The UP ACM-JUG Java Tutorial was given by Mr. Aldwin Lee (Manager of UP JRDC) last Saturday, January 20, 2007, at the UP Java Research & Development Center (UP JRDC) at the UP-Ayala Technopark.

The tutorial covered basic Java which included background of the Java programming language and a hands-on practice on classes, data types, overloaded constructors, parameter passing, methods and command line arguments.

Participants of the tutorial were students from the College of Business Administration, College of Engineering, College of Education and the Institute of Library and Information Science which included UP ACM-JUG members and non-members.

The World Usability Day seminar was held last November 14, Tuesday at the Network Lab of UP IT Training Center (UP ITTC). The discussion was an introduction to usability. This was delivered by Alvin Tan of the Adobe User Group (AUG). The participants of the seminar were from UP ACM, UP Circuit, UP ITTC, and some developers/designers within UP campus. At the end of the seminar, there was a raffle of caps, posters, shirts, and an O’Reilly book.

The Macintosh in Education seminar was delivered by Sarah Lumang (Product Manager of Apple) at the Beta Epsilon Multimedia Hall of the UP College of Engineering. The topics discussed were ‘Why Apple in Education‘, an introduction to some tools such as GarageBand, Office 2004, Spotlight, Dashboard, etc., and some demos for each of the applications. Participants of the seminar prepared by Portia Paras of Ynzal Marketing and the UP ACM Student Chapter were mostly composed of Engineering faculty and students. A raffle of iPod accessories was given at the end of the seminar.

“Desktops on Desktops” features a parallelistic view of an operating system (OS) showdown. Demonstrating the hardware utilization properties of today’s widely-used operating systems, such as GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows, this event hopes to show the major differences of each architecture, and how one desktop could run on top of another desktop. This event is open to everyone, student and professionals alike, who are interested in “benchmarking” operating systems.

Philippine Youth Congress for Information Technology (Y4IT) 2006 was held last Semptember 13, 14, 15 at 3 venues - UP Theater, UP Film Center, UP Bahay ng Alumni- simultaneously.

Last week, the High Performance Computing Seminar was delivered by Benjamin Khoo at the eMac laboratory of UP DILC where some faculty, students and UP ACM members attended.