We are the DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  We help advance computing as a science and a profession.  We do this offline through lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and professional development seminars.  We partner with ACM HQ, ACM Public Policy, ACM special interest groups (SIGs), DC area technical user groups, and area university Comp Sci and Info Tech departments. Join us if you like any of the following categories: http://acm.org/sigs Suggest a topic or speaker, w …

With the growing interest in Cyber Security and the various certifications, this is a club where like minded Ethical Hackers, Penetration Testers and Network / Computer Security professionals can come together and share knowledge and mentor those looking to break into the field. If you have or trying to get a Network+, Security+, CCNA, CEH, CISSP, CHFI...etc, lets get together and expand on our knowledge by cooperating in lectures, hands on labs and group discussions about all things network / c …

… Gideon Samid is a leading computer security consultant, an innovative cryptographer (Equivocation ciphers, US PTO 6,823,068, The “Chemical Wallet”), and an innovation productivity expert (The Innovation Turing Machine). Prof. Samid authored the critically acclaimed book "The Unending CyberWar", he write a monthly security column in Digital Transactions Magazine, teaches in the University of Maryland, and is a member of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at Case Western …