As many of you know, last Wednesday (9/19) UMass ACM met for a General Interest Meeting. There was a great turnout for our first event this year, with the attendance reaching nearly 100 members. This was the largest presence I have seen since being a member of ACM and was very impressed with how strong […]
Thank you to everyone who participated in the election process! I am very grateful for this opportunity to help lead the UMass ACM Student Chapter. I look forward to working with the new officers and members next year! New UMass ACM Officers: Chair: Susie Kim Vice Chair: Lynn Samson Secretary: Michael Sadler Treasurer: Chenhao Huang
Cambridge Company Tour This Friday, 25 UMass ACM members will be going on the annual Cambridge Company Tour, organized by Vice Chair Catherine Feldman! Students will be visiting Google, MIT Media Lab, and Microsoft. Recap and pictures will be posted on our Facebook group this weekend!
Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend! Thanks to everyone who showed up to the seventh annual UMass Amherst ACM Cisco Programming Competition. We hope you all enjoyed the event! Here are some photos taken at the event by Michael Markman:
Kick off April by competing in the Cisco Programming Competition, signing up for our annual Cambridge Company tour, and playing foosball against other students, staff and faculty in the 9th annual CS Foosball Tournament. 7th Annual UMass Amherst ACM Cisco Programming Competition Thursday, 04/14/2016 5:30pm to 8:00pm CS Building 150/151 The 7th annual Five College […]
Hello ACM members! The Hackers of UMass interest group will be hosting an interactive web development tutorial with Dr. Tim Richards of the Computer Science Department next Thursday, April 23rd, from 7 to 9 PM in room 150/151 of the CS Building. Join us and learn about HTML, CSS, and the tools of the web […]
Here is a link to this week’s problem. The basic idea of the problem, ignoring the silly acronyms, is to determine the number of distinct grids that can be formed from two types of vertices. One type of vertex (a “hive”) must be linked to any 4 other elements, while the other type (“couches”) must be linked only […]
Hello ACM members! This Thursday (4/2), at 7 PM in the CS U-Space, the Hackers of UMass interest group will be holding our second meeting. It will feature a guest speaker, Dr. Rui Wang of the CS Department, who will be giving a brief talk about his open source hardware startup and offering advice to undergraduates […]
Mark your calendars, ACM members! On Tuesday, March 24th, at 7 PM in the CS U-Space, the Hackers of UMass interest group will be hosting our first event: a fun and interactive tutorial on the Git version control system. Learn how to manage your projects just like the top developers and corporations, meet other hackers, […]
Hello everyone! I’m excited to announce an opportunity for ACM members to attend DandyHacks 2015, the University of Rochester’s 36-hour hackathon. The event will take place from April 3rd to the 5th, and is free of charge. Read more about it and register here! More importantly, the school has reached out to us, offering free […]