Pacific ACM Hosts ICPC!

This past weekend on November 13th, the University of the Pacific ACM hosted the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest. This year 21 teams from all over California competed to be given the opportunity to travel to Egypt for the World Championships. Our own Pacific teams were among those in attendance for the event.

The John T. Chambers Technology Center proved to be an excellent location for the contest, boasting flexible work spaces and Gigabit Ethernet throughout. This years ICPC was truly a success.

I would like to take a moment to thank the many who worked with me to help put ICPC @ Pacific together this year. Dean Ravi Jain and Dr. Louise Stark for their assistance with the new building. Professor Mike Doherty for being an excellent site director. Pacific OIT and David Lundy for providing excellent network support and for working with us in a limited schedule. Pacific ACM officers for their hard work in helping me plan the event and gathering of food and resources. Theta Tau for supplying many helpers for the event. And the University of the Pacific School of Engineering and Computer Science (SOECS) for the tremendous amount of support and putting up with over 100 people in the Chambers Hallway! And many thanks to all those who helped out and took time out of your busy schedule to lend a hand!

And, while the contest was going on, I managed to grab a few photos!

And after the event, after cleanup and re-imaging the computers, ACM held it's first Official Unofficial LAN in CTC 114! Here are a few photos to prove and show what fun it was!

If you have photos of ICPC or the Post ICPC LAN, please send them to myself or Professor Doherty.

Thanks again to everyone for their help and congratulations to our three teams!

Shawn Kerns
ACM President

Update! Finally...

Hello Pacific ACM! and our Alumni!

It has been a while since the blog has had a new post and it was about time to make a new one! This is mainly an information post to let you know about the events coming up and a little more about next semester.

To start off, the University of the Pacific is hosting the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in the brand new John T. Chambers Technology Center! This year, the event is being run by Professor Mike Doherty and Shawn Kerns. The venue was a last minute change from last year's Raymond Great, but it should be a great way to break in the new building and show how big of an involvement Pacific ACM and Computer Science have in the University. If you are able to help out with logistics, please get in touch with either myself or an ACM officer immediately! The event will be on November 13th, 2010 from 8am to ??? Please join us in making it another successful ICPC year at Pacific!

Second, the annual ACM End of the Semester, aka the Winter Dinner has been set! We will be going to Valley Brew in Stockton on November 19th at around 6pm. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP using the poll on the right. Instructions: If you are attending, please vote 'YES' if not 'NO.' If you would like to bring a friend / additional person, please additionally vote the 'PLUS ONE' option. If you would like to bring two friends, please vote the 'PLUS TWO' option. If you are wanting to bring more than two additional, please contact an ACM member for further information. As always, this is a pay for your own meal event, but the costs are usually under $20. Please join us!

Lastly, the Retro Network Games is planned for November 20th, 2010 at 4pm in the Pine and Spruce rooms. This year, the network games is being run like an old school arcade tournament. There will be food and refreshments as well as all the classic arcade and console games of the past. This year, we have upped the console to the Playstation I. So anything prior to and including the Playstation I are welcome. There will also be DOS boxes setup as well as other fun activities. If you have a console, please bring it!

So there are the three major events for Pacific ACM over the coming weeks. Please join us for as many as you can and thank you again for your continued support in Pacific ACM!

Shawn Kerns
President - Pacific ACM