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<!-- Fall 2017 -->
<eventitem date="2017-11-09" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4059"
           title="Alt+Tab Talks">
  <short>
    <p>
        Come watch (or give!) interesting short talks by CS Club members.
        Talks include "Dynamic programming as path finding", "What is a landing page" and "How to compute on a GPU", but more are welcome (email <a href="mailto:tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>)! Click the link to the event detail page for more info.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
        Come watch (or give!) interesting short talks by CS Club members.
        Talks include "Dynamic programming as path finding", "What is a landing page", "How to compute on a GPU", but more are welcome (email <a href="mailto:tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>)! There will be food.
    </p>
    <p>
        Each talk can be 5-15 minutes long on any computer-related topic of interest.
        If you're interested in giving a talk (please do!) email <a href="mailto:tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-11-02" time="7pm" room="MC 4059 and MC 4061"
           title="CSC+WiCS Fall Social and Movie Night">
  <short>
          <p>
                  Join other CSC and WiCS members for a social event featuring free food, board games and a showing of Wonder Woman.
          </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
          <p>
                  Join other CSC and WiCS members for a social event featuring free food, board games and a showing of Wonder Woman.
          </p>
</abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-10-12" time="5:30 pm" room="MC 3003"
           title="Unix 101">
   <short>
           <p>
      Interested in Linux, but don't know where to start? Come learn some
      basic topics with us including interaction with the shell, motivation
      for using it, some simple commands, and more! (Snacks after)
     </p>
   </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      New to the Linux computing environment? If you seek an introduction,
      look no further (you can if you want we're not the police). Topics that
      will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and the
      motivations behind using it, and an introduction to compilation. You'll
      have to learn this stuff in CS 246 anyways, so why not get a head start!
    </p>
    <p>
      If you're interested in attending, make sure you can log into the Macs
      on the third floor, or show up to the CSC office (MC 3036) 20 minutes
      early for some help.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2017-10-05" time="6:00 pm" room="Laurel Creek Firepit"
           title="CSC Goes Outside">
   <short>
           <p>
                   Come join us for a bonfire outside at the Laurel Creek firepit (across Ring. Rd. from EV3) with fellow CSC members. Smores and snacks will be provided.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
                   Come join us for a bonfire outside at the Laurel Creek firepit (across Ring. Rd. from EV3) with fellow CSC members. Smores and snacks will be provided.
      </p>
      <p>
              The firepit we will be using is in the bottom right of <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/economics/sites/ca.economics/files/uploads/files/firepit_map_oct_2012.pdf">this map.</a>
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2017-09-29" time="6:30 pm" room="M3 1006"
           title="Code Party 0">
   <short>
      <p>
          The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term (Friday September 29th) from 6:30pm until late in the evening in M3 1006!
      </p>
      <p>
          Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
          The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term (Friday September 29th) from 6:30pm until late in the evening in M3 1006!
      </p>
      <p>
        Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.
      </p>
      <p>
        Personal projects you want to work on? Homework projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 0 and do it, with great company and great food.
      </p>
      <p>
Come any time after 6:30pm, there will be snacks and we'll be ordering pizza at around 7:00pm!
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2017-09-22" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy Lounge"
           title="Fall 2017 Special Elections">
   <short>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding special elections
         for the Spring 2017 Vice-President and Secretary.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian, CTF Club Liaison and IMPAD will be appointed.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding special elections
         for the Fall 2017 term on Friday, September 22th at 6:00pm
         in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001).
      </p>
      <p>
         The following positions will be elected: Vice-President and Secretary.
         The following positions will be appointed:
         Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting),
         Office Manager and Librarian, CTF Club Liaison and IMPAD.
         Additionally, we will be looking for members to join the
         Programme Committee.
      </p>
      <p>
        The results of the previous election are as follows:
      </p>
      <ul>
         <li>President: matedesc (Melissa Tedesco)</li>
         <li>Treasurer: tghume (Tristan Hume)</li>
      </ul>
      <p>
         If you would like to run or nominate someone for any of the elected positions,
         you can put your name in a special box in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037)
         or by sending an email to the Chief Returning Officer (Melissa)
         at <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
         Please note that executive positions are restricted
         to MathSoc social members. We welcome the participation of first years.

      </p>
      <p>
         Nominations will close at 6:00pm on Thursday, September 21st
         (24 hours prior to the start of elections).
         After that time, a list of current nominations will be sent out by email. It will also be available on the whiteboard
         in the office and at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections">https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections</a>.

         Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted
         to MathSoc social members. A full description of the roles and
         the election procedure are listed in our Constitution,
         available at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution">
            https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution
         </a>.

         Any questions related to the election can be directed to
         <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2017-09-15" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy Lounge"
           title="Fall 2017 Elections">
   <short>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Spring 2017 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian, CTF Club Liaison and Fridge Person will be appointed.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Fall 2017 term on Friday, September 15th at 6:00pm
         in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001).
      </p>
      <p>
         The following positions will be elected: President, Vice-President,
         Treasurer and Secretary. The following positions will be appointed:
         Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting),
         Office Manager and Librarian, CTF Club Liaison and Fridge Person (the exact name of this position is still to be determined). Additionally, we will be looking
         for members to join the Programme Committee.
      </p>
      <p>
         If you would like to run or nominate someone for any of the elected positions,
         you can put your name in a special box in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037)
         or by sending an email to the Chief Returning Officer (Felix)
         at <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
         Please note that executive positions are restricted
         to MathSoc social members. We welcome the participation of first years.

      </p>
      <p>
         Nominations will close at 6:00pm on Thursday, September 14th
         (24 hours prior to the start of elections).
         After that time, a list of current nominations will be sent out by email. It will also be available on the whiteboard
         in the office and at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections">https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections</a>.

         Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted
         to MathSoc social members. A full description of the roles and
         the election procedure are listed in our Constitution,
         available at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution">
            https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution
         </a>.

         Any questions related to the election can be directed to
         <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Spring 2017 -->

<eventitem date="2017-07-24" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
           title="End of Term Party">
   <short>
      <p>
        Come celebrate the end of the term with us in MC Comfy!
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        Come celebrate the end of the term with us in MC Comfy! We will be serving Urban Bricks!
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-07-18" time="5:00 pm" room="MC4040"
           title="Alt-Tab: S17">
   <short>
      <p>
        Join us for food and interesting member talks!
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        CSC's Alt-Tab is back! Join us for food and interesting member talks. The current lineup includes:
     </p>
     <ul>
        <li>Ifaz Kabir: "The comment that took Stack Exchange down and the algorithm that could have saved them"</li>
        <li>Fatema Boxwala: "Manic PXE Dream Servers"</li>
        <li>Charlie Wang: TBA (Something About Typed Racket)</li>
        <li>Sean Harrap: "Register Allocation With Graphs"</li>
        <li>Bryan Coutts: "Vehicle Routing"</li>
        <li>Reila Lee: TBA</li>
      </ul>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-07-15" time="10:00 am" room="CSC Office"
           title="Spring Cleaning">
   <short>
      <p>
        Join us for Spring Cleaning!
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        We will be conducting our Spring Cleaning on Saturday, July the 15th @ 
        10:00am. We'll be clearing out some junk, mopping the floors, dusting 
        off the tables/shelves, and generally tidying up the place. The more 
        help we can get the better! If you would like to lend a hand, just come 
        over to the office this weekend.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-07-05" time="7:00 pm" room="Laurel Creek Firepit"
           title="CSC and WiCS Goes Outside">
   <short>
      <p>
        Come join Women in Computer Science and the Computer Science Club outdoors!
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        Come hang out with the Women in Computer Science and the Computer Science Club! We have Marshmallows and other
         treats. Also fire. And a creek. Let's enjoy the outdoors!
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-06-22" time="6:00 pm" room="STC 0020"
           title="Code Party 0">
   <short>
      <p>
        Join us for Code Party 0!
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        Come code with us, eat some food, do some things. Personal projects you want to work on? Homework projects 
        you need to finish? Or want some time to explore some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at
         Code Party 0 and do it, with great company and great food.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-06-15" time="6:00 pm" room="MC4060"
           title="Understanding machine learning - a theory perspective">

   <short>
      <p>
        Professor Shai Ben-David will discuss the basic principles behind machine learning and how they relate to some of 
        the headline-making practical tools, in addition to the major research challenges and directions that address
        the fast expanding scope of potential machine learning applications.
     </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        We are all aware that we live in the era of ("big") data. In contrast to classical scientists 
        that devoted much of their resources to collecting data, nowadays researchers are flooded with
        data and the focus has switched to trying to make sense of and utilize the big and complex available data.
        Machine learning is aimed to use computer power to do just that. 
      </p>
      <p>
        It is therefore no wonder that machine learning is currently a hot topic. Evidence is all over the map, from
        NYTimes articles to being a top priority for research investments by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook.
        Throughout its (short) history, machine learning has enjoyed fruitful interactions between theory and practice.
        The growing awareness to its power keeps stimulating research towards new applications to the field, which in turn
        spur the development of algorithms and inspire new frontiers for our theoretical pursuit. 
      </p>
      <p>       
        In this talk Professor Shai Ben-David will explain the basic principles behind machine learning and how these principles relate to some
        of headline-making practical tools. Ben-David will also describe some of the major research challenges and research
        directions that address the fast expanding scope of potential machine learning applications.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-06-01" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 3003"
           title="Unix 102">

   <short>
      <p>
         Come gain some more in-depth knowledge or some less well-known tips and tricks for using the command line. 
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
             Finished the bash unit in CS246 and still don't see what's great about Unix? 
             Want to gain some more in-depth knowledge, or some less well-known tips and 
             tricks for using the command line? Unix 102 is the event for you! Fatema is 
             "kind of successful" and "knows things about Unix" and you can be too! Topics 
             covered will be: users, groups and permissions, ez string manipulation, additional skills, tips and tricks.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem> 
<eventitem date="2017-05-17" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy Lounge"
           title="Spring 2017 Elections">

   <short>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Spring 2017 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian will be appointed.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Spring 2017 term on Wednesday, May 17th at 6:00pm
         in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001).
      </p>
      <p>
         The following positions will be elected: President, Vice-President,
         Treasurer and Secretary. The following positions will be appointed:
         Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting),
         Office Manager and Librarian. Additionally, we will be looking
         for members to join the Programme Committee.
      </p>
      <p>
         If you would like to run or nominate someone for any of the elected positions,
         you can put your name in a special box in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037)
         or by sending an email to the Chief Returning Officer (Zachary)
         at <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
         Please note that executive positions are restricted
         to MathSoc social members. We welcome the participation of first years.
         A list of current nominations will be available on the whiteboard
         in the office and at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections">https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
         Nominations will close at 6:00pm on Tuesday, May 16th
         (24 hours prior to the start of elections).

         Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted
         to MathSoc social members. A full description of the roles and
         the election procedure are listed in our Constitution,
         available at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution">
            https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution
         </a>.

         Any questions related to the election can be directed to
         <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Winter 2017 -->
<eventitem date="2017-04-05" time="5:00 pm" room="STC 0060"
           title="Code Party 1">
  <short>
    <p>
       Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.

       Personal projects you want to work on? Homework
       projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore
       some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 1
       and do it, with great company and great food.

       Come any time after 5pm, but if you come earlier your food preferences are more likely to be accounted for, and there's more time for coding!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
       Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.
    </p>
    <p>
       Personal projects you want to work on? Homework
       projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore
       some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 1
       and do it, with great company and great food.
    </p>
    <p>
       Come any time after 5pm, but if you come earlier your food preferences are more likely to be accounted for, and there's more time for coding!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2017-03-22" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4045"
           title="Unix 201">
  <short>
    <p>
A talk and demo about more advanced Unix tricks and tools than are taught in our regular Unix 101 events. Topics may include customizing your prompt, the ranger console file manager, fancy shells, htop, rsync and using terminal escape sequences in your programs.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
A talk and demo about more advanced Unix tricks and tools than are taught in our regular Unix 101 events. Topics may include customizing your prompt, the ranger console file manager, fancy shells, htop, rsync and using terminal escape sequences in your programs.
    </p>
    <p>
        List of things talked about can be found <a href="https://gist.github.com/trishume/fb1c80f61c9a62426a6565a9f661e449">here</a>.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-03-09" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4042"
           title="Alt+Tab Talks">
  <short>
    <p>
        Come watch (or give!) interesting short talks by CS Club members.
        Talks include "Stepping into math: building a step-by-step algebra solver" and "Online database migrations at scale", but more are welcome (email <a href="mailto:tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>)! Click the link to the event detail page for more info. (Note: date was moved to Thursday)
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
        Come watch (and/or give!) interesting short talks by CS Club members.
        Talks include "How your text editor does syntax highlighting", "Online database migrations at scale", "Stitching Spaces in Subdivision Surfaces", "Theory of Computation" and "Stepping into math: building a step-by-step algebra solver", but more are welcome!
    </p>
    <p>
        Each talk can be 5-15 minutes long on any computer-related topic of interest.
        If you're interested in giving a talk (please do!) email <a href="mailto:tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">tghume@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
        The event was previously scheduled for Wednesday but was moved to Thursday the 9th due to a conflict with a WICS event.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-02-08" time="5:00 pm" room="STC 0020"
           title="Code Party 0">
  <short>
    <p>
       Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.

       Personal projects you want to work on? Homework
       projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore
       some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 0
       and do it, with great company and great food.

       Come any time after 5pm, but if you come earlier your food preferences are more likely to be accounted for, and there's more time for coding!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
       Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.
    </p>
    <p>
       Personal projects you want to work on? Homework
       projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore
       some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 0
       and do it, with great company and great food.
    </p>
    <p>
       Come any time after 5pm, but if you come earlier your food preferences are more likely to be accounted for, and there's more time for coding!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2017-01-12" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy Lounge"
           title="Winter 2017 Elections">

   <short>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Winter 2017 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian will be appointed.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Winter 2017 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian will be appointed.
      </p>
      <p>
         The following positions will be elected: President, Vice-President,
         Treasurer and Secretary. The following positions will be appointed:
         Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting),
         Office Manager and Librarian. Additionally, we will be looking
         for members to join the Programme Committee. The nominees for the four
         elected positions are:
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>President</li>
        <tt>
          <ul>
            <li>matedesc</li>
            <li>wyschean</li>
          </ul>
        </tt>
        <li>Vice President</li>
        <tt>
          <ul>
            <li>tghume</li>
            <li>wyschean</li>
          </ul>
        </tt>
        <li>Treasurer</li>
        <tt>
          <ul>
            <li>jj2baile</li>
            <li>jxpryde</li>
            <li>tghume</li>
          </ul>
        </tt>
        <li>Secretary</li>
        <tt>
          <ul>
            <li>aafata</li>
            <li>tghume</li>
          </ul>
        </tt>
      </ul>
      <p>
         Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted
         to MathSoc social members. We use approval voting; for each position,
         you may vote for any subset of the candidates. If you wish to vote but
         will not be attending the election, you may send an absentee ballot
         indicating which candidate(s) you wish to vote for, for each position.
         This ballot must be sent to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your
         @uwaterloo.ca or @csclub.uwaterloo.ca email address. A full
         description of the roles and the election procedure are listed in our
         Constitution, available at
         https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Fall 2016 -->

