First General Meeting!

THURSDAY September 16, 2010

3:30pm in ECS 280

Hope everyone had a great summer!

As the school semester is now rapidly approaching we are planning out events for the semester. More info will be available soon.

We are also planning to have our First General Meeting on September 16th, 2010. We will also be posting up the schedules for SIG-Games and SIG-Robotics shortly, both on the calendar and Orgsync.

If anybody has any plans or ideas for the club, please let us know. Otherwise, welcome back and get ready for a new semester.

P.S.
If you are new to ACM, check out our FAQ post in the forums here: http://users.cs.fiu.edu/~acm/?q=node/31

Some of the c.s. department's professors talked about their research and undergrad positions they have available last Thursday. The power points will be uploaded soon, but here is the contact information so you can inquire about the talked about positions.

Ming Zhao
Office: ECS 363
Email:zhaom at cis.fiu.edu
Web: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/zhaom

Shu-Ching Chen
Office: ECS 362
Phone: 305-348-3480
e-mail: chens at cs.fiu.edu

The ACM SIG-Games group will have our very own PhD student, Frank Hernandez, give a presentation on a project he has been developing for the past several months. His project is a program that is suppose to simplify the coding aspect of game development by using a simple IDE interface and auto generating code in C# with the XNA framework. Up until now, his project has been top secret and he will be revealing it in his presentation on Monday March 29, Room ECS 235 at 4:00pm.

Join us to explore research opportunities available at FIU's School of Computer and Information Science.
When? April 1st, 3:30pm
Where? ECS 243

Faculty members presenting:

Ming Zhao, Assistant Professor
●Research and Instructional Interests:
●Distributed/Grid Computing
●Virtualization
●High-Performance Systems
●Autonomic Computing

Deng Pan, Assistant Professor
●Research and Instructional Interests:
●High performance routers and switches
●High speed networking
●Quality of service
●Network processors
●Network security

On February 27th we will be going to the Renaissance Festival. Please sign the spreadsheet if you would like to go. If we get 20 people to go it will cost $15 per ticket. You have till the 21th to sign up.

For more details on the festival go to this site: http://www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

Where: Deerfield beach
Time: TBA

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aq8sg0sXfLwedEp4SkszenM0OGY3Ylk...

ACM will be having it's second general meeting for the semester.
This Thursday February 11th, 2010 at 3:30pm in the ACM room ECS 280.
Everyone is welcome to attend.

Some items we plan to discuss:

* Update on all the SIGs

* iPhone development workshop with Carlos M Icaza

* Summo Bot Competition hosted by UPE

* Projects to present at the Engineering Expo

* Ideas for future tutorials (arduino, learn by taking stuff apart, or anything someone is interested in learning)

* CSO points

* Ideas for any social events

Come join ACM for our annual picnic!

Don't miss out on the free food, games, activities, and beach-side fun!

When? February 6th, 2010. Starting at 1pm
Where? Crandon Park Shelter #2
Who can come? All FIU students are welcome!

Street address is,
4000 Crandon Boulevard
Key Biscayne, FL

Entrance via South Beach

On Thursday, February 4 at 3:30 there will be a town hall meeting with Director Navlakha & Associate Director Weiss. This town hall will act as a Q & A session for students with the Computer Science department's heads. This is a great opportunity to find out what's going on in the c.s. department and I hope you can attend.

Also, ACM, UPE, PLUG have created a facebook page where people can submit questions for Director Navlakha & Associate Director Weiss ahead of time. Please join the page and leave a question.

What: Town Hall Meeting
Where: VH (Viertes Haus) 131

To help the relief efforts in Haiti, UPE and ACM have placed a number of donation boxes around the ECS building.

Please donate canned food and bottled water.

Donation Box Locations:
- the JCCL
- Graduate Lab
- third floor of
ECS building

Every donation helps.