UP ACM, UP CURSOR and UnPLUG invite you to attend K.I.S.S.S 2008 - Knowledge, Information, and Skills Sharing Sessions on June 21 and June 28 at the UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (commonly known as UP Eng’g Lib 2 and Computer Science Department).

Schedule

June 21

9-12 pm - GIMP
1-4 pm - Macromedia Flash

June 28

9-12pm - PHP with MySQL
1-4pm - HTML/CSS

This is a FREE tutorial.

Registration starts at 8:30 am and 12:30 pm
You can register at kisss.upacm. org

See You There!

For Inquiries, kindly text or email
Ruzette Tanyag
(rptanyag@gmail. com - 09164096081)

Last year, as part of UP ACM’s recruitment program, a ‘referral contest’ was held called Tag! You’re It!. It was a strengthening of our recruitment program and a great chance for members to invite their friends to join the chapter.

Continuing this year, we will have Tag! You’re It! 2, which is a carry-over of last year’s referral contest.

Rules are the same as before, but I will reiterate them here:
Mechanics:

1. Tag! You’re It! is a recruitment drive of the UP ACM which is open to both members and non-members of the student chapter but excluding its council and alumni.
2. Any UP student may be recruited since UP ACM is a university-wide organization.
3. An award will be given to the recruiter in the following categories:
   • referred the highest number of CS students
   • referred the highest number of non-CS students
   • referred the highest number of CS and non-CS students combined
4. For the referral to be valid, the complete name of the referrer should exist on the referral field on the membership form.
5. The referral is considered void if (1) there are vandalisms/erasures found on the referral field (on paper forms), and (2) the recruit is a former member of the org.
6. In case of renewals, leave the referral field blank.
7. A recruiter can only win a single category. The council will tally and rank recruiters based on the number of members they recruited in the designated categories and then decide the winners for each category.
8. The end of the campaign which is on June 30 is also the end of membership renewal.
9. The prizes will be announced at the end of the campaign. (probably cash, if the finance head will approve it)

Good luck! Any inquiries should be sent to membership [{at}] upacm [{dot}] net.

It’s renewal/application period again for UP ACM! But this year, the membership committee is launching our very first recruitment contest:

Tag! You’re It! : The UP ACM Membership Contest!

Mechanics:

1. Tag! You’re It! is a recruitment drive of the UP ACM which is open to both members and non-members of the student chapter but excluding its council and alumni.
2. Any UP student may be recruited since UP ACM is a university-wide organization.
3. An award will be given to the recruiter in the following categories:
   • referred the highest number of CS students
   • referred the highest number of non-CS students
   • referred the highest number of CS and non-CS students combined
4. For the referral to be valid, the complete name of the referrer should exist on the referral field on the membership form.
5. The referral is considered void if (1) there are vandalisms/erasures found on the referral field, and (2) the recruit is a former member of the org.
6. In case of renewals, simply put “N/A” on the referral field.
7. A recruiter can only win a single category. The council will tally and rank recruiters based on the number of members they recruited in the designated categories and then decide the winners for each category.
8. The end of the campaign which is on July 27 is also the end of membership renewal.
9. Additionally, upon the end of the campaign, MEMBERS (AY 2006-2007) who had referred more than 5 new members will receive a Certification of Appreciation for Service to UP ACM.
10. The prizes will be announced at the end of the campaign.

For membership forms, you may get them at the CS New Bldg (c/o Ate Mila), ask from any UP ACM Council, or download it here.

To get recruitments tips, you may visit our website or email us at membership[AT]upacm[DOT]net.

Good luck!

For more details contact: 09178128293 (Lyn)

1st Entrepreneurial E-Commerce Excellence Awards
Anybody interested?

Objective:
To encourage the development and adoption of e-commerce in the Philippines and to provide incentives and support to would-be online entrepreneurs.

