Trick or Treat Tidbits
Appropriately this tri-colored alliterative Halloween staple has its day on October 30
What is CANDY CORN?
This person is our chancellor
Who is GENE BLOCK?
ACM stands for these four words
What is ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY?
FAANG is an acronym for these five most popular and best performing tech stocks in the market
What are FACEBOOK, AMAZON, APPLE, NETFLIX, and GOOGLE?
This is the last name William was supposed to have, pre-typos
What is CHEN?
The first Halloween-themed stamps issued by the USPS feature these grinning items
What is JACK-O'-LANTERNS?
The internet was invented in 1969 in this building on campus
What is BOELTER HALL?
ACM at UCLA consists of these 8 committees
What are STUDIO, ICPC, DESIGN, CYBER, TEACHLA, W, AI, and HACK?
This is the title of Carey Nachenberg's best selling novel
What is THE FLORENTINE DECEPTION?
The first post on ACM at UCLA's Instagram was posted in this year and captioned #ACMTeachDay1 @danduan
What is 2014?
On Halloween 2012 the New York Stock Exchange reopened after being closed for 2 days due to this weather event
What is HURRICANE SANDY?
Ray Bradbury wrote his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 in the basement of this UCLA library
What is POWELL LIBRARY?
These are 3 other UCLA organizations that ACM at UCLA has collaborated with.
What are CREATIVE LABS, SWE, WATT, BRUIN ENTREPRENEURS, DEVX, etc?
This is Paul R Eggert's middle name
What is RICHARD?
This is one of 4 voting locations in Westwood
Where are the VOTE BOX (Westwood Plaza at Strathmore on the median), HAMMER MUSEUM (Nimoy Studio, second floor), BRADLEY HALL (International Room, third floor), and ACKERMAN UNION (Grand Ball room, second floor)
Charlie Brown's in luck if he wants to paint an address on one of these he got over & over on Halloween in a TV special
What is a ROCK?
John Wooden won this many national championships in basketball during his tenure at UCLA
What is 2763 BOELTER HALL?
These are 4 of UCLA Computer Science industry affiliates
What are BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, CITADEL, DELOITTE, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE, HONEY, HUMAN CAPITAL, NORTHROP GRUMMAN, SAMSUNG, SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES, VIASAT?
This is Katherine's favorite color
More scares awaited in Halloween 4: The Return of this crazed killer
Who is MICHAEL MYERS?
This is UCLA's motto
What is FIAT LUX?
These are 8 examples of ACM at UCLA events, one from each of the committees (8 events total with no overlap)
What are
BEGINNER/ADVANCED UNITY TRACK (Studio)
INTERVIEW PREP BOOTCAMP, INTRO TO COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING, ADVANCED TRAINING, CODESPRINTLA (ICPC)
HOW TO DESIGN YOUR RESUME AND PORTFOLIO (Design)
CYBER ACADEMY: FORENSICS, CTF AFTER DARK (Cyber)
BRUIN QUEST (Cyber x Hack x ICPC)
SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS CLASSES, DAY OF CODE (TeachLA)
STUDENT PANEL SERIES, WESP (W)
YOU BELONG IN AI PODCAST, AI/ML WORKSHOPS, DEMYSTIFYING AI, AI RESEARCH PANEL (AI)
TOOLING SERIES, HACK ON THE HILL, PASSION TALKS, BLOOM, HACK FAM (HACK)
This is the Emacs command to "save-buffer": saves the buffer into the associated filename
What is C-x C-s?
Rucha made her first star appearance on this TV show
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