Association for Crunching Midterms18 October 2019

Association for Computing Machinery18 October 2019

Tutoring

● Available for CS, IT, and IS courses● WE ARE STILL HIRING FIVE MORE TUTORS

○ Someone who is good at math (CS241 is a must, CS341 preferred)○ Android and upper level Java development (CS113, CS114, IT114, etc.)○ Upper level IT courses (300 and 400s)○ Someone who is good at Bash scripting

● GITC 3100 ● Calendar and information available at http://njit.acm.org!

HackNJIT | November 9th - 10th 2019

HackNJIT is a 24-hour hackathon at NJIT during which college students will forgo sleep to build some awesome projects. Free swag, free food, lots of prizes.

Sponsored by Microsoft and TCS! Registration closes 10/26!

Register now at hacknjit.org/register!

Fall Open House● Thanks to all of our volunteers for helping out!

Evan MarkowitzDiogo Cardoso

Logan DesrochersJoe Fiore

Mehvish AliGianncarlo Carrasco

Vincent BorjaConnor Criscoe

Volunteer for ICPC● NJIT is hosting ICPC for the first time ever!

○ ICPC: International Collegiate Programming Contest○ We’re hosting Greater New York Region

● Too late to compete, but not too late to volunteer!● Need to be available on Sat. 10/26 AND Sun. 10/27● Perks

○ Free ICPC t-shirt○ 15 internal volunteering hours○ NJIT pride???

SIGN UPnjit.acm.org/icpcvolunteer

Volunteer for HackNJIT | November 9th - 10th 2019

Volunteer for part or all of the event!● Must be NJIT student or ACM alum● Can still compete in HackNJIT!● Get special HackNJIT volunteer shirt!● Need internal volunteering hours?

To sign up or learn more: hacknjit.org/volunteer!

Website Committee

● Redesigning njit.acm.org● Starts week of Monday, 10/28● Weekly meetings through

end of semester● Talk to Connor after meeting

or email at cjc63@njit.edu

Website Committee

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Sign Up for Volunteering Updates!

On Discord, use ?rank Volunteer in the #bot-commands channel so that you can be the first to know about cool volunteer stuff!

Special Interest Groups

● Get discord roles for updates!○ Go to #bot-commands on discord, type ?role sig-[...]. For

example, ?rank sig-migle● Learn things, make friends, build your resume!

Special Interest Groups● Algorithm: TH 1:20PM, GITC 37** (Rodrigo, rsm59)

○ Last week: more array problems on hackerrank, and tried to improve efficiency by comparing the performance of our algorithms in different languages

○ Next week: more cool stuff otw

● Blockchain: F 4:30PM, GITC 3703 (Jordan, jwl32)○ Last week: brief history of blockchain and the fundamental components that

make up a blockchain. We will also begin programming a basic blockchain application in Java.

○ TODAY: continuing a simple blockchain program in java.

Special Interest Groups

● Data Science: W 2:30PM, KUPF 103 (Akm, azi3)○ This week: No meeting○ Next week: Covering numpy and relevant python concepts○ web.njit.edu/~azi3/ds/

● Device Repair: TH 2:30PM, GITC 3703 (Deshawn, dad56)○ This week: opened up and started to repair the volume buttons on a

Surface Pro and I went over the insides of how iPhones are arranged○ Next week: replacing 3 iPhone screens and an iPhone 7 battery

Special Interest Groups

● Flutter: W 3:00PM, FMH 106 (Vineet, vs583)○ This week: fundamentals of flutter and learned to build UI's○ Next week: start working on building our own applications

● Linux: TH 5:30PM, GITC 37** (Christian, cg462)○ Formerly: SIG Arch○ Last week: Basic Arch installation○ Upcoming topics: using pacman, tiling window managers, maybe stuff

on open source software

Special Interest Groups● NLP: F 1:00PM, GITC 37** (Jack, fw73)

○ Last week: Finished Word2Vec PART 1○ TODAY: NLP Model - Word2Vec PART 2 - mapping words to vectors of

real number

● Retro: W 1:00PM, GITC 37** (Liam, jc865)○ This week: No meeting○ Looking for a co-leader! DM NyankoMocchi #7777 on discord.

Special Interest Groups● Social Media: F 1:00PM, GITC 3703 (Diogo, dmc48)

○ Last week: Intro to LinkedIn○ TODAY: LinkedIn recap & secrets to Instagram domination

● Sound: F 1:00PM, CULM 311 (Ben, bgr9)○ Last week: learned about intervals, scales and keys as well as which

Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) we are going to be using.○ TODAY: recap the theory from last week and learn how to set up and use

a MIDI device to make music

Special Interest Groups● XR: ???, TH 6:00PM, GITC 3200A (Al-Rashid, aj269)

○ This week: discussed surface layer neuroscience on Monday and went over the project that we'll be creating as a sig which will be open sourced on github on Thursday

○ THIS SATURDAY: meeting on Discord to get the ball rolling for the group project

● JOIN THE DISCORD! discord.gg/Q7FJS7U

Office● Come hang out! ● GITC 3704 ♥● Movie Night?

The Vote :o● Updated eligibility

○ 2 semesters left instead of 3

● New role: SIG Master● New role: Graphic Design● By-laws defining SIGs

Thoughts?!?

● SIGGRAPH ● Art Club● IGDA● Programming Team (ICPC)● Google Developer Student Clubs

Partner Organizations

● NJIT Esports● YWCC Mentoring● WiCS ● IEEE

IGDA

Spooky Jam

IGDA’s next Game Jam!

October 25 - October 27th

More info here!

Programming Team

● Fridays at 4-6pm in GITC 1400● Led by Noah Cantor

○ Facebook Engineer in Residence○ nhc24@njit.edu

Open Floor

● Access to the Learning Center○ Online courses, books, webinars

● Access to ACM Digital Library○ Research papers

● Access to ACM’s Career and Job Center● “@acm.org” email address● http://bit.ly/ACMStudent

ACM Student Membership Benefits

Visit us online at njit.acm.org! Check out njit.acm.org/secret!

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