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It’ll be October 28th in VEC-419 @ 12 noon.

We’ll be discussing the new projects ACM is working on.

Game Development Project for the VA Hospital

The VA hospital needs to have their psychology games to be remade in Java or C#. For those of you with CECS 174 or further completed, this will be the perfect chance to practical experience with the fundamentals of game programming.

Physical Therapy Project for the VA Hospital

Attention Computer Scientists and Computer Engineers: The VA hospital need to make hardware and software to measure patient’s balance. Let us know if you’re interested at this week’s meeting.

More Imagine Cup Projects

The web design, digital media, and IT challenges have just opened up for the Imagine Cup. Find out more about them at Wednesday’s meeting.

The BYOP Pumpkin Carving Contest

We’re hosting a pumpkin carving contest and giving away prizes Thursday the 29th.

3 dollars to enter competition ($5 suggested)

Just bring your pumpkin and have it hollowed out, once you are here then we can begin the Carving. Stencils are allowed, just bring a pumpkin carving kit. Or if you do not want to use a stencil cut out just design your own!!

Be creative!

Prizes to Win

copy of windows 7
viva pinata
copy of expression studio 3

Begins at 4pm in front of the ACM office (Eng 3 110)

ACM Facebook Group

For those of you that didn’t know, we have our own facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=93882227445

Join us today!

Hell everyone! I just upgraded Wordpress to version 2.8.5.

For those of you unaware, Wordpress is a very powerful, open source blogging engine which we use to drive this website.

This is one of the first steps I am taking towards improving our web presence. Coming soon, a new design.

Visit Wordpress’s website for more info!

Computer software engineer is ranked probably the highest according to this article below.  Be sure to check it out!

“Computer Software Engineer – Interested in math and computers? Embrace the nerd within while you learn to design, develop, test, and evaluate computer software and systems.”

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“Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis are the recipients of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award for their work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software.”

Read more here.

“Ryuta Kawashima, the researcher behind Nintendo’s Brain Age series of games for the DS portable system, would rather be working than enjoying $11 million in royalties he could have earned from his creations.”

Read more here.