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The East Central North America Regional Programming Contest (ECNA RPC) draws students from colleges and universities throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, eastern Ontario, and Indiana (excluding the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area). Winners selected from the ECNA RPC will advance to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) World Finals. Prizes, scholarships, and bragging rights are at stake for some of the world's finest university students of the computing sciences and engineering.

The ECNA RPC will be held on Saturday November 11, 2006. As it is difficult for some teams in the ECNA region to travel to a single site for the contest, the ECNA RPC will be held as a distributed contest hosted by the following volunteer schools across the region:

The CIO Forum is planning more events. NWOACM used their Open Source Forum in 2005 to help kick our new group off. Their list of events for 2006/2007:

Thursday, December 7: Visit to Platform Labs new location on the UT campus for a luncheon

March 29, 2007 - Big Event - Digital Forensics

May 2007 - Bruce Petryshak (CIO, BGSU) has agreed to host the group on the BGSU campus

Thursday, November 9
Where: Fawcett Center in Columbus, OH
Time: 7:30 AM– 5:00 PM

CIOhio 2006 in Columbus. This is the premier annual event for Ohio CIO's and senior-level IT and business professionals. The event is developed by CIO’s for CIO’s. Through a mix of keynote presentations and track options, the program exposes attendees to a broad range of business topics and practical solutions that have direct relevance to IT decision making. This year, Gail Jones-Nemeth will host a pre-event dinner the evening of November 8 for those attending the conference.

Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:00 PM - Thursday, November 02, 2006 5:00 PM
Welcome Time: 12:30 PM

See Microsoft events for more info.

Wyndham Toledo
2 Seagate on Summit Street
Toledo Ohio 43604

Session 1: Take Control of the Database Development Lifecycle with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
In this session, you’ll learn best practices for keeping your development, test and production databases in sync from a schema and data perspective. We’ll explore how to create and version database schemas, and how to utilize schemas for ‘off-line’ development against a database schema. You’ll see how to create test data that truly mimics real data, and how to use Unit Tests to validate your application against a database. Finally, we’ll explore how to manage database schema changes using Team Foundation Server – making database development a true participant in the software development life cycle.

Getting to Know Generics
Dustin Campbell - Developer Express, Inc.

Since the release of the .NET Framework 2.0, generics have been a hot topic. But, beyond the basic generic collection classes, they can be challenging to understand and use properly. This session delves into less-obvious uses of generics to create elegant and flexible code. Topics covered include defining generic types and methods, consuming generics and generic constraints. Along the way, we will explore some of the pitfalls of generic development and highlight some of the lesser-known generic nuggets found in the .NET Framework.

November 1, 2006, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Bowen-Thompson Student Union, Room 206, BGSU, Bowling Green Ohio

This is your chance to see behind-the-scenes Microsoft experts deliver useful technology insights and see sneak peeks of new products including Windows Vista, XNA Game Studio Express and more.

No fees, no registration, no hassles.

Each session is approximately 50 minutes in length.

* Part 1 - Microsoft Windows Vista and Office System 2007 3:30-4:20 pm We will demonstrate the new Windows Aero including transparency, taskbar preview and flip 3D, Gadgets, Media Player 11.0 features and functionality, Microsoft and MTV's new URGE music site, Searching and Organizing files and documents, Performance and Reliability options, the new system backup tool - CompletePC, Security Center including Defender, IE 7.0 features like tabbing, IE 7.0 Anti-Phishing and demo the new Microsoft Office Word 2007 and discuss the new Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007.

News from NWNUG:

Because the last Tuesday of the month falls on Halloween, I have
decided to bump this month's meeting up a week to October 24th.
November's meeting will be earlier too, in order to accomodate our
INETA speaker, and there will not be a meeting in December.

This month (October), we have Drew Robbins, our Microsoft
Developer Evangelist, stopping by to introduce the future of
Windows UI development to us. Windows Presentation Foundation
will be released soon as part of the upcoming .NET Framework v3.0.

Starting in 2007, we will likely move the regular meeting to the

Ruby on Rails (RoR) - From Concept to Code
October 25, 2006
Location: Marathon Findlay Offices, 539 S. Main St., Findlay, OH - Room 1010

Presenter: Nate King

We all know and love .NET and the suite of technologies surrounding it. We've invested countless hours learning .NET and using it to develop complex applications. Occasionally, we'll catch wind of this "great new technology that will take the industry by storm", but more often than not, we ignore it because we’ve heard that story before. However, every few years, one of these new technologies gains enough momentum that it forces us to take notice.

The next meeting of the Northwest Ohio Chapter of the ACM will be a social meeting.

Topic: Whatever anyone wants to talk about.
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Time: 7:30 – 9:30
Where: Cucino di Betto

For this social meeting we will be on the main floor for Cucino di Betto’s. This social is open to any ACM member, student or professional. The full menu will be available for purchase from.

"Continuing its effort to transition toward a knowledge-based economy, the Toledo/northwest Ohio region has added a new resource designed to help grow and attract technology-related businesses.

At a press conference this morning, Platform Lab announced its expansion into Toledo, promoting itself as a resource that will provide companies the ability to greatly improve their IT capabilities at a very low cost."

Read more: Toledo Attracts IT Test and Training Facility, Providing Competitive Advantage for Local Businesses