We welcome all interested members, ideas and contributions. We are a non-profit organization whose members include professionals involved in software research and development, from algorithms and computing theory to big data applications, from medical devices and communications to national defense, from computer graphics and scientific visualization to computer games and entertainment. Literally any and all applications to which computer technology has been applied or is yet to be invented are encompassed by your fellow professionals in the ACM.

We hold program meetings on the third Wednesday of odd-numbered months with speakers drawn from both industry and academia. We welcome program speakers from a broad range of topics, but are especially interested in the topics of data science, AI and machine learning, blockchain, predictive analytics, data visualization, and cybersecurity. Interested speakers may reach out to our Program Coordinator at programs@oc-acm.org.

Our in-person meetings are held at the offices of Knobbe Martens (2040 Main St # 14 Irvine, CA). Parking for in-person meetings can be found here.

Date	Event	Presenter	Meetup	Slides	YouTube
18-Jan-2023	Socially Assistive Robotics Right Now	Prof. Maja Mataric´	Meetup		Video
16-Nov-2022	Regulating AI Systems	Kuansan Wang, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
21-Sept-2022	Smart Contracts	Alexander Kurz, PhD	Meetup		Video
20-Jul-2022	Embattling for a Deep Fake Dystopia	Ilke Demir, PhD	Meetup		Video
18-May-2022	NFTs - Fad or Leading Trend?	Cynthia Kirkeby	Meetup		Video
16-Mar-2022	Deep Learning Hardware: Past, Present and Future	Bill Dally, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
19-Jan-2022	Dimensions of Change: Measurements for a Metaverse	Peter Coffee	Meetup	Slides	Video
17-Nov-2021	Machine Learning Computer Architecture Enhancements	Nader Bagherzadeh, PhD	Meetup		Video
15-Sept-2021	Automated Influence (AI?) - What Could Go Wrong?	Rand Waltzman, PhD	Meetup		Video
21-Jul-2021	GIS, Location Data, Imagery and Machine Learning	Dr Steven Steinberg	Meetup	Slides	Video
19-May-2021	Causal Analysis and Software and Systems Engineering	Dr Jim Alstad and Dr Anandi Hira	Meetup	Slides	Video
17-Apr-2021	Data Science in Action	Dr. Arvind Sathi and Neena Sathi	Meetup
17-Mar-2021	Why Your Privacy Matters	Brad Kelso and Steve Kepler	Meetup	Slides	Video
20-Jan-2021	The 5G Revolution	Lola Awoniyi-Oteri, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
18-Nov-2020	Big Data Analytics with Apache AsterixDB	Michael Carey, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
16-Sep-2020	Integrating Named Data Networking in Connected Communities	Syed Hassan Ahmed, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
15-Jul-2020	Personal Privacy	Frank Ury	Meetup	Slides	Video
20-May-2020	The Threat in your Pocket: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions in Mobile Application Security	Dr. Sam Malek	Meetup	Slides	Video
26-Feb-2020	Workshop: Pop-Up Data Mart for Sales & Marketing Analysis with Machine Learning	Oracle - Hands-On Workshop	Meetup	Info
15-Jan-2020	Parallel Agile and ICSM	Dr. Barry Boehm and Doug Rosenberg	Meetup	Slides
20-Nov-2019	AI for Good	Neil Sahota	Meetup	Slides	Video
23-Oct-2019	Workshop: Building Python Apps with Autonomous Transaction Processing in No Time	Oracle	Meetup	Info
18-Sep-2019	Lessons Learned Building and Selling a Mobile App Business	Ralf Brockhaus, MS	Meetup	Slides	Video
17-Jul-2019	Cybersecurity: Tales From The Trenches	Dave Collins	Meetup	Slides	Video
15-May-2019	Cybersecurity: How Worried Should We Be?	Bryan Cunningham	Meetup	Slides	Video
20-Mar-2019	Memories of Tomorrow	Tom Coughlin, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
16-Jan-2019	Planning for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems	Sven Koenig, PhD	Meetup
07-Nov-2018	Computational Challenges in High-throughput DNA Sequencing	Michael Weinstein, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
19-Sep-2018	Docker - Approaching the Holy Grail for Software Distribution	Ryan Smith	Meetup	Slides	Video
18-Jul-2018	Bringing Blockchain to Global Enterprise	Ben Taylor	Meetup	Slides	Video
16-May-2018	Quantum Computing : State of Play	Justin Dressel, PhD	Meetup	Sildes	Video
21-Mar-2018	The Use of AI Diagnostics in Healthcare	Sharief Taraman, MD	Meetup		Video
10-Jan-2018	One World, One Internet, Many Futures	Sigmund Fidyke	Meetup	Slides	Video
09-Nov-2017	Experiences Implementing DevOps	Sanja Maru Steve Mason Marc Tamsky	Meetup	Slides	Video
13-Sep-2017	Proof or Consequences	Gerard Holzmann, PhD	Meetup		Video
12-Jul-2017	Explaining Black-Box Machine Learning Predictions	Sameer Singh, PhD	Meetup	Slides	Video
10-May-2017	Saving Power in the Data Center	Marios Papaefthymiou	Meetup	Saving ICS
08-Mar-2017	Cyber Attacks and Defenses: Trends, Challenges, and Outlook	Michael Franz	Meetup
11-Jan-2017	Connection, Collection, Concentration - Evolving to the Intelligent Experience	Peter Coffee	Meetup	Slides
09-Nov-2016	The Diversity of the Cyber Threat Landscape	Brian Wallace	Meetup	Slides
14-Sep-2016	An Intellectual Property Primer For Software Developers	John King, JD	Meetup	Slides
13-Jul-2016	The Past, Present and Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality	Jacquelyn Morie	Meetup	Slides
11-May-2016	The Desktop 3D Printing Revolution and The Software Behind It	Erick Wolf	Meetup	Slides
09-Mar-2016	Distributed Applications at Scale with the Elastic Container Service (ECS)	Curd Zechmeister	Meetup
13-Jan-2016	Computing at the Edge of the Internet of Things	Mark Bachman	Meetup
11-Nov-2015	Big Data: Hope or Hype?	Padhraic Smyth	Meetup	Slides
09-Sep-2015	Breaking the Data Science Bottleneck	Oren Goldschmidt	Meetup

