When and Where:

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 @ 6:00PM
Young CS50

Event Details:
Tech Talk Topic: Living in the Cloud: Hosting Data & Apps Using the Google Infrastructure

Building modern web applications is hard work. The traditional problems of infrastructure, systems administration, and scalability need to be taken into account throughout the software life cycle. Data needs to be published in a way that makes it accessible to others, and will probably need to be consumed from existing services as well. All in addition to actually building your application.

This talk will provide an overview of two technologies that aim to make this process easier by building upon Google's distributed computing system: Google App Engine and the Google Data APIs.

Please RSVP online here.

Google is accepting full-time applications for the software engineer role. BS and MS students, please apply online at www.google.com/students before October 15th to be considered for an on campus interview. PhD students do not have an application deadline. Bringing a resume to the tech talk will help expedite the process as well.

If you are interested in summer internships, please sign up for a notification online at http://services.google.com/events/intern_opps and you will be contacted via email when we begin accepting applications.

Please contact Hanah Kim at hanah [at] google [dot] com if you have specific questions or concerns.

For full details please see the attached flyer. Also be sure to join us for the Google Tech Talk this Tuesday.

Tired of your homework already? Take a break and update your resume in the ACM Resume Database!

We are frequently contacted by companies looking for students in technical and technically related positions.

We strongly encourage you to submit your resume into our resume database at http://acm.cs.ucla.edu/resumedb

ACM's Fall General Body Meeting!
When: Thursday, October 9th @ 6PM
Where: Boelter Hall 4760

* Come learn about ACM's many student projects or start one of your own
* Join the GameConsole student project and develop games
* Try out for UCLA's ICPC Programming Competition team
* Listen to great speakers
* Enjoy some FREE PIZZA!

This is a great opportunity to learn about upcoming events in the department and to get involved on some great projects! See you on Thursday!

Are you interested in tutoring children in middle and high schools in the LA area?

Join ACM for an Online Tutoring Workshop on 10/01/2008.

When: October 01, 2008, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Where: Boelter Hall 6764

Please RSVP to Scott Carolan if interested.
scarolan [at] ea [dot] ucla [dot] edu

Find out more about the Engineering Science Corp program at:
http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/ESC%20program%202008.html
http://esc.seas.ucla.edu

Entry Point! and its partner Google announces the Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development (BOLD) Practicum for Engineering, launching Summer 2009. A small group of current sophomores, particularly those who are historically underrepresented in the field including students with disabilities, will be selected to participate in the practicum for summer 2009. It will include three main components to bridge the gap between academic study and a professional internship: a software project, skills-based training, and professional development.

To apply to Google BOLD for Summer 2009 through Entry Point!, visit www.entrypoint.org and fill out the online pre-application. Students must be a current sophomore, with a disability, enrolled in a 4-year BA/BS Program in Computer Science.

Entry Point! also offers more summer internship opportunities, with partners including NASA and IBM, to other students with disabilities majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, as well as some Business majors. Check out the website for more information for contact Sabira Mohamed at smohamed@aaas.org or entrypoint@aaas.org.

Dear ACM Members,

My name is Andrew Chao. I'm a fourth year EE student here at UCLA. I'm starting up a new student group called Bruin PAWS; Our purpose is to provide students of different disciplines with a website where they can innovate and collaborate. I need database programmers, web designers, and web app programmers.

The best way to really understand the website would be in the case of an example:
Say an engineering student wants to work on the wii hack project, where you change interface a wiimote with a projector to make a multitouch screen.
He creates a project page about it. Other students looking to get involved, find the project by doing simple searches like "cs", "games".

Do you find yourself debugging in your sleep?

Enjoy solving tough problems and grappling with technical challenges? Then enter Google Code Jam and compete for more than $80,000 in cash prizes!

Google Code Jam is an annual competition in which programmers – both students and professionals – are challenged to solve complex coding problems in a limited amount of time – using any programming language or tools you like.

We began offering Google Code Jam in 2003 – on a platform powered by TopCoder – in order to support competitive programming around the world. This year, for the first time, we're producing the contest on a homemade platform developed by Google's own developers.

Here's how it works: First, you'll need to register from Tuesday, June 17 through Wednesday, July 16. Then, you'll compete against global contestants in the online rounds during July and August. The Top 500 will advance to compete in one of our Google offices around the world in September/October for regional competitions. Finally, the Top 100 will compete in the coding showdown on November 14, 2008, at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California.

To learn more details and to register, please visit: code.google.com/codejam
We hope to see you at the Finals!

Congratulations to Jaymes Winger and Chun Wing Mike Yip, who will each receive a Google USB flash drive for solving this quarter's contest problem with the fastest solutions among lower-division and upper-division contestants respectively. There were plenty of submissions this quarter, which took a while to judge.

Thanks to everyone for participating in the UCLA ACM Quarterly Programming Contest during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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. Talk about fame and fortune!