<eventitem date="2016-12-05" time="6:00 PM" room="MC Comfy" title="CSC/PMC EOT Party">
    <short>
        <p>
          The CSC and the PMAMC&amp;OC (aka pure math club) are hosting our end
          of term events together! We'll be taking over MC Comfy to hang out,
          eat lots of food (from Kismet!), and play board games.
    </p>
  </short>
   <abstract>
        <p>
          The CSC and the PMAMC&amp;OC (aka pure math club) are hosting our end
          of term events together! We'll be taking over MC Comfy to hang out,
          eat lots of food (from Kismet!), and play board games.
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-11-30" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4063" title="ALT+TAB Talks">
    <short>
        <p>
          Various members of the CSC will be giving brief, 25 minute talks on
          CS-related topics. An list of the talks being delivered can be found
          if you follow the event page link in this description.  There will be
          food provided.
    </p>
  </short>
   <abstract>
        <p>
          The CSC is hosting ALT+TAB this Wednesday. ALT+TAB is similar to the
          PMC's SASMS events; several members of the CSC will give brief, 25
          minute talks on various interesting topics in CS. There will be food
          provided at the event.  The talks being delivered are:
            <table border="1">
            <tr>
                <td><b>Member</b></td>
                <td><b>Talk Title</b></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Felix Bauckholt</td>
                <td>A Short Idris Tutorial</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Bryan Coutts</td>
                <td>Linear and Integer Programming</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Sean Harrap</td>
                <td>Communication Complexity</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Christopher Hawthorne</td>
                <td>Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Charlie Wang</td>
                <td>Typed Racket</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ifaz Kabir</td>
                <td>How Modern SAT Solvers Work</td>
            </tr>
            </table>
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-11-25" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4063" title="Edmund Noble Member Talk">
    <short>
        <p>
          CSC member Edmund Noble will be giving a talk, titled "Purely
          Functional Programming with Freely-Generated Domain Specific
          Languages". The talk will focus on embedded DSLs that exist within
          other languages, and how they can easily be constructed.
    </p>
  </short>
   <abstract>
        <p>
          CSC member Edmund Noble will be giving a talk, titled "Purely
          Functional Programming with Freely-Generated Domain Specific
          Languages". The talk will focus on embedded DSLs that exist within
          other languages, and how they can easily be constructed. The abstract
          for this talk is below. <br/><br/>
      </p>
        <p>
          Dependency injection is an often-used technique in object-oriented
          programming to easily modify the behaviours of an object by providing
          it with objects it would have otherwise generated on its own, to
          increase modularity. Aspect-oriented programming is a related
          technique which adds additional behaviour ("advice") to existing code,
          aiming to address cross-cutting concerns which affect wide areas of an
          application without sacrificing modularity.  Dependency injection
          might not seem a common topic in functional programming, but
          application modularity is essential to functional programming in a
          practical setting. A natural analogue to dependency injection and
          aspect-oriented programming in functional programming comes from a
          surprising place, and offers superior modularity to both. The free
          monad (F f) for a type constructor (and domain-specific language
          instruction set) f provides a syntax tree with internal nodes as
          domain-specific language instructions, which in combination with
          coproduct functors, allow domain-specific languages to be composed and
          combined easily.

          <ul>
              <li><a href="http://slides.com/edmundnoble/freely-generated-domain-specific-languages/fullscreen#">Slides</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://github.com/edmundnoble/free-dsl">Sources</a></li>
          </ul>
      </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-11-21" time="6:15 PM" room="MC 4063" title="Richard Mann Prof Talk">
    <short>
        <p>
          Professor Richard Mann will be giving a talk, titled "Open Source
          Software for Sound Measurement and Analysis". He will be presenting
          information about his new course, CS 489, Computational Sound, which
          will be running in Winter 2017.
    </p>
  </short>
   <abstract>
        <p>
          Professor Richard Mann will be giving a talk, titled "Open Source
          Software for Sound Measurement and Analysis". He will be presenting
          information about his new course, CS 489, Computational Sound, which
          will be running in Winter 2017. The abstract for this talk is below.
          <br/><br/>
    </p>
      <p>
          The most common problem in acoustics is to measure the frequency
          response of an (expensive!) listening room.  While specifications
          exist for the amplifiers, speakers, etc, each system must be still
          evaluated individually, since the frequency response depends on the
          direct sound from the speaker(s), the listener position and the
          reverberation of the room.  The user may spend considerable time
          adjusting the speaker placement, the system equalization, and
          possibly treating the room to get the best response.
      </p>
      <p>
          There are several commercial and freeware applications for this task,
          some of which are very good.  However, to learn the methods the user
          must understand the processing involved.
      </p>
      <p>
          The purpose of this talk is to present an open source solution.  Our
          system is based on a very few lines of code, written in GNU Octave, a
          Matlab(r) workalike that runs under Linux, Windows and Mac.
      </p>
      <p>
          The program works by playing a known test signal, such a tone, or
          some kind of noise source out of the sound card into the system. The
          system is measured by comparing driving signal to that measured by a
          microphone in the room.  The frequency response is computed using the
          Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT).
      </p>
      <p>
          This is joint work with Prof. John Vanderkooy, Physics, University of
          Waterloo.
      </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-11-16" time="8:30 PM" room="M3 1006" title="General Meeting">
    <short>
        <p>
          This general meeting will be held to discuss changes to our Code of
          Conduct.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
        <p> The Code of Conduct and the amended version can be found below: </p>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="https://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/proposed-amendment/about/code-of-conduct">Proposed CoC</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/proposed-amendment.patch">Diff between current and proposed CoC</a></li>
        </ul>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-11-16" time="6:30 pm" room="M3 1006" title="Code Party">
   <short>
      <p>
       Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.

       Personal projects you want to work on? Homework
       projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore
       some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party
       and do it, with great company and great food.
      </p>
    </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-11-09" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 3003"
           title="UNIX 101">

   <short>
      <p>
         The CSC is having its next event, UNIX 101, on Wednesday November 9th
         at 6 PM in MC 3003 (the mac lab across from the CSC). UNIX 101 is a
         tutorial where we teach the basics of using a command-line (terminal)
         environment in UNIX. Knowing how to use the command-line and UNIX is
         an invaluable skill in CS, and helps prepare you for future projects
         and co-ops.
      </p>
    </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The CSC is having its next event, UNIX 101, on Wednesday November 9th
         at 6 PM in MC 3003 (the mac lab across from the CSC). UNIX 101 is a
         tutorial where we teach the basics of using a command-line (terminal)
         environment in UNIX. Knowing how to use the command-line and UNIX is
         an invaluable skill in CS, and helps prepare you for future projects
         and co-ops.
      </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-10-18" time="5:30 pm" room="QNC 1507"
           title="Feminism in STEM - a 101 Panel">

   <short>
      <p>An introductory feminism in STEM panel, free food.</p>
    </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
        The CS Club is hosting an introductory panel for applications and benefits of feminism in STEM.

        Example topics will include the differences between general feminism and feminism applied to STEM.

        Dr. Prabhakar Ragde from SCS, Swetha Kulandaivelan, and Filzah Nasir will be speaking on the panel. Fatema Boxwala will be moderating.

        Free food will be there and we're in a fancy room. Come on out!
      </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-10-13" time="6:00 pm" room="Columbia Lake 2 Fire Pit"
           title="CSC and WiCS Go Outside">

   <short>
      <p>
         The CSC and WiCS (Women in Computer Science) are co-hosting a social
         event on Thursday, October 13th (the day after reading week). We will
         be Going Outside to the Columbia Lake 2 Fire Pit; there will be a
         campfire, s'mores, lots of food, frisbees, grass, etc. Bring your
         friends!
      </p>
    </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The CSC and WiCS (Women in Computer Science) are co-hosting a social
         event on Thursday, October 13th (the day after reading week). We will
         be Going Outside to the Columbia Lake 2 Fire Pit (see
         <a href='https://uwaterloo.ca/economics/sites/ca.economics/files/uploads/files/firepit_map_oct_2012.pdf'>map</a>).
         There will be a campfire, s'mores, lots of food, frisbees, grass, etc. Bring your friends!
      </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-10-06" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4021"
           title="Bringing OOP Best Practices to the World of Functional Programming">

   <short>
      <p>
         The CSC will have its first talk of the term this Thursday, October
         6th.  UW alumna and CSC member Elana Hashman will be giving a talk on
         using functional programming languages (like Racket!) in industry, and
         how some concepts from the more common object-oriented paradigm are
         translated to the functional paradigm. The abstract for the talk is below.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         I transitioned from writing software in imperative, object-oriented
         (OO) programming languages to doing functional programming (FP)
         full-time, and you can do it, too! In this talk, I'll make a case for
         using FP for real-world development, cover some cases where common FP
         language features substitute for design patterns and OOP structure,
         and provide some examples of translating traditional OO design
         patterns into functional code.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-09-19" time="6:30 pm" room="MC Comfy Lounge"
           title="Fall 2016 Elections">

   <short>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Fall 2016 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian will be appointed.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Fall 2016 term on Monday, September 19th at 6:30pm
         in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001).
      </p>
      <p>
         The following positions will be elected: President, Vice-President,
         Treasurer and Secretary. The following positions will be appointed:
         Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting),
         Office Manager and Librarian. Additionally, we will be looking
         for members to join the Programme Committee.
      </p>
      <p>
         If you would like to run or nominate someone for any of the elected positions,
         you can put your name in a special box in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037)
         or by sending an email to the Chief Returning Officer (Zachary)
         at <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
         Please note that executive positions are restricted
         to MathSoc social members. We welcome the participation of first years.
         A list of current nominations will be available on the whiteboard
         in the office and at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections">https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
         Nominations will close at 6:30pm on Sunday, September 18th
         (24 hours prior to the start of elections).

         Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted
         to MathSoc social members. A full description of the roles and
         the election procedure are listed in our Constitution,
         available at
         <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution">
            https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution
         </a>.

         Any questions related to the election can be directed to
         <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Spring 2016 -->

<eventitem date="2016-07-25" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy Lounge"
           title="Richard Mann Prof Talk and EOT">
  <short>
    <p>
        Join us on Monday, July 25th at 6pm in the MC Comfy Lounge for an
        exciting prof talk by Richard Mann on Open Source Computer Sound
        Measurement. The abstract for the talk is below. We will follow
        this up by an EOT event with dinner and board games!
        Last event of the term, get hype.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
An ideal computer audio system should faithfully reproduce signals of
all frequencies in the audible range (20 to 20,000 cycles per second).
Real systems, particularly mobile devices and laptops, may still
produce acceptable quality, but often have a limited response,
particularly at the low (bass) frequencies.

Sound/acousic energy refers to time varying pressure waves in air.
When recording sound, the acoustic signal will be picked up by
microphone, which converts it to electrical signals (voltages).  The
signal is then digitized (analog to digital conversion) and stored as
a stream of numbers in a data file.  On playback the digital signal is
converted to an electrical signal (digital to analog conversion) and
finally returned as an acoustic signal by a speaker and/or headphones.

In this talk I will present open source software (Octave/Linux) to
measure the end-to-end frequency response of an audio system using the
Discrete Fourier Transform.  I will demonstrate the software using a
standard USB audio interface and a consumer grade omnidirectional
microphone.

This is joint work with John Vanderkooy, Distinguished Professor
Emeritus, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
    </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2016-07-21" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4045"
           title="Notorious CS452">
  <short>
    <p>
        Bill Cowan is the Director of the Computer Graphics Lab, and
        teaches the notorious CS452, lovingly known as the trains course
        by CS students. He will be giving a talk on that very course.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
        CS452, aka the trains course, has for some time enjoyed notoriety
        as a playground for over-achieving masochists. To maintain its
        reputation it receives a periodic upgrade, which is now due. This
        talk discusses possible directions for the upgrade in the context
        of the philosophy that has guided its evolution over the decades
        of its existence.
    </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2016-07-14" time="6:30 pm" room="MC 2034"
           title="Computer Science: Beyond Bits and Bytes">
  <short>
    <p>
        Gladimir Baranoski is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, in the
        Natural Phenomena Simulation Group. He will be giving a talk on underappreciated
        facets of computer science and its connections to other disciplines.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
        Talk Abstract:  Computer science is often perceived to be confined to
        traditional areas such as operating systems, programming languages,
        compilers and so on. Viewed in this context, one’s professional future
        in this field seems to be directly linked to the accumulation of knowledge
         and practical experience in these areas. Although their importance is
        undeniable, it is also possible, and highly recommended, to expand one’s
        horizons. In this talk, we are going to informally look at ubiquitous,
        albeit sometimes underappreciated, facets of computer science and its
        synergistic connections to other disciplines. We are also going to discuss
        how creativity and serendipity can impact one’s career and lead to tangible
         contributions in physical and life sciences.
    </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2016-07-11" time="7:00 pm" room="BMH Green"
           title="WiCS and CSC Go Outside!">
  <short>
    <p>
        Join us at BMH Green for a night outdoors with fellow people in Computer Science!
        There will be ice cream and board games and frisbees and maybe some water guns.

        Bring your friends!
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2016-06-08" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 5479"
           title="scp talks">
  <short>
    <p>
       Listen to cool 15-20 lightning talks by CSC members on a variety of
       computer science and related topics.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
     Come on out to the CSC Short Contemplation Period Talk night on Wednesday,
     featuring many short (20 minute) talks from our members. From Automata to
     Zip files, any topic is welcome. Come on out and give a talk, or just
     learn things. Talks start at 6:00PM and runs till 9, with a break for
     dinner, which will be provided.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2016-06-02" time="6:30 pm" room="STC 0010"
           title="Code Party 0">
  <short>
    <p>
       Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.

       Personal projects you want to work on? Homework
       projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore
       some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 0
       and do it, with great company and great food.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-05-25" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 3036 (CSC Office)"
           title="CSC Does Spring Cleaning">
  <short>
    <p>
      Come out and help make the office slightly less messy! We will bribe...
      uh, provide you with food for helping. :)
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
    It's that time of the year - spring cleaning. And if you haven't noticed,
    our office needs it. Help us clean it and we will give you food to eat.
    Pretty good deal if you ask me.
    </p>
    <p>
    Our office manager will also be providing office training to interested
    members before the event.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-05-12" time="7:00 pm" room="MC 3001 (Comfy)"
           title="Spring 2016 Elections">
  <short>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Spring 2016
      for President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Additionally,
      librarian, office manager, sysadmin, and fridge regent will be appointed
      and ratified.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Spring 2016
      term on Thursday, May 12th at 19:00 in the MC Comfy (MC 3001). During
      the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will
      be elected, the sysadmin will be appointed and ratified, and the
      librarian and office manager will be appointed. There may be timbits.
    </p>
    <p>
      If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you
      can put your name in a special box on top of the fridge in the CSC
      office (MC 3036/3037) or send me (Patrick) an email at cro@csclub
      uwaterloo.ca. It is highly recommended to send me an email in addition
      to nominating yourself by paper in the office. You can also deposit
      nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to me in person.
      Nominations will close at 19:00 on Wednesday, May 11th (24 hours
      before the start of elections).
    </p>
    <p>
      Voting is done heads-down hands-up, and is restricted to Mathsoc social
      members.
    </p>
    <p>
      For the part of the constitution pertaining to elections,
      see http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution#officers
    </p>
    <p>
      All members are welcome to run! Especially new members and anyone
      interested in being a new exec! Most of the roles have a small guide on
      the wiki at https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Exec_Manual and I will
      print out a hard copy of a more comprehensive exec manual and bind it myself, I swear.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Winter 2016 -->
<eventitem date="2016-04-04" time="5:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
           title="On Surrounding a Polygon">
  <short>
    <p>Come out to a talk on surrounding a polygon by Dr. Craig Kaplan! Also stay afterwards for our EOT and socialize :) food will be provided!
</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
Come out to a talk on surrounding a polygon by Dr. Craig Kaplan! Also stay afterwards for our EOT and socialize :) food will be provided!

The prof talk will be on Surrounding a Polygon:
Dr. Craig Kaplan will explore the problem of surrounding a polygon with copies of itself. This problem raises a number of fascinating mathematical questions, and we can use software as an experimental tool to probe the answers to those questions.

