Student Organizations
The Computer Science Department has many diverse opportunities for participation in extracurricular activities and encourages the development of student interest groups, activities and organizations.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional networking.
As part of this mission, the UWF ACM Student Chapter coordinates a number of events centered around engaging students in computing and helping them to meet the challenges of this difficult yet rewarding field. The chapter has organized guest speakers, presented enrichment workshops to help supplement student learning, created discovery groups for diving deeper into topics such as Game development, Artificial Intelligence, and web development, and organized a number of networking events such as game nights to bring students within the college together.
Faculty Advisor: Brian Eddy
ACM-W
University of West Florida – Association of Computing Machinery for Women (ACM-W) is a dedicated professional organization for all women interested in the field of computer science and technology. The group encourages women to contribute to the growth of computing through networking and promotes professional development and attitude. Membership is open to all interested students.
Faculty Advisor: Sikha Bagui
AIDA Research Group
The Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) Research Group seeks to advance the general interest and breadth of academic research performed at UWF in the fields of AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Big Data Analytics and high performance computing. Membership is all open to students interested in working in these and related areas.
Website:https://uwf.edu/hmcse/departments/computer-science/research/artificial-intelligence-research-group/
Faculty Advisor: Sikha Bagui