UPE Initiation

The initiation for Upsilon Pi Epsilon candidates will be held tonight from 5:30 - 6:30 pm in the library conference center

seminar room 706. Upsilon Pi Epsilon is a National Computer Science Honor Society. Entry into the local chapter is based upon having a 3.25 GPA and outstanding moral character.

Congratulations to our two candidates Paul Gullette and Thom Savage on their upcoming involvement with Upsilon Pi Epsilon. ACM Members, please come and support these two fine gentleman for their accomplishment. My apologies to everyone for announcing this on such short notice, but tell all other ACM members you may see.

Please plan to assemble on the seventh floor of the library (use the administrative entrance on the south end of the building to gain access to the 7^th floor elevators) at 5:30 p.m. Dress attire is appropriate.

-- Corey Bordelon
ACM / UPE President

CSCI Students: Sign Up for Advising

Since practically all ACM members are CS majors, I was asked to post this by the Department Head.

Summmer and Fall Advising Sessions for Computer Science Majors
Thursday, April 6
3:00 - 3:10 PM	D Canterberry	B Joiner	Harold Clay
3:10 - 3:20 PM	T Savage	R Williams	T Riley
3:20 - 3:30 PM	Victor Harris	Marrise Hodges	Justin Abide
3:30 - 3:40 PM	L Whitelow	Adrianne Perrell	Korey Williams
3:40 - 3:50 PM	Jarrod Brown	Charles Frost	Athos Georgiou
3:50 - 4:00 PM	Seth York	Rawlings Goldstone
4:00 - 4:30 PM	Overflow - Come at your convenience, but you may have to wait
Monday, April 10
3:00 - 3:10 PM	Brandon Tolbird
3:10 - 3:20 PM
3:20 - 3:30 PM	Pat Lewis	Matt Michels
3:30 - 3:40 PM
3:40 - 3:50 PM	Carl O'Banion
3:50 - 4:00 PM	Joshua Barham
4:00 - 4:30 PM	Overflow - Come at your convenience, but you may have to wait
Tuesday, April 11
2:00 - 2:10 PM	Carey Fussell	Charles Head	Cliford Lewis
2:10 - 2:20 PM	Andrew Butler
2:20 - 2:30 PM	Jason Garrett
2:30 - 2:40 PM
2:40 - 2:50 PM
2:50 - 3:00 PM
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Overflow - Come at your convenience, but you may have to wait

Spring Semester Kickoff

Our first meeting of the semester will be Wednesday, February 1st at 3:30 p.m. in the 2nd floor student lounge. Refreshements will be served.

Some topics for discussion:

• T-Shirt Design that will actually be made into a shirt.
• Spring Fundraiser
• Problem of the month.
• .... other activities for the Spring Semester.

Bring ideas for things you'd like to see the organization do this semester.

KME Christmas Party

KME (the Math Student Organization) has graciously invited ACM to participate in their end of the year Christmas Party. It will be tomorrow night, Friday Dec. 2nd. It starts at 7 p.m.

It's a potluck, so you can bring food if you would like. Although we know how easy it is to bake a cake in your dorm room....

In case you didn't see it the first time, I have attached below the directions to Dr. Hare's house. And if that isn't clear enough, there's always Google.

-- Corey Bordelon
.: Grinch in Training :.

P.S. Yea, I know it's been a months since our last post. Get over it.

LAN Party

We will have our LAN Party on Friday, November 4, 2005 at 6:30 pm. Everything will be going on in Airways Science Rm. 207 and 211. If you want to bring your personal computer, you will setup in 207 ("The Major's Lab", "The Dungeon", etc.). The main lab (211) will have the games on the computers, for those that don't bring their own computer. You don't have to be there at 6:30, but I can't promise that you'll be able to get into a game if you don't arrive on time.

All ACM/AITP members get in free (provided you RSVP in time, see below), and you may bring one guest. If you are not a member of the respective organization, there will be a $10 entry fee.

We are still finalizing the list of games, but most of them will be of the first-person shooter variety.

If you plan on attending, you need to RSVP with Corey Bordelon (corey@coreb.net) or any other ACM/AITP officer by Friday at noon. If you do not, you will have to pay $5 regardless of whether or not you are a member in one of the organizations. We are doing this so that we know how much food to buy.

Programming Contest Solutions

For those interested in the solutions to the programming contest, I have made them available to all via our CS server. You can find them all at:

http://cs.ulm.edu/~tsavage/prog

(Perhaps those of us that kept getting our Time Card progs rejected should take a critical look at the "solution" code. ...nubs. I don't remember anything in the problem statement indicating that a work week was just limited to Mon-Friday.)

Programming Competition Results

Holla!

The fact that so many willing, intrepid souls decided to give the ULM ACM 2005 Programming Contest a good college try is impressive in its own right. However, when you compare it to the meager turnouts of years past, it's downright /astonishing/. I think we had about 20 CS students gathered up in the (still official) Computer Science Study Lounge come 1:30 this afternoon. That's like, what, a 300-400% improvement?! Hats off to everybody that came out to try there had at slinging some code.

When everybody filed in to spacious room 201 after capping their cups of respective sodas, Dr. Cordova gave what was supposed to be a terse briefing. The contest rules were not a problem: no talking, no digital materials, etc etc.. Things got a little hairy when the contestants were given the opportunity to submit a Hello World to test the system. (Things had been moved over to Blackboard for submission.) After deciding on the way results would be determined and the ability to resubmit problems clarified, the contest officially began sometime around what I remember to be 2:20ish.

Over all, the problems were straight-forward. Everybody took it to the house for about one and a half hours... just about the time that a certain beloved CS major leaned over to me saying, "Um, I don't think this is for me... can I just leave?" (edit by Corey: The following sentence is in reference to the fact that I was kicked out of an English class earlier that day, and Kristi was also in the class. It was an inside joke, and it was not of the intention of the author to offend anyone.) This time it was Kristi getting sent out to the hall. Corey and the rest of us stuck it out though, finishing the competition by 5.

The results were tallied based on number of problems solved and time taken on each correct solution. Furthermore, the participants were partitioned into two groups: those who haven't taken the Algorithms class (CSCI305) and those that have. Divisions one and two, respectively.

Division one winners:
1. Stephen Walker
2. Adamos Fiakkas
3. Charles Frost

Division two winners:
1. Curt Self
2. Thom Savage (Me)
3. Corey Bordelon

The goods that Ms.Taylor and Dr.Owens were able to conjure up were pretty good. Donations ranged from the bookstore to the citgo U-Pak-It to the pockets of Alumni. No body went home empty handed, and everybody was definitely well-fed (Thanks, Dominos).

The division two team will have a chance to compete at the regional level ACM competition at LSU later this semester. We'll see how that goes!

Thanks again to everybody who made this event happen:
Ms.Taylor - for everything!
Dr.Cordova - for keep things sane. (Even though the joke's always at my expense!)
Dr.Smith/Dr.Weid - for making us smash our heads into our monitors! (They judged.)
Dr.Owens - for helping us find prizes.

Thank you ultimately to all those students who came out to the contest. We'll see you again at the Fall LAN in a couple of weeks.