The Johns Hopkins Association for Computing Machinery is a student organisation of the Johns Hopkins University dedicated to furthering the knowledge and advancement of computers and information technology through the free exchange of ideas and information. As a chapter of the oldest computing society in the world, the JHU ACM is a place for diverse backgrounds and interests, and serves the JHU community as a whole.
Meeting: Microprocessors
2009-01-28
Microprocessors are magical things; they slurp in some bits, they give off some heat, and they spew out some bits. Between the slurping and spewing, there are many arcane rituals going on to make them go fast; pipelining, out-of-order execution, register renaming, user replacement. Somehow microprocessors even manage to get work done. Come hear how they work, how they're made, and how they go fast!
Anything anyone wants to hear specifically? Nows your chance to let Venk know a full week in advance.
Come! Bring some friends!
Shaffer 101, 5:00 PM, Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Contact: Venkatesh Srinivas
Meeting: Intro to UNIX!
2008-10-09
Greetings, citizens!
Are you tired of being confused by the command line?
Maybe you just want to join in on those VIM vs EMACS flamewars. (go joe!)
I guess you could want to just learn more about UNIX, instead.
If any of these apply to you, come to our meeting!
Cookies!
Shaffer 303, 5:30 PM, Thursday October 9th, 2008
Contact: Rich
Meeting: Gradient-domain processing of large images
2008-05-01
This week, our own Dr. Michael Kazhdan is going to be talking about gradient-domain processing of large images. Don't know what that is? Come to the talk and find out!
Dr. Kazhdan says:
This talk will consider the recent trend for performing image editing in the gradient-domain. We will present a motivation for working in this space and will discuss some of the computational issues involved in making this image processing feasable. In addition, we will talk about some of the issues that arise in attempting to carry this modeling paradigm over to ginormous (e.g. gigapixel) images.
Also, this week's meeting is being sponsored by the awesome people at Vision Multimedia Technologies (http://www.vmtllc.com/). They're a local company, and they'll be providing us with plenty of food and drink. Someone from Vision Multimedia will be around before or after the talk too, so you can chat them up about jobs and all that.
So the important parts:
Free Pizza, Graphic Processing, Dr. Kazhdan, and ACM super-funtime.
Shaffer 304, 5:00 PM, Thursday May 1
Contact: Matt
Meeting: OMG BBQ!
2008-03-26
Esteemed colleagues,
This week, we cordially invite you to our informal dinner at the esteemed AMR Barbecue Pit. Light snacks, tea, and crumpets will be provided, in addition to our main course, a delightfully quaint offering of beef and vegetarian patties. In addition, we will offer sausages of varying parentage and content, which I'm told are referred to in the vernacular as "Hot Dogs".
RSVP is not necessary. Come as you are.
5 PM, at the Barbecue Pit.
Join us, won't you?
Barbecue Pit, 5:00 PM, Thursday March 27th, 2008
