Reflections|Projections
General October 6th, 2004
ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery. Think of it as a geek social and professional fraternity, or as a Computer Science (but also CompE and double E) club.
They’re is gearing up for their 2004 Reflections|Projections Annual Conference in two weeks. I normally steer clear of any ACM activities either because I didn’t like the dork stigma that went with it when I was a student, and later because I’m not a student. This year’s conference impresses me — good speakers/panels, interesting topics, a good jobfair. They’ve got game designers, security pioneers, social computing neatness (Wikipedia founder, FSF, Danger and the hiptop crowd.) Ron Rivest turned down the talk, but the C and L from CRL (CS theory bible) will be present. Also, I got inside info they’re trying to get a good speaker in for Friday night.
It’s inhouse (Siebel Center) and only costs $20 for all meals, talks those days, and a tee-shirt. I’m thinking about attending … any of the geeks who follow this are welcome to come as well.
Last night, they had developers from EA Games in talking about Sims 2 development and accepting resumes. I’m impressed - ACM has a lot more interesting stuff now than when I was a student. Oooh, maybe I’ll volunteer for conference.
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lol. i pesudo volunteered as a student for the free food … but this year certainly looks better than when we were students … i think i’ll have to attend this year as well.