Date	Meeting	Meetup	Documents
22-Feb-2023	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
25-Jan-2023	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
28-Dec-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
23-Nov-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
26-Oct-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Sept-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Aug-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Jul-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
22-June-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
25-May-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Apr-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
16-Mar-2022	Annual Business Meeting		Agenda & Minutes
16-Mar-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
23-Feb-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
26-Jan-2022	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Nov-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Oct-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
22-Sept-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
25-Aug-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
28-July-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
23-June-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
26-May-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
28-Apr-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Mar-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Feb-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Jan-2021	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
25-Nov-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
22-Oct-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
23-Sep-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Aug-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
23-Jul-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Jun-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-May-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
22-Apr-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
25-Mar-2020	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
26-Feb-2020	Executive Committee
22-Jan-2020	Executive Committee
27-Nov-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
23-Oct-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
25-Sep-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
28-Aug-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
24-Jul-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
26-Jun-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
22-May-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Apr-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
20-Mar-2019	Annual Business Meeting		Agenda & Notes
27-Feb-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
23-Jan-2019	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
28-Nov-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
24-Oct-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
26-Sep-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
22-Aug-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
25-Jul-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
27-Jun-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
23-May-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes
25-Apr-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Notes . pptx
28-Mar-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda - Minutes
21-Mar-2018	Annual Business Meeting		Minutes
28-Feb-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-Jan-2018	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
29-Nov-2017	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
25-Oct-2017	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
27-Sep-2017	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
23-Aug-2017	Executive Committee
09-Aug-2017	New Volunteers
26-Jul-2017	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
28-Jun-2017	Executive Committee		Agenda & Minutes
24-May-2017	Executive Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
26-Apr-2017	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
22-Mar-2017	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
22-Mar-2017	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
22-Feb-2017	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
25-Jan-2017	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
14-Dec-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
26-Oct-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
28-Sep-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
24-Aug-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
27-Jul-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
22-Jun-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
25-May-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
27-Apr-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
23-Mar-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
09-Mar-2016	Annual Business		Agenda & Notes
24-Feb-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
27-Jan-2016	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
25-Nov-2015	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
28-Oct-2015	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
23-Sep-2015	Organizing Committee	Meetup	Agenda & Notes
26-Aug-2015	Organizing Committee	Meetup
22-Jul-2015	Organizing Committee	Meetup
17-Jul-2015	Programs Committee	Meetup	Bylaws

Chapter membership is free and is open to everyone; there is no requirement to be a National ACM member. The ACM provides chapter members with certain benefits including:

• Complimentary three-month subscription to the Communications of the ACM
• An acm.org domain email forwarding address
• E-Newsletter including TechNews, CareerNews, and MemberNet

If you are interesting in joining the Orange County Chapter of the ACM fill out a request on the Contact tab, or better yet, register for our next meeting and introduce yourself.

The Orange County ACM Chapter would like to recognize the following organizations who have provided the chapter with financial and in-kind support:

Knobbe Martens
IEEE Orange County Computer Society
IBM Corporation

We need additional sponsors to be able to continue to offer compelling program meetings, student computer science awards, and special events, and will appropriately recognize, your participation and support. Monetary contributions may be tax deductible.

