The Stony Brook Computing Society

SBCS Regatta building - Thursday, April 23, 2009
Hey everyone!

SBCS regatta building has begun! Come join us any night(except 4/23) from 7-11 pm in the old cs library if you wanna help out.

Roth Regatta! - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The theme for Roth Pond Regatta has been announced: Ancient Civilizations. Come to our regatta planning meeting to share ideas and find out how you can help! The meeting is next Wednesday, April 1st (no joke), from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. UPDATE: The meeting will be in room 2311 of the CS Building.

Ping Pong Tournament - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
SBCS's annual Ping Pong Tournament has been pushed back a week to March 19th. Here are the details:

Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: SBCS Ping Pong Tournament
When: Thursday, March 19th, 7pm
Where: CS Building, room 1211
Why: Free food if you participate, and the chance to win prizes!

There will be a $5 registration fee to participate in the tournament this year. This is to offset costs associated with running the tournament and all registration fee money will be going directly to SBCS.

Please sign up for the event online if you'd like to participate. First, log in to the website (link at top right), then click on the event on the calendar on the right. Click "Enroll for this event?" in the event description. Registration fees can be paid the night of the tournament.

Hope to see some of you on the other side of the ping pong table!

Job Openings from IPSoft - Friday, March 06, 2009
IPSoft has let us know about some full time job openings they have. More information can be found in the documents at left or at their website, www.ipsoft.jobs

Review Sessions - Wednesday, February 25, 2009
If you are in any 100 or 200-level CS class, check the calendar at the right to find out when we will be holding review sessions for your midterms. All reviews at at 7pm in room CS 2129. Revew material will be provided.

Retraction of Job Posting - Monday, February 23, 2009
Sorry for the confusion, but the previously posted job opening for the Department of Preventative Medicine was posted in error. There is no opening from that department at this time.

Gears of War 2 Party Thursday, 11/20, 7-10pm
This Thursday, the 20th, we'll be playing the all new Gears of War 2 in room 2311 of the Computer Science building from 7 to 10PM. Come blow off some steam by blowing up some Locusts!

Server Downtime - Thursday, November 13, 2008
As many people have informed us, our server has been going offline for long stretches of time. This weekend, November 15th and 16th, we will have some scheduled downtime to perform some long overdue maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience.

ACM Coding Contest Results - Wednesday, October 29, 2008
SBCS would like to congratulate the teams that competed at the regional ACM competition over the weekend. We took two of the top three places, including first place! Congratulations to all of our team members. More details can be found here.

Review Sessions - Tuesday, May 13, 2008
CSE 110 Review TBA
CSE 114 Review TBA
CSE 214 Review TBA
CSE 215 Review Wednesday 7-9pm room TBA
CSE 219 Review TBA
CSE 220 Review TBA
CSE 230 Review TBA

SBCS Wins Best In Show 4th year in a row! - Sunday, May 04, 2008
May 2nd 2008, the SBCS Boat featuring Mr Potato Head, and various accessories took home the trophy for Best in Show at the 2008 Roth Pond Regatta. Thanks to all those that helped with ideas, building, and carrying/launching the boat.

SBCS/LUGSB Regatta Building - Monday, April 07, 2008
With a little over 3 weeks remaining, we need to get to work on the SBCS/LUGSB Regatta boat.

Where:CS1224
When: Probably every day after 7pm and weekends all day. A better schedule will follow.
Who:EVERYONE!

First build session is Tomorrow Tuesday April 8th. Check back here for a location or stop by CS2110 and there will be signs posted.

Dreamspark - Thursday, April 03, 2008
Wednesday April 9th from 1-2 pm in CS2311, your Microsoft Student Partner will be hosting an install fest to help you install the new free software offered by Microsoft to college students around the world. Bring your laptop to get help installing the resources recently made available to you. Betson will also talk about job and internship opertunitys through Microsoft.

