Reflections Projections

Reflections | Projections
The logo of Reflections | Projections 2016
Status	Active
Genre	Technology, computing
Venue	Siebel Center for Computer Science, Digital Computer Laboratory
Location(s)	Urbana, Illinois
Country	United States
Inaugurated	1995
Attendance	2000+ (2016)
Organized by	Association for Computing Machinery, UIUC student chapter
Filing status	Non-profit
Website
http://acm.uiuc.edu/rp

Reflections Projections (stylized as Reflections | Projections and sometimes shortened to R | P) is an annual technology-related conference hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. The conference has been held in October or November each year since 1995 and features two job fairs, numerous guest speakers from various fields in computing, technology and occasionally webcomics, as well as an AI programming competition, MechMania. The conference is noted for being free for general attendees and being run entirely by student volunteers.

reflections|projections began as the 1995 Midwestern ACM Chapter Conference. The conference was originally held in the Digital Computer Laboratory but has since moved most of its operations to the Siebel Center for Computer Science. A job fair was incorporated into the conference in 1996. Other events that have been part of the conference have included movie showings, barbecues, as well as an evening social. Early instances of the conference included registration fees for general attendance, though the conference is now free.

The first conference featured Steve Wozniak as its keynote speaker. It was sponsored by Andersen Consulting, Citrix Systems, Enterprise Integration Technology, O'Reilly & Associates, Silicon Graphics and Symantec. "Reflections, Projections" was the theme for the conference and would later become the title for the conference as a whole.