If you wish to donate, contact our Treasurer at treasurer@oc-acm.org

Office	Officer	Contact
Chair	Marc Velasco	chair@oc-acm.org
Vice Chair	Hassan Shah, PhD	vice-chair@oc-acm.org
Treasurer	Michael Fahy, PhD	treasurer@oc-acm.org
Secretary	Daniel Whelan, PhD	secretary@oc-acm.org
Membership Chair	Farhad Mafie	membership@oc-acm.org
Communications Chair	Allen Takatsuka	communications@oc-acm.org
Webmaster	Tom Phillips	webmaster@oc-acm.org
Fundraising Coordinator	Jared Miller
University Liaison	Michael Fahy, PhD
SIGAI Liaison	Ansel Teng, PhD
Program Speaker Coordinators	Raman Rajan Farhad Mafie	programs@oc-acm.org
Program Video Coordinator	Trae Palmer	video@oc-acm.org
Social Media Committee	Don Choi Cynthia Kirkeby Trae Palmer
Membership Committee	Dawn Childs
Members at Large	A. Winsor Brown Shirley Tseng

Don V Black, PhD, realized in late 2013 that Orange County (OC) was ready for an ACM Chapter, and he decided to found such a Chapter.

Since five current ACM members in good standing were needed to sign a petition to start a Chapter, in September of 2014, he sent an email to his associates to sign the petition. Jeremy Harrington, Jenny Wang, Nilo Niccolai, Lynn Langit, Rebecca Perry, Daniel Whelan, Ken Bell, Keviin Fowler, Brian McCaleb, Dave Close, Lance Elliot, and Roger Whitney responded.

The following members attended the first lunch meetings held at the old University Club at UCI, and volunteered to serve as the first ACM officers in 2014.

• Founding Chair: Don V Black, PhD
• Vice Chair: Lance Elliot. PhD
• Treasurer: Kevin Fowler
• Secretary: Rebecca Perry, PhD
• Communications: Jake Liang, PhD
• Member-At-Large: Arthur Schwarz
• University Liaison: Nilo Niccolai, PhD
• Membership: Daniel Whelan, PhD
• Programs: Dan Davis
• Webmaster: Ken Bell
• Mission Statement: Nilo Niccolai, PhD

A business manager at The UCI Institute for Innovation offered Don Black the use of the facility, which was yet to be built. Don took up the offer, and negotiated a free use of the facility for the GameSIG Showcase and ACM of OC. Don Black and others thought that since the demographics of both organizations included UCI students, they met the I4I criteria for free community support, and would increase visibility for the new UCI Institute for Innovation (I4I). They held on awesome GameSIG Showcase, and proceeded to promote ACM-OC bi-monthly presentations at the UCI I4I.

ACM-OC bi-monthly talks were extremely well received by the membership. At the suggestion of the Membership Chair, Daniel Whelan, Don Black followed the example of the San Francisco ACM Chapter, and added ACM-OC as one of his MeetUp groups.

Further details of this can be found at the ACM-OC archived website.

2015-17		Don V. Black, PhD
2017-18		Daniel Whelan, PhD
2018-21		Michael Fahy, PhD
2021-22		Allen Takatsuka

OC-ACM Awards for Excellence in Computer Science

Recipient	Degree	Institute	Year
Yaosheng Xu	B.S. Computer Science	UC Irvine	2022
Yoshimichi Nakatsuka	M.S. Computer Science	UC Irvine	2022
Vibha Rajagopalan	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2022
Brock Gieszl	B.S. Computer Science (Cybersecurity)	Cal State Fullerton	2022
Fulya Kocaman	M.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2022
Anna Greene	B.S. Computer Science	Chapman University	2022
Trevor Kling	B.S. Computer Science	Chapman University	2021
Graciela Orozco	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2021
Janeen Yamak	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2021
Oscar Olazabal	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2020
Lauren Sukumar	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2020
Samuel Kagan	B.S. Computer Science	Chapman University	2020
Yuxin (Myles) Liu	B.S. Computer Science	UC Irvine	2020
Nicole Fergie	B.S. Computer Science	Chapman University	2019
Michael Seaman	B.S. Computer Science	Chapman University	2018
Christopher Villanueva	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2018
Sharon Babu	B.S. Computer Science	UC Irvine	2018
Joshua Graves	B.S. Computer Science	Chapman University	2017
John Thorpe	B.S. Computer Science	UC Irvine	2017

OC-ACM Awards for Excellence in Computer Game Science

Recipient	Degree	Institute	Year
Valeria Vikhliantseva	B.S. Computer Science	Cal State Fullerton	2018
Natalie Nygaard	B.S. Computer Science	UC Irvine	2017

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