SBCS/LUGSB Regatta Meeting - Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Tuesday April 1st in CS2311 starting at 7pm we will have a meeting to discuss the SBCS/LUGSB regatta boat. The theme this year is Pirates Vs. Ninjas Vs. Robots. At the meeting we will decide what we want to build, and hopefully start to design the boat.

Table Tennis Tournament 3/6 - Tuesday, March 04, 2008
There will be a table tennis tournament in room 1211 from 7-10pm on thursday March 6th. This competition is open to all students and staff. There will be free food and drinks for all who participate. There is a prize of a $25 gift card to the store of the winners choice.

Symposium Series - Thursday, February 07, 2008
Wednesday February 27th, as party of the SBCS Symposium Series, Professor Scott Stoller will be presenting a talk on Finding Synchronization Errors in Multi-Threaded Programs

An Abstract of the talk:

More and more multi-threaded software is being written, to take advantage
of multi-CPU systems and multi-core processors. But multi-threaded
programs are notoriously difficult to develop and debug, because
synchronization errors can be subtle and hard to reproduce.

This talk will describe techniques for finding three common kinds of
synchronization errors: data races, deadlocks, and atomicity violations.
A data race occurs when two threads access the same shared data structure
without using consistent synchronization to coordinate their accesses. A
deadlock occurs when multiple threads are blocked, each waiting for some
action by one of the other blocked threads. An atomicity violation, which
is similar to a serializability violation in transaction processing,
occurs when concurrent method calls are interleaved in such a way that
they interfere with each other.

We will describe algorithms for finding these errors, our implementation
of these algorithms for Java programs, and our experience applying them to
some publicly available Java software.

This is joint work with Rahul Agarwal, Amit Sasturkar, and Liqiang Wang.

Updated: The talk will be in room CS 2311.

Meeting announcement - Friday, February 01, 2008
Please note that we have moved our scheduled general body meeting back one week to February 13th (That's a wednesday.) This coming wednesday, February 6th, though, you should come check out our table at the Involvement Fair that's going on in the SAC, Ballrooms A and B. Stop by and we'll let you know what's going to be happening this semester, and how you can help.

Welcome Back - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Welcome back everyone as we prepare for the Spring 2008 semester.

On the agenda for this semester:

Review Sessions- We need people to volunteer to give review sessions for:
CSE 110, CSE 114, CSE 130, CSE 214, CSE 215, CSE 219, CSE 220, CSE 230

Symposium Series: Do you have a favorite professor whose research interests you? Do you want to hear them give a talk about it? If so please e-mail Billy at Billy.Anzovino@gmail.com and we will contact that professor and see if they are interested.

Ping Pong Tournament: For the past 2 years SBCS has held a Ping Pong Tournament in the Spring semester. This year will be no different. There will be free food and prizes - details at our first general body meeting (to be announced).

Lan Parties: We will hopefully have at least 2 lan parties this
semester, one towards the beginning and one towards the end.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl: If this game EVER comes out, we will be having a tournament. In the mean time we might have a Smash Brothers Melee tournament to pass the time.

Microsoft Events: Your Microsoft Representative, Betson Thomas, has some interesting events up his sleeves for this semester -details forthcoming.

Last but not least:

ROTH POND REGATTA!
We need everyone's help to top our efforts on the Mario Barge. We do not currently have a theme but later in the semester we will have meetings to discuss boat ideas and then start building. We need as much help as possible so keep an eye on the webpage for details.

Welcome back and good luck,
Billy Anzovino

SBCS Research projects - Sunday, January 13, 2008
Call for proposals for SBCS-ACM Undergraduate Research Grant

The Stony Brook ACM chapter is pleased to announce research grants for undergraduate students interested in pursuing research in Computer Science. The purpose of the grant is to fund expenses incurred in a project undertaken under a CS faculty member. We plan to award two grants of $500 each, but may consider a $1000 proposal.
To apply, the student should submit the following by Feb 28th 2008.

a)Project description (no more than one page).
    -Goals
    -Brief description of the plan/solution
    -Anticipated results
    -Estimated completion date
b)Brief budget
c)Endorsement (signature) by the research advisor.

