The Georgia Tech ACM SIGGAME will be holding a LAN party that will take place on October 24th and 25th (5pm to 8am). This event will be held in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. Food and drinks will be provided throughout the event, and we will be giving away prizes for tournaments. We plan on providing the consoles and televisions needed for the console based events, but this is a bring your own PC (BYOPC) and LAN cable event for all PC based games and tournaments. Please see the game pages below for more details on specific tournaments.
If you would like to participate in any of the tournaments there is a $5 entrance fee for unlimited tournament play. This fee will allow you to play in any number of tournaments throughout the duration of the event. All tournaments will have prizes for the winners and we have more than $1500 in prizes to give away! In addition to all of the tournaments listed below there will be free play going on throughout the event. So if you just want to show up, play some games and have a good time you are more than welcome to do so. PC Gamers – Don’t forget to bring a LAN cable, as none will be provided!
Today we’re having Research In Motion (RIM) at 7:30-8:30pm in the Student Success Center, President’s Suites C & D. Go into the building, through the lobby, it’ll be on the left. RIM is best known for making the Blackberry. Expect a presentation about the company, information about internships and full time employment, followed by RIM raffling off a phone and giving away some great swag! Food and drinks will be provided.
Today (Oct 9, 2009) VMware will give a Tech Talk in Klaus 1116W from 12-1PM. There will be free pizza!
This talk will review linked clones, thin provisioning, and deduplication in VMware desktop virtualization solutions.
Keshav Attrey received his Master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in December 2007. He has been a software engineer at VMware since May 2008. Keshav works with the View Composer and ConfigControl development teams.
GTACM has an event coming up with InfoSys on Thurs Oct 8, 2009 from 6-7pm, followed by a Tech Trivia Night from 7-8pm, all in Klaus 2456. Infosys is a multinational information technology services company, with internship opportunities for many majors! We’ll have pizza and wings. Come out and try to beat the geeks!
This Tuesday at 6:15PM in Van Leer W200, GTACM will be hosting Sam Hughes, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Maps! It’s quite an honor to have someone of his caliber; we’re certainly very excited. As always in our Tech Talks program, we’ll be providing food for students. You can find more information at the Facebook event page; hope to see you there!
Engadget HD is coming to Georgia Tech! Join ACM and bloggers of Engadget HD in a Q&A session about Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) this Friday. Get a chance to ask bloggers from this world-class blog about the show or whatever interests you!
When: Sept 11th (Friday) 6pm Where: Klaus 1116
FREE FOOD!