<p></p>
He'll also present known mathematical and computational results related to surrounds of polygons, and discuss what they say about larger open questions in tiling theory. Finally, he will also show how the task of surrounding individual polygons can make for fun and challenging puzzles, and say a bit about his experience creating an app based on those puzzles.
</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2016-03-29" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4021"
           title="SASMS Style Talk Night">
  <short>
    <p>The CSC is hosting the first annual member talk series! This is a chance for anyone to come and give a short talk on any relevant topic.
Some talks already arranged are on topics ranging from modern Javascript, to the Linux Kernel.</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
The CSC is hosting the first annual member talk series. This is a chance for anyone to come and give a short talk on any relevant topic.

We already have some talks arranged, on topics ranging from modern JavaScript, and the Linux Kernel. More speakers are welcome. If you are interested, please email tbelaire@uwaterloo.ca or signup here:http://goo.gl/forms/zNYbDEQSFU

There will be a break for food halfway through.
</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>




<eventitem date="2016-03-23" time="6:00 pm" room="QNC 1502"
           title="SAT and SMT Solvers for Software Engineering and Security">
  <short>
    <p>A talk about SAT and SMT Solvers for Software Engineering and Security by Dr. Vijay Ganesh</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
Boolean SAT and SMT solvers increasingly play a central role in the construction of reliable and secure software, regardless of whether such reliability/security is ensured through formal methods, program analysis or testing. This dramatic influence of solvers on software engineering as a discipline is a recent phenomenon, largely attributable to impressive gains in solver efficiency and expressive power. Dr. Vijay Ganesh will motivate the need for SAT and SMT solvers, sketch out their research story thus far, and then describe his contributions to solver research. Specifically, he will talk about a SAT solver called MapleCMS, and a string SMT solver, called Z3str2, developed in his lab. He will also talk about real-world applications enabled by his solvers, and the techniques he developed that helped make them efficient.
</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2016-03-16" time="6:00 pm" room="MC3003"
           title="Git 102">
  <short>
    <p>Git 102 : Why you learned git in the first place. </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
Learn how to manage multiple remotes, for those times when GitHub goes down. Then learn what to do when you accidentally overwrite your source code! Only basic git knowledge is assumed.
        </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>



<eventitem date="2016-03-09" time="6:30 pm" room="MC4058"
           title="Steve Bourque and Mike Patterson Network Infrastructure talk">
  <short>
    <p>
Steve Bourque and Mike Patterson of IST will give a brief overview of campus network connectivity and interconnectivity.</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
Steve Bourque and Mike Patterson of IST will give a brief overview of campus network connectivity and interconnectivity. Steve will describe the general connections, and Mike will talk about specific security measures in place. We'll have refreshments!
        </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2016-03-03" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
           title="Tea and Study">
  <short>
    <p>
        It's midterms season, and everyone has to study. So why not come study with the CS Club? Everyone welcome, especially new members!
There will be tea and delicious snacks and outlets. Plus our delightful company.
See you there!

        </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>

Come join CSC at our Tea and Study event! Everyone welcome, especially new members!
There will be tea and delicious snacks and outlets. Plus our delightful company.
        </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-02-10" time="6:30 pm" room="MC Comfy"
           title="Movie Night: Big Hero 6">
  <short>
    <p>
      Movie Night! Come watch "Big Hero 6" with the CSC!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Come watch "Big Hero 6" with the Computer Science Club this wednesday the 10th at 6:30 PM in the MC Comfy Lounge.
      Why "Big Hero 6"? It's an award-winning animated Disney movie involving an inflatable robot fighting evil in "San Frasokyo". Enough said.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-02-04" time="6:00 pm" room="STC 0010"
           title="Code Party">
  <short>
    <p>
      The CS Club is having its termly code party! Come out and work on projects, assignments, and more. Food is provided!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Want help installing Linux? Bring a USB, we'll help you.
      Want to work on a project, CS homework, or an IRC bot? Come over, we'll have food.
      Want to see what it's like to be in the new STC? Plugs at every desk, I'm telling you.
      (This term it's going to be in the new STC not in the comfy. We're going for some adventure this term.)
    </p>
    <p>
      Be there, we'll have dinner!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-01-28" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 3003"
           title="Unix 101">
  <short>
    <p>
      Interested in Linux, but don't know where to start? Come learn some
      basic topics with us including interaction with the shell, motivation
      for using it, some simple commands, and more! (Cookies after)
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      New to the Linux computing environment? If you seek an introduction,
      look no further (you can if you want we're not the police). Topics that
      will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and the
      motivations behind using it, and an introduction to compilation. You'll
      have to learn this stuff in CS 246 anyways, so why not get a head start!
    </p>
    <p>
      If you're interested in attending, make sure you can log into the Macs
      on the third floor, or show up to the CSC office (MC 3036) 20 minutes
      early for some help. If you're already familiar with these topics, don't
      hesitate to come to Unix 102, planned to be held after Reading Week.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-01-23" time="11:00 AM" room="TBA"
           title="Eth1: Jane Street Competition">
  <short>
    <p>
        eth1: a day-long programming contest. Form teams and hack
        together a trading bot to compete against others and the markets.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      eth1: a day-long programming contest. Form teams and hack together a trading bot to compete against others and the markets.
    </p>
    <p>
        Brought to you by: CSC and Jane Street.
    </p>
    <p>
        Each member of the winning team will receive $1000 USD.
    </p>
    <p>
        There'll be lots of (free) food and drink available.
    </p>
    <p>
        Absolutely no special math, OCaml, or finance knowledge is required; you can use any language you like. The contest is entirely technical in nature and you won't need any visual design skills.
    </p>
    <p>
        The exact details of the hackathon aren't released until the competition begins. The one thing you can do ahead of time to prepare is familiarize yourself with the libraries for writing TCP clients in your programming language of choice.
    </p>
    <p>
        <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/janestreet.com/forms/d/1I7UukJDH9ZAVWpLl-2vwmvPWzbWBFjj8g973hidn8eE/viewform">Sign up!</a>
    </p>
    <p>
        The contest will be on Saturday, January 23rd, from 11:00AM - 11:00PM. Signups will close on Monday, January 18th at 11:59PM, and we'll send out confirmations to participants on the 20th.
    </p>
    <p>
        For any other queries, email: eth1-waterloo@janestreet.com
    </p>
    <p>
        Further details will be announced closer to the event. Teams of up to three will be accepted, but you don't have to have a team to sign up — feel free to turn up as a singleton and we'll form teams on the fly.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2016-01-14" time="19:00" room="MC 3001 (Comfy)"
           title="Winter 2016 Elections">
  <short>
    <p>
      Interested in Linux, but don't know where to start? Come learn some
      basic topics with us including interaction with the shell, motivation
      for using it, some simple commands, and more! (Cookies after)
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2016
      term on Thursday, January 14th in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 19:00. During
      the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will
      be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office
      manager will be appointed.
    </p>
    <p>
      If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you
      can write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) or
      send me (Charlie) an email at cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Every effort will
      be made to note down whiteboard nominations, but it is highly recommended
      to send me an email in addition to writing on the whiteboard. You can
      also deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to
      me in person. Nominations will close at 18:00 on Wednesday, January 13th.
      All members are welcome to run!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>



<!-- Fall 2015 -->

<eventitem date="2015-11-27" time="7:30 PM" room="MC Comfy"
           title="WiCS and CSC watch War Games!">
  <short>
    <p>
      WiCS and CSC are watching War Games in the Comfy lounge.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      WiCS and CSC are watching War Games in the Comfy lounge.
    </p>
    <p>
      War Games is this movie where these kids phone a computer and then the computer wants to nuke things.
      Cold war stuff. Nowadays computers won't let you do that, you have to SSH in instead.
    </p>
    <p>
      We're bringing food. Gluten-free, vegetarian options available. Sandwiches, drinks, and popcorn!
    </p>
    <p>
      Everyone welcome! Stop by!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-11-26" time="5:00-7:00 PM" room="MC 4063"
           title="An Introduction to Google's FOAM Framework">
  <short>
    <p>
      An introduction to Google's FOAM framework, an open-source modeling
      framework written in Javascript, by Google's Kevin Greer.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      FOAM is an open-source modeling framework written in Javascript. With FOAM,
      you can create Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), which are high-level
      models that can be interpreted or compiled to different languages or
      environments (Java/Android, Swift/iOS, and JS/Web). Currently, it supports
      DSLs for entities/classes, parsers, animations, database queries,
      interactive documents, and, most importantly, new DSLs.
    </p>
    <p>
      FOAM supports building text, HTML, and graphical views for DSLs using a
      small Model View Controller (MVC) library, which is itself modeled with
      FOAM. This library can also be used by modeled Javascript applications.
    </p>
    <p>
      FOAM increases developer productivity by allowing them to express
      solutions at a higher, more succinct level. The MVC library also
      increases application performance through its efficient data-binding,
      caching, and query-optimization mechanisms.
    </p>
    <p>
      Learn more at http://foamdev.com
    </p>
    <p>
      You can get in contact with Kevin Greer on twitter,
      <a href="https://twitter.com/kgrgreer">@kgrgreer</a>.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-11-23" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4041"
           title="'Static Analysis and Program Optimization Using Dataflow Analysis'">
  <short>
    <p>
      An introduction to some basic issues with optimization of imperative
      programs, by Sean Harrap
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      An introduction to some basic issues with optimization of imperative
      programs by Sean Harrap, beginning with traditional methods such as tree
      traversals.
    </p>
    <p>
      This will be followed by a more powerful solution to these problems,
      providing an overview of its mathematical foundations, and then
      describing how it can be used to express optimizations simply and elegantly.
    </p>
    <p>
      Some familiarity with the second year CS core (CS245, CS241, MATH239)
      will be assumed.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-11-19" time="7:00-8:00 PM" room="MC 4020"
           title="'Git 101'">
  <short>
    <p>
      Learn how to use Git properly in an exciting talk by Charlie Wang!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      git init, git add, git commit, git 'er done!
    </p>
    <p>
      In Git 101, Charlie Wang will convince you to use Git for your projects and
      show you a high level overview of how to use it properly.
    </p>
    <p>
      This talk is recommended for CS 246 students.
    </p>
    <p>
      Come for the tutorial, stay for the bad jokes.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-10-16" time="7:00 PM" room="ML Theatre of the Arts"
           title="Cory Doctorow - The War on General Purpose Computing">
  <short>
    Between walled gardens, surveillance agencies, and political opponents,
    no matter who's winning the war on general purpose computing you're
    losing. The Computer Science Club will be hosting Cory Doctorow's talk
    in the Theatre of the Arts on October 16.
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      No Matter Who's Winning the  War on General Purpose Computing, You're Losing
    </p>
    <p>
      If cyberwar were a hockey game, it'd be the end of the first period and
      the score would be tied 500-500. All offense, no defense.
    </p>
    <p>
      Meanwhile, a horrible convergence has occurred as everyone from car
      manufacturers to insulin pump makers have adopted the inkjet printer
      business model, insisting that only their authorized partners can make
      consumables, software and replacement parts -- with the side-effect of
      making it a felony to report showstopper, potentially fatal bugs in
      technology that we live and die by.
    </p>
    <p>
      And then there's the FBI and the UK's David Cameron, who've joined in
      with the NSA and GCHQ in insisting that everyone must be vulnerable to
      Chinese spies and identity thieves and pervert voyeurs so that the spy
      agencies will always be able to spy on everyone and everything, everywhere.
    </p>
    <p>
      It's been fifteen years since the copyright wars kicked off, and we're
      still treating the Internet as a glorified video-on-demand service --
      when we're not treating it as a more perfect pornography distribution
      system, or a jihadi recruitment tool.
    </p>
    <p>
      It's all of those -- and more. Because it's the nervous system of the
      21st century. We've got to stop treating it like a political football.
    </p>
    <p>
      Cory Doctorow will be talking on Friday October 16, 7pm in
      the Theatre of the Arts. Admission is free, and
      the talk will be open to the public. Doors open
      at 6:30pm. Headsets will be provided for the hard of hearing,
      email Patrick at pj2melan@uwaterloo.ca . The theatre is wheelchair accessible.
    </p>
    <p>
      The following books written by Cory will be sold at the event:
      <ul>
        <li>Little Brother</li>
        <li>Homeland</li>
        <li>For the Win</li>
        <li>Makers</li>
        <li>Pirate Cinema</li>
        <li>Information Doesn't want to be free</li>
        <li>In Real Life</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-10-07" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 4061"
    title="Starting an VN Indie Game Company as a UW Student">
  <short>

    <p>Come out to a talk by Alfe Clemencio!</p>
    <p> Many people want to make games as signified by all the game development
        schools that are appearing everywhere. But how would you do it as a UW
        student? This talk shares the experiences of how making Sakura River
        Interactive was founded without any Angel/VC investment.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>Come out to a talk by Alfe Clemencio!</p>
    <p> Many people want to make games as signified by all the game development
        schools that are appearing everywhere. But how would you do it as a UW
        student? This talk shares the experiences of how making Sakura River
        Interactive was founded without any Angel/VC investment.
    </p>
    <p> The talk will start off with inspiration drawn of Co-op Japan, to it's
        beginnings at Velocity. Then a reflection of how various game
        development and business skills was obtained in the unexpected ways at
        UW will follow. How the application of probabilities, theory of
        computation, physical/psychological attraction theories was used in the
        development of the company's first game. Finally how various Computer
        Science theories helped evaluate feasibility of several potential
        incoming business deals.
    </p>
    <a href="http://www.sakurariver.ca/">From Sakura River interactive</a>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-10-02" time="7:30 PM" room="MC 4040"
           title="'Why Am I Studying This?'">
  <short>
    <p>
      Big-O, the Halting Problem, Finite State Machines, and more are concepts that get
      even more interesting in the real world. Come and hear Tom Rathborne talk about how theory
      hits reality (often with a bang!) at Booking.com.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <ul>
      <li>Data Structures</li>
      <li>Finite State Machines</li>
      <li>big-O</li>
      <li>Queuing theory</li>
      <li>Race conditions</li>
      <li>Compilers</li>
      <li>The Halting Problem</li>
      <li>etc.</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
      These things get even more interesting in the real world.
      Come and hear Tom Rathborne talk about how theory hits reality (often with a bang!) at
      Booking.com, the biggest not-a-technology-company on the Internet.
    </p>
    <p>
      Food and drinks will be provided!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-09-30" time="5:00 PM" room="DC 1304"
           title="Back to Back Talks: Culture Turnaround and Software Defined Networks">
  <short>
    <p>
      Back to back talks from John Stix and Francisco Dominguez on turning
      a company's culture around and on Software Defined Networks!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Back to back talks from John Stix and Francisco Dominguez on turning
      a company's culture around and on Software Defined Networks!
    </p>
    <p>
      John Stix will be talking about how he turned around the corporate culture at Fibernetics Corporation.
    </p>
    <p>
      Francisco Dominguez will be talking about Software Defined Networks, which
      for example can turn multiple flakey internet connections into one reliable
      one.
    </p>
    <p>
      The speakers are:
      <ul>
        <li>John Stix - President, Fibernetics</li>
        <li>Francisco Dominguez - CTO, Fibernetics</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
      Food and drinks will be provided!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-09-24" time="4:30 PM" room="EIT 3142"
           title="CSC and WiCS Career Panel">
  <short>
    <p>
      The CSC is joining WiCS to host a career panel! Come hear from Waterloo
      alumni as they speak about their time at Waterloo, experience with coop,
      and life beyond the university. Please register at http://bit.ly/1OyJP6D
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The CSC is joining WiCS to host a career panel! Come hear from Waterloo
      alumni as they speak about their time at Waterloo, experience with coop,
      and life beyond the university. A great chance to network and seek
      advice!
    </p>
    <p>
      The panelists are:
      <ul>
        <li>Joanne Mckinley - Software Engineer, Google</li>
        <li>Carol Kilner - COO, BanaLogic Corporation</li>
        <li>Harshal Jethwa - Consultant, Infusion</li>
        <li>Dan Collens - CTO, Big Roads</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
      Food and drinks will be provided! Please register
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G-8LFLgxQUkahXvODpS2cVSvceNibTt18Uc8TnhlKI8/viewform?usp=send_form">here</a>
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-09-22" time="9 PM" room="MC 3001"
           title="Results of Fall 2015 Elections">
  <short>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club has elected its executive for the term, and a new Office Manager and System Administrator have been appointed.
    </p>
    <p>
      See inside for results.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club has elected its executive for the term, and a new Office Manager and System Administrator have been appointed.
      The quorum for elections had been reached, and voting members of the CSC voted for their President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary from among many qualified candidates.
      The new elected executive then proceeded to appoint a System Administrator (who became part of the executive <i>ex officio</i>) and an Office Manager.

