Tomorrow, Nov 9 is the last day to drop a course. Tomorrow, Nov 9 at 7:30 PM in F.S. Key building room 0106 TrueVoteMD, a non-partisan non-profit organization working on the issue of Voter-Verified Paper Ballots and Audit Trails will speak to the student chapter of MaryPIRG on issues of electronic voting. There will be a video + Q&A about the paperless ballot issue.
Friday, Nov 11 from 3-5 PM in 1115 CSIC Corporate Scholars reception Meet employers and past participants in this program which offers paid internships plus a $2000 scholarship for CMPS students. Free food! Tuesday, Nov 15 from 6:30-9 PM in B0131 McKeldin MiTH will present a viewing and discussion of the film Dark City. Pizza! Thursday, Nov 17 at 5:30 PM in 1121 CSIC ACM: Tech Entrepreneurship Asher Epstein, Managing Director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, will present the work they are doing through the Business School to support and guide student enterprise growth. They are especially looking for computer scientists to work with growing companies. Learn how to evaluate an idea for a business and put an idea for a business in motion. We'll also hear from alumni of the Hinman CEOs program who have successfully taken the businesses they started while CS students at UMD into the real world. Pizza! Thursday, Nov 17 at 7:00 PM in CSIC 1121 UMLUG Meeting George Koehler will talk about X11. Punch and pie! Coming in December: The Vanguard Group Dec 1; LAN Party Dec 3; End of Semester Party Dec 8 More about TrueVoteMD: In Maryland, as you may know the entire state votes on Diebold electronic voting machines; this was in reaction to the problems of the 2000 elections. However these new systems have a string of problems associated with them, they have security issues, they can be hacked and tampered with. These machines can crash; in a test done in California 50% of the machines had some kind of malfunction. The biggest concern that we have seen about these computers is that they do not keep a paper record of how people have voted, so if something goes wrong things are very hard to fix. If votes are lost there is no way to retrieve them, if a machine records your vote incorrectly there is not any way of telling. Our proposal is a paper record to back up the computers recording as this would increase voter confidence that there is an accurate record of their vote. For more information about the UMCP Student ACM chapter, see our web page at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~acm/ or send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------<>----------------------------------- University of Maryland Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter
