Category: Workshops

Tristan Saldanha (’21) will be hosting a student workshop on Penetration Testing: breaking into a system (with permission) as a way to look for vulnerabilities to fix. The talk will include a primer on Penetration testing best practices & industry norms, as well as a live demonstration of what a real pentest looks like. The […]

Ryan, Lexie and Shannon, three LC computer Science majors (and ACM board members), will host a discussion on their experiences as women in the workplace. Both will be approaching the subject from a personal lens, discussing their own experiences and where they’ve found empowerment within difficult corporate and academic situations. We welcome everyone to come […]

This week’s student-led workshop will be focused on Poembot! In case you haven’t heard of poembot, it’s a little robot which lives in the Watzek library during the month of April, which is the National Poetry Month. Every day, a new poem comes out of Poembot, and sometimes, users find golden tickets! If you’re interested […]

This week’s ACM workshop series is conducted by Brian Smith ’20, a physics major. He will discuss computational physics, Monte Carlo simulation, thermodynamics, information theory, and the intersection of all of those topics. Join us at 3:30 in the Watzek classroom, on Wednesday, April 10th for the workshop, snacks, and conversation.

How do we keep our secrets private on the internet? How do we make sure our information stays safe? Who is looking for our information and what do they want it for? If you’re interested in these extremely important questions, you might want to attend this week’s Information Freedom Workshop. This week’s exciting ACM workshop […]

This week’s exciting workshop is an introduction to the deeply interesting and applicable field of biocomputing and bioinformatics. It’s led by Julia Somers (a Biology major), and Ben Glick (a Math/CS & Physics major). It will involve solving bioinformatic problems as a group, so bring your creativity and your problem solving skills ! The workshop […]

This week’s exciting workshop is about the intersection of art and computing. It will be conducted by Shannon Drew ’20, who is an Art History/ CS double major. It will happen at 3:30 on Friday, March 15th in the Watzek Classroom.

The ACM Chapter is excited to announce the next in our ACM Workshop series. This week’s workshop is about Git, the version control system, and GitHub, the online repository of Git codebases. Roshan will be teaching us all about what version control is for, Git best practices, and many other exciting things.This week’s workshop is […]