      The appointment of a Librarian was delayed because no suitable and willing candidate was found.
    </p>
    <p>
       The results of the elections are:
      <ul>
        <li>Simone Hu - President</li>
        <li>Theo Belaire - Vice President</li>
        <li>Jordan Upiter - Treasurer</li>
        <li>Daniel Marin - Secretary</li>
        <li>Jordan Pryde - System Administrator</li>
        <li>Office Manager - Ilia Chtcherbakov</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2015-09-22" time="7 PM" room="MC 3001"
           title="Fall 2015 Elections">
  <short>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2015
      term on Tuesday, September 22nd in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 19:00. During
      the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will
      be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office
      manager will be appointed.
    </p>
    <p>
      See inside for nominations.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2015
      term on Tuesday, September 22nd in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 19:00. During
      the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will
      be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office
      manager will be appointed.
    </p>
    <p>
      If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you
      can write your name on the board in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) or
      send me (Charlie) an email at cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. You can also
      deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to me
      in person. Nominations will close at 18:00 on Monday, September  21st.
      All members are welcome to run! First-years are especially encouraged to
      run for secretary, office manager, and librarian, but they are not
      limited to those positions.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-09-17" time="6 PM" room="MC 2065"
           title="Google Cardboard">
  <short>
    <p>
      Come for a talk from Rob Suderman on Cardboard, Google's recent
      exploration in affordable, cereal box based Virtual Reality.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Come for a talk from Rob Suderman on Cardboard, Google's recent
      exploration in affordable, cereal box based Virtual Reality.
    </p>
    <p>
      Learn about the tools available to make your own application, some of
      the pitfalls to avoid, and an overview of rendering virtual reality
      content with some tips and tricks on high performance rendering. The
      talk will contain content for everyone interested!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Spring 2015 -->

<eventitem date="2015-07-16" time="6 PM" room="MC 4064"
           title="Algorithms for Shortest Paths">
  <short>
    <p>
      Come to this exciting talk about path-finding algorithms which
      is being presented by Professor Anna Lubiw.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Finding shortest paths is a problem that comes up in many applications:
      Google maps, network routing, motion planning, connectivity in social
      networks, and etc.
      The domain may be a graph, either explicitly or implicitly represented,
      or a geometric space.
    </p>
    <p>
      Professor Lubiw will survey the field, from Dijkstra's foundational algorithm to
      current results and open problems.
      There will be lots of pictures and lots of ideas.
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csclub/shortest-paths-CSclub.pdf">Click here to see the slides from the talk.</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="/media/Algorithms%20for%20Shortest%20Paths">Click here for the recorded talk.</a>
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-07-08" time="6 PM" room="MC 4060"
           title="Infrasound is all around us">
  <short>
    <p>
      Ambient infra sound surrounds us. Richard Mann presents his current
      research and equipment on measuring infra sound, and samples of recorded
      infra sound.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Infra sound refers to sound waves below the range of human hearing.
      Infra sound comes from a number of natural phenomena including weather
      changes, thunder, and ocean waves.  Common man made sources include
      heating and ventilation systems, industrial machinery, moving vehicle
      cabins (air, trains, cars), and energy generation (wind turbines, gas
      plants).
      <br></br>
      In this talk Richard Mann will present equipment he has built to measure infra sound, and
      analyse some of the infra sound he has recorded.
      <br></br>
      Note: In Winter 2016 Richard Mann will be offering a new course, in Computer Sound.  The
      course will appear as CS489/CS689 ("Topics in Computer Science").  This
      is a project-based course (60% assignments, 40% project, no final).
      Details at his web page,
      <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr">~mannr</a>.
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-06-26" time="7:00 PM" room="Laurel Creek Firepit"
           title="WiCS and CSC Go Outside">
  <short>
    <p>Come hang out with the Women in Computer Science and the Computer Science Club! There will be s'mores and frozen yogurt. Also fire. And a creek. Let's enjoy the outdoors!</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>Come hang out with the Women in Computer Science and the Computer Science Club! There will be s'mores and frozen yogurt. Also fire. And a creek. Let's enjoy the outdoors!</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-06-19" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 3003"
           title="UNIX 102">
  <short>
    <p>n things SCS hasn't told you about the shell</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      This is a continuation of the Unix10X series of seminars that cover the use
      of *nix environments, largely through interacting with a command line shell. In
      this instalment we will be covering some of what the School of Computer
      Science has left out of their introduction to the Command Line / Bash (from
      cs246), as well as a brief introduction to having a useful prompt.
      <br></br>
      Topics to be discussed include:
      <ul>
        <li>Lost Bash: fancy expansion, arrays, and shopt</li>
        <li>The File System is scary: your file names contain white space and newlines</li>
        <li>Where Am I: A brief introduction to prompt customization</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-05-22" time="4:00 PM" room="MC 3001 (Coomfy)"
           title="By-Elections">
  <short>
    <p>
      As there are vacancies in the executive council, there will be
      by-election on May 22nd. The following positions are open for election:
      <ul>
        <li>Treasurer</li>
        <li>Secretary</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
      The executive are also looking for people who may be interested in the
      following positions:
      <ul>
        <li>Systems Administrator</li>
        <li>Office Manager</li>
        <li>Librarian</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<!-- Winter 2015 -->

<eventitem date="2015-04-02" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 4020"
           title="Describing and Synthesizing Microfluidics">
  <short>
    <p>
      Derek Rayside presents current research on the field of microfluidics.
      Microfluidics are currently developed mainly by trial and error. How can
      this be improved?
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Microfluidics is an exciting new area concerned with designing devices
      that perform some medical diagnoses and chemical synthesis tasks orders
      of magnitude faster and less expensively than traditional techniques.
      However, microfluidic device design is currently a black art, akin to
      how digital circuits were designed before 1980.
      <br></br>
      We have developed a
      hardware description language that is appropriate for the description
      and synthesis of both single-phase and multi-phase microfluidic devices.
      These are new results that have not yet been published. This is
      collaborative work with other research groups in Mechanical Engineering,
      Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-03-27" time="6:00 PM" room="EIT 1015"
           title="Constitutional GM and Code Party 1">
  <short>
    <p>
      GM for the W2015 term, two main amendments to be discussed: Requiring
      elections to be held within two weeks of the beginning of term and
      adopting a club-wide code of conduct.
      <br></br>
      Code Party 1 follows, we're doing timed code golf problems, T-shirts might
      find themselves on people who do well on code golf.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      GM for the W2015 term, two main amendments to be discussed: Requiring
      elections to be held within two weeks of the beginning of term and
      adopting a club-wide code of conduct.
      <br></br>
      Code Party 1 follows, we're doing timed code golf problems, T-shirts might
      find themselves on people who do well on code golf.
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-03-10" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4040"
           title="Runtime Type Inference in Dynamic Languages - Day 2">
  <short>
    <p>
      Day 2 of Runtime Type Inference in Dynamic Languages with Kannan Vijayan
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Day 2 of Runtime Type Inference in Dynamic Languages with Kannan Vijayan
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-03-09" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4040"
           title="Runtime Type Inference in Dynamic Languages - Day 1">
  <short>
    <p>
      Javascript is fast. In some cases, very close to compiled-language fast.
      How is this even possible? How do we know what types our variables have?
      How can we optimize it well? Kannan Vijayan will be talking about the
      historical advances in JIT-compilation of dynamically typed programs over
      two days. Of course, both of those talks will have free food.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      How do we make dynamic languages fast? Today, modern Javascript engines
      have demonstrated that programs written in dynamically typed scripting lan-
      guages can be executed close to the speed of programs written in languages
      with static types. So how did we get here? How do we extract precious type
      information from programs at runtime? If any variable can hold a value of any
      type, then how can we optimize well?
      <br></br>
      This talk covers a bit of the history of the techniques used in this space, and
      tries to summarize, in broad strokes, how those techniques come together to
      enable efficient jit-compilation of dynamically typed programs.
      To do the topic justice, Kannan Vijayan will be talking the Monday and
      Tuesday March 9th and 10th.
      <br></br>
      Does that mean two consecutive days of free food? Yes it does.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-03-03" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 2038"
           title="SAT and SMT solvers">
  <short>
    <p>
      Murphy Berzish explains how to programmatically determine if a program is satisfiable,
      and how to find a concrete counterexample if it is unsatisfiable. At the core
      are SAT/SMT solvers. SAT theory deals with Boolean Satisfiability solvers,
      while SMT theory--Satisfiability Modulo a Theory--allows SMT to be extended
      to common data structures. Free food!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Does your program have an overflow error? Will it work with all inputs? How
      do you know for sure? Test cases are the bread and butter of resilient design,
      but bugs still sneak into software. What if we could prove our programs are
      error-free?
      <br></br>
      Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers determine the ‘satisfiability’ of boolean
      set of equations for a set of inputs. An SMT solver (Satisfiability Modulo
      a Theory) applies SMT to bit-vectors, strings, arrays, and more. Together,
      we can reduce a program and prove it is satisfiable, or provide a concrete
      counter-example. The implications of this are computer-aided reasoning tools
      for error-checking in addition to much more robust programs.
      <br></br>
      In this talk Murphy Berzish will give an overview of SAT/SMT theory and
      some real-world solution methods. He will also demonstrate applications of
      SAT/SMT solvers in theorem proving, model checking, and program verification.
      <br></br>
      What else? Oh yes, refreshments and drinks will be served. Come out!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-02-27" time="6:00 PM" room="EV3 1408"
           title="Code Party 0">
  <short>
    <p>
      The first code party of Winter 2015, and we have something a litle different
      this time. We're running a Code Retreat (coderetreat.org) with Boltmade.
      The result of this is that you will be able to do a coding challenge, wherein
      you implement Rule 110 (like the Game of Life). Of course, if you want to
      work on whatever you can do that as well. Delicious free food, but RSVP!
      <a href="https://bit.ly/code-party-0">bit.ly/code-party-0</a>
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The first code party of Winter 2015, and we have something a litle different
      this time. We're running a Code Retreat (coderetreat.org) with Boltmade.
      The result of this is that you will be able to do a coding challenge, wherein
      you implement Rule 110 (like the Game of Life). Of course, if you want to
      work on whatever you can do that as well. Delicious free food, but RSVP!
      <a href="https://bit.ly/code-party-0">bit.ly/code-party-0</a>
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-02-05" time="3:30 PM" room="DC 1302"
           title="Making Robots Behave">
  <short>
    <p>
      Part of the Cheriton School of CS' Distinguished Lecture Series, MIT's Leslie Kaelbling will
      discuss robotic AI applied to the messy real world. We make a number of
      approximations during planning but regain robustness and effectiveness
      through a continuous state estimation and replanning process. This allows
      us to solve problems that would otherwise be intractable to solve optimally.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      The fields of AI and robotics have made great improvements in many
      individual subfields, including in motion planning, symbolic planning,
      probabilistic reasoning, perception, and learning.  Our goal is to
      develop an integrated approach to solving very large problems that are
      hopelessly intractable to solve optimally.  We make a number of
      approximations during planning, including serializing subtasks,
      factoring distributions, and determinizing stochastic dynamics, but
      regain robustness and effectiveness through a continuous state
      estimation and replanning process.  This approach is demonstrated in
      three robotic domains, each of which integrates perception, estimation,
      planning, and manipulation.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-02-02" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4063"
           title="Racket's Magical match">
  <short>
    <p>
      Theo Belaire, a fourth-year CS student, will be talking about Racket's
      match' function. Bug resistant, legible, and super powerful! Especially
      useful for CS 241 in writing compilers, but all-round a joy to write.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Come learn how to use the power of the Racket match construct to make your
      code easier to read, less bug-prone and overall more awesome!
    </p>
    <p>
      Theo Belaire,
      a fourth-year CS student, will show you the basics of how this amazing
      function works, and help you get your feet wet with some code examples and
      advanced use cases.
    </p>
    <p>
      If you're interested in knowing about the more
      powerful features of Racket, then this is the talk for you! The material
      covered is especially useful for students in CS 241 who are writing their
      compiler in Racket, or are just curious about what that might look like.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-01-21" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 2017"
           title="Alumni Tech Talk">
  <short>
    <p> Alex Tsay from AeroFS will talk about the high availability distributed
       file systems they develop.
    </p>
    <p>The CAP Theorem outlined the fundamental limitations of a distributed system.
    When designing a distributed system, one has to constantly be aware of the
    trade-off between consistency and availability.

    Most distributed systems are designed with consistency in mind. However, AeroFS
    has decided to build a high-availability file system instead.

    In this tech talk, I'll be presenting an overview of AeroFS file system,
    advantages and challenges of a high-availability file system, and examine the
    inner workings of AeroFS's core syncing algorithm.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p> Alex Tsay from AeroFS will talk about the high availability distributed
       file systems they develop.
    </p>
    <p>The CAP Theorem outlined the fundamental limitations of a distributed system.
    When designing a distributed system, one has to constantly be aware of the
    trade-off between consistency and availability.

    Most distributed systems are designed with consistency in mind. However, AeroFS
    has decided to build a high-availability file system instead.

