Association for Computing Machinery at Michigan State University

Want to learn about new technologies and BUILD something cool? Force by Design (a San Francisco-based software company that works on the Force.com platform) is sponsoring a hackathon this Saturday. The even is from noon to midnight in 3105 EB.

Force by Design will be providing plenty of free food - snacks all day, energy drinks and two meals! And don't forget about the great prizes they are offering: a Roku 2, $100 Apple Gift Card, and 2 summer internships at Force by Design!

Come learn about Scrum from the knowledgeable people at Vertafore

when: Tuesday (3/20) at 7 pm
Where: EB 3105

On Monday, 27 February, Kevin Dangoor and I will be at Michigan State University to give a technical talk covering the new developer tools in Firefox. We will be meeting in room 1230 of the Engineering Building at 6pm.

There has been a lot of work on native developer tools for Firefox, along with adding more capabilities and speeding up Firebug. Starting in Firefox 10, the Inspector and Scratchpad were released. In the next versions of Firefox, users can find a native JavaScript debugger, CSS style editor, and more.

ACM Members,

Now is the time to get involved with the ACM executive board (e-board) for next year. We will be holding elections on Monday, February 27 at 6:30 PM in room 3112 EB. During the meeting we will elect members for all 8-9 e-board positions for the 2012-2013 school year. If you will be here next year and have any interest in influencing ACM and helping out, I strongly encourage you to run for a position.

Requirements:

You’ve written a lot of software during your MSU career. You might have even remember some design patterns from 335! Here’s your chance to continue learning how to write readable, flexible, extensible code. In the Good Software Design Workshops, real live Software Developers from TechSmith will be talking about important software design principles at architectural and implementation levels, helping you work through examples on real code, and moderating discussion about using these topics in the real world.

Biometric Recognition: Some Challenges in Forensics

So we know how much pizza to order please RSVP here
ALSO BRING MONEY($8) TO BUY A COOL ACM T-SHIRT
Where: 3400 EB
When: Thursday 26 from 7 to 8 pm

Pizza break on the 3rd floor outside of the CSE office. Sponsored by Union Pacific

When: Wednesday the 18th at noon
Where: outside the CSE main office

Interested in starting your own software company? Or just want to learn more from a successful software business? We will be hosting a very exciting talk from Carl Erickson, the President of Atomic Object, on Wednesday, November 30 from 7 to 8PM in 1279 Anthony Hall. Carl will be sharing his experiences of starting a company (Atomic Object: http://www.atomicobject.com/) and the secret to a happy life. Atomic Object is a 10-year-old company of 33 employees, based out of Grand Rapids.

Get your order in for the ACM T-Shirt by the beginning of next semester. The shirts will be just $8 and the design is at the bottom of this post.

If you want a shirt you can either:

1. Bring your money to the hacker presentation (Thursday 7PM 1279 Anthony Hall)
2. Put your money in an envelope with your name, email, and shirt size and give it to Teresa
3. Give the money and your information to me or another officer if you know one of us

Please get your order in on time to give us time to order the shirts and distribute them this semester.

Come hear from Aditya Sood, a senior security researcher and PhD candidate at MSU. He will be talking about computer security and being a hacker. The topics will include website vulnerabilities like Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection (SQLI), Local File Inclusion (LFI), Remote File Inclusion (RFI) and other web attacks. He will also demonstrate an IRC-based bot to show how the IRC channels are used to infect machines and extracting sensitive information.