Check this out guys, this seems like a lot of fun. Best of all, there's an after-party!

"HigherEdCamp is a one day un-conference connecting communities involved in higher education technology. It will take place on Saturday June 6th at the University of Pennsylvania. Attendance is completely free.

HigherEdCamp is about innovating education through an understanding of emerging technologies, adoption of open standards, and participation in evolving communication channels.

Another movie night approaches from the distance!
This Friday 4/17 at 4pm in Wachman 108 ACM will be hosting a Free movie night.
Drinks and Snacks will be available.
This week we will be featuring: Kung Fu Hustle

See you all there!

Come visit our ACM booth at Spring Fling! We will have a classic arcade game and a chance to win a big prize! Stay tuned for details!

Update! Spring Fling has been postponed until next week due to poor weather. Watch this post for news.

Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackelope" Release Party
Date: Saturday May 2nd 3 - 7pm

Location: Manayunk Diner,
3722 Main St
Philadelphia, PA 19127
(215) 483-4200

Details:We'll be celebrating the newest release of Ubuntu with a party at
Manayunk diner, all are welcome, Ubuntu user or not.

More Info:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyJauntyRelease

Geeknic 2009
Date: Sunday April 19th 1 - 6pm

Location: Betzwood Park; West Norriton, PA

Details:
A picnic for Geeks!
Our geeknic.org announcement here: http://geeknic.org/?p=16
This is not restricted to just Ubuntu folks. Anyone calling themselves a
geek is welcome to attend. This event is taking place at Betzwood Park,
easily accessible from rt 422. There are trails for hiking if people choose
to, and there are grills and tables that we'll be using for the core picnic.
There is also water nearby, anyone have a boat? Minors are welcome, but are

Henry Paradiz, co-founder of the local startup company Artician (www.artician.com) and Temple CS undergrad extraordinaire, will be presenting the third in a series of four short courses on custom PHP frameworks for web programming.

Topics to be covered include:

MySQL and memcache drivers
class autoloading
output buffer management
template management
URL rewrite control
secure login systems
AJAX

Please come hear all about it!

The remaining class will be held in two weeks at the same time and place.

Speaker: Yuanfang Cai (Drexel University)

Title: Modularity in Design: Formal Modeling and Automated Analysis

Abstract:

Reasoning about the evolvability properties and economic implications of design structures is critical to high-consequence decision-making, but it remains difficult, in part due to the lack of formal theories linking design structures to evolvability and economic properties, and

Speaker: Steve Cooper (St. Joseph's U. and NSF)

Title: Program Visualization and Alice: Past, Present and a Look into the Future

Abstract:

A program visualization tool, Alice (www.alice.org), has been used as the basis for the creation of an innovative curriculum for teaching introductory computing courses. In Alice, students build 3-D animated movies and 3-D interactive games as they learn to program. Alice has been used in both traditional four-year institutions and community colleges to increase the comprehension of basic computer science topics of novice programmers.