This is an archive of some of our past events. You can download any additional information that happens to be available.

January 2005

Linux User Group
01/13/05 Thursday
Student Union 3rd floor study hall, 8 PM
The first Linux User Group meeting will focus on the formation of the club, including content for the website, delegation of officers, and suggestions for future events.

Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernels
01/27/05 Thursday
Speaker: Dr. Kang G. Shin
This meeting will be held on Thursday instead of the usual Wednesday, same location.

February 2005

Object-Oriented Natural Language Requirements Specification
02/09/05 Wednesday
Speaker: Dr. Barrett R. Bryant

April 2005

The Making of Madden
04/06/05 Wednesday
Speaker: Dave Swanson
A look at what goes into creating EA Tiburon's flagship sports title and the skills necessary to work in the game industry. This talk will explain the structure of Tiburon's game teams, the cycle from pre-production to shipping a product, some of the issues faced by game teams today, and the transition to a new generation of hardware. It will also include an overview of the history of Electronic Arts' Tiburon studio.

Annual ACM Officer Elections
04/20/05 Wednesday

October 2007

First Lecture
10/26/07 Friday
UCF ACM Members,

This is a reminder that we have our first event, a lecture by Mark Colbert, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, on his experience as an intern at Intel.

The lecture will be in room HEC-101 at noon, tomorrow (10/26).

After the lecture, there will be pizza and soda for everyone (until we run out).

As an added treat, Dr. Charles Hughes, Associate Director of EECS and Chief Scientist of the Media Convergence Lab (MCL), will speak about the work being done at MCL (http://mcl.ucf.edu/).

After the talk while we are eating pizza, I will try to run a very quick meeting. We will discuss tutoring and chapter membership requirements.

Thanks!

Arup

November 2007

Meeting
11/01/07 Thursday
I have a room for the ACM Meeting. It’s HEC-101 this Thursday night at 7:30pm.

On a side note, I think it would be neat if we could take in computers that were otherwise going to be thrown away, fix them up, and give them to young students (middle or high school) who can’t afford a computer. Perhaps there is a group already doing this in Orlando, in which case we could volunteer for them. But, I think it would be a good hands-on way for us to do something internally. I have a computer at home that I am willing to donate. (I hardly ever turn it on, so I figure it would be better used by someone else.) Is there anyone willing to be in charge of this project for our group? The group of you who do work on this would have to find other places to get donated machines, have a place to store them, fix them up, and find worthy individuals to give them to. Also, in some way shape or form, we should provide some help to those who we give the computers to, for simple fixes of problems.

Be thinking about this and we’ll discuss it in the meeting.

Arup

Meeting
11/15/07 Thursday
ACM Members,

We are meeting this Thursday night at 7:30pm in room HEC-118.

We will discuss the following topics:

(1) How to recruit more members

(2) How to sign up more people for tutoring

(3) Assign people to do work so that we can get signed up as an official UCF club (we are recognized by the national, but not UCF, right now)

(4) Continue talking about fixing up computers to give to those who can’t afford them

Arup

February 2008

ACM General Meeting
02/28/08 Thursday
Speaker: Amy Hoover
February 28th at 6pm.

It will be held in room HEC-202. We have two things on our agenda:

1) Amy Hoover will speak about her research about using genetic algorithms to evolve music.

2) We will do another discussion based on three magazine articles. The articles are titled, “Dining with Robots”, “Show Me the Science”, and “The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips”.

Arup has included packets with the reading outside of his office, HEC-240. So, if you’d like to participate in the discussion, please pick them up.

April 2008

Next Meeting
04/10/08 Thursday
Speaker: Brandon Haber
We will have our next meeting on April 10th (Thursday) at 7pm in HEC-202. Our agenda will be as follows:

1) Plans for next year (electing officers, events to hold, etc.)

2) Presentation by Brandon Haber about NASA, the space shuttle program and the new Orion spacecraft

3) Discussion on the next reading excerpt taken from How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. (Copies will be available outside of my office, HEC-240, after tomorrow.)

Here’s a quick blurb (from Brandon) about his presentation:

Brandon will talk about his experiences as a co-op for United Space Alliance in Houston, Texas. He worked for the Flight Software Application Tools group for the Shuttle, and will also talk about the Shuttle's computer systems and the upcoming Orion spacecraft.