    In this tech talk, I'll be presenting an overview of AeroFS file system,
    advantages and challenges of a high-availability file system, and examine the
    inner workings of AeroFS's core syncing algorithm.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-01-15" time="7:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge"
           title="Winter 2015 Elections">
  <short>
    <p>Elections for Winter 2015 are being held! Submit a nomination and join
       your fellow members in choosing this term's CSC executive. (Please note
       the time change to 7PM.)
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>The Computer Science Club will be holding its termly elections this
       upcoming Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6PM in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). During
       the election, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will
       be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office
       manager will be appointed.
    </p>
    <p>Nominations are now closed. The candidates are:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>President:<ul>
        <li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
        <li>Gianni Gambetti (<tt>glgambet</tt>)</li>
        <li>Ford Peprah (<tt>hkpeprah</tt>)</li>
        <li>Khashayar Pourdeilami (<tt>kpourdei</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Vice-President:<ul>
        <li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
        <li>Gianni Gambetti (<tt>glgambet</tt>)</li>
        <li>Patrick Melanson (<tt>pj2melan</tt>)</li>
        <li>Ford Peprah (<tt>hkpeprah</tt>)</li>
        <li>Khashayar Pourdeilami (<tt>kpourdei</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Treasurer:<ul>
        <li>Weitian Ding (<tt>wt2ding</tt>)</li>
        <li>Aishwarya Gupta (<tt>a72gupta</tt>)</li>
        <li>Edward Lee (<tt>e45lee</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Secretary:<ul>
        <li>Ilia "itchy" Chtcherbakov (<tt>ischtche</tt>)</li>
        <li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
        <li>Patrick Melanson (<tt>pj2melan</tt>)</li>
        <li>Ford Peprah (<tt>hkpeprah</tt>)</li>
        <li>Khashayar Pourdeilami (<tt>kpourdei</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
    </ul>
    <p>Voting will be heads-down, hands-up, restricted to MathSoc social
       members. If you'd like to review the elections procedure, you can visit
       our <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution#officers">Constitution</a>
       page.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2015-01-15" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 2065"
           title="Tech Talk: Google Fiber Internet: The Messy Bits">
  <short>
    <p>
        Our speaker, Avery Pennarun, will share some not-very-secret secrets from
        the team creating GFiber's open source router firmware, including some
        discussion of wifi, marketing truthiness, the laws of physics, something
        about coaxial cables, embedded ARM processors, queuing theory, signal
        processing, hardware design, and kernel driver optimization. If you're lucky,
        he may also rant about poor garbage collector implementations. Also, there
        will be at least one slide containing one of those swooshy circle-and-arrow
        lifecycle diagrams, we promise.
    </p>
    <p>
        Please RSVP here: http://bit.ly/GoogleFiberTalk.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
        Google Fiber's Internet service offers 1000 Mbps internet to a few cities:
        that's 100x faster than a typical home connection. The problem with going
        so fast is it moves the bottleneck around: for the first time, your Internet
        link may be faster than your computer, your wifi, or even your home LAN.
    </p>
    <p>
        Our speaker, Avery Pennarun, will share some not-very-secret secrets from
        the team creating GFiber's open source router firmware, including some
        discussion of wifi, marketing truthiness, the laws of physics, something
        about coaxial cables, embedded ARM processors, queuing theory, signal
        processing, hardware design, and kernel driver optimization. If you're lucky,
        he may also rant about poor garbage collector implementations. Also, there
        will be at least one slide containing one of those swooshy circle-and-arrow
        lifecycle diagrams, we promise.
    </p>
    <p>
        About Avery Pennarun:
        Avery graduated from the University of Waterloo in Computer Engineering,
        started some startups and some open source projects, and now works at Google
        Fiber on a small team building super fast wifi routers, TV settop boxes, and
        the firmware that runs on them. He lives in New York.
    </p>
    <p>
        Please RSVP here: http://bit.ly/GoogleFiberTalk.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Fall 2014 -->

<eventitem date="2014-11-27" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4020" title="Talk: Heroic Android HTTP">
  <short>
    <p>
      The network is unreliable. 3G networking is slow. Using WiFi drains your battery.
      The NSA is spying on you. Different versions of HttpURLConnection have different bugs.
    </p>
    <p>
      Jesse Wilson, a software developer at Square, will be talking about OkHttp,
      a library that he maintains, and how to use it to make your app's networking work even
      when conditions aren't ideal. He will talk about how to configure caching to improve behavior
      and save resources. He will talk about crypto, and he will give advice on which libraries
      to use to make good networking easy.
    </p>
    <p>
      Please RSVP here: https://www.ticketfi.com/event/77/heroic-android-http.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-11-25" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 4041" title="Talk: C++ ABI">
    <short>
        <p> C++ is an interesting study because it supports a large number of
            powerful, abstract concepts, yet it operates very close to the
            hardware compared to many modern programming languages. There are
            also many implementations of C++ which must be made interoperable.
            I will discuss some aspects of the Itanium 64 Application Binary
            Interface (ABI) for C++, which is now the de facto standard across
            Unix-like platforms of all architectures. In particular, I will
            cover a number of aspects of the class system fundamental to C++:
            data layout, polymorphic types, construction and destruction, and
            dynamic casting.
        </p>
    </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-11-21" time="6:00 PM" room="M3 1006"
    title="Code Party 1/SE Hack Day #13">
  <short>
    <p>
       Why sleep when you could be hacking on $SIDE_PROJECT, or working on
       $THE_NEXT_BIG_THING with some cool CSC/SE people?
       Come when you want, hack on something cool, demo before you leave.
    </p>
    <p>
       If you don't have a project, don't worry - we have a list of ideas,
       and a lot of people will be looking for an extra helping hand on
       their projects.
    </p>
    <p>
       NOTE: Dinner and snacks will only be served to those working on
       projects during the event.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-11-17" time="6:00 PM" room="QNC 1502"
    title="Talk: Why Pattern Recognition is Hard, and Why Deep Neural Networks Help">
  <short>
    <p>
       In the last few years, there has been breakthrough progress in pattern
       recognition -- problems like computer vision and voice recognition.
       This sudden progress has come from a powerful class of models called
       deep neural networks.
    </p>
    <p>
       This talk will explore what it means to do pattern recognition, why it
       is a hard problem, and why deep neural networks are so effective. We
       will also look at exciting and strange recent results, such as state
       of the art object recognition in images, neural nets playing video
       games, neural nets proving theorems, and neural nets learning to run
       python programs!
    </p>
    <p>
       Our speaker, Christopher Olah, is a math-obsessed and Haskell-loving
       research intern from Google's Deep Learning group. He has a blog about
       his research here: http://colah.github.io/.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-11-12" time="5:30 PM" room="EIT 1015"
    title="Talk: Machine Learning at Bloomberg">
  <short>
    <p>
        Kang, our guest speaker from Bloomberg, will illustrate some examples and
        difficulties associated with working on some of the most fascinating technical
        challenges in business and finance.
        He will also show some of the machine learning applications at Bloomberg that are
        useful in this environment.
        Please show up early to ensure a spot (and dinner).
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-11-10" time="5:30" room="RCH 205" title="Talk: From Zero to Kernel">
  <short>
    <p>
        From the massive supercomputer, to your laptop, to a Raspberry Pi: all
        computing systems run on an operating system powered by a kernel. The kernel is
        the most fundamental software running on your computer, enabling developers and
        users to interact with its hardware at a higher level.
    </p>
    <p>
        This talk will explore the process of writing a minimal kernel from
        scratch, common kernel responsibilities, and explore of the challenges of
        kernel development.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-11-07" time="7:00 PM" room="MC Comfy" title="'Hackers' Screening">
  <short>
    <p>
      Women in Computer Science (WiCS) and the Computer Science Club (CSC) will
      meet up in the Comfy Lounge to watch a favourite cult classic: Hackers.
      Join us as we relive our 90s teenage hacking fantasies and stuff our faces
      with popcorn and junk food.
    </p>
    <p>
      Hackers of the world, unite!
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-10-24" time="5:00 PM" room="MC 3003"
           title="Unix 101">
  <short>
    <p>
      Interested in Unix, but don't know where to start? Then Come learn some
      basic topics with us including interaction with the shell, motivation
      for using it, some simple commands, and more.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-10-24" time="6:00 PM" room="MC Comfy"
           title="Code Party 0">
  <short>
    <p>
        Immediately after UNIX 101, we will be having our first annual code party.
        Enjoy a free dinner, relax, and share ideas with your friends about
        your favourite topics in computer science.  Feel free to show up
        with or without personal projects to work on, we've got lots of ideas
        to get started with.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-10-22" time="5:00 PM" room="MC 4041"
           title="Talk: In Pursuit of the Travelling Salesman">
  <short>
    <p>
        The Travelling Salesman Problem is easy to state: given a number of
cities along with the cost of travel between each pair, find the cheapest way
to visit all of the cities and return to your starting point.  However, TSP is very  difficult to solve.
In this talk, Professor Bill Cook will  discuss the history, applications, and computation of this
fascinating problem.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
        The Travelling Salesman Problem is easy to state: given a
        number of cities along with the cost of travel between each
        pair of them, find the cheapest way to visit them all and
        return to your starting point.  Easy to state, but
        difficult to solve.  Despite decades of research, in
        general it is not known how to significantly improve upon
        simple brute-force checking.  It is a real possibility that
        there may never exist an efficient method that is
        guaranteed to solve every instance of the problem.  This
        is a deep mathematical question: Is there an efficient
        solution method or not?  The topic goes to the core of
        complexity theory concerning the limits of feasible
        computation and we may be far from seeing its
        resolution. This is not to say, however, that the
        research community has thus far come away
        empty-handed.  Indeed, the problem has led to a large
        number of results and conjectures that are both
        beautiful and deep, and on the practical side solution
        methods are used to compute optimal or near-optimal tours
        for a host of applied problems on a daily basis, from
        genome sequencing to arranging music on iPods.  In this
        talk we discuss the history, applications, and
        computation of this fascinating problem.
    </p>
  </abstract>

</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-09-18" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4021"
           title="Talk: Building a Mobile Platform for Android and iOS">
  <short>
    <p>
      Come listen to a Google software engineer give a talk on building a
      mobile platform for Android and iOS!
      Wesley Tarle has been leading development at Google in Kitchener and
      Mountain View, and building stuff for third-party developers on
      Android and iOS. He's contributed to Google Play services since its
      inception and continues to produce APIs and SDKs focused on mobile
      startups.
      RSVP at http://goo.gl/Pwc3m4.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>


<!-- Spring 2014 -->

<eventitem date="2014-07-25" time="7:30 PM" room="Laurel Creek Fire Pit"
           title="CSC Goes Outside...Again!">
  <short>
    <p>
      Do you like going outside? Are you vitamin-D deficient from being in the
      MC too long? Do you think s'mores and bonfire are a delicious
      combination? If so, you should join us as the CSC is going outside again!
      Around 7:30PM, we're going to Laurel Creek Fire Pit for some outdoor fun.
      Come throw frisbees, relax and eat snacks in good company - even if you
      aren't a fan of the outside or vitamin-D deficient! We'll also have
      some sort of real food - probably pizza.
    </p>
  </short>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2014-07-22" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4020"
           title="The Most Important Parts of School (from a CS dropout)">
  <short>
    <p>
      Learn about the real reasons you should be in school from David Wolever,
      CTO of akindi and a director of PyCon Canada.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Hindsight is 20/20, and since leaving university I’ve had five years and three
      startups to reflect on the most valuable things I have (and haven’t) taken away
      from my time in school.
      David studied computer science for three years at the University of Toronto
      before leaving to be employee zero at a Waterloo-based startup. Since then
      he has been a founder of two more startups, started PyCon Canada, and has
      written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. He is currently CTO of Akindi, a
      Toronto-based startup trying to make multiple choice testing a bit less terrible.
      He’s best found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wolever
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-07-11" time="5:00 PM" room="MC 3003, M3 1006"
           title="Unix 102, Code Party 1">
  <short>
    <p>
      Learn how to host a website and spend the night hacking!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Did you know that by becoming a CSC member, you get 4GB of free webspace?
      Join us in MC 3003 on Friday July 11 to learn how to use that space and
      host content for the world to see!

      Afterwards we will be moving over to M3 1006 for a night of hacking and
      snacking! Work on a personal project, open source software, or anything
      you wish. Food will be provided for your hacking pleasure.

      Come join us for an evening of fun, learning, and food!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-06-25" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 2035" title="Battle Decks">
  <short>
    <p>
      Five slides. Five minutes. Pure fun.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Create an entertaining slideshow and present someone else's on the spot!
      Join us in MC 2035 on Wednesday June 25 at 18:00 for a fun evening of
      quick presentations of random slide decks. An example from last semester
      can be found at tinyurl.com/battle-decks-example. Please e-mail your
      battle deck to l3france@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Snacks will be provided to
      fuel your battle hunger!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-06-19" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 4064"
           title="Bloomberg Technical Talk">
  <short>
    <p>
      Learn how functional programming is used in the real world, while
      enjoying free dinner, and free swag.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Enjoy a free dinner while Max Ransan, a lead developer at Bloomberg,
      talks about the use of functional programming within a recently developed
      product from Bloomberg. This includes UI generation, domain-specific
      languages, and more! Free swag will also be provided.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-06-13" time="7:30 PM" room="Laurel Creek Fire Pit"
           title="CSC Goes Outside">
  <short>
    <p>
      Come throw a frisbee, hang around a bonfire, and roast marshmellows!
      This is a social event just for fun, so come relax and eat snacks in
      good company!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Meet at the Laurel Creek Fire Pit (the one across Ring Road from EV3)
      at 7:30 for a fun night of hanging out with friends. If you aren't sure
      where it is, meet at the office ten minutes before hand, and we will
      walk over together. We'll start the evening off with throwing around
      a frisbee or two, and as the night goes on we'll light up the fire and
      get some s'mores cooking!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-05-30" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 3003, Comfy Lounge"
           title="Unix 101/Code Party 0">
  <short>
    <p>
      Interested in Unix, but don't know where to start? Then Come learn some
      basic topics with us including interaction with the shell, motivation
      for using it, some simple commands, and more.
    </p>
    <p>
      Afterwards we will be moving over to the MC Comfy Lounge for a
      fun night of hacking! The sysadmin position will also be ratified
      during a general meeting of the membership at this time. Come join us
      for an evening of fun, learning, and food!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Interested in Unix, but don't know where to start? Then start
      in MC 3003 on Friday May 30 with basic topics including
      interaction with the shell, motivation for using it, some simple
      commands, and more.
    </p>
    <p>
      Afterwards we will be moving over to the MC Comfy Lounge for a
      fun night of hacking! Work on a personal project, open source
      software, or anything you wish. Food will be available for your
      hacking pleasure. The Sysadmin position will also be ratified
      during a general meeting at this time. Come join us for an
      evening of fun, learning, and food!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-05-15" time="6:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge"
           title="Spring 2014 Elections">
  <short>
    <p>The Computer Science Club will soon be holding elections for this term's
    executive. The president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary for the
    spring 2014 term will be elected. The system administrator, office manager,
    and librarian are also typically appointed here.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>Nominations are now closed. The candidates are:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>President:<ul>
        <li>Jinny Kim (<tt>yj7kim</tt>)</li>
        <li>Matthew Thiffault (<tt>mthiffau</tt>)</li>
        <li>Shane Creighton-Young (<tt>srcreigh</tt>)</li>
        <li>Hayford Peprah (<tt>hkpeprah</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Vice-President:<ul>
        <li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
        <li>Jinny Kim (<tt>yj7kim</tt>)</li>
        <li>Shane Creighton-Young (<tt>srcreigh</tt>)</li>
        <li>Hayford Peprah (<tt>hkpeprah</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Treasurer:<ul>
        <li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
        <li>Matthew Thiffault (<tt>mthiffau</tt>)</li>
        <li>Catherine Mercer (<tt>ccmercer</tt>)</li>
        <li>Joseph Chouinard (<tt>jchouina</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Secretary:<ul>
        <li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
        <li>Catherine Mercer (<tt>ccmercer</tt>)</li>
        <li>Joseph Chouinard (<tt>jchouina</tt>)</li>
        <li>Ifaz Kabir (<tt>ikabir</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
    </ul>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>



<!-- Winter 2014 -->


<eventitem date="2014-03-28" time="7:00 PM" room="CPH 1346" title="HackWaterloo">
    <short>
        <p>Work on a software project for 24 hours in teams of up to 4 members. Swag will be provided
    by Facebook and Google. A Microsoft Surface Tablet will be awarded to the winning team.
    Register and find out more at <a href="http://hack-waterloo.com">http://hack-waterloo.com</a>.</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
        <p>Work on a software project for 24 hours in teams of up to 4 members. Swag will be provided
    by Facebook and Google. A Microsoft Surface Tablet will be awarded to the winning team.
    Register and find out more at <a href="http://hack-waterloo.com">http://hack-waterloo.com</a>.</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-03-18" time="7:00 PM" room="MC 4041" title="Battle Decks">
    <short>
        <p>Create a 5-slide PowerPoint presentation about a specific topic. Bring it with
            you to the event (on a flash drive). Submit it into the lottery. Select a random
            PowerPoint presentation from the lottery and talk about it on the spot.
        </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
        <p>Create a 5-slide PowerPoint presentation about a specific topic. Bring it with
            you to the event (on a flash drive). Submit it into the lottery. Select a random
            PowerPoint presentation from the lottery and talk about it on the spot.
        </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-03-14" time="7:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 1">
    <short>
        <p>We will be having our 2nd code party this term. Enjoy a free dinner, relax, and
           share ideas with your friends about your favourite topics in computer science.
        </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
        <p>We will be having our 2nd code party this term. Enjoy a free dinner, relax, and
           share ideas with your friends about your favourite topics in computer science.
        </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-02-13" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 3003" title="UNIX 101">
    <short><p>Learn the basics of using tools found commonly on UNIX-like operating systems.
    For students new to this topic, knowledge gained from UNIX 101 would be useful in coursework.</p>
    </short>
    <abstract><p>Learn the basics of using tools found commonly on UNIX-like operating systems.
    For students new to this topic, knowledge gained from UNIX 101 would be useful in coursework.</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2014-02-13" time="6:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 0">
    <short><p>Immediately after UNIX 101, we will be having our first annual code party.
            Enjoy a free dinner, relax, and share ideas with your friends about
            your favourite topics in computer science.</p>
    </short>
    <abstract><p>Immediately after UNIX 101, we will be having our first annual code party.
            Enjoy a free dinner, relax, and share ideas with your friends about
           your favourite topics in computer science.</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2014-02-04" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 4058" title="Bloomberg Talk">
  <short><p>
          Bloomberg's Alex Scotti will be presenting a talk this Tuesday on concurrency control
          implementations in relational databases. Free swag and dinner will be provided.
  </p></short>
  <abstract>
      <p>Join Alex Scotti of Bloomberg LP for a discussion of concurrency control
          implementation in relational database systems. Focus will be placed on the
          optimistic techniques as employed and developed inside Combdb2, Bloomberg's
          database system.</p>
      <p>Food will be served by Kismet!</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2014-01-16" time="5:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Winter 2014 Elections">
  <short><p>
     Elections for Winter 2014 are being held! The Executive will be elected,
     and the Office Manager and Librarian will be appointed by the new
     executive.
  </p></short>
  <abstract>
    <p>It's elections time again! On Thursday, January 16 at 5:30PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
    on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
    and Secretary. The Sysadmin, Librarian, and Office Manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