Contest Rules:

1. Contestant(s) must be a duly-enrolled college or post-college student for school year 2006-07 in a reputable school
2. Contest entries may be any project which involves an online payment or transaction component. The project proposal need not be 100% online (ie. actual delivery of goods may be physical). Several examples of commercial e-commerce sites can be found here.
3. Ideas may be implemented using any commercial or open source development tool and platform. Contestant(s) may opt to use and customize off-the-shelf Mozcom NetPresence e-commerce solutions to implement the idea. Mozcom can extend technical assistance for projects that use its turnkey solutions including PayEasy payments.

Mechanics:

1. Interested parties should fill-up the online contest entry form together with the product/service write-up to Mozcom Inc. on or before Nov 15, 2006. (Click here to go to the online contest entry form)
2. Applicant may be an individual or a team composed of not more than 5 students.
3. There is no limit to the number of entries a single applicant may submit.
4. Pre-screening will be conducted from Nov 16 to 20 to determine finalists.
5. Project will be implemented from Nov 21, 2006 to Feb 28, 2007.
6. Finalists are required to present their entries to the Board of Judges for the initial presentation on Mar 1 to 10, 2007.
7. A grand prize and a runner-up will be awarded.
8. Awarding will be held on Mar 15, 2007.

Criteria for Judging:

1. Originality (20%)
2. Innovativeness (20%)
3. Usefulness (20%)
4. Market Potential (20%)
5. Implementation (20%)

Prizes:

1. Cash prize of P50,000 and Trophy for Grand Prize; P20,000 and Plaque for the Runner-up; and Plaques for the finalists
2. Contract for continued commercialization of winning entry, which will include hosting, payment processing, backend support, marketing and advertising
3. Winners will be featured in Mozcom and PayEasy websites

For more information or clarifications, email us at contest@payeasy.ph.

From ACM Local Activities:

We invite you to participate in and disseminate information about the ACM Student Research Competitions that will take place at several SIG conferences coming up during the next academic year.

Each ACM Student Research Competition is an opportunity for both undergraduate and graduate students to present their research to leading professionals in their field, to win prizes (at each SIG SRC there are three graduate and three undergraduate winners; each first prize is $500, each second prize $300, and each third prize $200).

ACM will also offer a travel grant of up to $500 for each submission selected for the SRC to get you to your conference.

The winners are then eligible to the once-yearly SRC Grand Finals, the winners of which are invited to attend the ACM Awards Banquet with their advisors. This awards banquet is the event where the A.M. Turing Award is given.

You can find out more about the competition, its requirements, past winners and many past winning submissions here: http://www.acm.org/src.

Below is a list of currently active calls for participation, with the deadlines noted, along with the conference’s own SRC web page, for more information.

SIGGRAPH 2006: http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=cfp&p=posters&s=student - submission deadline: May 11 2006

ASSETS 2006: http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets06/src/ - submission deadline: June 2 2006

MobiCom 2006: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2006/src.html - submission deadline: June 30 2006

OOPSLA 2006: http://www.oopsla.org/2006/studentResearchCompetition.html - submission deadline: June 30 2006

* PLEASE NOTE that you may only participate in one SRC in any one academic year, so for example, if you submit a research poster to the SIGGRAPH 2006’s SRC and your poster is selected to participate, you may not submit a poster to any of the other SRCs this academic year.

All ACM Student Research Competitions are sponsored by Microsoft.
For more information, please contact Katalin Lovasz, ACM Education Manager, at katalin@acm.org or 212.626.0515.

===What is the 2nd UP ACM Programming Competition?===

The 2nd UP ACM Programming Competition is a programming competition that will test the contestant’s mathematical, analytical, logical, problem solving, and computer programming skills under time pressure. The contest will serve as simulation for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competion 2006, that will be held on November this year, to introduce the students to the mechanics of the ACM-ICPC, and to prepare interested students to compete internationally for the University.

