Mississippi State University's Chapter of ACM

Topic:      “How to create SVN repositories”
Speaker:  James Stafford and Jonathan Lalo, ACM members in Software Engineering, MSU
Date:       Monday, Nov 28, 2011
Time:       5:00pm
Venue:     Butler 100

Pizzas will be served from 4:45pm.

James Stafford and Jonathan Lalo are ACM members in Software Engineering at MSU. They will be covering the following sub topics also:- Their honors project
- SVN Repository Setup

I hope this will be very useful information to all of us.

Tournament Videos posted below

Congratulations to our winners!

1st & 2cnd place (split) : Gangle and Foxxbird

3rd place: Dakrin

A picture of our winners Dakrin (left), Foxxbird (middle), Gangle (right) .

Thank you for all who participated, especially to our sponsors Navagis (a corporation founded by MSU Alumni)! Let us know how we did hosting this event by leaving a comment in this post. We collected $280.00 in entry fees, gave $168.00 dollars away to first and second place ($82 dollars for both of them, our third place winner David Moore, aka Dakrin the president of Navagis, graciously donated his prize to first and second place) and managed to raise $112.00 for ACM.

Below are matches commentated by Charlie Anderton. He asks that you rate, comment, and subscribe to his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnAlbumCoverSCII (you can also view all the videos here). He is offering his casting services for the future. His email is AnAlbumCoverSCII@gmail.com if you want to get in touch with him. He says he will accept any skill level. I am only posting the final 3 games on this website. For the rest that Charlie commented see his youtube channel mentioned above.

Gangle vs Foxxbird Game 1

Gangle vs Foxxbird Game 2

Gangle vs Foxxbird Game 3

ACM is having a LAN party event that is dedicated to playing a Starcraft II Double Elimination Tournament. This event takes place Saturday, September 18th at Butler Hall (see directions here). People are welcome to come socialize and spectate the matches being played in the tournament. We may also try to stream the Starcraft II tournament matches here on our website as well. ACM will be having a competitive tournament (entry fee $10) in the Butler Computer Lab dedicated to just Starcraft II. Also, a couple of TVs will be set up in the student lounge, one with an Xbox and the other with a Wii.  If people get bored of spectating they could also plug the consoles up to the projectors. Console players are welcome to bring their own consoles, games, and controllers to setup as well. The football game versus LSU will be shown on the projector in Butler 100 over the ESPN3 video stream (Go Bulldogs!) so no one has an excuse not to come! ACM is looking to make this a big event so we would appreciate it if you helped spread the word about it. The Starcraft II Tournament is a fundraiser for ACM in which the winners will receive a portion of the entry fees. First place gets 30%, second place 20%, third place 10%. Thanks to our sponsors Navagis (a corporation founded by MSU alumni) ACM will also be giving away some 8 gig USB drives to some of the other people that place high in the tournament. ACM would graciously accept donations as well at the registration desk, but in no way shape or form are we obligating anyone to do so. Participants in the tournament are required to bring there own desktop and legitimate copy of Starcraft II to play. ACM will help provide equipment to help move your equipment into the Butler Computer Lab Safely. There will be people out in the parking lot to assist you in directing where you can load and unload your equipment.

Please note that no food or drink are allowed in the lab or classrooms at any time. If you bring food or drinks, please restrict their usage to our student lounge and the lobby.

The official rules and regulations of the tournament, as well as what equipment you will need to bring, can be found here: Tournament Rules . It is crutial that you read and understand our Terms of Service if you want to participate in the tournament.

Also if you are bringing your desktop to the social room please read the “Equipment” section of the Tournament Rules .

ACM will have a table setup in the lobby of Butler Hall to collect entry fees for the tournament (for the week of Sept 12th-18th). The first 64 people to register for the tournament will be the first that get to play so come register quickly. The times the table is going to be open is subject to change, however here is a rough schedule:

Monday/Wednesday – 9:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Tuesday/Thursday – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Friday – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (with breaks for lunch, etc)

You may also pay your entry fee on the day of the tournament at our registration desk, but there is no guaranteeing there will be a spot for you on this day unless you pay in advance.

Please RSVP for this event (even if you are just coming to socialize)! You can RSVP on facebook, or email us at msu.acm.webmaster@gmail.com. If you would like to volunteer to be on staff please contact us at msu.acm.webmaster@gmail.com . We would love to have more volunteers to help run this event.

Feel free to leave comments/suggestions below how ACM can better help serve you for this event!

The ACM, is selling hotdogs on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 to raise club funds. Please stop by and support our efforts or volunteer to man the grill for part of the day.

The ACM, is looking for members to volunteer to teach the computer merit badge for boy scouts during their weekend camporee.
The scouts will arrive at Butler Hall on Saturday, November 7, 2009 and transition to various stations to complete the requirements for the merit badge. If you are interested please email Dr. Dampier to receive more information, to sign up, and to help these scouts with the computer merit badge and potentially encourage them into computer science fields.

The ACM, is always looking at increasing our membership numbers if you are interested please see Dr. Dampier, to pay membership fees and become involved with our chapter.
We are planning on conducting a membership drive during regular school hours in the Butler lobby.

For new members: Membership fee is $20 for the year with a free T-shirt
Already a member: Membership fee is $10 for the year
New members can also sign up by coming to Butler 326 at any time.

The ACM Fall Programming Competition was held on October 9, 2009. We had a total of 19 participants coding in C++, Python, and Java. The event was a great success and the ACM selected a great team for regional competition.
Many thanks to Dr. Dandass, Dr. Dampier and other volunteers for facilitating and organizing this competition.

Winners and first team
1st place: James Belue
2nd place: Shane Fry
3rd place: Aaron Boudreaux

Second team
John Tims, Matthew Langston, and Brice McElroy.

Tic-Tac-Toe Machine:

This project involved building a tic-tac-toe game computer with Artificial Intelligence skills. Many of computer science research areas are to build a computer program that thinks like a human being. We tried to build a our own version of the tic-tac-toe machine without a electronic device. This machine consists of three part. At first, the user enters his/her moves on the game board, and the operator enter the user’s move to the tic-tac-toe machine. After the machine choose the best move to win the game, it will show its next movement. This machine was built in 1998, and K’NEX Industries, Inc. donated the parts.