Association for Computing Machinery, NMU Student Chapter

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Interested in joining the NMU Student Chapter of the ACM?

Contact acm@nmu.edu

Our local student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery at NMU is focused on applying the academic aspects of computer science and gaming into a fun, social environment. The organization allows computer science students and other computer programmers and aficionados to meet up with each other and organize activities based on the interests of the group members.

Activities:

ACM Programming Contests
Annual NMU Invitational Programming Contest
Game Nights / LAN Events
Argonne National Laboratory Trip (Students + Faculty)
Movie Nights
Weekly Meetings
We take suggestions!

Events

Fall '09 semester:

Next meeting: Friday / 5 PM / NSF 1207

Calendar of events: XML, iCal, HTML

Future:

Currently ongoing: We're working on becoming an official student chapter of the ACM.
Discussion/debate talk: e.g., OpenGL vs. DirectX, C++ vs C# vs Java vs Objective-C vs Smalltalk vs D, etc.
Computing talks in various subject areas, including the following: algorithms, design, documentation, economics, experimentation, human factors, languages, legal aspects, management, measurement, performance, reliability, security, standardization, theory, and verification.

Past:

Winter 2009: Dave Lyon (git), Cory Perry & Joe Manier (Intel Internship)
Fall 2008: Benjamin DePew (Life after graduation: CS Graduate School), Katrina Bosma (Life after graduation: Working for Microsoft)

Competitions: