About the High Plains Chapter of the ACM

The Association for Computing Machinery is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of information technology, serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open interchange of information and by promoting the highest professional and ethical standards.

Here at the High Plains Chapter we are trying to make the computing sciences here at the University of Wyoming a bit more fun to be a part of. We would like to see students competing in some of the various programming contests out there. Also, it is our hope that we can look at what life is like for computer scientists after graduation. We hope to be able to have some folks come and speak to us about their experiences after school and during their careers. We also hope to be able to raise enough funds to maybe pay a visit to some of the potential employers in this area like: Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, Avaya, Handel IT, and others who are nearby.

We welcome all who would come to our meetings, we do not expect to only have computer scientists. In fact, it would be awesome if we could get some people from other majors to come to our meetings and just check out what computer science is all about.

If you have any questions or just want to know more about what we are doing email us at acm@cs.uwyo.edu

About the ACM-ICPC

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) provides college students with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills. The contest provides a platform for ACM, industry, and academia to encourage and focus public attention on the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence.

Meeting Minutes - 09/30/09

• ASUW Radio Station
  They are looking for interested students to get involved with them. ;They are looking for students to help them build their website, create radio shows, or manage a database. ;There are a lot of good internship opportunities here, and a great resume-builder. ;If you are interested, you should email asuwexc4@uwyo.edu.
• Secretary Elections
  Jeff Burroughs and Zeb Fross ran for secretary. ;Zeb Fross (me) won because Jeff basically gave it to me without a fight. Thank you, Jeff!
• Subcommittees
  Four subcommittees were created to handle important ACM business. ;These subcommittees included the following:
  • Fundraising
    Creates and plans fundraising events
  • ACM Website
    Works on improving our current website
  • Border Wars
    This committee will plan our long-anticipated Border-Wars event where our students from UW have a friendly (but fierce) programming competition with students from CSU
  • Activities
    Creates and plans events to build knowledge of ACM around campus
  For everyone who signed up for a committee at the meeting, thank you for your participation! If anyone is interested in joining, please email the ACM president, Mathew Knapp, at mknapp@uwyo.edu.

Old Information

Notes and demonstration code from the 2/15/2006 meeting "PHP 101" are now available. Thanks everyone for coming. The next meeting we will tentatively be looking a little more at PHP, with an aim toward developing a web photo album.

Notes and demonstration code from the 2/15/2006 meeting "PHP 101"

PHP Homepage