Some of the GT GameFest Fall 2009 photos are now uploaded to our flickr group. Enjoy!
On Thursday, 11/12 at 6:15 pm in Klaus 2456, Tim Carr, (Software Manager, Homeland Defense at Northrop Grumman) will be giving a talk about “Agile Systems Development”. Pasta will be served!
Speaker profile
Mr. Timothy Carr has been working in the software engineering field for over 16 years. During this time he has gained extensive experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle in various roles and industries within both the public and private sectors. He has experience leading projects implementing object-oriented technologies (C++ and Java) in real-time embedded systems and business applications, following waterfall and iterative development models. He is currently serving as a software engineering manager within Northrop Grumman’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive weapons (CBRNE) business area supporting multiple projects.
Presentation description
It is difficult to work in the software engineering field these days and not hear about Agile software development methodologies. More and more companies are recognizing the value of implementing Agile principles and moving away from the more traditional “heavyweight” waterfall models. This presentation will introduce Agile principles, terminology, process flows, roles, activities, and artifacts. In addition, I will share my personal experiences using both methodologies.
We will have pasta for 50 people. ACM members and officers get priority.
GT GameFest, a semesterly LAN party and gaming tournament, was held this past weekend in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. The event was sponsored and operated by the Georgia Tech Association for Computing Machinery (GTACM) and SIGgame in coordination with the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Student Government Association (SGA). Attendance for this semester’s GameFest ballooned to over 500 attendees, including over 250 tournament participants.
The most popular tournament was Team Fortress 2, with 10 six-person teams participating. Other tournaments included Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare, Counter-Strike Source, DotA Allstars and Starcraft: Brood War on PC; Halo 3 on Xbox 360; and Super Smash Brothers Brawl on Wii. Over $1,500 in prizes, funded by tournament fees, were awarded to the tournament winners. Four hundred burritos, 80 pizzas and over 1,500 sodas, energy drinks and bottles of water fueled the event.
SIGgame is a special interest group organized under the GTACM umbrella that is focused on all things related to games and gaming. SIGgame founded GT GameFest and has a successful Starcraft team that competes in organized intercollegiate competitions. SIGgame is also working on a game to be submitted to the 2010 Independent Games Festival (IGF).
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!
