Today, Sunday February 17th is the Game Server’s Birthday! Yes, it was Two years 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 on for some Minecraft, Counter-Strike: GO, Left [...]
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Gamer Tournament 2012
August 25th, 2012 
Justin As many of you know, the Computer Science Club hosts an annual Gamer Tournament every year during welcome week. This Year is no exception! Saturday, August 25 we will be having a Gamer Tournament in Stars Lounge from 3 to 7pm. Food will be provided like at past events. If you like to PC game [...]
Minecraft Updated to 1.3.1
August 8th, 2012 Justin As some of you know Minecraft had a major release at the beginning of August. Since then we have anxiously awaited the update for bukkit. Today I am pleased to announce that we have fully updated. For those who are not familiar with our server but play Minecraft, The club hosts a PVP/Creative server located [...]
Minecraft Night 6/12
June 4th, 2012 Justin In the past few months there has been a trend of the creative Minecraft server (glados.uis.edu:27000) not being used. However this trend is not the same on the PVP minecraft (glados.uis.edu:26000). There has been quite a bit of activity on the PVP server and the time has come to merge the two servers to reduce [...]
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. [...]
Online learning on the rise, UIS Computer Science pioneers the way
April 25th, 2012 Tim An article was published in Computer World this month discussing the growth of the online learning revolution. In the article UIS’s Computer Science program is recognized for being a pioneer in the online learning sphere. UIS is considered a pioneer in online education. The online version of the school’s computer science program has been so [...]
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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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Minecraft building contest
December 12th, 2011 Justin As the Winter break is almost here and many of us will be traveling home for the holiday the Computer Science Club will be having a building contest. This is not to be able to build the biggest thing you can think of but more small scale. There have been 24×24 squares that have been [...]
How2 Be A Techie: Best Event Under $100 NACA2011
November 29th, 2011 Tim On September 27th, 2011 the Computer Science Club co-sponsored an event with Stars Lounge as part of their ongoing How2 series. The goal of our event “How2: Be A Techie” was to introduce non-computer science majors to topics in computers which relate to their everyday lives. The event was open format and students were allowed [...]
State Farm awards UIS Computer Science Department $50,000 grant
November 9th, 2011 Tim State Farm Companies Foundation has awarded the University of Illinois Springfield Computer Science Department a $50,000 grant. The money will be used to enhance the State Farm Virtual Computing Teaching and Learning Laboratory at UIS. “The existing virtual sever system does not have sufficient storage, memory or remote access to support the increased demand placed [...]
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