    <p>Nominations are open until 4:30PM on Wednesday, January 15, and can be written
    on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). Full CSC
    members can vote and are invited to drop by. You may also send nominations to
    the <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Chief Returning Officer</a> by email.</p>

    <p>Nominations are now closed. The candidates are:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>President:<ul>
        <li>Jonathan Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
        <li>Nicholas Black (<tt>nablack</tt>)</li>
        <li>Bryan Coutts (<tt>b2coutts</tt>)</li>
        <li>Annamaria Dosseva (<tt>mdosseva</tt>)</li>
        <li>Youn Jin Kim (<tt>yj7kim</tt>)</li>
        <li>Visha Vijayanand (<tt>vvijayan</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Vice-President:<ul>
        <li>Nicholas Black (<tt>nablack</tt>)</li>
        <li>Bryan Coutts (<tt>b2coutts</tt>)</li>
        <li>Visha Vijayanand (<tt>vvijayan</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Treasurer:<ul>
        <li>Jonathan Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
        <li>Nicholas Black (<tt>nablack</tt>)</li>
        <li>Marc Burns (<tt>m4burns</tt>)</li>
        <li>Bryan Coutts (<tt>b2coutts</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Secretary:<ul>
        <li>Jonathan Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
        <li>Bryan Coutts (<tt>b2coutts</tt>)</li>
        <li>Mark Farrell (<tt>m4farrel</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
    </ul>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>


<!-- Fall 2013 -->
<eventitem date="2013-11-23" time="TBD" room="Toronto, ON"
           title="CSC Goes to Toronto Erlang Factory Lite 2013">
  <short><p>
    The CSC has been invited to attend this Erlang conference in Toronto. If
    you are interested in attending, please sign up on our <a
    href="http://goo.gl/8XOELB">web form</a>. We have submitted a MEF proposal
    to cover the transportation fees of up to 25 math undergraduates.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    The CSC has been invited to attend this Erlang conference in Toronto. If you
    are interested in attending, please sign up on our <a
    href="http://goo.gl/8XOELB">web form</a>, so we can coordinate the group.
    We have submitted a MEF proposal to cover the transportation fees of up to
    25 math undergraduates to attend. You will be responsible for your
    conference fee and transportation, and if the MEF proposal is granted, you
    can submit your bus tickets/mileage record and conference badge to MEF for
    a reimbursement. From the <a
    href="https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/Toronto2013">conference
    website</a>:</p>

    <p>"Our first ever Toronto Erlang Factory Lite has been confirmed. Join us
    on 23 November for a full day debate on Erlang as a powerful tool for
    building innovative, scalable and fault tolerant applications. Our speakers
    will showcase examples from their work experience and their personal success
    stories, thus presenting how Erlang solves the problems related to
    scalability and performance. At this event we will focus on what Erlang
    brings to the table in the multicore era."
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-11-22" time="6:30PM" room="MC 3001 (Comfy)"
           title="Hackathon-Code Party!!">
  <short><p>
    Join us for a night of code, food, and caffeine! There will be plenty of
    edibles and hacking for your enjoyment. If you are interested in getting
    involved in Open Source, there will be mentors on hand to get you started.
    Hope to see you there&mdash;bring your friends!
  </p></short>
 <abstract><p>
    Join us for a night of code, food, and caffeine! There will be plenty of
    edibles and hacking for your enjoyment, including a full catered dinner
    courtesy of the Mathematics Society.</p>

    <p>There will be two Open Source projects featured at tonight's code
    party, with mentors on hand for each. Here is a quick summary of each of
    the projects available:</p>

    <p><b><a href="http://openhatch.org">OpenHatch</a>:</b> Not sure where to
    start? Not to fear! OpenHatch is a project that seeks to introduce people
    to Open Source for the first time and help you get involved. There will be
    a presentation with an introduction to the tools and information you will
    need, and mentors present to help you get set up to fix your first
    bug.</p>

    <p><b><a
href="http://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/social-innovation-simulation-design-jam-day-1">Social
    Innovation Simulation Design Jam</a>:</b> The UWaterloo Games Institute and
    SiG@Waterloo will be partnering with us tonight to kick off their weekend
    hackathon Design Jam. They seek coders, artists, writers, database and
    graphics people to help them out with their project.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-11-26" time="5:00PM" room="MC 2038" title="Disk Encryption">
  <short><p>
    The last lecture of our security and privacy series. By MMath alumnus
    Zak Blacher.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    In Zak's talk, "Disk Encryption: Digital Forensic Analysis &amp; Full
    Volume Encryption", he aims to cover filesystem forensic analysis
    and counter forensics by addressing the entire design stack; starting with
    filesystem construction, design, and theory, and drilling down to the inner
    workings of hard drives (modern platter hdds, as well as mlc-ssds). This
    talk leads in to a discussion on full volume encryption, and how this helps
    to protect one's data.</p>

    <p>The sixth and final lecture of our security and privacy series.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-11-12" time="5:00PM" room="MC 4060" title="Trust in ISPs">
  <short><p>
    This is the fifth lecture of six in the Security and Privacy Lecture
    Series. By founding member of the Canadian Cybersecurity Institute and
    employee of local ISP Sentex Sean Howard.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    Bell's recent announcement of their use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
    brings to light a long-standing issue: your internet service provider (ISP)
    pwns you. They control your IP allocation, your DNS, your ARP, the AS paths.
    The question has never been about ability&mdash;it's about trust. Whether
    Rogers, AT&amp;T, Virgin, Telus, Vodafone or Wind, your onramp to the
    internet is your first and most potent point of security failure.</p>

    <p>Founding member of the Canadian Cybersecurity Institute and employee of
    local ISP Sentex Sean Howard will vividly demo the reasons you need to be
    ble to trust your internet provider. Come for the talk, stay for the
    pizza!</p>

    <p>This is the fifth lecture of six in the Security and Privacy Lecture
    Series.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-11-05" time="6:00PM" room="MC 3001 (Comfy)"
           title="Hands On Seminar on Public Key Cryptography">
  <short><p>
    The fourth event in our security and privacy series. By undergraduate
    students Murphy Berzish and Nick Guenther.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
Nick Guenther and Murphy Berzish will be holding a hands-on seminar in the
Comfy to introduce you to public-private key crypto and how you can practically
use it, so bring your laptops! You will learn about PGP, an encryption protocol
that provides confidentiality and authenticity. At the seminar, you will learn
how to use PGP to send encrypted email and files, provably identify yourself to
others, and verify data. Bring a laptop so we can help help you generate your
first keypair and give you the chance to form a Web of Trust with your
peers.</p>

<p>A GSIntroducer from <a href="www.GSWoT.org">www.GSWoT.org</a> will be on
hand. If you are interested in obtaining an elevated level of trust, bring
government-issued photo-ID.</p>

<p>There will also be balloons and cake.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-10-24" time="6:30PM" room="DC 1302"
           title="Practical Tor Usage">
  <short><p>
    The third lecture of our security and privacy series. By undergraduate
    student Simon Gladstone.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    An introduction to and overview of how to use the Tor Browser Bundle to
    browse the "Deep Web" and increase security while browsing the Internet. Tor
    is not the be all end all of Internet security, but it is definitely a step
    up from using the more popular browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, or
    Safari.</p>

    <p>The third lecture of our security and privacy series. By undergraduate
    student Simon Gladstone.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-10-15" time="5:00PM" room="MC 4060"
           title="Tunnels and Censorship">
  <short><p>
    The second lecture of our security and privacy series. By undergraduate student
    Eric Dong.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    In this talk, I will discuss censorship firewalls used in countries such as
    China and Iran, and how to counteract them. The focus is on advanced
    application-layer and Deep Packet Inspection firewalls, and unexpected hurdles
    in overcoming censorship by these firewalls due to the need for very
    unconventional adversary models. Approaches of the privacy tool Tor, popular
    proprietary freeware Ultrasurf and Freegate, payware VPNs, and my own
    experimental Kirisurf project are examined, where strengths and difficulties
    with each system are noted.</p>

    <p>The second lecture of our security and privacy series. By undergraduate
    student Eric Dong.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-10-08" time="5:00PM" room="MC 4041"
           title="Why Should You Care About Security and Privacy">
  <short><p>
    The first lecture of our security and privacy series. By PhD student Sarah
    Harvey.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    Recent media coverage has brought to light the presence of various government
    agencies' surveillance programs, along with the possible interference of
    governments in the establishment and development of standards and software.
    This brings to question of just how much we need to be concerned about the
    security and privacy of our information.</p>

    <p>In this talk we will discuss what all this means in technological and social
    contexts, examine the status quo, and consider the long-standing implications.
    This talk assumes no background knowledge of security or privacy, nor any
    specific technical background. All students are welcome and encouraged to
    attend.</p>

    <p>The first lecture of our security and privacy series. By PhD student
    Sarah Harvey.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-10-03" time="6:30PM" room="PHY 150"
           title="C++ GoingNative Lectures">
  <short><p>
    We will be showing GoingNative
    lectures from some of the top individuals working on C++
    approximately biweekly on Thursdays at 6:30PM in the PHY 150 theatre. Every
    lecture will be accompanied with free pizza and drinks! Dates are Oct. 3, 17,
    31 and Nov. 7 and 21. Please view this event in detail for more information.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    If you're not familiar with the C++ GoingNative series, you can check them
    out on the <a
    href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013">GoingNative
    website</a>.</p>

    <p>We will be showing lectures from some of the top individuals working on C++
    approximately biweekly on Thursdays in the PHY 150 theatre. Every lecture will
    be accompanied with free pizza and drinks! Here is our schedule and the planned
    showings:</p>

    <ul>
      <li>Thu. Oct. 3,  6:30PM: Stroustrup - The Essence of C++</li>
      <li>Thu. Oct. 17, 6:30PM: Lavavej - Don't Help The Compiler</li>
      <li>Thu. Oct. 31, 6:30PM: Meyers - An Effective C++ Sampler</li>
      <li>Thu. Nov. 7,  6:30PM: Alexandrescu - Writing Quick C++ Code, Quickly</li>
      <li>Thu. Nov. 21, 6:30PM: Parent - C++ Seasoning</li>
    </ul>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-10-17" time="6:30PM" room="PHY 150"
           title="C++ Night 0x02 - Don't Help The Compiler">
  <short><p>
    The second in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Stephan T. Lavavej.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    The second in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Stephan T. Lavavej.
  </p><p>
    C++ has powerful rules for dealing with low-level program structure.
Before a program is ever executed, the compiler determines valuable information
about every expression in the source code.  The compiler understands exactly
how long each object's resources will be needed (lifetime), whether each
expression refers to an object that the program has no other way of accessing
(rvalueness), and what operations can be performed on each object (type).
Using examples from C++98 through C++14, this presentation will demonstrate how
to write code that works with the compiler's knowledge to increase robustness,
efficiency, and clarity.  This presentation will also demonstrate the horrible
things that happen when programmers think they can do tasks that are better
left to compilers.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-10-31" time="6:30PM" room="PHY 150"
           title="C++ Night 0x03 - An Effective C++11/14 Sampler">
  <short><p>
    The third in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Scott Meyers.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    The third in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Scott Meyers.
  </p><p>
    After years of intensive study (first of C++0x, then of C++11, and most
recently of C++14), Scott thinks he finally has a clue. About the effective use
of C++11, that is (including C++14 revisions). At last year’s Going Native,
Herb Sutter predicted that Scott would produce a new version of Effective C++
in the 2013-14 time frame, and Scott’s working on proving him almost right.
Rather than revise Effective C++, Scott decided to write a new book that
focuses exclusively on C++11/14: on the things the experts almost always do (or
almost always avoid doing) to produce clear, efficient, effective code. In this
presentation, Scott will present a taste of the Items he expects to include in
Effective C++11/14.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-11-07" time="6:30PM" room="PHY 150"
           title="C++ Night 0x04 - Writing Quick Code in C++, Quickly">
  <short><p>
    The fourth in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Andrei Alexandrescu.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    The fourth in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Andrei Alexandrescu.
  </p><p>
    Contemporary computer architectures make it possible for slow code to work
reasonably well. They also make it difficult to write really fast code that
exploits the CPU amenities to their fullest. And the smart money is on fast
code—we’re running out of cool things to do with slow code, and the battle will
be on doing really interesting and challenging things at the envelope of what
the computing fabric endures.
  </p><p>
    So how to write quick code, quickly? Turns out it’s quite difficult because
today’s complex architectures defy simple rules to be applied everywhere. It is
not uncommon that innocuous high-level artifacts have a surprisingly high
impact on the bottom line of an application’s run time (and power consumed).
  </p><p>
    This talk is an attempt to set forth a few pieces of tactical advice for
writing quick code in C++. Applying these is not guaranteed to produce optimal
code, but is likely to put it reasonably within the ballpark.  </p><p>
    These tips are based on practical experience but also motivated by the
inner workings of modern CPUs.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-11-21" time="6:30PM" room="PHY 150"
           title="C++ Night 0x05 - C++ Seasoning">
  <short><p>
    The fifth in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Sean Parent.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    The fifth in a series of recorded talks from GoingNative 2013. Featuring
Sean Parent.
  </p><p>
    A look at many of the new features in C++ and a couple of old features you
may not have known about. With the goal of correctness in mind, we’ll see how
to utilize these features to create simple, clear, and beautiful code. Just a
little pinch can really spice things up.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-10-30" time="6:00PM" room="Bingemans"
           title="CSC Goes Bowling">
  <short><p>
    All CSC members and their guests are invited for a night of free bowling at
    Bingemans! Transportation will be provided. If you are interested in attending,
    please RSVP using the online form by Oct. 18. You can find it by viewing this
    event in detail.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    We are pleased to kick off the term with free bowling for all interested
    members at Bingemans! Transportation will be provided. If you are interested in
    attending, please RSVP using <a href="http://goo.gl/FsZIfK">this online
    form</a> by Oct. 18.</p>

    <p>Please note the event date change (Oct. 23 to Oct. 30).
    The bus will be leaving from the Davis Center at 6:00PM sharp on the 30th.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>


<eventitem date="2013-09-17" time="4:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge"
           title="Fall 2013 Elections">
  <short><p>
     Elections for Fall 2013 are being held! The Executive will be elected,
     and the Office Manager and Librarian will be appointed by the new
     executive.
  </p></short>
  <abstract>
    <p>It's elections time again! On Tuesday, Sept 17 at 4:30PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
    on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
    and Secretary. The Sysadmin, Librarian, and Office Manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

