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Baldwin-Wallace Student ACM Chapter
The Computer Science Club became an official student chapter of ACM, the
leading organization for computer professionals, in 2004. It continues to
be a very active departmental organization.
Major projects for the chapter this year included:
- an invited speaker on
databases
- two LAN parties
- a panel of IT entrepreneurs in the
area
- a speed-interviewing event with the CS Advisory Board
- the Fifth Annual Baldwin-Wallace High School
Programming Competition
- a beginning-of-year and an end-of-year picnic
The Special Interest Group
(SIG) on computer networking meets regularly and is coordinated
by Professor Atchinson. Fall, 2008, students will be participating in a
collaborative
program with LCCC focused on network security. LCCC students will be
setting up and securing a network for B-W students to attack..
ACM
Chapter website (under construction)
Programming Team
Computer science students at Baldwin-Wallace have been participating in
collegiate programming competitions for almost two decades.
In early
November, the team of
Todd Bailey, Zak Balash, and Nathaniel Maier competed at the
the regional-level of the ACM International Programming
Contest. Our region (East Central Region) includes teams from some
premiere computing
institutions, including Carnegie Melon, University of
Waterloo, University of Michigan, Purdue, etc.
B-W also competes regularly in contests held at Ohio liberal arts
institutions. In February, two teams (Bailey, Balash, Maier
and Mitch Raney on one; Jesse
Beusking, August Geier, Goran Jovanovic and Kyle Ungur on the
other) placed second and fourth respectively at the Annual Denison Spring
Programming Contest.
In April, B-W teams (Bailey, Balash, Maier and Raney, and Beusking,
Konstantine Dinev, Jovanovic and Ungur) took third and fifth places at the
Second Annual Ohio Wesleyan Programming Contest.
National Honoraries
- KME
-
 Baldwin-Wallace
College
is the home of the Ohio Gamma Chapter of Kappa
Mu Epsilon, National Mathematics Honor Society. This B-W chapter was
chartered in 1947. Eleven new members
were initiated at the March 28,
2008 ceremony. Following the formal proceedings, inductees joined their
guests for a reception in their honor.
- UPE
 The
Baldwin-Wallace Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon,
International
Honorary Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, was
established in 2004.
On May 2, 2008, the fifth induction ceremony was held and thirteen new
members were inducted.
New inductees were joined by their families, friends, and faculty members
for a reception following the ceremony.
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