Baltimore ACM Chapter

Governor O'Malley announces plans for Maryland to lead the country
in cybersecurity by establishing a National Center of Excellence for Cyber Security.
See the webpage with the press release, the full report "CyberMaryland",
and webcast of the Cyber Security Summit:

http://www.gov.state.md.us/pressreleases/100111.asp

The Baltimore ACM Chapter announces our next event

"Computer History in Maryland"

We begin with a guided tour of the Computer History Museum
in Hunt Valley, followed by a panel discussion on the history
of computing in Maryland.

When: Tuesday, December 1st, 7:00 pm

Where: The Computer History Museum
System Source
338 Clubhouse Road
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
(410) 771-5544

The museum website is

http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/ .

The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Baltimore Post
hosts an afternoon workshop titled "CYBER SECURITY" this Wednesday
evening, 21 October 2009, at the Engineering Society of Baltimore:

This website was down from about Thursday, May 7th, to
today, Monday, May 11th, due to an upgrade in the network
connection by our hosting provider, which put our server
on a new IP address. When the server came back up
on Saturday, I made an error in the nameserver configuration,
which I didn't fix until today. My apologies for any consternation
this may have caused.

The Baltimore ACM will hold our 2009 Annual General Meeting on Friday, May 29th at Towson University.

We will hold elections for new officers, report on the past year, and discuss plans and opportunities for the coming year.

Prof. Joyce Little is chair of the Nominating Committee for new officers. She will be soliciting volunteers from the membership interested in serving in a leadership position for the coming year.

The meeting will tentatively be 7-8 pm, followed by dinner at Bill Bateman's Bistro.

There will be a talk on the Xohm WiMax service
on the evening of April 21st at the National Electronics Museum. Stay tuned for
the official announcement on this site.

Yesterday on his WEAA radio show, "The Digital Spin", host Mario Armstrong
announced the official launch of a new social networking site for CSTEM education
here in Baltimore. The site is TechTechBoom!

http://techtechboom.com/ .

The site was produced by high school students here in Baltimore,
at Poly, if I'm not mistaken. Check it out!

(Note: CSTEM = Computing, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

On February 6, 2009 the Baltimore ACM helped the Engineering Society of Baltimore raise funds for Engineering Week 2009 student activities. A fun time was had by all as 10 teams played 3 rounds of trivia and solved 2 puzzles. Please plan on participating in next year's fund raising event.

BACM has some exciting events coming up that I'd like to preview.