===Venue===

The 2nd UP ACM Programming Competition will be held at the Engineering Hall 215, College of Engineering, UP Diliman, QC on
Thursday, March 2, 2006, 8:30am-12:00pm

===Qualifications===

Non-graduating UP undergraduate students (students with at least a year to stay in the University) from any course or college with no prior ACM-ICPC (International) experience are qualified to join. Contestants should form at most a maximum of three members per team.

===Mechanics===

Each team member would be given eight (8) problems to be solved in three and a half (3 1/2) hours. These problems include mathematical, geometrical, and analytical problems, among others, that expect a certain form of input, and the program must produce the expected output. Thes problems will be posed in English.

Solutions to problems submitted for judging are called runs. Submissions of runs must be done via PC^2. Each run is judged as accepted or rejected, and the team is notified of the results. Rejected runs will be marked as follows:

* run-time error
* time-limit exceeded
* wrong answer
* presentation error

Notification of accepted runs will be suspended at the appropriate time to keep the final results secret. A general announcement to that effect will be made during the contest. Notification of rejected runs will continue until the end of the contest.

A contestant may submit a claim of ambiguity or error in a problem statement by submitting a clarification request. If the Judges agree that an ambiguity or error exists, a clarification will be issued to all contestants.

While the contest is scheduled to last three and a half hours, the UP ACM Executive Council has the authority to lengthen the contest in the event of unforeseen difficulties. Should the Contest duration be altered, every attempt will be made to notify contestants in a timely and uniform manner.

===Submissions, Clarifications, and Notifications===

”’PC^2”’ is a Java-based Contest Control System that accepts submissions via a network. Submissions of solutions in this contest will be through PC^2. The contestants will be introduced to PC^2 before the contest starts (though prior knowledge of the software is an advantage).

Other issues such as clarifications and other special notifications shall be made via PC^2.

===Scoring===

The ACM-ICPC Simulations Judges are solely responsible for determining the correctness of submitted runs. The Simulations Judge is responsible for determining the winners of the UP ACM Programming Competition. They are empowered to adjust for or adjudicate unforeseen events and conditions. Their decisions are final.

Teams are ranked according to the most problems solved. Teams who solve the same number of problems are ranked first by least total time and, if need be, by the earliest time of submittal of the last accepted run.

The total time is the sum of the time consumed for each problem solved. The time consumed for a solved problem is the time elapsed from the beginning of the contest to the submittal of the first accepted run plus 20 penalty minutes for every previously rejected run for that problem. There is no time consumed for a problem that is not solved.

===Computing Environment===

The ACM-ICPC Simulations computing terminals shall have ”’Fedora Core 3”’ as its operating system. ”’Java 1.5”’ and ”’C/C++(GCC 4.0)”’ shall be the languages available. Editors will be ”’vi/vim”’, ”’emacs”’, and ”’gedit”’. The ”’Eclipse IDE”’ shall also be made available.

===Contestant Conduct in the Contest Area===

DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING at the team workstations until so directed by the Simulations Director.

Contestants are not to converse with anyone except members of their team and personnel designated by the Simulations Director. Systems support staff may advise contestants on system-related problems such as explaining system error messages.

===Judge and Simulations Director===

The official judge and simulations director for the 2nd UP ACM Programming Competition is Mr. Michael Daniel Samson.

===Disqualification===

A team may be disqualified by the Simulations Director, UP ACM Executive Council, or any of its representative, for any activity that jeopardizes the 2nd UP ACM Programming Competition such as

* dislodging extension cords
* unauthorized modification of contest materials
* distracting behavior

The Simulations Director, UP ACM Executive Council, or any of its representative reserves the right to categorize a behavior as distracting.

===Prizes===

* 1st prize
** 3 Ipod shuffles
** Php 1,000 (for the whole team)
** Internship opportunites (”On the job training”) from Pusit.com, a Friendster affiliate company

* 2nd prize
** Php 1,000
** Internship opportunites (”On the job training”) from Xackup, a Friendster affiliate company

* 3rd prize
** Php 500

===Sponsors===

* Pusit.com
* Xackup
* Hardware Magazine