Stanford ACM

I just wrote up a blog post about Stallman’s visit to Stanford. I thought I’d mention it here, in case anyone is interested.

ACM Tech Talks
Today – May 21
6:00 PM in Gates 104
These are the last tech talks of the year! As usual, we have some excellent speakers:

Ali Yahya – Applying Gene Sequencing Algorithms to Data Compression
Lucas Garron – CSS 3 Trickery and the Back to the Future Logo
Startup House – Emacs, Org-mode, and Lifestyle Automation/Delegation

The idea behind [...]

ACM Tech Talks
This Friday – May 7
6:00 PM in Gates 104
This week, we have some excellent speakers:

Gustav Rydstedt – JavaScript Framebusting in the Wild
John Hiesey – A Whirlwind Tour of Microcontroller Programming
Startup House – Clojure and Higher-Order Perl

The idea behind the event is quite simple – smart people sharing their cool CS experiences, hacks, and [...]

Reception for Richard Stallman
April 29th, 5:15-6:45pm
AT&T Patio behind Gates Bldg.
If weather turns bad, we will move to the Fujitsu Lounge on the 4th floor of Gates*
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This event is sponsored by Yahoo!
* Please note that the main entrance to Gates (facing Serra) is open until 7pm; all other doors [...]

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ACM Tech Talks
This Friday – April 23
6:00 PM in Gates 104
This week, we have some excellent speakers:

Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor) – Basics of Game Theory
Keith Schwarz – Extending C++: The CS106 foreach Macro
Riddhi Mittal – Parallelism, GPU Internals, and CUDA

The idea behind the event is quite simple – smart people sharing their cool CS experiences, [...]

Hey guys,
Check out the cool new page we set up for our ACM Tech Talks!

Hey ACM members,
Bill Gates is coming to Stanford on April 19. I thought I’d share the info with you all…
Bill Gates Talk!
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, will give a talk titled “Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference”, in which [...]

ACM Members!
You all know Richard Stallman — right? Stallman — computer hacker extraordinaire, creator of GNU, founder of the FSF, and lifeblood of the free software movement — is coming to speak at Stanford!
The Stanford ACM is also planning to organize a dinner with Richard Stallman on April 29th. Although we have limited funds and [...]