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ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. UPC ACM Student Chapter was chartered in September 2017. Since then many technical events have been conducted. We as a team of ACM Student Chapter members, which includes students, professors and professionals work towards the fulfilment of the vision of ACM.

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From Barcelona to Silicon Valley

By Jordi Montes on November 29, 2017

The UPC ACM Student Chapter organizes a talk on Dec 20 at 12:45 in FIB. The talk will be given by Cristian Canton. Cristian canton is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, working as a researcher at Facebook, Menlo Park. He will talk about his vision an experience to encourage other people to do the same. Abstract: “Joining one of the many corporations or startups in the flourishing Silicon Valley market seems like a hard to reach dream.

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Hour of Code: Introduction to Python

By Jordi Montes on November 11, 2017

Introducció a Python Amb motiu de l’Hour of Code (HoC), l’associació UPC ACM Student Chapter, organitza una sessió d’introducció a Python. Python està guanyant molta popularitat en els últims anys i ja és el primer llenguatge d’introducció a la programació en les universitats d’Estats Units. Python és fàcil d’usar, potent i versàtil, la qual cosa el converteix en una excel·lent opció tant per a principiants com per a experts. El fet de ser un llenguatge de scripting ha fet que moltes empreses l’utilitzin com a llenguatge per prototipatge o fins i tot com a llenguatge per fer el desenvolupament principal.

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Papers We Love Barcelona

By Jordi Montes on October 10, 2017

Barcelona PWL Chapter What was the last paper within the realm of computing you read and loved? What did it inspire you to build or tinker with? Come share the ideas in an awesome academic/research paper with fellow engineers, programmers, and paper-readers. Lead a session and show off code that you wrote that implements these ideas or just give us the lowdown about the paper (because of HARD MATH!). Otherwise, just come, listen, and discuss.

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