Ready for a road trip? The Computer Science Club and SAC have teamed up for you to go see Iron Man 3 in IMAX and go to the St. Louis Science Center on May 4th! The approximate cost per student is $10 and the event will be all day. Please sign up at http://csclub.uis.edu/trip or email [...]
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Gamer Tournament 2012 Pictures
August 29th, 2012 
Justin The Tournament was a huge success with more than fifty students attending. Here are some photos of the event.
Lan Party 2012
May 4th, 2012 Justin Lan Party 2012 Date: Saturday, May 5th, 2012 Time: 3:00pm – 8:00pm Location: UHB 2028 Computers will be provided or you can bring your own. We will have food provided around 5:00pm. Steam and Minecraft is installed on all of the computers and include some free games to play such as TF2 and Alien Swarm. [...]
UIUC FabLab Pictures
April 7th, 2012 Tim I’ve finally managed to find the time to post the pictures from our trip to the Champaign-Urbana Community FabLab last weekend, April 1st. (Check out some of the other stuff people make there.)Overall everyone had a great time, and many interesting projects were created. If you missed the chance to attend keep watch on out [...]
235,182 years of HALO
April 2nd, 2012 Tim I love infographics. This week as the development of the HALO franchise is passed on to 343 Industries, Bungie has decided to release some of the statistics they have gathered since the release of HALO. Thought I would share this with you all…. …and if you have time, join us on our game server.
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Left 4 Dead 2 Server is Up!
March 25th, 2012 Justin Over the last week the club has been working on getting a Left 4 Dead 2 server up and running. It is open to everyone who plays the game! It is easy to find the server in game if you join the UIS CS club group on steam. Any feedback is appreciated and welcome. Now [...]
UIUC FabLab Trip
March 8th, 2012 Tim Date: April 1st, 2012 Time: 9am Location: UIUC – Fab Lab Cost: Pay your own food & Fab Lab materials (12in x 24in acrylic $20 + $1 minute laser time) Limit: 30 people Register online now! UPDATE: View Event Pictures The Computer Science Club and Newman Catholic Group are planning a trip to UIUC [...]
Fun Fact Friday #2
February 18th, 2012 Tim Fun Fact: Today, Friday February 17th is the Game Server’s Birthday! Yes, it was one year ago today that those beautiful blue lights lit and the fans started humming. The soul of a great beast awoke within it… and all it wanted was have fun and play. So, show the server some love and jump [...]
Fun Fact Friday #1
February 10th, 2012 Tim The first computer bug was actually a moth! “In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer). On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in [...]
How2: be a Hacker
February 1st, 2012 Tim How2: Be A Hacker February 1st, 4:30p – 6:00pm Star’s Lounge (located in the Student Life Building) The Computer Science Club will be co-sponsoring “How2: Be A Hacker” with the Star’s Lounge as part of their ongoing How2 series. “How2: be a Hacker” will be the follow up to “How2: be a Techie” during which [...]
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