Yahoo SearchMonkey Programming Competition / Workshop

Join ACM for a night of coding, prizes, food, and fun with Yahoo.

Engineers from Yahoo will be on campus to speak about Yahoo's newly introduced reworked search engine. More about the event below.

Note: Please bring your laptop to participate in the event. (Not required for participation, but it would greatly assist.)

When: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: Boelter Hall 4760

Event Details:
SearchMonkey Developer Challenge
To celebrate the kick-off of SearchMonkey, we’re launching a developer challenge to see who can build the most innovative and useful SearchMonkey apps. There will be four category winners of $2,500 and one lucky Grand Prize winner who will receive $10,000 AND a featured spot on the Front Page of Yahoo! Talk about fame and fortune!

Python Developer, Mid-Senior Level

Well-funded startup is looking for a Mid-Senior level Python developer local to the Los Angeles area.

Our ideal candidate will possess the following skills:

Python
Django template system
Test Driven Development, DRY principle
W3C Valid HTML/XHTML
Linux expertise
Knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL or other database experience

Javascript/AJAX experience is a plus+

Hands-on experience with version control systems (SVN, Mercurial or similar)

And last, but not least, ATTENTION TO DETAIL! You will be a part of a great team with really talented and dedicated people. We are a young, multi-national team with an office in the heart of Bev Hills with great parking and a fantastic environment. We produce valid, completely cross-browser compliant code. Our employees are given the space to excel without micromanagement. If that's your thing, come join us.

REQUIRED: Send resume and links to active examples of your work. If you have an online portfolio, even better.

If interested, please contact William Belk: willie[AT] williebelk[DOT]com

An early-stage, venture capital-funded startup in Venice, CA seeks an engaging and enthusiastic student intern.

This role is ideal for someone interested in online B2C markets, online software product development and automotive e-commerce. You will have an opportunity to work in an extremely entrepreneurial environment with seasoned technology, finance, and automotive industry veterans.

Work schedule is flexible, F/T or P/T, and can begin after May 1. Internship is paid, and hourly rate will be commensurate with experience. Please send resume along with any questions to: interns [at] mota [dot] net (www.mota.net).

Please see the attached file for further details.

The National Center for Data Mining at UIC is hosting a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). Students will work on one of the following two projects:
1. SECTOR - High performance Peer-to-Peer Storage System for Scientific Data.
2. ANGLE - Distributed Data Mining System to Identify Emergent Behavior in Computer Network Data.

If you are interested in working on this REU this summer, please see posted PDF with more details and instructions.

Come join us for the first ACM Movie Night!

April 23rd @ 6PM in Boelter Hall 4760.

Join us for a showing of I Am Legend and some free snacks and drinks!

Cal Poly Pomona will be hosting the 12th annual Information Technology Competition on May 3, 2008. Registration will be open until April 12, and late registration will be next week ($5 more per person). Cases will be sent out to teams on April 19 (except for forensics) and the event will take place on May 3.

There are 4 areas to compete in:
1. Business Systems Analysis
2. Web Application Development
3. Computer Forensics
4. Telecommunications & Networking

Each area has a first, second, and third prize of $1000, $500, and $250. ITC is also a great opportunity for students to network with industry professionals.

When and Where:

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 @ 6:00PM
Boelter Hall 4760

Event Details:

ACM's final General Body Meeting of the year is here. We've got lots of stuff on the table this quarter.

We will have a special guest speaker, Prof. Terzopoulos from UCLA CS Department, to kick off our event at 6:00pm.

Also on the agenda are improvements to many of our projects including the GameConsole arcade system, more information about the ICPC Competitions, and ongoing and potential new projects and much more.

And of course, no ACM event is complete without food and prizes, so make sure you stop by. :)

Pamela Fox, a Google API Support Engineer, will be presenting uses for the Google Web Toolkit, Google Spreadsheets Data API, and Google Maps API. Come join us to find out what these tools are capable of and talk to a Google Engineer!
We will be hosting it in Boelter Hall 4760 on Friday April 4th from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. We will be having Diddy Reese Cookies and drinks!