Association for Computing Machinery

 General Meeting

NAO ROBOT DEMO!

Programs

Cyber Security Committee 

A committee for participating in cyber security competitions.

Bradly Evans will be leading the practices and the committee!

Join the facebook page: /groups/ucrcyber/

or email Bradley at: bevan006@ucr.edu

Joint committee with IEEE

Algorithm Practices

If you want help for your classes, interview questions, or just for fun :D

Led by Michelle Wang

Tuesdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm

WCH 202

Mock Interviews

If you want some practices with Technical Interviews

Set up an appointment with Faiz for a Mock Interview!

Led by Faiz Mirza

By appointments

UE4 Career Pathway

 

Learn game development in Unreal Engine 4

  • Learn visual programming via Blueprints
  • Learn to create shaders and materials using Physically Based Rendering, the latest standard in 3D graphics
  • Create your very own game alone or with a team
  • Syllabus can be found here.

Led by Mark De Ruyter

Mondays 4:00 - 5:00pm           WCH 135

NAO Robots

 

 

  • Work together in a group to program functionality into the robot.
  • The robot has a ton of sensors:
    • Touch sensitivity on hands, head & fingers
    • 2 microphones
    • infrared sensors (for kinect-like sensing)
  • Full actuators on nearly all limbs!

 

Joint program with IEEE

Led by Kash and Michael

Thursdays 5:00 - 6:00pm              WCH 202            

Hack Nights

Collaborate and work on projects including:

Android/IOS, Web, Games, OS, etc...

Friday 5-7pm in WCH 127

We have prizes!

Check out our trophy and become engraved in ACM history

Judging for last quarter's winner this Friday (Tomorrow!)

 

GitHub Workshop 

Led by Mark De Ruyter

Friday 6-7pm in WCH 135

GitHub GUI tutorial

we're going over:

Commits

Branching

Merging

StarCraft Broodwar AI

Interested in designing AI? Learn through programming an AI for StarCraft!

  • Program multiple AI's for different strategies and have them compete

 Led by Kyle and Ben

Fridays 5:00 - 6:00pm WCH 135

ACM Mentorship Program

Mentors and mentees! We need your schedule to finalize dates and times. Fill out your schedule here

 

Make sure you join the Facebook page!

 

ACM Clubroom 

Stop by WCH 226 and say hi!

 

We even have rent-able lockers to keep your things safe!

  • $20 if you need a lock, $15 if you provide your own
  • Must provide name, contact info, and lock combination
  • Rental good for entire quarter
  • ACM Fridge!
    • $0.50 per can of soda or bottle of water
    • donation based!

aka: The Leviathon

Become a Member of ACM

Pay $20 to Kash, giving him your ID and shirt size

We also have an online payment option via our website,

http://acm.cs.ucr.edu/membership.html

  • Discounted ticket prices
  • Priority workshop enrollment
  • Ability to participate in giveaways
  • Access to "member's only" hardware (Oculus Rift, Google Cardboards, Arduinos and more!)
  • Free t-shirt!

T-shirt Design!

Members of ACM only!

We are starting our t-shirt design contest next quarter! Start thinking about designs that you may 

 

Specifications:

  • Have "ACM at UCR" or "ACM@UCR" on the shirt
  • Use up to 2 colors.

Open Officer Meetings

Time & Place: TBD

Want to be involved with ACM on an administrative level? Interested in becoming an officer for next year? 

 

Speak with or email an ACM officer to be their +1 at our officer meetings. Here we discuss how events are going, what we need to improve on, and what we need to do to get events ready for the future.

Elections!

Fourth General Meeting Feb. 18th 2016

 

We know it's early, but this quarter we are going to be having elections for next years' board.

 

For those of you who have enjoyed the events and programs that ACM has offered, consider joining the board to make next year even better!

Other Org Events

UCR Unmanned Aerial Systems

  • We are looking for motivated programmers who want to contribute to a project that will prepare them for an industry job.

  • The areas that you could be working on include

    • Custom server/client software

    • Graphic User Interface for communicating with the drone

    • Computer Vision and object detection algorithm design

    • Autopilot tuning and gps tracking

 

Get involved now to get in on our upcoming weekly test flights and BBQ’s!

 

Contact Fritz Grigsby @ fgrig001@ucr.edu if you have any questions or are interested in contributing

HLG Events

Smash Tournament

1/16 @ 1-8PM INTN 1002

Non-mem ($10), HLG Members ($5)

ARAM Tournament

1/24 @ 12PM (online)

Non-mem ($2), HLG Members (free)

Computer Security

Dr. Zhiyun Qian

Winter 2016 1st General Meeting

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