Activities

Promoting the ACM Slovakia Chapter

Proposed date of activity: throughout the year
Brief description of activity: The aim is to promote ACM as a professional organization and activities of ACM Slovakia Chapter by organizing lectures and seminars on various topics and to acquire new members from among professionals as well as students.

IT Student Project of the Year

Proposed date of activity: June – December
Brief description of activity: Both Czech and Slovak ACM Chapters organize each year together with Profinit and with Czech and Slovak universities IT SPY (IT Student Project of the Year), an elite competition for the best diploma thesis in the field of informatics and information technology. It is a continuation of a Student Research Competition (SRC) started in 2004.

Past activities

University programming contests at the local and regional level

There exists a tradition of organizing the ACM collegiate programming contest in Slovakia. For many years, ACM Slovakia Chapter sponsored these events.

High school programming contests

For many years, ACM Slovakia Chapter sponsored a programming contest for high school students called ProFIIT, organized annually at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. The competition ended in 2019.

Student research conference

Between 2009 and 2019, ACM Slovakia Chapter sponsored Student Research Conference (IIT.SRC) in the field of informatics and information technologies organized annually by Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

Providing a forum for rapid dissemination of research results

Between 2009 and 2020, ACM Slovakia Chapter published Information Sciences and Technologies Bulletin of the ACM Slovakia Chapter. It served as a forum for rapid dissemination of research results in the area of computing/informatics and information technologies. It specifically focused on publishing results of dissertations submitted at any university in Slovakia.  Occasionally, it also published special issues with best papers from the student research competition IIT.SRC.

Czech and Slovak Student Research Competition

Student Research Competition (SRC) was organized annually from 2004 under sponsorship of the Czech ACM Chapter and later also ACM Slovakia Chapter. The competition later became known as ACM SPY and then IT SPY (IT Student Project of the Year).