3 date="1994-09-13" time="9:00 PM"
5 title="Movie Outing: Brainstorm">
7 No description available.
11 The first of this term's CSC social events, we will be going to see
12 the movie ``Brainstorm'' at the Princess Cinema. This outing is
13 intended primarily for the new first-year students.
16 The Princess Cinema is Waterloo's repertoire theatre. This month
17 and next, they are featuring a ``Cyber Film Festival''. Upcoming
22 <li>Bladerunner (director's cut)</li>
23 <li>2001: A Space Odyssey</li>
27 Admission is $4.25 for a Princess member, $7.50 for a non-member.
28 Membership to the Princess is $7.00 per year.
33 date="1994-09-16" time="4:30 PM"
35 title="CSC Elections">
36 <short>No description available</short>
37 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
40 date="1994-09-19" time="4:30 PM"
42 title="UNIX I Tutorial">
43 <short>No description available</short>
44 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
47 date="1994-09-21" time="6:30 PM"
49 title="SIGGRAPH Video Night">
50 <short>No description available</short>
51 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
54 date="1994-09-22" time="4:30 PM"
56 title="UNIX I Tutorial">
57 <short>No description available</short>
58 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
61 date="1994-09-26" time="4:30 PM"
63 title="UNIX II Tutorial">
64 <short>No description available</short>
65 <abstract>No abstract available</abstract>
68 date="1994-10-13" time="5:00 PM"
70 title="Prograph: Picture the Future">
71 <short>No description available</short>
74 What is the next step in the evolution of computer languages?
75 Intelligent agents? Distributed objects? or visual languages?
78 Visual languages overcome many of the drawbacks and limitations
79 of the textual languages that software development is based on
80 today. Do you think about programming in a linear fashion? Or do
81 you draw a mental picture of your algorithm and then linearize it
82 for the benefit of your compiler? Wouldn't it be nice if you could
83 code the same way you think?
86 Visual C++ and Visual BASIC aren't visual languages, but Prograph
87 is. Prograph is a commercially available, visual, object-oriented,
88 data-flow language. It is well suited to graphical user interface
89 development, but is as powerful for general-purpose programming as
93 The talk will comprise a discussion of the problems of textual
94 languages that visual languages solve, a live demonstration of
95 Prograph, and some of my observations of the applications of
96 Prograph to software development.
101 date="1994-10-15" time="10:00 AM"
103 title="ACM-Style Programming Contest">
104 <short>No description available</short>
106 <h3>Big Money and Prizes!</h3>
108 So you think you're a pretty good programmer? Pit your skills
109 against others on campus in this triannual event! Contestants will
110 have three hours to solve five programming problems in either C or
114 Last fall's winners went on to the International Finals and came
115 first overall! You could be there, too!
120 date="1994-10-20" time="4:30 PM"
122 title="Exploring the Internet">
123 <short>No description available</short>
125 <h3>Need something to do between assignments/beers?</h3>
127 Did you know that your undergrad account at Waterloo gives you
128 access tothe world's largest computer network? With thousands
129 of discussion groups, gigabytes of files to download, multimedia
130 information browsers, even on-line entertainment?
133 The resources available on the Internet are vast and wondrous, but
134 the tools for navigating it are sometimes confusing and arcane. In
135 this hands-on tutorial you will get the chance to get your feet wet
136 with the world's most mind-bogglingly big computer network, the
137 protocols and programs used, and how to use them responsibly and
143 date="1994-11-02" time="4:30 PM"
146 <short>No description available</short>
148 <h3>From the Minimax Theorem, through Alpha-Beta, and beyond...</h3>
150 This will be a descussion of the pitfalls of using mathematics and
151 algorithms to play classical board games. Thorough descriptions
152 shall be presented of the simple techniques used as the building
153 blocks that make all modern computer game players. I will use
154 tic-tac-toe as a control for my arguements. Other games such as
155 Chess, Othello and Go shall be the be a greater measure of progress;
156 and more importantly the targets of our dreams.
159 To enhance the discussion of the future, Barney Pell's Metagamer
160 shall be introduced. His work in define classes of games is
161 important in identifying the features necessary for analysis.
167 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:00 PM"
168 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
169 title="An Introduction to GNU Hurd">
170 <short>Bored of GNU/Linux? Try this experimental operating
173 <p>GNU Hurd is an operating system kernel based on the microkernel
174 architecture design. It was the original GNU kernel, predating Linux,
175 and is still being actively developed by many volunteers.</p>
176 <p>The Toronto-area Hurd Users Group, in co-operation with the Computer
177 Science Club, is hosting an afternoon to show the Hurd to anyone
178 interested. Jeff Bailey, a Hurd developer, will give a presentation on
179 the Hurd, followed by a GnuPG/PGP keysigning party. To finish it off,
180 James Morrison, also a Hurd developer, will be hosting a Debian
181 GNU/Hurd installation session.</p>
182 <p>All interested are invited to attend. Bring your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint
183 and mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject
184 ``keysigning'' (see separate announcement).</p>
185 <p>Questions? Suggestions? Contact <a
186 href="ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca">James Morrison</a>.</p>
189 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:30 PM"
190 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
191 title="GnuPG/PGP Keysigning Party">
192 <short>Get more signatures on your key!</short>
195 GnuPG and PGP provide public-key based encryption for e-mail and
196 other electronic communication. In addition to preventing others
197 from reading your private e-mail, this allows you to verify that an
198 e-mail or file was indeed written by its perceived author.
201 In order to make sure a GnuPG/PGP key belongs to the respective
202 person, the key must be signed by someone who has checked the
203 user's key fingerprint and verified the user's identification.
