ACM at Virginia Tech

The Virginia Tech Gaming Project and the Virginia Tech branch of the Association for Computing Machinery are co-hosting a student talk this Thursday from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM in ROOM focusing on the concept of pathfinding, several algorithms that can be used for pathfinding, and how pathfinding relates to game design. During this talk, algorithms such as the A* search algorithm will be discussed in slightly more detail to explain how various heuristics can be combined to provide a more balanced algorithm for use in situation-intensive situations.

Date: Thursday, March 22nd
Time: 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Surge 117A
Presenter: Robert "Chip" Senkbeil

The ACM will be hosting a STS talk by George Burgess IV on Backtrack, a Linux distribution designed for security penetration testing. (http://www.backtrack-linux.org/)

Topics covered will include:

• Basics of penetration and vulnerability testing
• Finding exploits
• Basics of social engineering
• Detection and exploitation of buffer overflows
• Popular web-application exploits (e.g. SQL Injection)
• Demonstrations of the methods discussed

Learn how hackers exploit security vulnerabilities so you can safeguard your own applications, or perform security research!

Where: McBryde 113
When: 7:00 PM on Thursday, November 10.

As with all ACM talks, pizza and drinks will be provided. See all of you there!

Here is a video recapping "The Crazy Ones" student teaching students event hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery earlier in the week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6_KWteEAx8

Amazon is doing a talk tonight about the design and implementation of Amabot!

Amabot is the machine learning and optimization system choosing which ad to display to optimize revenues on the Amazon websites.

When: September 29th
Where: Pamplin 30
Time: 5:30pm

Bring your friends and come grab a free Amazon t-shirt and food!

Good afternoon everyone!

The Association for Computing Machinery (Virginia Tech) has quite a lot of activities coming up in the near future! As of now, I have two events coming up soon; so, please mark these on your calendar so you won't forget!

This Wednesday (September 14th), the NSA is doing a tech talk on "Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation" from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM in Pamplin 32.

Next week on Friday, September 23rd, ACM will be hosting a social that all active ACM members can attend. The survey for location and time is still up; so, there isn't anything else set for it as of yet. Make sure you've paid your $20 dues so you can attend!

Also, a big thank you for those that came out to the Google Tech Talk yesterday (September 12th). It was great to see all of you there!