WVU ACM News

An Evening with the Inventor of Hypertext: Theodor Holm Nelson

Sat, 22 Mar 2008

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/

Finalized LAN Party Information

Thurs, 6 Mar 2008

As 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!

Next ACM Meeting + Wireless LAN Networks/LAN Planning

Thurs, 6 Mar 2008

The 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.

Next ACM Meeting + Gaming Party News

Mon, 18 Feb 2008

The ACM Gaming Party has been postponed due to lack of time to get things organized and advertised. We will reschedule it at our next meeting.

Our next meeting will take place on February 28 at 6:30 PM in room 849 ESB.

Raghu Doppalapudi will give a talk on AJAX-based web app development using Google Web Toolkit.

As always, refreshments will be provided and new members are welcome. This will count as an out-of-class experience for freshmen engineers.

-Greg

Engineering Week LAN Party 2008

Wed, 13 Feb 2008

******CANCELLED******

What: LAN PARTY
When: Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Where: Room 756 Engineering Sciences Building (Evansdale Campus)

As a part of engineering week, the WVU ACM chapter will be hosting a LAN Party/Competition which 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 matched with 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

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!

LAN Party notes from Dugald

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:27:25 GMT

Here is a rundown of what was decided at last night's meeting for the LAN party:

I will post an online survey to determine the games between Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake 3, Battlefield 1942, and Call of Duty. (Do we want to use two games for the tournament?)

We would like to get away from using the CS101 labs so we have more room to stretch out. However, we will have to find someplace willing to give us ample time for an acceptable cost. The suggestions were NRCCE, and the Towers rooms (only good for a weekend).

I will be attempting to get my hands on a Wii in the coming week to use as a prize. I mentioned after the meeting that we may want to raffle off the Wii and offer up something smaller such as a Nintendo DS as a prize. The Wii would probably be a hefty fund-raiser. Other prizes will be Gift Certificates and ACM swag TBD after we have a head count for the tournament.

We will be trying to get sponsors to provide us with product, coupons, and any appropriate door prizes. The Sponsors suggested are:
Redbull: Daniel will handle this again
Kroger area restaurants: Adam Dorsey
Downtown area restaurants: Joe D'Allesandro
GameStop:Ricky is going to get something good for us.

Anyone want to volunteer to talk to some drink vendors?

The task for next week will to see what we've been offered, review current survey results (will 2 weeks be enough?), and start deciding on advertising. We should get the word out fast. Make mention of potential prizes and games.

Would a meeting next week at the same time and place be acceptable to everyone? We can even start earlier since Brian won't be holding us up with a review session.

Thanks for the help everyone!

~Dugald

PS, if you're talking to businesses on our behalf here are some things to mention that could help attain sponsorship:
We are a student organization
We are the computer science professional society
Time frame (11/27-12/1)
We could advertise on our fliers
~50 participants
Mention we have potential prizes as a Wii, DS

Site in Internet Explorer [updated]

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:30:03 GMT

My appologies to all IE (Internet Explorer) users. I loaded the site in IE6 and things look a bit funky. I'll try to get the CSS sorted out ASAP.
- Daniel

[update]
OK, things should be fine now. If you notice anything out of the ordinary, drop me a note at dshaw@csee.wvu.edu.

[November 1st] SIGGRAPH - Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:27:53 GMT

"Dr. Tim McGraw of the CSEE department attended the 2006 main conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH). He will be discussing the conference in general, some of the exhibit events, and the student volunteer program (which covers the conference registration fee of $345+, among other things). For anyone interested in computer graphics (a category that includes game development), SIGGRAPH is a great place to meet new people, gain a wealth of knowledge, and network with professionals in the field.

In addition to Dr. McGraw's talk, the ACM officers will be speaking briefly on just what the ACM is, what we do, benefits of membership, etc."

More info at http://wvu.acm.org/activities/2006-11-01/

LanPartyTWO planning meeting update

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:44:44 GMT

Note that the meeting will be in ESB 756, not 728 (which probably doesn't even exist). Sorry for the confusion.
- Daniel

Special Meeting for LanPartyTWO planning

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:06:25 GMT

Dugald has scheduled a meeting for Monday, October 23rd in ESB ~~728~~ 756 to discuss and begin planning LanPartyTWO.