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

• AI Has Cracked a Key Mathematical Puzzle for Understanding Our World
  October 19, 2021
  Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they're notoriously hard to solve.
• 7-Eleven Took Photos of Australian Customers' Faces Without Consent, Privacy Commissioner Rules
  October 19, 2021
  Australian privacy commissioner Angelene Falk said facial recognition technology used in 700 Australian 7-Eleven stores interfered with customer privacy.
• Researchers Develop AI System to Improve Eye Disease Detection
  October 19, 2021
  The comprehensive artificial intelligence retinal expert (CARE) system can detect and monitor eye diseases.
• Why NASA Launched a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
  October 19, 2021
  In a vast odyssey across the solar system, the mission will study asteroids known as Trojans that may contain secrets of how the planets ended up in their current orbits.
• Desperate for Workers, Restaurants Turn to Robots
  October 19, 2021
  They can make French fries, mix drinks, and even clean toilets, and they never ask for a raise. But they also break down.
• In Space, No One Can Fix Your Sign Errors
  October 19, 2021
  Once you've left the Earth, the simple inversion of a critical parameter can cause a mission to fail.
• Almost 40% of Internet Users Globally Don't Have Internet Freedom
  October 19, 2021
  As the world becomes more digital, governments want to have more control over people's online presence.
• Facebook Researchers Collect Thousands of Hours of First-Person Video to Train AI
  October 18, 2021
  The solution to machine learning problems is generally either more or better data.