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ACU SIGCHI

SIGCHI is the leading organization for students and professionals who are interested in the study of human-computer interaction. The ACU chapter of SIGCHI welcomes students who want to learn more about making usable technology. It also offers students the opportunity to conduct research in this field.
The ACU SIGCHI Chapter is sponsored by Professor James Prather.

ACU Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, hosts an annual student research competition where thousands of students join to improve the way people interact with technology. The ACM Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading conference of human-computer interaction in the world and this year’s conference was scheduled to take place in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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ACM @ ACU

Virginia Pettit, sophomore Computer Science major, describes what it is like being a part of ACU’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). What kind of projects are you working on? The main thing we are focusing on is creating a new website and...

Spotlight on John Homer

What is your educational background? Undergraduate: Harding University; Kansas State for Masters and PhD. What is your work background? I worked for Pennzoil-Quaker State in Houston for a couple of years and shorter-term projects at a couple other places. What do you...

CS Student Wins First in National Competition

This month, Junior Computer Science major Kayla Holcomb presented her research at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Symposium (SIGCSE) and won first place in the undergraduate research division. What was your research about? Over the last two...

Wildcat Software

Wildcat Software is the newest student-run organization by Wildcat Ventures. SITC students provide custom software solutions for various clients. It started two years ago and has acquired clients such as a local Abilene museum and vote.acu. Brandon DeLano, advisor for...

Spotlight on Ray Pettit

  What is your educational background? I have a Bachelors in Engineering and Computer Science. I got my bachelors when I was in the military. What is your work background? Before I came to ACU, I worked primarily for six different organizations doing software...

App Showcase Success

  This semester in the Introduction to Information, Technology, and Computing class, students have been working on developing a mobile app. Student groups were given ten weeks to take an idea and develop a working app. This Thursday, they showcased their projects...

Senior Chapel and Senior Awards

As another academic year comes to a close, we took time today to celebrate and honor our graduating seniors. We selected some of our current seniors to be members of our student panel. This opportunity allowed them to share highlights of their time at ACU and offer...

Silicon Valley Trip, the Home of Tech StartUps

"I wanted to go on the Silicon Valley Trip because I wanted to be an entrepreneur one day."  Landon Gray ('15), Computer Science.   This last Fall several of our students, along with students from the College of Business Administration took a trip to Silicon...

Student Spotlight: Amanda Greenlee

  From the small town of Bowie, Texas, Amanda Greenlee never thought she would end up with a career in the technology world.  After graduation, Amanda will work for Rackspace, a San Antonio based cloud computing hosting company. She has already accepted an offer...