On completion of the project, students will be required to submit a project summary.

Please submit proposals (hard copy) before Feb 28th to:

Prof. Himanshu Gupta
Computer Science Department
1440 Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400

Wednesday Dec 12th - Monday, December 10, 2007
SYMPOSIUM SERIES: Professor Rob Johnson will be giving a talk on cryptogrphic attacks on Digital Rights Management.
This event will take place from 1-2 pm in CS 2129. There will be pizza and drinks served in 2110 after the talk for all who attend.
In addition there will be free giveaways at the talk.

Microsoft Presentation - Monday, November 26, 2007
In partnership with SHPE and SBCS-ACM, on Wednesday, November 28 from 7:15pm- 9:30pm in Javits 111, your Microsoft Student Partner will be hosting a "Microsoft Presentation Session" where all of this semester's major talks will be held in one place. If you've been to one of the Imagine Cup or XNA Game Development presentations before, you'll want to come again for the prizes and giveaways!

We'll be giving away T-Shirts, free software (Vista Ultimate,Office Ultimate 2007, Server 2003), Xbox 360 games (including Halo 3),game development DVDs and plenty of other swag! Giveaways will be available for all that attend!

Full event description can be found here: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/betthoma/ms-ps.html

This event is open to all students, faculty and staff. We encourage you to attend early as some of the prizes will be given away during the talks instead of at the end.

If you would like to contact your Microsoft Student Partner, email Betson Thomas at betsonthomas@student-partners.com

SHPE: http://www.stonybrookshpe.org/Home.htm
SBCS-ACM: http://www.sbcs-acm.com

Symposium Series - Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Wednesday November 14th, Professor Scarlatos and his wife Lori will be giving a presentation in CS 2311 between 1-2 pm.
The topic of this presentation is:
Using technology and multimedia approaches to improve teaching and education. The unifying goal of the research is to facilitate faster comprehension and longer retention for learners using technology.

There will be pizza and drinks provided after the presentation in CS 2311.

SBCS Movie Night - Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Friday November 16th, we will be hanging out in the CS building watching a movie in CS 2311. The current movie ideas that we have thought of are:
Office Space
Hackers

If you have any suguestions for a movie please e-mail me @
Billy.anzovino@gmail.com with your suguestions.

Imagine Cup 2008 - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Would you like to change the world? Make a real difference? Use your innovation, passion, and dreams in the Imagine Cup Software Design invitational. Compete in a global competition. Gain international recognition. Have the opportunity to win thousands of dollars! On Wednesday, October 31 at 1pm in room CS 2129 , your Microsoft Student Partner will be giving a presentation on the 2008 Imagine Cup contest. If you have a passion for technology and a drive to change the world, the Imagine Cup is for you!

After the Imagine Cup talk, we will have a general body meeting for the remainder of campus lifetime.

Symposium Series - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Symposium Series
Wednesday 10/24 between 1 and 2pm in CS 2129

Computational Geometry Methods to Improve Efficiency and Safety in Air Traffic Management

Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Stony Brook University

A severe storm is moving through the central plains. How should air traffic be routed around the hazardous weather cells in order to minimize impact on the air transportation system?

Challenging geometric optimization problems arise in trying to maximize the effective safe utilization of the National Airspace System in the presence of many and varied constraints, such as hazardous weather. The challenge is substantially compounded when the constraints vary in time and are not known with certainty, as is the case with the weather.

In this talk we discuss algorithmic methods from the field of computational geometry that can be used in modeling and solving air traffic management problems, such as capacity estimation, flow routing, and airspace configuration in the face of dynamic and uncertain constraints and demands.

No prior background will be assumed in air traffic management or computational geometry.

There will be FREE FOOD after the Symposium Series

Review Session Volunteers Needed - Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Hey everyone,

We need volunteers to hold review sessions for all the 100 and 200 level CS courses. Start thinking about if you are interested in giving a helping hand to those who are in lower classes than you are. I will be sending out an e-mail in the very near future announcing a meeting for all those interest! Midterms start next week for the lower level cs courses.

-Billy

ACM coding competition - Monday, September 17, 2007
The local ACM coding competition will take place on Thursday September 27th at 7:00pm in Room CS 2129.
To register:
1)Register for the club using the link in the upper right corner
2)Login to your account
3)Click on the ACM coding competition link in the calendar to the right.
4)When you are on the page for the event, click enroll to this event

There will be pizza and drinks at 6:30pm in room 2110 for everyone who is registered.

Welcome - Wednesday, September 05, 2007
SBCS would like to wish everyone good luck in the Fall 2007 semester. Upcoming events include a LAN party and faculty talks.

Stony Brook ACM wins Award! - Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Stony Brook ACM chapter (thats us) has won the Outstanding School Service award from the ACM! We have received the award for our excellent exam review program. Check out the details here. You can also read up on winners for other categories here.

Windows Vista and Office 2007 at Seawolves Marketplace!
Windows Vista Ultimate ($15.75) and Office 2007 (free!) is now available to all students at the Seawolves marketplace. You must bring your Student ID in order to receive the software!

Regatta Pics are on Facebook - Sunday, May 20, 2007

Below are links to picture albums showcasing our award winning boat from start to finish:

8-Bit Mario Barge: Pre-Regatta Build 1
8-Bit Mario Barge: Pre-Regatta Build 2
8-Bit Mario Barge: Pre-Regatta Build 3
8-Bit Mario Barge: Regatta Event Pics 1
8-Bit Mario Barge: Regatta Event Pics 2
8-Bit Mario Barge: Post-Regatta Cleanup and Trophy

New E-Board - Saturday, May 12, 2007
Congratulations to the new E-Board!

President: William Anzovino
Vice President: Alex Kunin
Treasurer: Yzut Lo
Secretary: Brittani Moran
Events Coordinator: Gaurav Singhal
System Admin: Johnny Zhang

Roth Regatta 2007 - Saturday, May 05, 2007
8-Bit Mario Barge wins 1st place Best in Show!
This is the third year in a row that we have won 1st place best in show!!! =)

Why is My New Laptop So Dog Slow?! Recent trends in systems research - Prof. Erez Zadok
Professor Zadok will be giving a Symposium Series talk on Wednesday, May 2 at 1pm in room CS 2311 entitled "Why is My New Laptop So Dog Slow?! Recent trends in systems research.". He will "...describe past and recent trends in computer hardware and software which has led to this situation". He will "...argue that future research and development efforts should be spent not on how to make disk drives larger---but more robust, fast, and secure".

Pizza and drinks will be available.

Check out this link for more information.

Roth Regatta Boat Meeting
We will be working on our Roth Regatta Boat from 5pm - 11pm in the Melville Library Basement [map] for the remainder of the week. Feel free to drop in anytime for as long as you like. We can use your help.
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General Body Meeting
We will be having a general body meeting from 1pm - 2pm on Wednesday, April 25 at....you guessed it, the basement of Melville Library [map]. We will be talking about building boats =). Come join us!

LAN Party
There will be a LAN party this Saturday from 10am - 11pm. You MUST register at: http://www.mousebox.org/lan/index.php?page=register

Additional details can be found at http://www.mousebox.org/lan/index.php

Talk by Matthew Purver [Stanford]
On Monday, April 23 Matthew Purver will be visiting us from Stanford. He will be giving a talk on automatic understanding of human-human meetings from 12:50pm to 2:10pm at CS 2129 and will also be available to meet with graduate and undergraduate students at 3:30pm.

See the calendar event for additional details.

Talk by Donna Byron [Stanford]
On Tuesday, May 1 Donna Byron will be visiting us from Stanford. She will
be giving a talk from 11am to 12pm in CS 2311 and will also be available
to meet with people at 4pm.

See the calendar event for additional details.

Roth Regatta Boat Meeting - Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Boat Meeting today, Wednesday, April 11 at 7pm in CS 2110.

Happy Spring Break!
Have a great spring break everyone!

Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch Event
Microsoft's Student Partners and SBCS are teaming up to bring you all the details on Vista and Office 2007.

On Thursday, March 29 at 7pm in Javits 110, come learn about the features available to you in Microsoft's latest operating system and office suite. Enjoy the free food and the free goodies! Win free copies of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft books! Bring yourself and a friend!

This event is open to everyone.

Check out the event flyer: Vista-Office-Launch-Flier.pdf

Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators
Prof. Michael Bender will be speaking on Wednesday, March 28 at 1PM in CS 2311 as part of the SB ACM Symposium Series.

His talk topic is "Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators". The talk will be suitable for multiple levels of understanding, so if you've never had any exposure to algorithms or if your well-versed, you should be able to come away with valuable information.

Food and drinks will be provided. Click the following link for the talk summary: read more...

Automating Medical Information Processing
*Update: Presentation slides are now available. Follow the link to the Symposium Series page to get them.*

Prof. Robert Kelly will be giving a talk entitled "Automating Medical Information Processing to Improve Patient Safety" on Friday, March 23 from 1pm - 2pm in CS 1310. Food and drinks will be provided. Click the link for more details: read more...

Roth Regatta Boat Meeting
We will be having a meeting to discuss this years boat today, Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm in CS 1441. Collaborators for this years boat are: SBCS, LUGSB, WICS and SWE

Table Tennis Tournament
Got an itch to win? Need $25? Great! Compete in our second annual Table Tennis Tournament! Winner takes home a $25 gift card to the store of their choice. This Wednesday, March 14, mosey on over to room 1211 in the CS building. Registration will take place from 6:30pm - 7pm. Matches will start at 7pm. This event is open to all students, faculty and staff. Come get your game on!

Upcoming Talk: Object and Scene Recognition with Bags of Features and Spatial Pyramids
Title: Object and Scene Recognition with Bags of Features and Spatial Pyramids
Presenter: Svetlana Lazebnik (slazebni [ a t ] uiuc.edu), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed 3/14
Time: 2pm
Location: CS 2311

Click the Calendar event for details on the talk....

Google Talk Topic Suggestions - Tuesday, March 06, 2007
The ACM Organization is currently in talks with Google about sending representatives for speaking engagements at ACM Chapters. We need you to help us figure out what they should speak about. Please do email me suggestions on talk topics that you are interested in hearing. Feel free to send in multiple suggestions. You can reach me at: betson [ a t ] sbcs-acm.com

Upcoming Talk - Limitations and Challenges in No Regret Algorithms
Limitations and Challenges in No Regret Algorithms
            Eyal-Even-Dar,UPenn
            Mon March 12 2007
            CS2311 2pm

No regret algorithms have been studied extensively since the pioneering works of Blackwell, Hannan and Robbins in 1950s. In a sequential decision making problem where you are given an advice by N experts at each time step, the no regret algorithms guarantee that you will always do almost as good as the best expert in hindsight. Equipped with such strong theoretical guarantee, no regret algorithms have been applied successfully in many fields including machine learning, economics and game theory.

In this talk I will present several challenges to and limitations of no regret algorithms. More specifically, I will consider adding natural constraints and adapting no regret algorithms to dynamic environments. Such scenarios will shed a light on how far these algorithms can be "pushed", while still satisfying the no regret property. Finally, I will consider a routing game where all users use no regret algorithms, and study the efficiency and the stability of such game.

Building a Digital Synthesizer
Synthesizers provide a range of psychedelic timbres no cat can get from your daddy's instruments. Today, synthesizers are digital: computer programs that take your grooves as input and give them legs with whatever funky synth sounds you can dream. Learn about the programming and digital signal processing that gives a simple subtractive synthesizer, the Seystertron, its groovy synthesized sound.

Join us on Wednesday, March 7 at 1pm in CS 2311!

Boat Meeting
Join us for a boat meeting to be held on Wednesday, February 28 in room CS 1211 at 1pm. We will be discussing this years SBCS/LUGSB/WICS boat! Bring ideas!

Upcoming Talks
All of the following will be held in CS 2311.

