April 15, 2010
Posted by Feross
ACM Tech Talks
Spring 2010
Friday – April 23
Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor) – Basics of Game Theory
Keith Schwarz – Extending C++: The CS106 foreach Macro
Riddhi Mittal – Parallelism, GPU Internals, and CUDA
Friday – April 30 (special event)
Richard Stallman (free software guru) – A Free Digital Society
Friday – May 7
Gustav Rydstedt – JavaScript Framebusting in the Wild
John Hiesey – A Whirlwind Tour of Microcontroller Programming
Startup House – Clojure and Higher-Order Perl
Friday – May 21
Ali Yahya – Applying Sequence Alignment 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
Archive – Winter 2010
March 5
Jake Becker – Stanford’s DMCA and Copyright Policy
David Gobaud (ASSU President) – Utilizing Technology for Social Good
Bill Rowan – Fun Oddities of C’s Notorious Syntax
February 12
Benjamin Berkovitz – Design choices in the back-end of CourseRank
Zynga (event sponsor) – Tech and Opportunities at Zynga
Sam Schreiber – General Game Playing and TurboTurtle
January 29
Keith Schwarz (CS106 L Instructor) – C++ Template Metaprogramming
National Security Agency (event sponsor) – NSA Technology
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Web Security at Stanford
Time and Location
ACM Tech Talks take place at 6 PM in Gates 104.
Dinner will be served (usually pizza or sandwiches).
I want to present stuff at the next meeting!
Great! If you want to speak at a future ACM meeting, just speak with any ACM officer or send us an email and we’ll add you to the agenda!
Past tech talks typically range in length from 10-30 minutes. The idea is to give us a short, quick preview into something cool that you’re working on. Take a look at the previous presenters’ slides (linked above) to get ideas. We also have a projector, large whiteboard, and wireless network access for your use.
What are ACM Tech Talks?
In Winter 2010, the Stanford ACM started organizing informal “tech hangouts” for CS students to share what they’re working with the larger community.
Here’s a quick summary of our initial idea when we started the event:
We believe in the enormous abilities of the CS community at Stanford, so we’re starting a bi-monthly “happy hour” event on Fridays where CS students can get together and learn from each other. Stanford students are always working on awesome side projects, research, and startup companies. However, most CS students don’t have a community where they can meet new CS friends, get new ideas, and find out about the awesome stuff their peers are working on. This event will bring together a CS community that learns and shares together.
