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.

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

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.

SAVE THE DATE: THURSDAY, April 16- Come one! Come All!!

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!

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

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