The primary mission of the GSU Student Chapter of the ACM is to provide a series of lectures, events, and field trips throughout the regular school year to promote the education and professional development of students as well as faculty members.
Georgia State Student Chapter of ACM
The primary mission of the GSU Student Chapter of the ACM is to provide a series of lectures, events, and field trips throughout the regular school year to promote the education and professional development of students as well as faculty members.
Fall 2012 Events
| Topic | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | 11/07/2012 - 12:00pm |
| TBA | TBA | 10/11/2012 - 12:00pm |
| TBA | TBA | 09/26/2012 - 12:00pm |
| TBA | TBA | 08/30/2012 - 12:00pm |
| ACM Trivia Contest | Dr. K.N. King | 04/05/2012 - 12:00pm |
| Secure SOurce-BAsed Loose Synchronization (SOBAS) for Wireless Sensor Networks | Dr. Selcuk Uluagac | 03/21/2012 - 5:30pm |
| Convergence Innovation Competition: Improving Transportation in Atlanta | Eric Ayers | 03/08/2012 - 5:30pm |
Past Events
ACM tailgate party on November 19
Speaker:
-
Time:
Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Brown Lot outside the Georgia Dome You are cordially invited to join the officers and members of the GSU ACM chapter at the Georgia State versus Campbell football game on Saturday, November 19.
Meet us in the Brown Lot outside the Georgia Dome. We'll be there at noon, but you can join us any time before the game starts at 2:00 p.m. Look for the ACM banner and the officers wearing ACM shirts.
We will enjoy burgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, and soft drinks in the parking lot before entering the Dome together for the game. (Please bring your PantherCard to the game for free admission.)
Self-starting in the games industry
Speaker:
Alan Wilson
Affiliation:
TripWire Interactive
Time:
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
West Exhibit Area at the Urban Life Building (see http://www.gsu.edu/map.html) "Some thoughts from the trenches on how to get a (coding) job in the video games industry, looking at options for applying for jobs or starting up your own company. What is it that just might actually turn potential employers' heads? What will you have to do to get noticed?"
Systems and Tests Automation Using Robot Framework and Selenium
Speaker:
Walid Boumerdassi
Affiliation:
Internap Network Services Corporation
Time:
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Lanier Suite, Student Center Mr. Walid Boumerdassi is going to speak about systems and tests automation using Robot Framework and Selenium. Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java. The Selenium Library is a Robot Framework test library that uses the popular Selenium web testing tool internally.
Windows Phone Coding Camp
Speaker:
Tara Walker
Affiliation:
Microsoft Corporation
Time:
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Conference Room, 19th floor, 34 Peachtree Street You will learn how to get started on that next great app for the Phone using Silverlight.
This is your chance to design and implement that cool new app you've been dreaming about, or put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, so bring your ideas and get ready to code.
As you are designing, writing & testing your apps onsite, there will be guidance Microsoft professionals to help you get things right.
Registration Link: http://gastateapplabphonesession1.eventbrite.com/
GPU Computing
Speaker:
Dr. John Melonakos
Affiliation:
AccelerEyes
Time:
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Lanier Suite Learn about leveraging GPUs to exploit data parallelism in code. Discussion of programming models for data-parallelism. Consider questions: Why GPUs? Roadmaps for CPUs vs GPUs? NVIDIA vs ATI vs Intel vs ARM? High-performance computing vs Mobile computing? Mobile GPUs? Open source vs proprietary parallel software?
Whirlyball Atlanta
Speaker:
ACM Officers
Affiliation:
Georgia State University
Time:
Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Whirlyball Atlanta: 5130 Commerce Parkway, Roswell, GA. 30076 The GSU chapter of the ACM wants to thank all of our members for participating during this year activities and events. We have organized an event for this Saturday May 21st and we will take 15 randomly selected ACM members to Whirlyball Atlanta.
