GT ACM

Next week we will be offering 2 new TechTopics: Introduction to C#, and Business Intelligence. Both of these TechTopics are taught by Microsoft professionals and will feature free food!

For more information and registration, visit http://techtopics.gtacm.org

Congratulations to our new officers! Here is the officer team so far for the 2010-2011 school year:

Henry Mei – President
Virginia Dobson – Membership Chair, Co-Chair External
Roger Pincombe – Co-Chair – External
Nathan Fan – Treasurer
Taylor Wrobel – Publicity Chair
Alvin Yan – SIG Chair
Kurtis Nelson – Technology Chair

Looking to get involved? We still need the following:

Internal Chair
Social Chair
Contest Chair (programming team)
Secretary
Treasurer
Purchasing

For more details on these positions, see our Getting Involved page. If you’re interested, please Contact Us!

Our next TechTopic of the semester is this Friday (April 9)! The topic of this class is database management systems and data warehousing, and will be taught by David Rodriguez, a Senior Microsoft Database Technology Specialist! Food will be provided.

See http://gtacm.com/blog/about/special-interest-groups/techtopics/tt-3101/
for more information and registration.

Looking to get more involved in GTACM? This is your chance! Get to be a part of the team that makes some of the biggest and most fun events in the College of Computing happen. GTACM is expanding rapidly, and there’s many positions available for you to be a part of our exciting, fast-paced, open-to-new ideas culture. From positions where you can work directly with company representatives to positions where you can plan social events, there’s something for everyone.

Get more info about the positions available under the officers section of the getting involved page.

Elections are next Tuesday, April 6th, at 6PM at Klaus 1116W. Hope to see you there!

ACM SIGGAME will be holding a LAN party that will take place on April 3rd and 4th (6pm to 8am). This event will be held in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. Food and drinks will be provided throughout the event, and we will be giving away prizes for tournaments.

We plan on providing the consoles and televisions needed for the console based events, but this is a bring your own PC (BYOPC) and LAN cable event for all PC based games and tournaments. See www.GTGameFest.com for more details.
Feel free to invite your friends on the Facebook event page.

Our second TechTopic of the semester begins this Friday (April 2)!
It will cover using javascript libraries such as jQuery to easily call and process AJAX requests to PHP back-end pages. It will also discuss the powerful API that is available with jQuery and similar libraries to abstract away difficult javascript functionality. So don’t miss out! Visit
http://gtacm.com/blog/about/special-interest-groups/techtopics/tt-2102/
for more information and registration!

There are two Zynga info sessions this week:

1) Thursday, March 4 at 11:00am in Skiles Bldg, Room 002

2) Friday, March 5 at 12:00pm (noon) in Klaus 2447.
(We’ll have Chic-fil-a)

Zynga is the company behind games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, Yoville, and many others – they’re the number one social gaming company in the world, and their games are played by more than 200 million active users each month.

Bring your resume!

It’s that time of the year again! Yahoo! and GTACM are once again bringing you Hack Week – a week of great presentations, competition, and good clean geek fun. This year’s Hack Week will take place from March 9 – 13th; you can find a full listing of the planned events below. These events are also on our Google Calendar for your subscribing pleasure. Yahoo!’s official HackU page, which has details about the program, info from past events, and other cool hack stuff  is http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku.

Stay tuned here and via our twitter feed for updates.

Thursday, March 4

Pre-Hack U Event: Intro to Hack

The prequel to Hack Week! Specifically targeted at first time hackers, people who can’t make the kickoff event, and anyone searching for team members. Come hear what Hack Week is all about, meet fellow hack wizards, and hear from some of our past entrants – and winners! Come enjoy the food, listen a bit, and then hang out with other Hack Stars.

Location: Klaus 1116
Time: 6:00pm
Food: Dinner (Calzones!)
Giveaways: iPod Shuffle Raffle!

Tuesday, March 9

Hack U Kickoff

The official start of the week! Come hear what Hack Week is all about, see just how easy it is for you to make an entry that could win you amazing prices, and get your first taste of the great hack culture that will be here all week!

