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Wednesday November 18th: Objective-C Presentation

This Wednesday at 4:30 in the engineering building, room 1010, Jarod Luebbert and Mark Sands will be giving an Objective-C presentation. The presentation will cover a little history, some basic syntax, and some interactive coding of either a mac or iPhone application.
There will be pizza and soda! Link to forum post.

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Upcoming Events (a recap)

Dr. White’s SIGGRAPH Presentation (A MUST SEE!!!) Wednesday, Nov 4 EB1027 4PM
FREE Sun Microsystems Netbeans certification (see post below) Nov 7-8
The Boeing Company – College Recruiting Presents Opportunities in Information Technology with The Boeing Company Nov 11 6-8PM, Illinois Room, MUC Link to forum post
CAOS Regular Meeting Nov 12 EB1010 4:30PM
Language of the Month, Objective-C [...]

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Monday, Nov 2nd: Computational Necromancy with Reinforcement Learning

Who: Dr. Bill Smart, Associate Professor of Computer Science, WUSTL
When: Monday, Nov 2nd at 3pm
Where: EB 1012
What: Animating the Dead: Computational Necromancy with Reinforcement Learning
Anthropologists are often interested in questions such as “What do
chimpanzees optimize for when they walk, and when they climb?”, “What
would Lucy (Australopithecus Afarensis) look like when it walked?”, and
“How did the [...]

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Upcoming Events and Information

Hey Everyone,
Mark has posted Blake Mizerany’s presentation on Ruby and Heroku, we should have Kyle Quevillion’s Adobe presentation soon.  We are also in the process of scheduling a BUNCH of events.  Keep checking back for updated details.  Here is what the agenda looks like:
Tues October 27th SL 0225 1PM – Chris Lintott of Galaxy Zoo [...]

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Free Netbeans Certification

On Saturday Nov. 7th and Sunday Nov. 8th Tom Wheeler will be coming into give a NetBeans certification course.
This will be happening on campus from 9am-5pm each day and don’t worry pizza will be provided.
Everyone who attends both days will get a certificate that says you are certified on the NetBeans platform.
This is a link [...]

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CAOS Regular Meetings

CAOS would like to begin hosting regular meetings again.  This way members can hang out, talk with one another and geek out a bit.  It would also provide a chance for new students to get involved.  We are thinking about holding these twice a month.  Each meeting would contain something short and informational as well [...]

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Adobe Representative to Present Flex

On Tuesday October 13th @ 4pm Kyle Quevillon from Adobe will be presenting Flex in the EB Auditorium (1033).  I have personally known Kyle for almost a year now, and I’m pleased to have him stop by.  This will be a great chance to get an introduction to a new language, as well as Adobe’s [...]

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Blake Mizerany to Talk about Sinatra, LAN Party @ SIUC.

Firstly, thanks to everyone who stopped by the BBQ.  I also want to congratulate the sole winning 140 student who showed up.
Secondly,  I am trying to get about 1-2 more people who are interested in going to the HUGE LAN party at SIUC on Oct. 3rd.  We need names THIS WEEK. Check out info here: [...]

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BBQ Thursday Sept. 10th

Just wanted to remind everyone that CAOS will be hosting a BBQ on Thursday September 10th from 11am – 2pm. We will be located right outside of the Engineering Building between the EB and the Art building. We will also be holding a special raffle for 140 students (no purchase necessary). We [...]

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