NWOACM

The annual fall semester picnic hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) BGSU student chapter will be held at the BG City Parks Martin shelter, 12p.m. - 2p.m. Saturday, September 8th.

Software Freedom Day: September 15th, 2007 is a world wide day of
awareness for free and open source software. The Toledo celebration
of Software Freedom Day will be an interactive seminar open to the
general public at the West Toledo Branch Public Library from 12:00 to
3:00 PM.

Are you:
** Fed up with battling with viruses and spy-ware?
** Tired of paying high prices for software that doesn't suit your needs?
Then Software Freedom Day is exactly what you need!

Presentations and demonstrations of free and open source software will

Software Security, Dr. James Walden, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northern Kentucky University
The University of Toledo, Nitschke Hall Seminar Room (NI 1027)
Free
Hosted by IEEE Toledo chapter

Josh Holmes introduces Microsoft Silverlight, which is described as "a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows."

Grady Burnett, Head of Online Sales and Operation, Google, Ann Arbor
206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio

A reception for Grady Burnett will be held in the lounge area outside BTSU 206 immediately following the presentation.

In this presentation, Grady Burnett will focus on three areas:

* Get to Know Google - it's technologies, its products and its people
* The Search Economy - how is Google leveraging technology to benefit business?

Location: Hayes 117, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio
Thomas Seffernick (CSM, PMP), Dev Support – Agile Project Coaching, KeyCorp

KeyCorp (Key), based in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies with assets over $95 billion, employing about 20,000 people in more than 940 branches and other businesses across 45 states. KeyCorp also has a national and international presence in many non consumer financial products.

Day of .NET in Ann Arbor is a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers for developers. This event is being offered at no cost to anyone interested in .NET development, and will take place on May 5, 2007 at the Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI.

See dayofdotnet.org for more information.

Hayes 117, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio
Speaker: Dr. Pete Sanderson

Dr. Pete Sanderson, professor of computer science at Otterbein College near Columbus, will introduce and demonstrate MARS. This lightweight IDE is written in Java and includes an integrated text editor, assembler, runtime simulator, and runtime debugger. It is being used by a number of colleges and universities in their computer organization courses but through recent enhancements is also useful in other courses.

User Interface Smackdown 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 4.

Join SRT for a day of exploration with new toolkits for developing user interfaces.

This forum will include an overview of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Google Web Toolkit (GWT), and Adobe's Flex.

The Open Spaces format will allow attendees to specify the afternoon's content and direction, taking full advantage of the experts in attendance.

February 20, 5:45-8:00 pm, Northwest Ohio .NET User Group meeting:

Ken Kutz and Reuben Ahmed: Code-Generating DotNetNuke Modules That Utilize ASP.NET AJAX