Bradley Kuszmaul
Monday, February 26, 2:15PM
Architectural Support for High-Performance Computing

Richard Vuduk
Wednesday, February 28, 1PM
Autotuning sparse matrix kernels

Sanmay Das
Friday, March 9, 2:15PM
Market-Making: From Algorithms for Price-Setting to
Emergent Market Properties

Click the event links on the calendar for talk summaries.

SB ACM Symposium Series Presents Prof. Steven Skiena

*Update: Presentation Slides Available on Symposium Series Page - click the link below*

On February 21, from 1pm - 2pm in room CS 2129, Prof. Skiena will be presenting his work on News and Blog Analysis using the Lydia system.

The Lydia project seeks to build a relational model of people, places, and things through natural language processing of news sources and the statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations.

Check out www.textmap.com to see it in action!

Click below for more event details...
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Research Grant Announcement - Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Grants have been approved. read more...

*Update - Gaming Night v2.0

*Update: We have delayed the start of Gaming Night to 6:50pm*

SBCS would like to announce Gaming Night v2.0.

On Monday from 6:50pm - 9pm in room CS 2311 we will be hosting another gaming night, this time with both the Nintendo Wii and XBox 360 for your gaming pleasure.

Winners from the *free* contest will receive tickets to the Etiquette Dinner to be held on February 27. Details regarding the Etiquette Dinner can be found at the Career Center's website: http://www.career.sunysb.edu/Events/viewNews.asp?eventID=340

First General Body Meeting Spring 2007
The first General Body Meeting for Spring 2007 is scheduled for next Wednesday, January 31 from 1pm - 2pm. Room CS 2129.

Welcome Back - Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Welcome back everyone! We'll be announcing our first general body meeting soon. In the meantime, have a look at the Research Grant opportunity and see if your interested.

SBCS-ACM Research Grant - Friday, December 15, 2006

Call for proposals for SBCS-ACM Undergraduate Research Grant

The Stony Brook ACM chapter is pleased to announce research grants for undergraduate students interested in pursuing research in Computer Science. The purpose of the grant is to fund expenses incurred in a project undertaken under a CS faculty. We plan to award two grants of $500 each, but may consider a $1000 proposal.
To apply, the student should submit the following by Feb 1.

a)Project description (no more than one page).
    -Goals
    -Brief description of the plan/solution
    -Anticipated results
    -Estimated completion date
b)Brief budget
c)Endorsement (signature) by the research advisor.

On completion of the project, students will be required to submit a project summary.

Please submit proposals (hard copy) before Feb 1 to:

Prof. Himanshu Gupta
Computer Science Department
1440 Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400

General Body Meeting & Career Committee UG Rep Election

SBCS will be holding elections for the UG Representative for the Career Committee this coming Tuesday, December 12 during our general body meeting to be held from 5:30pm - 6:30pm in room CS 2311.

If you are not on the candidate list and are interested in running for this position, please email me at betson [ a t ] sbcs-acm.com. The UG representative should be a senior (or will be a senior by next term) and will be involved in meeting with the committee once or twice before graduation and give feedback on student views about the job market, etc.

Nintendo Wii Gaming Night

UPE and SBCS would like to announce our new Gaming Night and Contest.

This coming Wednesday, November 29 from 6:45pm - 8:45pm in CS 2311 we will be featuring Wii Sports on the new Nintendo Wii with 2 systems, 8 controllers and dual overhead projectors :)

Anyone is welcome to come down and try out the new Nintendo Wii w/o entering in the contest. There will be a $3 contest entry fee (UPE members are exempt) and the top 3 winners will take the pot.

*Correction* - Career Committee UG Rep Needed

The department is starting a new Career Committee. (http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/careers/) It is intended to act as the main resource for Computer Science and Information Systems students who are readily looking to be employed.

The committee is searching for an undergraduate senior to join the committee and participate in the decision process. The UG representative will be involved in meeting with the committee once or twice before graduation and give feedback on student views about the job market, etc.

If you are interested, please contact Betson Thomas: betson [ a t ] sbcs-acm.com

High School Mentoring Program
The CS Department is looking to start a new high school mentoring initiative.

We are looking for CS/IS Majors who are interested in maintaining weekly/bi-weekly contact with a high school student either in person or online from late November - late January for approximately 1 hour each session.You will be advising the student on issues relating to the development of their software.

The first meeting is set to take place on Saturday, November 18 from 11:30am - 12pm in room CS 2129.

Please email Betson Thomas at betson [ a t ] sbcs-acm.com with your name and preferred contact email, subject: High School Mentor, if you are interested.

Windows Vista Development Talk

Date: Wednesday, November 15
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Room: CS 2129

The Microsoft Student Representative will be showing the basic features of Visual Studio Express and demo C# applications taking advantage of Windows Vista features, such as extending "glass" into the client area of a .NET Application.

We have several MS goodies to hand out at the event including pens, bags, t-shirts and more!

We will also have food and drinks, so bring your hungry selves down!

Spoken Dialog Systems

Date: Wednesday, November 1
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Location: CS 2311

Dr. Amanda Stent will talk about research at Stony Brook on spoken dialog systems. She will describe the Rate-A-Course system and an experiment conducted using that system that formed the undergraduate honors thesis done by Matthew Marge in 2005-2006. In addition, she will talk about other opportunities for undergraduate research in natural language processing.

Food will be provided.

Updated - Stony Brook Suite Gets Newsday Mention

A recent Newsday Article highlights unique college suites around Long Island and our very own SBCS members get noted!

News Article Scan Uploaded:

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Travelers Presentation

Travelers will be holding a company presentation on Tuesday, October 17 from 7pm - 8pm in room CS 2311. They will be speaking in detail about their Information Technology Leadership Development Program. Free food and drinks will be served.

St. Paul Travelers is a leading provider of property casualty insurance and surety products and of risk management services to a wide variety of businesses and organizations and to individuals. The company reported 2005 revenues of $24.4 billion and total assets of $113.2 billion. Our products are distributed primarily through U.S. independent insurance agents and brokers. Travelers, a member of St. Paul Travelers, is the second largest writer of auto and homeowners insurance through independent agents.

ACM Coding Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Stony Brook University ACM Programming Contest!

Graduate: Mikhail Bautin

Junior/Senior: Peter Kim

Freshman/Sophomore: Gaurav Singhal

Citigroup IT Analyst Program - Monday, September 11, 2006

Citigroup is coming to campus and are looking to hire Stony Brook students! Here is an excerpt from their announcement below:

"... I would like to extend an invitation to your members to our on-campus presentation on September 26th at the Stony Brook University Wang Center, Room 401 from 5:30PM - 7PM. Come meet IT Analysts that are Stony Brook alumni's as well as hiring managers and representatives from HR for this year's IT Analyst program. The IT Analyst Program is a 2-year non-rotational career development program to hire full-time undergraduate students in Computer Science, Information Systems and various engineering degrees to work on technology initiatives that support the CIB business. Our goal is to have a diverse class of bright technology analysts and we believe your organization fits our criteria.

Before this presentation, we would like to collect resumes from your graduating seniors that are interested in a technology position at Citigroup. Please send all resumes to kimberly.wong [ at ] citigroup.com by September 22nd. Also note that submission of these resumes is not considered an application to the position. Applicants will need to attend the on-campus presentation on September 26th for full details on the recruiting process. The resumes that are collected before the presentation will be reviewed and notified ahead of time if they are potential candidates for the position and will be strongly advised to attend the information session..."

Good Luck to all who apply!

Welcome Back!! - Thursday, September 07, 2006
Welcome Back! Soon you'll be hearing about what we have planned for the coming semester. Stay Tuned!

The Quack Shack at the Regatta! - Saturday, April 29, 2006
.Duck wins 1st place Best of Show!

Photo Link Below:
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Roth Pond Regatta Page Created! - Tuesday, April 18, 2006

All the information you'll need about this years boat!