This is the first ACM student chapter in the United Kingdom. Our aim is to create a strong Computing research student community within Imperial College London.
24/03/2015
Guido Van Rossum (creator of python) is giving a talk at Imperial.
http://acm.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/seminars/2015/25-years-of-python/
25 Years of Python - Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter
07/11/2014
Did you know that we have a youtube page?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUK4UpsZOlWGKUr004kgV6g
31/10/2014
Some impressions from our internship event
The PhD internship event is happening today at 3pm, Huxley room 340. Come and find out about internship (and job-) opportunities for PhD students at Google, IBM, Microsoft Research, JP Morgan, and Thomson Reuters.
Social event: Bowling on Wednesday, 29th of October, 19.00-21.00! 2 games sponsored for ACM Student Chapter members. Book you place by Wednesday, 22nd of October! For more info please contact Christina Koutsoumpa
20/10/2014
What's On
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Seminar TODAY: Huxley 145 at 1pm, Patrick Snape will be giving a talk "Facial Feature Point Detection: Recognising eyes from noses using Menpo", about current and novel object recognition techniques. Full abstract and comments on our website [1].
Seminar next Monday: John Lees-Miller of WriteLaTeX will be discussing WriteLaTeX itself, the trials of forming a startup, and how to make TeX webscale.
Bowling! November 30 1900-2100 at Queen's Ice and Bowl [2]. Members of the ACM Student Chapter will be sponsored for two games! (More on membership below). Contact Christina Koutsoumpa ([email protected]) by Nov 22, or see her in Huxley 306 Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 14-1430 to book a place with a fully refundable deposit of £10.
Outside the ivory tower
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OS update blastorama! Google have announced Android 5.0 Lolipop, to be rolled out from November, and Apple released OSX 10.10 Yosemite. If your Mac has been stuck at "2 minutes remaining" since Friday you'll just have to wait it out, but for those who have yet to update, move big things (e.g., Homebrew, Texlive) out from /usr/local to somewhere else first, then move them back after the update.
Inside the ivory tower
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There's a writeup of the Imperial ACM Student Chapter (that's us!) titled "From zero to excellence" [4], detailing how we went from non-existent two years ago to winning the 2013-14 Student Chapter Excellence Award. Comments on our page [5].
Membership
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Please do sign up to our ACM Student Chapter [3]; it's free, requires nothing of you but your name and email, gets you discounted stuff from us, and shows the support we need to keep doing events.
[1]: http://acm.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/seminar-facial-feature-point-detection/
[2]: http://www.queensiceandbowl.co.uk/
[3]: http://acm.doc.ic.ac.uk/membership/
[4]: http://xrds.acm.org/article.cfm?aid=2667633
[5]: https://www.facebook.com/imperialacm/posts/869166773107975
Facial Feature Point Detection: Recognising eyes from noses using Menpo - Imperial College... Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter
20/10/2014
Our Student Chapter featured in the ACM XRDS magazine: http://xrds.acm.org/article.cfm?aid=2667633
XRDS: From zero to excellence Crossroads, the ACM magazine for students
The 1st meeting join the ICCSW'15 organizing committee will take place today at 3pm in room 218. If you are interested to see what is involved in the organisation of a conference, come and join the meeting. No experience required!
23/05/2014
The Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter has been featured in the ACM MemberNet Europe Bulletin.
Featured ACM European Chapter: Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter - ACM Bulletin: MemberNet Welcome to MemberNet Europe, bringing you news of ACM activities in Europe. Explore the many facets of ACM with our newsletter of member activities and events. Read MemberNet Europe online.Issue archives
23/05/2014
Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter has been awarded the 2013-2014 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding School Service!
ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards — Association for Computing Machinery About the Awards The ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards Program recognizes chapters that display considerable initiative during the academic year.
19/11/2013
We're taking the Hour of Code. Are you?
The Hour of Code is coming It's a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code" and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, an innovator.