Location: Klaus Atrium
Time: 6:15pm
Food: Dinner (Moe’s)
Giveaways: Hack U t-shirts, Y! swag & Raffle prize

Wednesday, March 10

Event: Open Tech Lunch

Come hear about some cool APIs, technologies, frameworks, etc – all centered around open development culture! Also, see demos of how to use them in your hacks. It’s a great chance to learn from those who know it best. Update: Chris’s slides are here.
Location: CoC Third Floor (Follow the Arrows!)
Time: 11:30- 1PM
Food: Yes – lunch (BBQ)

Event: Office Hours + Informal Talks

Location: CoC Commons
Time: 1:30PM – 4PM
Schedule:
1:30- 2:30: How to Hosting / Joyent + PHP
2:30 – 3:30 : How to Javascript / YUI
3:30 – 4 : How to Webservice / YQL

Food: Lunch: Firehouse Subs

Event: Guest Lecture: Douglas Crockford: Javascript the Good Parts (part 2)

Come hear from the creator of JSON as he continues his discussion of some of the most common pitfalls in JavaScript, how to avoid them, and how to best take advantage of this powerful, pertinent, and prevalent language.

Location: Klaus 1116
Time: 6:15pm
Food: Dinner: Chick-Fil-A

Thursday, March 11

Event: Hadoop Talk

Want to get technical? Hadoop is a free framework for working with extremely large data-sets and distributed operations. It’s even been used in past hacks – come hear how you can get started making something that could scale like crazy!

Location: Van Leer Auditorium (W200)
Time: 11:30AM-12:30
Food: Lunch: Firehouse Subs

Event: Office Hours + Informal Talks

Location: CoC Commons
Time: 1PM – 4PM
Schedule:
1- 2: How to Hosting / Joyent + PHP
2- 3: How to Javascript / YUI
3- 4 : How to Webservice / YQL

Event: YUI / UED / Design

Location: Klaus 1116
Time: 6:15pm
Food: Dinner – Italian/Pasta
Giveaways: YDN T-shirts, stickers, swag

Friday, March 12

Event: Official 24 hour hacking kickoff

Let the Hacking begin! Ongoing talks, food, music, games, raffle prizes and fun throughout the day/night in central base camp area. “How to” breakout sessions will take place throughout the day/night!

Location: CoC 102 (room with tables) from 1PM on; add CoC 101 (social room) from 4PM on.
Time: 1PM Friday – 1PM Saturday
Schedule:
3 pm : How to Hosting / Joyent + PHP
5 pm : How to Javascript / YUI3
7 pm : How to Webservice / YQL
9 pm : How to Auth / OAuth
11 pm : How to App Platform / Open Social + YAP
1 am : How to Demo (and you show your stuff)
3 am : How to Juggle
5 am : How to Glow-In-The-Dark Frolf
6 am : How to Calesthetic
8 am – 12 pm : How to finish your hack (No talks)
Ongoing: Wii Rock Band, games, snacks, hacking
Food: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks (throughout), Breakfast, Lunch; including Pizza (Mellow Mushroom?), Quizno’s, Wingnuts…Sublime doughnuts, Einstein’s bagels
Giveaways: Hack U final T-shirts, Y! swag; Ongoing talks, Food, Music, Games, raffle prizes and Hacking throughout the day/night in central base camp area

Saturday, March 13

Event: Hack Demos, Judging and Awards

Time to show off your Hack for a chance to win Netbooks, Ipods, Headphones, Thinkgeek.com gift certificates and of course, the grand prize trip to the Open Hack Showdown in California.

Time: 1PM
Food: Lunch – Moe’s
Schedule:
Food 1PM-1:30
Presentations 1:30-4
Food: Lunch
Categories:
Hack for Good
Metro (Front page Apps)
Best Mobile
User Experience & Design
Hardware Hack
Student Organization Hack
Best Overall (1st, 2nd & 3rd)
Giveaways: Prizes

RIM info session tomorrow (Tues 2/23) @ 11am in Van Leer, room 241. There will be food!

Due to overwhelming interest, out first TectTopics series is full to capacity.   If you have not registered yet, we are sorry but we don’t have room for anyone else.  If you have registered, the first class in this series will be this coming Friday, Feb 19, at 4pm-5:30, Bunger Henry, room 311.  We will email you more details before it starts.

Keep checking for more information about upcoming TechTopics this semester!  We will be posting a mailing list sign up soon, so you can keep up to date with our latest classes.  Some of the TechTopics in the works include:

• Client-side web scripting with javascript and AJAX
• Android mobile development
• C# and .NET programming, taught by Microsoft engineers!