WVU Student Chapter of the ACM

An Evening with the Inventor of Hypertext: Theodor Holm Nelson When: Thursday April 3, 2008.

Where: Room 113, Mineral Resources Building, Evansdale Campus.

"The computer field has accepted an ancient definition of documents and locked it down. They think paper is rightful just because it's customary.Indeed, today's systems simulate paper under glass: you can't write on it or connect to it. There is no connection of quotations to their origins-- a fundamental issue widely ignored. There are no authorial aids except those which enforce hierarchy (outliners). And today's hypertext systems,including the Web, embed connections so that none can be added by others.We seek to correct these errors with more general forms of structure:parallelism, cross-connection and interpenetration, implementing the openly-defined transliterary data structure in a different kind of 3D (folding space)."

For more information, visit: http://wvu.acm.org/activities/2008-04-03/

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 by abutcher

Finalized LAN Party InformationAs per the meeting tonight, we were able to finalize all the plans for the upcoming ACM LAN Party. Here are the details.

When: Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Time: Starting at 2pm
Set-up at 1pm

As a reminder: The ACM LAN Party is open to all students. The LAN party will be structured as a team based tournament involving several games on multiple consoles, which include:the Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii.
The tournament requires that teams consist of at least two and contain no more than four members, although singles are encouraged to sign up and may possibly be matchedwith smaller groups or other single players. An admission fee will be necessary for entry into the tournament but the amount has not yet been determined.

The games that will be played include:
1. Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
2. NCAA Football (PS2 or Xbox)
3. Excite Truck (Wii)
4. Possibly Guitar Hero or DDR
5. Super Smash Brother's Brawl

A champion will need to be chosen from each team to represent them in the single player games. Prizes will be available for the top teams in attendance.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Thurs, 6 Mar 2008 by jbrown

Next ACM Meeting + Wireless LAN Networks/LAN PlanningThe next ACM meeting will be this Thursday, March 6th at 6:30 PM in room 849 ESB.

Our guest speaker will be Mohammad Hossien Yaghmaee, a visiting professor from the Ferdoswi University of Mashhad. His talk will be on Wireless Sensor Networks.

We will also continue planning for the upcoming gaming party.

As always, new members are welcome. Refreshments will be served, and this event will count as an out-of-class experience for freshman engineering.

Thurs, 6 Mar 2008 by jbrown