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
- Hour of Code 2023ACM Student Chapter Maribor participated in this year’s Hour of Code event. On December 6, 2023, our members held a workshop for elementary school students at the Leona Štuklja Elementary School in Maribor. During the workshop, 8th and 9th grade students learned about the basics of programming in the Scratch programming … Read more
- Fundamentals of computing and informatics (2. part)On Tuesday, August 30, the follow-up workshop “Fundamentals of computing and informatics”, where held at UM FERI, which were intended for seniors and other interested parties who are involved in the Association of Maribor Engineering Societies. Participants got to know the applications of Google company. For using Google’s applications, participants had … Read more
- Programing for GirlsFrom 24th to 26th of August 2022, a workshop “Programming for girls”, were held at UM FERI, which were intended for high school girls which want to get to know how to write a program that will work on may devices of our network called Internet. The content of the workshop … Read more
- Fundamentals of computing and informatics (1. part)On Tuesday, June 28, the workshops “Fundamentals of computing and informatics”, parts 1 was held at UM FERI, which were intended for seniors and other interested parties who are involved in the Association of Maribor Engineering Societies. In the 1st workshop, the participants first learned about the basic components of a … Read more
- Delavnica NVIDIA: Osnove pospešenega računalništva s CUDA C/C++KDAJ: 16. 2. 2022, 10.00-18.00 KJE: MS Teams (povezavo dobite na dan dogodka) Število mest: 30 Rok prijave: 15. 2. 2022, do 23.55 oziroma do zapolnitve mest! Cena: 0€ Delavnica je namenjena študentskim članom IEEE Slovenija ter študentom UM, UL, UPR in IJS, so pa dobrodošli tudi zaposleni na univerzah in … Read more
Communications of the ACM: News
- Technology isn't helping navigation apps address the problem of rerouting heavy traffic from highways to local roads.
- AI is being used to open, and close, vulnerable points in production systems.
- Technologies dealing with death and bereavement are appearing even as legal questions about using and controling a dead person's likeness remain unresolved.
- Even with technology designed to avoid biases and deception, the sum of AI-human decision making can be less than the sum of its parts.
- Automated prompting techniques can generate, select, or optimize prompts to improve the performance of models.
- Experts tracked hacked funds across 12 different blockchains, while law enforcement agencies globally coordinated the efforts.
- Simulations of the universe help laboratory physicists explore the observable manifestations of dark matter and dark energy.
- Researchers and data scientists are actively exploring ways to rein in AI hallucinations through improved training and model refinements.