ACM: Fri @ 4:30 – Intro to POVRAY by Dr. Baas

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held Friday, February 27 at 4:30pm in Longview Hall room 133.

Come hear Dr. Baas present on “An Introduction to POVRAY”

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POVRAY) is a free text-based tool for creating three-dimensional graphics.

Free drinks will be provided!

I hope to see you there,
Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

Slides from “Parallel Programming: Challenges and Possible Solutions” by Marian V. Iordache

You can download the slides from last Friday’s meeting here: Parallel Programming: Challenges and Possible Solutions by Marian V. Iordache.

Special Meeting: Parallel Programming & Web Design Job Opportunity

Hi Everyone!

On Friday we will have a special joint meeting with IEEE on Parallel Programming.

We will meet this Friday, February 20, at 4:30pm in Berry Auditorium in Glaske (NOT Longview Hall, as usual).

Parallel Programming: Challenges and Solutions

Presented by: Dr. Marian Iordache

The emergence of multicore processors has made parallel computing widespread. However, parallel programming is considerably more
complicated than the traditional sequential programming. The presentation will introduce some of the challenges encountered in writing parallel or concurrent programs and some of the possible ways to address them. Similarities between synchronization problems and Control Systems problems will be emphasized. The talk will be concluded with a discussion of current research on the application of Control Systems methods to the automatic generation of coordination and synchronization code of parallel programs.

FREE DRINKS AND SNACKS!

Review of important info:

Date:	This Friday, February 20, 2009
Time:	4:30pm – 5:30pm
Location:	Berry Auditorium (in Glaske)

I hope you can make it!

Web Design Job Announcement:

The School of Engineering and Engineering Technology is looking for one or more students interested in redesigning their website. Some experience with web design is desired. This will be a part time job (10-20 hours/week) and should provide good work experience. If you are interested please email Joel Koblich.

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Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting: Friday @ 4:30 – Data Recovery Basics

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held Friday, February 13, at 4:30pm in LH 130B (advanced PC lab).

David Carpenter will present on Data Recovery Basics.

Come learn how to get your data back in the face of corruption, accidently deleted files, and hard drive failures.

Free drinks will be provided.

I hope you can make it!

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting Friday @ 4:30 in LH 130B – “20 commands every Linux user should know”

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held Friday, February 6th at 4:30pm in *LH 130B* (this is the small advanced PC lab).

The power of Linux lies in its excellent command line interface.

Come hear Malcolm Galland present on “20 commands every Linux user should know.”

Last semester, Malcolm presented at ACM on running Linux on Routers.

Free drinks will be provided!

One announcement:

Interested in possibly going to Handong Global University in South Korea next year?
Then be sure to attend the “Handong 2009 information/orientation meeting”
When: Thursday, Feb. 5th. 11:00 to 11:50
Where: Glaske C105

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting Friday @ 4:30 – Facebook Development Part 2

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held on Friday, January 30th at 4:30pm in LH 133.

James Bracy will be presenting part 2 of Facebook development with Ruby on Rails.
Facebook has over 60 million users. Facebook applications are a great way find a captive audience.
Come and see a live demo about how to create a Facebook application with Ruby on Rails.

Free drinks will be provided!

I hope to see you there,

Elijah Lofgren

LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting – Friday 4:30pm – CMS Made Simple Development

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held on January 23, at 4:30pm in LH 133. The speaker will be Elijah Lofgren. I will be presenting an introduction to using and extending CMS Made Simple. This presentation will include a live coding demo in which a CMSMS module will be developed which adds a simple visitor logging feature to CMSMS.

CMS Made Simple is a free and open source PHP/MySQL website content management system. I am a former CMS Made Simple developer and have created 4 CMSMS modules and contributed to others.

Free drinks will be provided as usual.

Two announcements:

* One of the Spring Break trips will be going to HCJB and in addition to general construction/setup help, they are looking for CS Juniors or Seniors for projects such developing software for digital radio broadcasting equipment, researching and testing computer hardware, and developing software for automated notification of inventory system activity. If you are interested, please see Dr. Graff for more information.

* There is a volunteer opportunity this Saturday morning.  Interested in helping update the Gregg County Historical Museum’s Patrons database?  Previous database experience preferred, but not required.  Saturday morning from 9:00-11:30.  Contact Dr. Baas for details.

I hope you can make it,

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting Friday @ 4:30 – Facebook development with Ruby on Rails

Hi Everyone!

Our first 2009 ACM meeting will be held this Friday, January 16th in Longview Hall room 133 at 4:30 PM. James Bracy will be presenting on Facebook development with Ruby on Rails.

Facebook has over 60 million users. Facebook applications are a great way find a captive audience. You will learn at a high level how the
Facebook API works and the tools available to developers.

You will also see a live demo about how to create a Facebook application with Ruby on Rails.

Free drinks will be provided! I hope to see you there!

Also, if you haven’t become an official LETU ACM member yet, please consider it. Becoming an official member helps pay for drinks and allows you to put on your resume that you were an official member of an ACM student chapter. The cost to become an official member is $5.

And now, 3 announcements:

Dr. Baas received a work possibility from General Dynamics, part time ~10-15 hours.

Workflow Visualization

General Dynamics – Kilgore

VBA and SQL experience desired.

A volunteer is needed to work with an existing database of Museum patrons.

Patrons Database Cleanup

Gregg County Historical Museum

Interested students should contact Dr. Baas regarding either of these positions.

Drew Crawford would also like students to apply for free accounts to his latest project by going to tinyurl.com/newsbeta

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

No ACM meeting tomorrow

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you know that we don’t have a meeting this Friday.

Our first meeting will be in a week or two. It will be on making a Facebook application with Ruby on Rails which should be quite interesting. I’ll let you know more details when we have a firm date for it.

I hope your first week back finishes up well,

Elijah Lofgren

LETU ACM President

Have a Merry Christmas!

Hi Everyone!

We won’t be having any more ACM meetings this semester. I know people are busy with finishing up projects and studying for finals.

If you’re interested, bring your retro games back next semester for a possible retro game event. These would be games like Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Decent, O’Dell Down Under, Scorched Earth or similar games.

Please be sure to let us know of any ideas you have for next semester’s ACM meetings!

Have a great Christmas break!

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President