Hiya everybody! I hope you are all enjoying your semester! Here are the latest happenings in our chapter:
Local Game AI competition
New Internet Relay Chat channel
Digi-Key results
Other news

==Game AI: Semester Tron Competition==
SIG-GDev will be hosting another game AI competition based on the Tron game at 6pm on November 9. The server has been updated to properly support asynchronous communication. You can start writing your clients now. The tournament itself should run a bit smoother this time around. More details at the GDev website.

==IRC Channel==
We have entered the early 90’s and now have an Internet Relay Chat room on freenode. You can connect to:
the channel #ndsuacm
on the server irc.freenode.net
If you haven’t used IRC before, here’s a good primer: http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/1024
Otherwise, you can ssh into buzz.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu and start irssi.

==Competition Teams==
We had a team take first place this year at the Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition! Austen, Shane, Nathan, and Nick absolutely dominated all the area schools and scored some sweet cash for themselves and for the department and chapter! We have three teams going to the ACM ICPC this Saturday – we’re looking to win and go to the world finals in Harbin, China! More exclamation points!

==Other News==
Two of our office computers have regained internet access – welcome goes out to Slothful and windows2, we’re still waiting on poor Useful. SIG-Art recently had another meeting and discussed Blender. We’ll be going bowling and having a member meeting in the near future. SIG-GDev is making some progress developing their game. SIG-Chix is having a bakesale soon, with proceeds benefiting charity.

As always, check back often for news, job postings, etc. GDev and Comp both have recent posts also. If you want more information about any of the Special Interest Groups, email joel.longanecker@ndsu.edu with the name of the group you wish to join in the subject line.

JOB DESCRIPTION
____________________________________________________

JOB TITLE: Application Development Internship

DEPARTMENT: 402

SUPERVISOR: Application Development Supervisor

FLSA: VOLT Employee

WRITTEN BY: Application Development Supervisor

DATE WRITTEN: November 12, 2008
_______________________________________________________________________

REQUIRED EDUCATION: Must have completed 2 years of university courses that
include Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related
courses.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: None

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Ability to learn new programming languages quickly.
Desire strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Some experience with software development or development lifecycles.
Possesses strong organizational skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work in a small group environment
________________________________________________________________________

JOB PURPOSE: The Application Development internship / student employment
opportunity provides post-secondary students with hands on general
software development experience. Students are involved with activities
that occur in our Software Development Process including: proposal
analysis, requirements verification, design and build, test and
implementation. Special project assignments are assigned when they arise.
________________________________________________________________________

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
· Provide maintenance and support to existing manufacturing and ERP
applications
· Assist in writing requirements, design, and test documents.
· Work with developers to create and execute test stub programs
· Create, Modify, and Test program source code as required.

*Please only undergraduate applications.

Oh man all kinds of stuff has been happening. If you haven’t noticed, we’ve:

• Gained so many members
• Added like five more websites
• Corporate meetings, sig meetings (art, chix, comp, gdev)
• Held a game AI competition
• A bunch of regular member meetings

This stuff is bananas!

On top of all that, we’re still doing stuff! We’ve got a sig-gdev meeting monday, we’ve got a social on thursday or so – heck, we may even throw in another meeting next week, just for kicks! I can’t even handle it.

And that’s just the start. We’re going to competitions in Thief River Falls, MN and Urbana-Champaign, IL in October, we’re developing a game, we very well could be adding a new projector to the office… golly, we might even upgrade to a shiner new office later!

If this isn’t the coolest club on campus, I don’t even know what is!

Hello everybody, welcome back to NDSU. We’ve got a lot lined up for this fall semester, so pay attention to the emails we send out.

This year, we want you to pick a special interest group and be active in it. For the artistic, we have SIG-Art. If you like software development, we have SIG-Gdev. If you are a woman interested in mathematics and science, SIG-Chix is for you. If you are a nerd desiring to be in shape, then check out SIG-fit.

If you are really pro, then get involved in SIG-comp to win glory in programming competittions.

Any questions? Email the Chair: Joel.Longanecker@ndsu.edu

Thanks!

acm-minutes-20090812.pdf

The highlights of the meeting:

• Getting closer to finding a projector (Joel’s old one, one from existing funds, one surplus from CS)
• Abram talked about sig g-dev. (AI competition durring rush week, other g-dev projects)
• Going to explore the possibility of doing repair service.
• Planning Welcome Week and RUSH (Sept 1 – 5):
  Ideas (Place these events on event calendar)
  LAN party (Wed. @ 6pm)– [Adam]
  Dodgeball/Scatterball (Fri. @ (Dave will see what’s open)) – [Dave]
  Coordinate OrgFair w/other Orgs (Tue. @ 12-4pm) – [Joel]
  Ice-cream social (Thurs. @ 1-2pm) [Nick]
  Location in office
  AI Comp (Sat. @ 1-5pm) – [Abram]
  Digikey funds may be able to fund prizes
  Tell Professors to plug ACM in their classes
  Talk to the following classes directly (Mon./Tues.) [Joel, Nick]
  Flyers
  CSCI 160, 161, 222
  Posters (Wed. @ latest) – [Nick, Cassie, Adam(LAN party)].
  OrgFair is Wed., Sept 2, 12:00pm – 4:00pm?
• Planning Welcome Week and RUSH (Sept 1 – 5):
  Ideas (Place these events on event calendar)
  LAN party (Wed. @ 6pm)– [Adam]
  Dodgeball/Scatterball (Fri. @ (Dave will see what’s open)) – [Dave]
  Coordinate OrgFair w/other Orgs (Tue. @ 12-4pm) – [Joel]
  Ice-cream social (Thurs. @ 1-2pm) [Nick] Location in office
  AI Comp (Sat. @ 1-5pm) – [Abram]
  Digikey funds may be able to fund prizes
  Tell Professors to plug ACM in their classes
  Talk to the following classes directly (Mon./Tues.) [Joel, Nick]
  Posters (Wed. @ latest) – [Nick, Cassie, Adam(LAN party)].
  OrgFair is Wed., Sept 2, 12:00pm – 4:00pm?
• T-Shirts for ACM (flash those colors, baby!)
  T-Shirt costs $15-20
  Adam suggested checking Scheels
  Nick will check it out

http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/?attachment_id=270

This is the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting.

minutes-7-24

minutes from the meeting tonight. it was a good productive meeting, we are going to have an awesome year.

agenda-7-24.pdf

Should have put this on the site earlier, but here’s the agenda for anybody interested for the meeting later today. Everybody of consequence should have gotten an email with instructions. If you are feeling left out, send me a message.

joel.longanecker@ndsu.edu

Also, we now have a twitter feed, this is probably the fastest way to find out what’s going on.
https://twitter.com/NDSUACM

We are having our annual Spring Picnic this Saturday, May 9! Enjoy the weekend and spend some time outside.

Come to the Yunker Farm Gazebo from 3pm-9pm. We’re providing plates, napkins, drinks, condiments, etc. you just need to bring something to grill. It’s going to be awesome! No doubt we’ll be talking about it all year, so don’t miss it!

-Abram
NDSU ACM Chairman

Jingpeng Tang
Monday May 4
Student Interview: 3:00pm

Wei Yu
Friday May 8
Student Interview: 3:00pm

Yong Chen
Monday May 11
Student Interview: 3:00pm

Quan Yuan
Tuesday May 12
Student Interview: 3:00pm

All Computer Science Students or ACM Members are encouraged to attend!