We hope everyone who attended had a blast. More party pics may be seen at http://ruzette.multiply.com/photos/album/65/UP_ACMs_Christmas_Party_2008 and http://upacm.multiply.com/photos/album/30/UP_ACM_Christmas_Party_2008

UP ACM congratulates the UP Diliman Programming Team for a successful campaign in the recently concluded 2nd Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Competition held on 22 November 2008 at the University of San Jose-Recoletos, Basak Campus, Cebu City, Philippines.

Five UP ACM members took part in the competition:

1. Bande, Neil Armin
2. Montalbo, Joseph Jesneil
3. Pinca, Apple
4. Pineda, Ralph Raniel
5. Sze, Jennylyn

The six UPD teams (each of which had three members) got the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th places. Kudos to the Team and its coach, Mr. Eric Tambasacan, who got the Best Coach award! For more information, please visit Dr. Raffy Saldana’s blog. (Photo courtesy of Neil Bande)

Pre-register now by filling out this online registration form!

UP ACM and Orange & Bronze Software Labs Ltd. Co. bring you the second lecture of the UP ACM Java Lecture Series. This time, it’s about Java Micro Edition, the Java platform used for making mobile applications. Guest speaker will be Mr. Aris Villarin of MEGAMobile Inc.

To register, please visit http://javalectureseries.upacm.org. See you there!

UP ACM, in coordination with Orange & Bronze Software Labs Ltd. Co., brings you the first installment of the UP ACM Java Lecture Series, Java SE: Back to Basics.

This lecture is intended for Computer Science freshmen, non-CS/IT students, and everybody who wants to refresh their Java SE knowledge. Guest speaker will be Mr. Rodrey Goite, 2008 cum laude graduate from the UP Department of Computer Science.

To register, please visit http://javalectureseries.upacm.org.

Chuk Munn Lee delivers a talk on Developing Mobile Applications with NetBeans IDE on the second day of Y4iT 2008 at the UP Theatre. A demo of JavaME running on PSP was shown at the last part of the talk.

Prof. Rommel Feria (UPACM chapter adviser) delivers a talk on The Future of Operating Systems at the UP Theatre.

Chuk Munn Lee delivers a talk on JavaFX on the first day of Y4iT 2008 at the UP Film Institute.

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Join and be a part of the most anticipated IT event of the year – Y4iT 2008!

The University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC) and UP System IT Foundation (UP SITF) in cooperation with the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE), Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), and UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps, present this year’s Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4IT), which will be held simultaneously at the UP Theatre, UP Film Institute and UP Bahay ng Alumni from September 2-5.

Now on its sixth year, Y4IT has continuously been the largest gathering of IT enthusiasts from all over the country. This year, Y4IT will be even bigger and better with more than 17, 000 anticipated delegates.

Y4IT aims to introduce students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike to current trends in information and communications technology, providing knowledge sources and opening for them learning and career opportunities in ICT.

Featured in the four-day congress are timely and relevant topics like Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology, eLearning 2.0, Blogging, Creating Independent Filipino Games, Social Networking, Blu-Ray, Java Certification, PhilNITS as a National IT Standard, Open Solaris, Outsourcing & Offshoring, News Portals: The New Information Channel, Geographic Information Systems, Library 2.0 and Beyond, IT in Medicine, Video on Demand, Mobile Animation, Ruby on Rails, Java FX, Marketing Reloaded, Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence, Information Security Analytics, Digital Media & Distribution Channels, IT Forensics, Cloud Computing, and many more. Aside from these, there will also be a number of side events which include presentations and exhibits.

For more information, just visit http://y4it.up.edu.ph.

Quoted from Eventbrite – Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008:

The Ubuntu Philippines Local Community Team (Ubuntu-PH), in cooperation with the University of the Philippines Department of Computer Science and Engineering, invite you to a day of sharing experiences, learning, and meeting fellow enthusiasts involved in the hottest GNU/Linux distribution that hit mainstream computing – Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 is a grassroots effort to spread the spirit of Ubuntu. On August 23, 2008, learn and interact with fellow Ubuntu enthusiasts on how you use Ubuntu in your everyday computing needs. We invited 6 resource persons to share their experiences with Ubuntu in different areas of interest:

1. The Ubuntu 30 day challenge – Aileen Apolo (Google)
2. Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network – Wallen Tan
3. Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) – Charo Nuguid
4. Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives – members of UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG)
5. Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 – Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH)
6. Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project – Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project)

And the best part? Admission is FREE! But due to space restrictions, we are limiting this event to 50 participants. Please make sure to reserve a ticket and follow the instructions given to you upon reservation If you have reserved a ticket and for some unforeseen event you are not able to attend, please let us know so we can free up the ticket and give a chance to others who would like to attend.

Limit 2 tickets per participant, first come, first served. Tickets have no cash value as this is a free event. If someone tries to sell you one, let us know.