206 A keysigning party is an ideal occasion to have your key signed by
207 many people, thus strengthening the authority of your key. Everyone
208 showing up exchanges key signatures after verifying ID and
209 fingerprints. The Computer Science Club will be hosting such a
210 keysigning party together with the Hurd presentation by THUG (see
211 separate announcement). See
212 <a href="http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sjdutoit/"> the
213 keysigning party homepage</a> for more information.
216 Before attending it is important that you mail your key to
217 sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject ``keysigning.'' Also make
218 sure to bring photo ID and a copy of your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint on
219 a sheet of paper to the event.
223 <eventitem date="2002-01-31" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
224 title="UNIX 101: First Steps With UNIX">
226 This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of
227 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
228 applications, both in academia and industy. We will be covering
229 the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an
230 electronic mail and news reader.
233 <eventitem date="2002-02-13" time="4:00 PM" room="MC4060"
234 title="DVD-Video Under Linux">
235 <short>Billy Biggs will be holding a talk on DVD technology
236 (in particular, CSS and playback issues) under Linux, giving some
237 technical details as well as an overview of the current status of
238 Free Software efforts. All are welcome.</short>
240 <p>DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)</p>
242 <li>A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing
243 legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD
245 <li>The current Linux software efforts and open issues</li>
246 <li>How applications and Linux distributions are handling the
247 legal issues involved</li>
249 <p>DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation</p>
251 <li>An overview of the DVD-Video standard</li>
252 <li>Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status</li>
253 <li>Progress of integration into Linux media players</li>
257 <eventitem date="2002-02-07" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
258 title="Unix 102: Fun With UNIX">
259 <short>This the second in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law and
260 James Perry will be presenting some more advanced UNIX
261 techniques. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those
262 needing them.</short>
265 This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
266 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
267 applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you
268 with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment
271 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
273 <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
274 <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
275 <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
276 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
279 If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will
280 be lent to you for the duration of this class.
284 <eventitem date="2002-03-01" time="5:00 PM" room="MC4060"
285 title="Computer Go, The Ultimate">
286 <short>Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on
287 the asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
290 The asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
291 board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple
292 rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and
293 prizes of US$ > 1.5M for a program beating professional
294 players. The talk will quickly explain the rules of go, compare go
295 and chess, mention various attempts to program go and describe our
296 own efforts in this field. Students will have an opportunity to
297 solve computer generated go problems. Prizes will be available.
301 <eventitem date="2001-01-15" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3036"
302 title="Executive elections">
303 <short>Winter 2001 CSC Elections.</short>
305 <p>Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to
306 have a say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC
307 Elections! In addition to electing the executive for the
308 Winter term, we will be appointing office staff and other
309 positions. Look for details in uw.csc.
312 Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC
317 <eventitem date="2001-01-22" time="3:30 PM" room="MC3036"
319 <short>Second CSC meeting for Winter 2001.</short>
321 <h3>Proposed agenda</h3>
323 <dt>Book purchases</dt>
325 <p>They haven't been done in 2 terms.
326 We have an old list of books to buy.
327 Any suggestions from uw.csc are welcome.</p>
332 <p>For doing linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget
333 request - about $300. We should be able to get a decent 12x
334 burner with that (8x rewrite).</p>
335 <p>The obvious things to sell are Linux Distros and BSD variants.
336 Are there any other software that we can legally burn and sell
341 <p>Just a talk of the topics to be covered, when, where, whatnot.
342 Mike was right on this one, this should have been done earlier
343 in the term. Oh well, maybe we can fix this for next fall term.</p>
346 <dt>Game Contest</dt>
348 <p>We already put a bit of work into planning the Othello contest
349 before I read Mike's post. I still think it's viable. I've got
350 at least 2 people interested in writing entries for it. This
351 will be talked about more on monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will
352 be able to present a basic outline of how the contest is going
353 to be run at that time.</p>
355 <dt>Peri's closet cleaning</dt>
358 <p>Current sysadmin (jmbeverl) and I (kvijayan) and
359 President (geduggan) had a nice conversation about this 2
360 days ago, having to do with completely erasing all of
361 peri, installing a clean stable potato debian on it, and
362 priming it for being a gradual replacement to calum. We'll
363 probably discuss how much we want to get done on this
368 <p>Any <a HREF="nntp://news.math.uwaterloo.ca/uw.csc/8305">comments</a> from <a HREF="news:uw.csc">the newsgroup</a> are welcome.</p>
372 <eventitem date="2001-06-02" time="10:30 AM" room="MC3006"
373 title="ACM-Style programming contest">
374 <short>Practice for the ACM international programming
377 <p>Our ACM-Style practice contests involve answering five questions in three
378 hours. Solutions are written in Pascal, C or C++. Seven years in a row,
379 Waterloo's teams have been in the top ten at the world finals.
380 For more information, see
381 <a HREF="http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/">the contest web page</a>.</p>
383 <h3>Easy Question:</h3>
384 <p>A palindrome is a sequence of letters that reads the same backwards and
385 forwards, such as ``Madam, I'm Adam'' (note that case doesn't matter and
386 only letters are important). Your task is to find the longest palindrome in
387 a line of text (if there is a tie, print the leftmost one).</p>
391 asfgjh12dsfgg kj0ab12321BA wdDwkj abBA
392 abcbabCdcbaqwerewq abCdcba
395 <h3>Hard Question:</h3>
396 <p>An anagram is a word formed by reordering the letters of another word.
397 Find all sets of anagrams that exist within a large dictionary. The
398 input will be a sorted list of words (up to 4000 words), one per line.
399 Output each set of anagrams on a separate line. Each set should be
400 in alphabetical order, and all lines of sets should be in alphabetical
401 order. A word with no anagrams is a set of anagrams itself, and should
402 be displayed with no modifications.</p>