    <p>Nominations are open until 4:30PM on Monday, Sept 16, and can be written
    on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). Full CSC
    members can vote and are invited to drop by. You may also send nominations to
    the <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca"> Chief Returning Officer</a>. A
    full list of candidates will be posted when nominations close.</p>

    <p>Nominations are now closed. The candidates are:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>President:<ul>
        <li>Dominik Ch&#0322;obowski (<tt>dchlobow</tt>)</li>
        <li>Elana Hashman (<tt>ehashman</tt>)</li>
        <li>Sean Hunt (<tt>scshunt</tt>)</li>
        <li>Marc Burns (<tt>m4burns</tt>)</li>
        <li>Matt Thiffault (<tt>mthiffau</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Vice-President:<ul>
        <li>Dmitri Tkatch (<tt>dtkatch</tt>)</li>
        <li>Marc Burns (<tt>m4burns</tt>)</li>
        <li>Sean Hunt (<tt>scshunt</tt>)</li>
        <li>Visha Vijayanand (<tt>vvijayan</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Treasurer:<ul>
        <li>Bernice Herghiligiu (<tt>baherghi</tt>)</li>
        <li>Dominik Ch&#0322;obowski (<tt>dchlobow</tt>)</li>
        <li>Jonathan Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
        <li>Marc Burns (<tt>m4burns</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
      <li>Secretary:<ul>
        <li>Dominik Ch&#0322;obowski (<tt>dchlobow</tt>)</li>
        <li>Edward Lee (<tt>e45lee</tt>)</li>
        <li>Marc Burns (<tt>m4burns</tt>)</li>
      </ul></li>
    </ul>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Spring 2013 -->
<eventitem date="2013-07-26" time="7:00PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 1">
  <short><p>
    Come out to the Code Party happening in the Comfy Lounge on July 26 at 7:00 PM!
    Why sleep when you could be hacking on $your_favourite_project or doing
    $something_classy in great company? Join us for a night of coding, snacks,
    and camaraderie!
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    Come out to the Code Party happening in the Comfy Lounge on July 26 at 7:00 PM!
    Why sleep when you could be hacking on $your_favourite_project or doing
    $something_classy in great company? Join us for a night of coding, snacks,
    and camaraderie!
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-07-22" time="5:00PM" room="MC 4020"
title="The Future of 3D Graphics is in Software!">
  <short><p>
    Convergence between CPU and GPU approaches to processing sets the stage for an
    exciting transition to 3D rendering that takes place entirely in software.
    TransGaming's Nicolas Capens and Gavriel State will speak about this convergence
    and how it will influence the future of graphics.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    For some time now, it has been clear that there is strong momentum for convergence
    between CPU and GPU technologies. Initially, each technology used radically different
    approaches to processing, but over time GPUs have evolved to support more general
    purpose use while CPUs have evolved to include advanced vector processing and multiple
    execution cores. At TransGaming, we believe that this convergence will continue to the
    point where typical systems have only one type of processing unit, with large numbers
    of cores and very wide vector execution units available for high performance parallel
    execution. In this kind of environment, all graphics processing will ultimately take
    place in software.
  </p><p>
    In this talk, we will explore the converging nature of CPU and GPU approaches to
    processing, how dynamic specialization allows CPUs to efficiently perform tasks usually
    done by GPUs, and why we believe that the increased flexibility of more programmable
    architectures will ultimately win out over fixed function hardware, even in areas such
    as texture sampling.
  </p><p>
    <strong>TransGaming Inc.</strong> works at the cutting edge of 3D graphics, building
    technologies that bridge the gap between platform boundaries to allow games to be played
    on a variety of devices and operating systems. TransGaming works with other industry
    leaders to update established APIs such as OpenGL, while also breaking new ground in
    software rendering technology, which we believe will become increasingly important as
    CPU and GPU technologies converge.
  </p><p>
    <strong>Nicolas Capens</strong> is the architect of SwiftShader, TransGaming's high
    performance software renderer, and is also deeply involved in the ANGLE project, which
    provides efficient translation from OpenGL ES to Direct3D APIs for implementing WebGL
    on Windows. Nicolas received his MSci.Eng. degree in computer science from Ghent
    University in 2007.
  </p><p>
    <strong>Gavriel State (Gav)</strong> is TransGaming's Founder and CTO, and has worked in
    graphics and portability for over 20 years on dozens of platforms and APIs. Gav wrote
    his first software renderer when taking CS488 at UW, where he later graduated with a
    B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-07-19" time="7:00PM" room="EV3 Fire Pit" title="CSC Goes Outside!">
  <short><p>
    Do you love the combination of s'mores, burgers, and fire? Are you brave enough to
    face the newly-grown geese? Do you want to play some Frisbee while listening to some
    chill tunes? If so, come hang out with the CSC at the EV3 Fire Pit this Friday!
    All are welcome for some outdoor food, games, and music.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    Do you love the combination of s'mores, burgers, and fire? Are you brave enough to
    face the newly-grown geese? Do you want to play some Frisbee while listening to some
    chill tunes? If so, come hang out with the CSC at the EV3 Fire Pit this Friday!
    All are welcome for some outdoor food, games, and music.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-07-18" time="5:00PM" room="MC 4041" title="Path Tracing">
  <short><p>
    As a follow on to last term's tutorial on building a ray-tracer from scratch,
    this talk will be presenting the basic mechanics of how a bidirectional path-tracer
    creates a globally illuminated scene, advantages and limitations of this approach over
    other offline global illumination techniques along with a simple example path-tracer
    written in C++, and opportunities for hardware acceleration on GPUs, time permitting.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    As a follow on to last term's tutorial on building a ray-tracer from scratch,
    this talk will be presenting the basic mechanics of how a bidirectional path-tracer
    creates a globally illuminated scene, advantages and limitations of this approach over
    other offline global illumination techniques along with a simple example path-tracer
    written in C++, and opportunities for hardware acceleration on GPUs, time permitting.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-07-11" time="5:00PM" room="MC 4041" title="3D Movies and Computer Science">
  <short><p>
    While humans started making 3D motion pictures in the 1800's, several technical and
    artistic challenges prevented widespread interest in the medium.  By investing heavily
    in a computerized production pipeline, James Cameron's 2009 release of Avatar ushered
    in an era of mainstream interest in 3D film.  However, many technical and artistic
    problems still find their way into otherwise-modern 3D movies.  The talk explores some
    of these problems while introducing the fundamentals of 3D film-making from a CS
    perspective.
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    While humans started making 3D motion pictures in the 1800's, several technical and
    artistic challenges prevented widespread interest in the medium.  By investing heavily
    in a computerized production pipeline, James Cameron's 2009 release of Avatar ushered
    in an era of mainstream interest in 3D film.  However, many technical and artistic
    problems still find their way into otherwise-modern 3D movies.  The talk explores some
    of these problems while introducing the fundamentals of 3D film-making from a CS
    perspective.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- <eventitem date="2013-07-05" time="7:00PM" room="EV3 Fire Pit" title="CSC Goes Outside">
  <short><p>
    Come hang out with the CSC for s'mores, burgers, Frisbees, and fire this Friday!
    We will be hanging out at the EV3 Fire Pit starting at 7:00PM. All are welcome to
    partake in the food, games, and music. See you there!
  </p></short>
  <abstract><p>
    Do you love the combination of s'mores, burgers, and fire? Are you brave enough to face
    the newly-grown geese? Do you want to play some Frisbee? If so, come hang out with the CSC
    at the EV3 Fire Pit this Friday!
    All are welcome for some outdoor fun, food, games, and music.
  </p>
  <p>
    If you have any questions or concerns, please contact exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
  </p></abstract>
</eventitem> -->

<eventitem date="2013-06-07" time="6:00 PM, 8:00PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Unix 101/ Code Party 0">
  <short><p>
    We are offering a Unix tutorial on Friday, June 7th, 2013! Following the tutorial a code party will take place.
    Bring your laptops and chargers for an awesome night of coding, hacking and learning.
    All are welcome to join in the comfy lounge!
  </p></short>
  <abstract>
    <p>We are offering a Unix tutorial on Friday, June 7th, 2013 at 6:00pm! Following the tutorial a code party will take place.
    Bring your laptops and chargers for an awesome night of coding, hacking and learning.
    All are welcome to join in the comfy lounge!</p>

    <p>If you have any questions about Unix101/ Code Party 0 please contact exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. </p>

    <p>Hope to see you there!</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-05-15" time="6:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Spring 2013 Elections">
  <short><p>
     Elections for Spring 2013 are being held! The Executive will be elected,
     and the Office Manager and Librarian will be appointed by the new
     executive.
  </p></short>
  <abstract>
    <p>It's elections time again! On Wednesday, May 15 at 6:00PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
    on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
    and Secretary. The Sysadmin, Librarian, and Office Manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

    <p>Nominations are open until 4:30PM on Tuesday, May 14, and can be written
    on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). Full CSC
    members can vote and are invited to drop by. You may also send nominations to
    the <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca"> Chief Returning Officer</a>. A
    full list of candidates will be posted when nominations close, along with
    instructions for voting remotely.</p>

    <p>Good luck to our candidates!</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Winter 2013 -->
<eventitem date="2013-04-01" time="7:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 1">
        <short>
<p>The Computer Science Club is running the second code party of the term! Come join us and hack on open source software, your own projects, or whatever comes up. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
<p>The Computer Science Club is running the second code party of the term! Come join us and hack on open source software, your own projects, or whatever comes up. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-04-01" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 3003" title="Unix 101">
        <short>
<p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a tutorial on using Unix this upcoming Monday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and use of myriad powerful tools.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
<p>New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a tutorial on using Unix this upcoming Monday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and use of myriad powerful tools.</p>
<p>If you're interested in attending, make sure you can log into the Macs on the third floor, or show up to the CSC office (MC 3036) 20 minutes early for some help.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-03-21" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 4020" title="Using Computers to Find Evidence in Litigation">
    <short>
<p>Professor Gordon Cormack will be presenting a talk on using machine-learning based spam filters to accurately locate relevent electronic documents - a process which has typically been very manual, and very expensive.</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>In a lawsuit, each party is typically entitled to Discovery, in which the
other party is compelled to produce any "documents" in its possession that
may be pertinent to the case.   Documents include not only traditional
paper documents, but email messages, text messages, computer files, and
other electronically stored information, or ESI.  Suppose you were
compelled to produce every document in your possession pertaining to
software downloads or purchases?  How would you do it?   If you were a
large corporation, you would probably hire an army of lawyers to read all
your email, plus your assignments, and any other files on your UW account,
your laptop, your phone, and your tablet, at a cost of one dollar or more
per file.  As a CSC member, you know there must be a better way.  But what
is that better way, and how do you convince the court to let you use it?</p>
<p>It turns out that spam filters that employ machine learning can do this job
well -- better than that army of lawyers.  But lawyers aren't happy about
this.  This talk will outline how the technology works and how to prove
that it works, so as to convince scientists, lawyers, and judges.</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-02-28" time="4:30 PM" room="DC 1302" title="Machine Architecture, Performance, and Scalability: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You">
    <short>
    <p>"Herb Sutter is a leading authority on software development. He is the best selling author of several books including Exceptional C++ and C++ Coding Standards, as well as hundreds of technical papers and articles [and] has served for a decade as chair of the ISO C++ standards committee." - http://herbsutter.com/about</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>High-level languages insulate the programmer from the machine. That's a
wonderful thing -- except when it obscures the answers to the fundamental
questions of "What does the program do?" and "How much does it cost?"</p>
<p>The C++ and C# programmer is less insulated than most, and still we find
that programmers are consistently surprised at what simple code actually
does and how expensive it can be -- not because of any complexity of a
language, but because of being unaware of the complexity of the machine on
which the program actually runs.</p>
<p>This talk examines the "real meanings" and "true costs" of the code we
write and run especially on commodity and server systems, by delving into
the performance effects of bandwidth vs. latency limitations, the
ever-deepening memory hierarchy, the changing costs arising from the
hardware concurrency explosion, memory model effects all the way from the
compiler to the CPU to the chipset to the cache, and more -- and what you
can do about them.</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2013-01-16" time="4:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
    <short>
    <p>CSC Elections have begun for the Winter 2013 term, nominations are open!</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>It's elections time again! On Wednesday January 16th at 4:00PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
and Secretary. The sysadmin, librarian, and office manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

<p>Nominations are open until 4:00PM on Tuesday January 15th, and can be
written on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). All CSC members
can vote and are invited to drop by. You may also send nominations to the
<a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
   Chief Returning Officer</a>. A full list of candidates will be posted
   when nominations close.</p>

    <p>Good luck to our candidates!</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Fall 2012 -->

<eventitem date="2012-11-23" time="19:00" room="MC 3001" title="Code Party 3">
        <short>
                <p>The Computer Science Club is running our third, and last, code party of the term! Whether you're a hacking guru or a newbie to computer science, you're welcome to attend; there will be activities for all. Syed Albiz will be presenting a tutorial on implementing a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-tracing">ray-tracer</a> in C and Scheme.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>The Computer Science Club is running our third, and last, code party of the term! Whether you're a hacking guru or a newbie to computer science, you're welcome to attend; there will be activities for all. Syed Albiz will be presenting a tutorial on implementing a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-tracing">ray-tracer</a> in C and Scheme. Everyone is welcome, so please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-11-21" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 5136B" title="SASMS">
   <short>
      <p><i>by PMC.</i>The Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics &amp; Optimization Club is hosting the Fall 2012 Short Attention Span Math Seminars (SASMS).</p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>The Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics &amp; Optimization Club is hosting the Fall 2012 Short Attention Span Math Seminars (SASMS).</p>
      <p>All talks will be 25 minutes long, and everyone is welcome to give a talk. Applications for speaking are open until the day of the event. For event details, see <a href="http://pmclub.uwaterloo.ca/?q=content/sasms-fall-2012">the PMC event page.</a></p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-11-19" time="3:30 PM" room="MC 3003" title="UNIX 101">
  <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a series of tutorials on using Unix, beginning with Unix 101 this upcoming Monday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and use of myriad powerful tools. </p></short>
  <abstract><p>New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a series of tutorials on using Unix, beginning with Unix 101 this upcoming Monday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and use of myriad powerful tools. </p>
<p>If you're interested in attending, make sure you can log into the Macs on the third floor, or show up to the CSC office (MC 3036) 20 minutes early for some help. If you're already familiar with these topics, don't hesitate to come to Unix 102, which will be held the week of the 26th.</p>
</abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-11-15" time="7:00 PM" room="DC 1302" title="KW Perlmongers Talk">
   <short>
      <p><i>by Justin Wheeler.</i>In his own words, this talk will cover the virtues
      of Perl: CPAN, Moose, CPAN, Catalyst, CPAN, DBIx::Class, CPAN,
      TMTOWTDI, and did I mention CPAN?</p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>In his own words, this talk will cover the virtues
      of Perl: CPAN, Moose, CPAN, Catalyst, CPAN, DBIx::Class, CPAN,
      TMTOWTDI, and did I mention CPAN?</p>
      <p>If you've never used Perl before, don't be scared away by the
      jargon&mdash;the talk should be accessible to all CS students, and even if
      you find it hard to follow, we will be serving pizza!      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-10-26" time="7:00 PM" room="MC 3001" title="CSC Code
Party 2">
   <short>
      <p>We will be holding our second code party of the term. Watch for
         further details, as we plan on working with some robots and Scala,
         git, and Haskell.</p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
      <p>We will be holding our second code party of the term. Watch for
         further details, as we plan on working with some robots and Scala,
         git, and Haskell.</p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-10-18" time="4:00 PM" room="MC 2034" title="The
Cryptographic and Game-Theoretical Fundamentals behind Bitcoin">
   <short>
      <p><i>by Vitalik Buterin.</i> In this talk, we will cover the
         cryptographic and game-theory principles behind the currency, including
         how the issues of double-spending, the "51% attack," and "mining" are
         addressed, the game-theory incentives to use Bitcoins honestly, and
         other issues being faced today in practice, such as implementation,
         attacks, and future scalability.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p><i>by Vitalik Buterin.</i> Interested in learning more about Bitcoin,
         the independent digital cryptographic cash? Then this is the talk for
         you!</p>

