBA)
• - surprise event; come and find out!

This event will be hosted and co-sponsored by the following clubs:

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• ASE (Art of Science and Engineering club)
• CCNY Entrepreneurship club
• CCNY Robotics club
• HSAC (Honors Student Activity Council)
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• SEC (Science and Engineering Communications club)

Food and drinks will be served!

Fall 2009 First General Meeting

We will be holding a general meeting this Thursday (10/01/09) in NAC 7/107 at 12:30 PM to plan and organize events Fall '09 and Spring '10. Our plans include:

-Collaborations with other clubs in CCNY
-Workshops we want to start
-Projects we have in mind for you
-Events like our game night, and other club's events
-The ACM's programming contest
-Your suggestions, questions, projections for the semester, anything!

3D Computer Graphics and the World Wide Web

ACM Distinguished Speakers

Lecturer: Mr. Sandy Ressler
Date: November 13, 2008
Location: NAC 7/107

About the lecture
In this talk we will explore the excitement and hype of 3D graphics on the web including good, bad and silly applications that purport to be Web3D. Appropriate and inappropriate uses of 3D for the Web will be demonstrated and discussed, making sure the audience finds the whole topic and presentation fun and educational.

About Sandy Ressler:
Mr. Ressler is currently a program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he has been for over twenty years. Prior to NIST he was at a video game startup, and at Bell Labs. During his over twenty-five year career he has always been involved in interactive computer graphics. His research work appears frequently in a variety of scientific and technical venues, and his columns, editorials, and articles have chronicled Web3D standards and contributed to the field of Digital Human Modeling.

Links:

Sandy Ressler: http://dsp.acm.org/view_lecturer.cfm?lecturer_id=422

Lecture: http://dsp.acm.org/view_lecture.cfm?lecture_id=442

Game Design Lecture

ACM Sponsored Lecture on Game Design

Lecturer: Greg Trefry
Date: Tuesday Oct 21st 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Location: Will be Announced in upcoming email.

Greg Trefry is a game designer at New York City based
GameLab and director of the Come Out & Play festival.

The lecture/workshop is not geared solely for computer
science oriented students. It will address the underlying
principles of game design, play testing, and iteratively
redesigning games.

Greg Trefry's profile on GameLab:
http://www.gamelab.com/about/greg_trefry

Trefry's Blog:
http://www.iamtheeconomy.com/

Come Out & Play Festival:
http://www.comeoutandplay.org/

ACM Members,

Welcome back! We have a number of events planned for the fall.
Our first general meeting will be held this Thursday (09/04/08) in
NAC 7/107 from 12:30 to 1:30.

We will discuss events for the semester:
• Student and Guest Lectures
• Google Field Trip
• Programming Practice Sessions
• Research Lab Tour

Have a look at ACM's distinguished speakers program (http://dsp.acm.org/)
to browse through some of the lecturers we can invite.

Arrive at the meeting with suggestions and ideas for the semester!

Hope to see you there.

A New Special Topics course offered in the summer.

CSc 59905: The Modern Mainframe

Prerequisite: CSc 332 Operating Systems
Class schedule: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:30 to 12:10.
Instructor: Prof. Stan Wine

Course content: This is a hands-on course which will include mainframe access. We will cover operating system and mainframe terminology and concepts, evolution of the mainframe, mainframe workloads and how the mainframe addresses the critical management issues described above. Topics include editing, creation and use of files, programs and transaction processing. Students will write and run programs in their choice of C++, Java or other languages. A large body of material will be covered and there will be several lab assignments.

If interested, please see Ms. Harvey in the CSc office ASAP. The course will be offered if 15 students indicate that they would be interested in taking it.

ACM Programming Practices

Date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Time: 12:30 P.M.
Room: NAC 7/105 (UNIX LAB)

Learn to solve different kinds of problems, and to code them accurately and fast, in small teams.

All are welcome, though it will help to have taken the Data Structures class. Tell your friends.

Contest info: http://icpc.baylor.edu/ .  The annual New York regional competition is held at the beginning of November.  Teams of three students are given five hours to solve as many problems as possible from a list of eight, ranging from easy to hard.

This opportunity is valuable for those not only interested in the competition, but also for those who want to become better programmers. The practices develop your ability to code without a development environment; a necessity for job interviews!

Led by Professor Sam Fenster (ACM Faculty Advisor)

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