The Illinois student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery has over 200 members, most of whom are undergrads in computer science. From its beginning, it has been advised by Professor Sylvian Ray. Its current chair is senior Jonathan Stark.
Opportunities abound for alumni help.
Please read on about these exciting and thriving groups of energetic and talented students. SigNet, the group for computer networking and security, is writing an application that will allow you to connect to a server which will dial a local phone number for you and digitize the audio transmission over the Internet. The computer will then play it through a speaker and allow the user to talk into a microphone. Members are now writing chat programs and muds, among other client-server applications. SigNet is also looking into soliciting firewall companies to loan their products to them so that they can set up and test the firewall systems.