Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the first organization dedicated to the science of computing machinery. The ACM's mission is the advancement of computing as a science and a profession.

The ACM Student Chapter at Austin Peay State University is the professional organization for computer science students and computer enthusiasts in the campus community. As an officially chartered ACM chapter, we are an extension of the world's premier organization in the field of computer science.

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Coming  Events

Thursday, March 15 - ACM Distinguished Speaker Event (Dr. Ramesh Agarwal)

Date & Time:   08:00-9:30AM, Thursday, March 15
Place:              University Center 308
Speaker:         Ramesh Agarwal
Presentation:   "Evolution of Parallel Computing and Large Scale Scientific Applications: A Historical Perspective "

Abstract: 
Since 1970, over a span of forty years, there have been major developments in computing hardware as well as in numerical algorithms for the solution of complex large scale (grand challenge) problems in various disciplines of science and engineering.  Beginning with vector computers such as ILLIAC IV, CDC 7600, Cray X-MP, and Cray-2 in 1970s and 1980s to SIMD computers such as Connection Machine and MIMD computers such as Intel iPSC2, Symult System 2010, IBM SP2/SP4, and SGI Origin 2000 (to name a few) in 1990s to heterogeneous cluster of workstations/PCs in 1990 - present, the recent developments in multi-core and GPU computing continue to revolutionize the scientific computing to achieve higher performance at cheaper cost. This lecture will provide a historical perspective on this progress in computing hardware and how it has led to the development of some remarkable numerical algorithms in many areas of Computational Physics such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), Computational Acoustics, Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and others. There have been significant developments in geometry modeling, mesh generation, finite-difference/finite-element and particle methods for solution of partial differential equations as well as in visualization software for efficient applications on these architectures. The lecture will briefly describe the key developments. The presentation will include examples of large scale scientific applications on these architectures.

Past Events

Thursday, February 16, ACM Monthly Meeting

Date & Time:   12:45-2:00PM, Thursday, February 16
Place:              Claxton 306
Speaker:         Dr. Leong Lee
Presentation:   Design Principles for Web Development and Color

2:20-3:30PM, Tuesday, Sep 20th, Claxton 306

ACM officers will speak at the Department Event for CS freshmen and transfer students.

2:30-3:30PM, Tuesday, Sep 27th, Claxton 306 - ACM 1st meeting in Fall 2011

Friday, Sep 30th, CX 300 Lab

ACM participated in the Game Night Event.

ACM National Speaker Event - Dr. Sanjay Madria (Tuesday, March 22nd)

The ACM National Speaker Dr. Sanjay Madria will visit our campus and present a talk “Economic Models for Data Management in Mobile P2P Computing”.

Date & Time:   11:00AM, Tuesday, March 22nd
Place:              Claxton 103.
Speaker:         Dr. Sanjay Kumar Madria (Distinguished ACM National Speaker)

A Special Lecture, by the Oracle Academy (Thursday, Feb 17, 2011)

Speaker: Karri DeMatteis, Oracle Inc.

A Speicial Presentation to Honor CS Graduates Fall 2010 (Dec 8, 2010) 

Special guest: Dr. Jamie Taylor, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics

Presentation on Business Intelligence (Jan 28, 2011)

Speaker: Mr. Michael Capps, an Alumni of APSU

Presentation on Game Development with Microsoft’s XNA Studio (Nov 3, 2010)

Speaker: Tj Phillips,  APSU CSIT Department Student

Presentation on Mobile Computing (Oct 6, 2010)

Speaker: Dr. John Nicholson,  APSU CSIT Department Faculty