Here’s one of ‘em:

The other pictures can be seen here. More pictures will be posted soon.

…Rewind!

“Astronomy is one of the most frustrating professions I can think of… Whatever the heck you see isn’t there anymore… So the whole thing is just a complete sham. I hope i haven’t insulted every astronomer in the world.”

Vinton Cerf, one of the recepients of the 2004 A.M. Turing Award

An archived version of the webcast is now via UPenn: click here. Got it from the SIGCOMM Turing Lecture 2005 site.

I can’t seem to find any press releases yet, though. I do hope somebody writes about it because waking up that early in the morning (perhaps the first time for me in months) was all worth it.

It was informally suggested later in the day that the webcast be played once more at a less ungodly hour (excuse the double negative), although some knowledge of Networks (and perhaps Mobile Computing, heheh) fits you right into the hall.

Too bad they couldn’t call on us for questions.

Upload na kayo ng pictures natin! (Tried screencapping the Real file but couldn’t.)

Currently, I am viewing the ACM Turing Lecture 2005 webcast at home. My brother is also watching it in his room and we are on the same local network (his computer is wired to the router and I am connected wirelessly). Our connection is provided by PLDT myDSL and I can say that the connection is awesome! I am getting 225Kbps but not sure what my brother is getting, though.

Anyway, I just sent an SMS to Riza asking her if the connection in the UP is ok. The ACM Student Chapter members are currently in the College of Engineering Theatre watching it. [members, please post photos. thanks.] Wait – got an SMS reply and the connection is ok. Coolness!

I took some screenshots and posted them online. Check them out.

For all members of UP ACM and the faculty of UP Diliman’s College of Engineering:

The Association for Computing Machinery – University of the Philippines Student Chapter (UP ACM) will be holding for the first time the live webcast of the ACM Alan M. Turing Award Lecture at the ACM SIGCOMM 2005 (Data Communications Conference) delivered at the Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, recipients of the 2004 A.M.Turing Award and pioneers of the Internet, will lecture on “Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities.”

The Turing Award, named after the British mathematician considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science, is dubbed as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.”

ACM, through its award-winning Philippine Chapter, UP ACM, in partnership with the Department of Computer Science, will be sponsoring this rare event here in the College of Engineering. Since the lecture will begin in the US at 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on August 22, 2005, we will be able to view the webcast live at 6:00 AM, August 23, 2005 here in the Philippines. Tentative event venue will be the College of Engineering Theater. Refreshments will be provided to all attendees who make reservations on or before Friday, August 19, 2005.

The official press release on the 2004 Turing Award from ACM International can be found here.

For more information about the Turing lecture and the live webcast, please visit this link.

Read more about the A. M. Turing Award.

Brought to you by the UP ACM Executive Council. (Invite written by Ia Lucero.)

http://p3.upacm.org

Association for Computing Machinery UP Student Chapter, in collaboration with UP Linux Users’ Group and UP Computer Center, will hold a FREE Perl-Python-PHP tutorial.

When:
24 August 2005, 12:00pm – 6:00pm
PHP, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Python, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Perl, 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Where: 1st floor UP Computer Center

Course Outline

* Language Basics
o overview
o variables
o operators
o loop control
o conditionals
o data structures/types
o functions/procedures/methods
* HTML Forms
o overview
o POST and GET
o form creation
o form processing
* File Interaction
o open/close operations
o reading/writing
o permissions

Only 20 slots are available. Registration comes on a first-come first-serve basis.

For reservations, please contact:
Ardee Aram ardee.aram@gmail.com
Waldemar Bautista waldemarbautista@gmail.com

or go to

http://p3.upacm.org

ICT Roadshow 2005
UP Diliman
College of Engineering (Melchor Hall), 3rd Floor, August 9-11 2005

presented by:

PC Buyer’s Guide
UP Diliman Department of Computer Science (DCS)
UP Parser, Official Student Publication of the DCS
UP Association of Computer Science Majors (UP CURSOR)
CS Representatives 05-06
Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter (UP ACM)
UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG)

Three days jampacked with Exhibits and Symposia on exciting ICT Trends and Technologies!
Freebies to be claimed, and prizes to be won!

ICT Roadshow
Main Event
August 10, 2005

7:30 AM to 8:30 AM Registration*
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM Opening Ceremonies (Invocation and National Anthem)
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM Government Initiatives on CICT (Dondi Mapa, CICT Commissioner)
9:45 AM to 10:00 AM New Gadgets 1 (Epson)
10:00 AM to 10:30 AM Open Source (TBA) / Talk (Dr. Jaime Caro, UP AVP for Development)
10:30 AM to 11:00 AM Piracy (TBA)
11:00 AM to 11:15 AM New Gadgets 2 (Redwood)
11:15 AM to 11:45 AM New Cellphones and 3G Services (TBA)
11:45 AM TO 12:00 AM New Gadgets 3 (Microdata)

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Break

1:00 PM to 1:30 PM Broadband Intenet Access/VoIP (Richard Dequiña)
1:30 PM to 1:45 PM New Gadgets 4 (TBA)
1:45 PM to 2:15 PM E-commerce/Blogging Trends and Issues (Janette Torral, Executive Director, DigitalFilipino)
2:15 PM to 2:30 PM New Gadgets 5 (TBA)
2:30 PM to 3:00 PM How to Get Hired as an IT Professional (Roselyn Santos)
3:00 PM to 3:15 PM New Gadgets 6 (TBA)
3:15 PM to 4:00 PM Call Centers (Selwyn Alojipan)

*registration is open all day

For inquiries, contact Phillip (09172779456, pykimpo@gmail.com), Geo (09154017953, gclubaton@gmail.com), or Ia (09202974104, sofimi@gmail.com)

The Google Code Jam 2005, powered by TopCoder is back! This exciting competition puts you head-to-head with some of the best coders in the world. Take this opportunity to contend for $155,000 in cash and a chance to impress Google with your skills. You may not only win money, but a prospect to land a job for the future.

Registration is now open for the competition and will remain open through August 19, 2005. Visit this link for more details.

Education Head Riza Batista, together with her groupmate Angel Calayag, won first place in the recently concluded Call for Convergence: the Telic VoiceXML Challenge!

Congratulations! UP ACM is proud of you!

UP ACM is now a duly recognized university-wide academic organization of the University of the Philippines, as of 3:45pm, Tuesday, July 26, 2005.

(taken from Mai’s email to the ACM mailing list)

Ardee: Paano po namin malalaman kung approved na ang org namin?
Interviewer: Kapag napirmahan ko na ito (points to papers).

(she then proceeds to sign the paper)

I have created a Flickr photo gallery for the group. It is a group gallery so individual members can have their own albums and select photos that they want to share to the UP ACM group.

Join now so I can add you to the list of members. Flickr accounts are *free*.