About Maribor ACM Student Chapter

Welcome to ACM Maribor student chapter. The chapter was established in 2015 by the PhD students from Computer Science Institute at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor. Our main goal is to share computer science knowledge between different generations of students, while also connecting internationally with other students and ACM chapters across the world.

Recent Posts

• NVIDIA workshop: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++February 9, 2021
  Date: 18. 2. 2021Duration: 10.00 – 17.30Location: MS Teams (link will be sent to participants on the day of the workshop) In this workshop doc. dr. Domen Verber, ambassador for NVIDIA, will present the fundamental tools and techniques for accelerating C/C++ applications to run on massively parallel GPUs with CUDA ® […]
• Hour of Code 2020December 21, 2020
  ACM Student Chapter Maribor participated in this year’s Hour of Code event. Several members of our chapter volunteered to perform workshops in local school around the City Municipality of Maribor. We made a total of 2 workshops aimed towards the primary school students aged 11-13 years. A brief description of all […]
• Pizza PartyJanuary 6, 2020
  In order to popularise the ACM Maribor Student Branch among students, the Student Chapter members invite you to the “Pizza Party”, which will take place on Thursday, January 9, 2020, at 4 pm in G2-P04. We will begin with the presentation of the ACM University Programming Marathon (UPM) competition and the […]
• Hour of Code 2019December 23, 2019
  ACM Student Chapter Maribor participated in this year’s Hour of Code event. Several members of our chapter volunteered to perform workshops in several local schools in and around the City Municipality of Maribor. We made a total of 6 workshops aimed towards the primary school students aged 11-13 years. A brief […]
• Hour of Code 2018October 16, 2019
  ACM Student Chapter Maribor participated in this year’s Hour of Code event. Several members of our chapter volunteered to perform workshops in several local schools in and around the City Municipality of Maribor. We made a total of 6 workshops aimed towards the primary school students aged 11-13 years. A brief […]

Communications of the ACM: News

• A Driverless Tesla Crashed and Burned for 4 Hours, Killing 2 Passengers in Texas
  April 20, 2021
  Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which authorities said was operating without a driver, crashed into a tree in a Houston suburb on April 17.
• A 'Worst Nightmare' Cyberattack: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack
  April 20, 2021
  An NPR investigation into the SolarWinds attack reveals a hack unlike any other,
• How AI Can Make Weather Forecasting Less Cloudy
  April 20, 2021
  Scientists are applying artificial intelligence to weather and climate forecasting to boost accuracy and efficiency.
• Disney, Ad-Tech Firms Agree to Privacy Changes for Children's Apps
  April 20, 2021
  Disney, Viacom, and 10 advertising technology firms will remove or disable tracking software from popular children's gaming apps.
• Researchers Develop Method for Putting Quantum Correlations to the Test
  April 20, 2021
  New research involving has yielded a new method for testing the quality of quantum correlations.
• Reimagining Contact
  April 20, 2021
  Covid-19, which challenges how we interact with one another, is accelerating the development of touchless technologies.
• Amazon Building Computer Vision Tech to Check Defects in Fruits, Vegetables
  April 20, 2021
  The e-commerce giant's technology can carry out millions of assessments to grade the quality of fruits and vegetables at a cost far below any other method.
• Novel Use of 3D Geoinformation to Identify Urban Farming Sites
  April 19, 2021
  A study looked at whether three-dimensional city models and urban digital twins could help identify high-rise buildings suitable for urban farming based on sunlight availability.