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2012 ICPC World Finals
We have recently arrived in Warsaw, Poland for the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. Warsaw is a city with a lot of history. It was once mostly destroyed, but has since been...
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2012 ICPC Opening Ceremonies
The Palace of Culture and Science You can make out the huge ICPC banner on the side of the Palace! (click for a larger photo). The Palace is the tallest building in Poland. This is where the Opening...
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2012 ICPC World Finals
Students from St. Petersburg State University of Information Technology, Mechanices & Optics take the Gold at IBM-Sponsored ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. Out of 112 universities...
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2014 IBM Master the Mainframe World Championship
4/7/14, 10:30am: Mainframe 50th Anniversary Only the highest scored students have the opportunity to participate in the IBM Master the Mainframe World Championship. In this competition, 43 student...
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Yong-Siang Dominates at the 2014 IBM Competition
…and we have a new IBM Mainframe World Champion! On Tuesday April 8th, all six student finalists were officially introduced during the IBM Mainframe50 event; and the final results were delivered to a...
View ArticleHow You Can Be Part of the Future of Computing
With 50 years of history behind IBM’s mainframe computers, these powerful machines are here to stay. IBM has been making a continuous push to encourage industry and educational institutions to adopt...
View ArticleWomen Who Paved the Way for the Internet of Things: A Teacher Finds Her Voice
If my story connects with a single person, I will have succeeded. I am Kayalvizhi Jayavel, an assistant professor in information technology at Sri Ramaswamy Memorial (SRM) University in India. I love...
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a place for students to shine at the ACM UIST conference 2016 in Tokyo
The UIST student innovation contest (aka the “SIC”) is one of those rare moments in a student’s life: a chance to present work at the heart of one of the top venues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI)....
View Article$500 prize money at the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible...
Do you have an opinion on the responsible use of AI technologies? Do you want to win one of several $500 cash prizes? Do you want to talk one-on-one (via skype) to one of the following AI researchers:...
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Top 3 Winning Articles of the “The Time is Write 2.0” Competition
Here are the three winners of our The Time is Write 2.0 competition! You can read the three articles below, but first: congrats to Dipika Rajesh, Aditi Balaji and Pratyush Singh. The Time is Write is...
View ArticleACM SIGAI Launches its 2018 Student Essay Contest…Apply Now!
It’s fall in the States and that means it’s time for the 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on Artificial Intelligence Technologies! Win one of several $500 monetary prizes or a Skype conversation...
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Winning Essays of ACM XRDS’ Essay Contest on THE FUTURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE
This year XRDS organized the 2019 ACM XRDS Essay Contest on THE FUTURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Given three topics to choose from—“Masters or Slaves of Technology?,” “On the Brink of Orwell’s ‘1984’ Vision?,”...
View ArticleNavigating the Technology Bramble Patch: Users, cultivators, and masters
In 1994, a gap in the online book-sales market was closed by a 30-year-old former hedge fund executive. Within five years, his site had expanded its offerings both to a greater market and to include...
View ArticleTechnology in Our Life: Finding the right balance
Technology touches every aspect of our life in this day and age, from the moment we wake up to the time we go to bed. It has become such an integral part of our life that even our homes are becoming...
View ArticleInformation Age: Bridging or widening the digital divide?
Being born in the late ’70s, I did not grow up with a ton of technology around me. I learned how to communicate with others (although being an introvert this was most painful), make friends, play...
View ArticleTechnological Addiction: A trend rooted in generational analysis?
The speed at which technology has been developed over the last century has exponentially grown. This statement is probably the most evident in Moore’s Law which states that the number of transistors on...
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