      <p>In his talk, Vitalik will cover the cryptographic and game-theory
         principles behind the currency, including how the issues of
         double-spending, the "51% attack," and "mining" are addressed, the
         game-theory incentives to use Bitcoins honestly, and other issues being
         faced today in practice, such as implementation, attacks, and future
         scalability.</p>

      <p>Refreshments will be provided.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-09-28" time="7:00 PM" room="PHY 150" title="Tron Screening: Frosh-A-Tron">
        <short>
                <p>ehashman's lousy frosh event naming scheme continues as we prepare for this week's movie night---a screening of the original TRON in PHY 150. Come watch the groundbreaking film that defined the role of computer graphics and the quality of special effects in modern cinema. And bring your friends!</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>ehashman's lousy frosh event naming scheme continues as we prepare for this week's movie night---a screening of the original TRON in PHY 150. Come watch the groundbreaking film that defined the role of computer graphics and the quality of special effects in modern cinema. And bring your friends!</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-09-14" time="19:00" room="MC 3001" title="Code Party 1: FROSH-A-THON">
        <short>
                <p>The Computer Science Club is running our first "welcome back" code party of the term! Whether you're a hacking guru or a newbie to computer science, you're welcome to attend; there will be activities for all! Our party is loosely themed as a Linux installfest, where we will have a team of members dedicated to helping individuals install and learn to use one of many flavours of Linux.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>The Computer Science Club is running our first "welcome back" code party of the term! Whether you're a hacking guru or a newbie to computer science, you're welcome to attend; there will be activities for all! Our party is loosely themed as a Linux installfest, where we will have a team of members dedicated to helping individuals install and learn to use one of many flavours of Linux. Everyone is welcome, so please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-09-18" time="4:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
    <short>
    <p>CSC Elections have begun for the Fall 2012 term, nominations are open!</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>It's elections time again! On Tuesday September 18th at 4:00PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
and Secretary. The sysadmin, librarian, and office manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

<p>Nominations are open until 4:00PM on Monday September 17th, and can be
written on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). All CSC members
can vote and are invited to drop by. You may also send nominations to the
<a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
   Chief Returning Officer</a>. A full list of candidates will be posted
   when nominations close.</p>

    <p>Good luck to our candidates!</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-09-06" time="17:00" room="Math 3 Atrium" title="SCS First-year Welcome Dinner">
        <short>
                <p>The School of Computer Science is hosting a dinner event for incoming first-year students. You'll get to meet us, some of the faculty, and other new undergraduates. Food will be provided.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>The School of Computer Science is hosting a dinner event for incoming first-year students. You'll get to meet us, some of the faculty, and other new undergraduates. Food will be provided.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Spring 2012 -->

<eventitem date="2012-06-08" time="19:00:00" room="MC 3001" title="Code Party 1">
        <short>
                <p>The Computer Science Club is running the first code party of the term! Come join us and hack on open source software, your own projects, or whatever comes up. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>             </p>
                <p>The Computer Science Club is running the first code party of the term! Come join us and hack on open source software, your own projects, or whatever comes up. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-05-10" time="4:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
    <short>
    <p>CSC Elections have begun for the Spring 2012 term, nominations are open!</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>It's elections time again! On Thursday May 10th at 4:30PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
and Secretary. The sysadmin, librarian, and office manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

<p>Nominations are open until 4:30PM on Wednesday May 9th, and can be
written on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). All CSC members
who have paid their Mathsoc fee can vote and are invited to drop by.
You may also send nominations to the <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
   Chief Returning Officer</a>. A full list of candidates will be posted
   when nominations close.</p>

    <p>Good luck to our candidates!</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-05-07" time="6:00 PM" room="DC 1302" title="mmap and the Mortgage Crisis">
    <short>
    <p>Palantir is a Palo Alto-based intelligence analysis software company that has partnered with the CSC to put on a tech talk and social. There will be free food, free drinks, and for one lucky winner, a free iPad, so why not come on out?</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>In the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, large banks have been saddled with the prospect of foreclosing on millions of distressed mortgages, at a financial cost of billions of dollars and an incalculable social cost.  Crucial to solving this problem is the ability to model and analyze these millions of loans in real time, enabling lenders to price homes so that they can find effective and mutually beneficial alternatives to foreclosure.</p>

<p>In this talk, we'll describe how engineers at Palantir are working on a calculation engine that supports such analyses. We'll outline our design goals of constructing a platform that supports queries against large sets of data at interactive speeds and exposes a high-level object-oriented interface that enables analysts to construct models intuitively without having to worry about the underlying implementation details. We'll describe the different architectures we explored in prototyping the system, demo how to use our product to analyze massive datasets, and discuss how we've ultimately deployed it in the field.</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>


<!-- Winter 2012 -->

<eventitem date="2012-03-22" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 4021" title="Multi-processor Real-time Systems">
  <short>
    <p><i>by Bill Cowan</i>. Programming systems that obey hard real-time constraints is difficult. So is programming multiple CPUs that interact to solve a single problem. This talk will describe the nature of computation typical of real-time systems, architectural solutions currently employed in CS 452, and possible architectures for multi-CPU systems.</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
      Programming systems that obey hard real-time constraints is difficult. So is programming multiple CPUs that interact to solve a single problem.
    </p>
    <p>
      On rare occasions it is possible to mix two difficult problems to create one easy problem and multi-CPU real-time is, on the face of it, just such an occasion. Give each deadline its own CPU and it will never be missed. This intuition is, unfortunately, incorrect, which does not, however, prevent it being tried in many real-time systems.
    </p>
    <p>
      For three decades, fourth year students have been exploring this problem in CS452, using multiple tasks (virtual CPUs) running on a single CPU. It is now time to consider whether modern developments in CPU architecture make it possible to use multiple CPUs in CS452 given the practical constraint of a twelve week semester.
    </p>
    <p>
      This talk will describe the nature of computation typical of real-time systems, architectural solutions currently employed in the course, and possible architectures for multi-CPU systems.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-03-08" time="5:30 PM" room="MC 3003" title="UNIX 102">
  <short>
    <p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The Computer Science Club will be running the
second installment of our introductory UNIX tutorials for the term. We
will be covering topics intended to show off the development-friendliness of
the UNIX computing environment: "real" document editors, development tools,
bash scripting, and version control.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>New to the UNIX computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look
no further. We will be covering more advanced topics in the second installment
of our introductory tutorials, that will help you become a more effective
developer.
    </p>
    <p>We will be introducing "real" document editors, bash scripting, and
version control. We'll prove to you how much more efficient you can develop
with these tools and teach you how to do it for yourself. It will save you hours
of work!
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-03-02" time="7:00 PM" room="MC 3001" title="OpenCL Code Party">
  <short>
    <p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club and AMD's OpenCL programming competition comes to a close, as the contest ends at midnight and prizes are awarded! Open submissions will be judged, so make sure to come out and watch.
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club and AMD's <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/opencl">OpenCL programming competition</a> comes to a close, as the contest ends at midnight and prizes are awarded! Open submissions will be judged, so make sure to come out and watch.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-03-07" time="5:30 PM" room="PHY 150" title="Feynman Messenger Lecture Series">
  <short>
    <p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. Join the Computer Science Club and PhysClub every Wednesday evening for the rest of the term for our five screenings of the classic 1964 Messenger Lecture Series by Richard Feynman in PHY 150. Dinner provided!
    </p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>The Physics Club and the Computer Science Club are proud to present the 1964 Feynman Messenger Lecture Series in PHY 150 on Wednesday evenings at 5:30 PM. The screenings will be taking place as follows (please note times and dates):</p>
    <ul>
      <li><b>Feb. 29, 5:30-6:30 PM:</b> <i>Law of Gravitation: An Example of Physical Law</i></li>
      <li><b>Mar. 7, 5:30-7:30 PM:</b> <i>The Relation of Mathematics and Physics</i> and <i>The Great Conservation Principles</i> (double feature)</li>
      <li><b>Mar. 14, 5:30-6:30 PM:</b> <i>Symmetry in Physical Law</i></li>
      <li><b>Mar. 21, 5:30-7:30 PM:</b> <i>The Distinction of Past and Future</i> and <i>Probability and Uncertainty: The Quantum Mechanical View</i> (double feature)</li>
      <li><b>Mar. 28, 5:30-6:30 PM:</b> <i>Seeking New Laws</i></li>
    </ul>
    <p>Dinner will be provided, so come on out, relax in the comfy PHY 150 theatre, and enjoy. Hope to see you there!</p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-02-16" time="7:00 PM" room="MC 3001" title="OpenCL Introduction">
  <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club and AMD are running an OpenCL programming competition. If you're interested in writing massively parallel software on the OpenCL platform, come out and join us for our introductory code party!</p></short>
  <abstract><p>The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club and AMD are running an <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/opencl">OpenCL programming competition.</a> If you're interested in writing massively parallel software on the OpenCL platform, come out and join us for our introductory code party!</p>
<p></p>
</abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-02-09" time="5:00 PM" room="MC 3003" title="UNIX 101">
  <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a series of tutorials on using Unix, beginning with Unix 101 this upcoming Thursday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and the motivations behind using it, and an introduction to compilation. You'll have to learn this stuff in CS 246 anyways, so why not get a head start!</p></short>
  <abstract><p>New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a series of tutorials on using Unix, beginning with Unix 101 this upcoming Thursday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and the motivations behind using it, and an introduction to compilation. You'll have to learn this stuff in CS 246 anyways, so why not get a head start!</p>
<p>If you're interested in attending, make sure you can log into the Macs on the third floor, or show up to the CSC office (MC 3036) 20 minutes early for some help. If you're already familiar with these topics, don't hesitate to come to Unix 102, planned to be held after Reading Week.</p>
</abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-02-07" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4045" title="Algorithms Talk">
  <short><p><i>by Victor Fan</i>. Join Victor Fan for his talk, intended for all second-year math students with a solid first-year background. Even if you are a first-year or a seasoned veteran, you will probably still take home something new, so please come out to enjoy the talk! Refreshments will be served.</p></short>
  <abstract><p>Are you interested in algorithms? What is an algorithm anyway? We will discuss two or three neat problems with very elegant answers. Some of these answers are actually fast, and some will result in a proof that the problem is NP-complete. (What does that mean?) We will also discuss the motivating thoughts that led us to the solutions.</p>

<p>Join Victor Fan for his talk, intended for all second-year math students with a solid first-year background. Even if you are a first-year or a seasoned veteran, you will probably still take home something new, so please come out to enjoy the talk! Refreshments will be served.</p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-01-27" time="6:30 PM" room="Math CnD" title="Code Party 0">
  <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The Computer Science Club is running the first code party of the term! Come join us and hack on open source software, your own projects, or whatever comes up. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p></short>
  <abstract><p>The Computer Science Club is running the first code party of the term! Come join us and hack on open source software, your own projects, or whatever comes up. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2012-01-12" time="4:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
    <short>
    <p>CSC Elections have begun for the Winter 2012 term, nominations are open!</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
<p>It's elections time again! On Thursday January 12th at 4:30PM, come to the Comfy Lounge
on the 3rd floor of the MC to vote in this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer
and Secretary. The sysadmin, librarian and office manager will also be chosen at this time.</p>

<p>Nominations are open until 4:30PM on Wednesday January 11th, and can be
written on the CSC office whiteboard (yes, you can nominate yourself). All CSC members
who have paid their Mathsoc fee can vote and are invited to drop by.
You may also send nominations to the <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
   Chief Returning Officer</a>. A full list of candidates will be posted
   when nominations close.</p>

    <p>Good luck to our candidates!</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Fall 2011 -->
<eventitem date="2011-11-18" time="7:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="CSC Open Data Code Party">
  <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The Computer Science Club is teaming up with the UW Open Data Initiative to bring you our third code party of the term! Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p></short>
  <abstract><p> We're teaming up with the UW Open Data Initiative to host our next code party on Friday, November 18 at 7PM in the MC Comfy Lounge.</p>

    <p>As always, you're welcome to work on your own projects, but we'll be hacking on some open data related projects:
      <ol>
        <li>Design and build UW APIs.</li>
        We're looking for API design experts to bring scalable API designs to the party. At the party, we'll work on implementing these designs. The APIs that you build will be used by everyone to access the university data made available by the Open Data Initiative.
        <li>Applications using university data that is currently available.</li>
      </ol>
     </p>
     <p>If you'd like to discuss your ideas for these proposed projects, check out the newsgroup, uw.csc</p></abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2011-11-12" time="7:30 AM" room="Davis Centre" title="CSC goes to Design Our Tomorrow">

    <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The Computer Science Club has a limited number of tickets available for the <a href="http://designourtomorrow.com/">Design Our Tomorrow Conference</a> at the University of Toronto on Saturday, November 12, 10:00 - 16:30. See event information for ticket details.</p></short>

    <abstract><p>
The Computer Science Club has tickets available for the Design Our Tomorrow Conference at the University of Toronto on Saturday, November 12, 10:00 - 16:30, and would like to invite you to attend. The DOT Conference is a TED-style event geared towards students in high school, undergraduate, and graduate studies. The goal of the event is to inspire young people to create, innovate, better themselves, and in the process, better the world.  The conference is free for students and is valued at $500 a ticket for non-students. For more details about the conference, visit <a href="http://designourtomorrow.com/">http://designourtomorrow.com/</a>.</p>

<p>Tickets have been reserved for the CSC, and transportation to the conference has been funded by the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science; a $5 deposit is required to secure a seat on the bus, which will be refunded to attendees upon departure. To sign up, visit the CSC office at MC 3036/3037 with exact change. You will need to provide your full name, e-mail, and student ID number. Please note that students who have already registered for the conference *should not* try to register through the CSC. For more details, visit the CSC website at <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/</a>.</p>

<p>This event is not restricted to CSC members&mdash;any student is free to attend. Tickets are very limited, so please sign up as soon as possible.</p>

<p>On the morning of November 12, attendees should meet in front of the Davis Center at 7:30 am. The bus will be leaving promptly at 8:00 am, so please arrive no later than 7:30 so we can process refunds and depart on time.</p>

<p>We hope that you will join us.
</p></abstract>

</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-10-24" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 3003" title="UNIX 102: Tools in the UNIX Environment">

    <short><p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The next installment in the CS Club's popular Unix tutorials UNIX 102 introduces powerful text editing tools for programming and document formatting.
</p></short>

    <abstract><p>Unix 102 is a follow up to Unix 101, requiring basic knowledge of the shell. If you missed Unix 101 but still know your way around you should be fine. Topics covered include: "real" editors, text processing, navigating a multiuser Unix environment, standard tools, and more. If you aren't interested or feel comfortable with these tasks, watch out for Unix 103 and 104 to get more depth in power programming tools on Unix.</p></abstract>

</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-10-21" time="7 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 2">
        <short>
                <p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The Computer Science Club is having our second code party of the term! Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
                 The Computer Science Club is having our second code party of the term! Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends. There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.
                </p>

                <p>
                There will be 3 more code parties this term.
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-10-13" time="6:30 PM" room="MC 4020" title="How Browsers Work">
        <short>
                <p><i>by Ehsan Akhgari</i>. Veteran Mozilla engineer Ehsan Akhgari will present a talk on the internals of web browsers. The material will range from the fundamentals of content rendering to the latest innovations in browser design. Click on the talk title for a full abstract.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
Web browsers have evolved. From their humble beginnings as simple HTML
rendering engines they have grown and evolved into rich application
platforms. This talk will start with the fundamentals: how a browser
creates an on-screen representation of the resources downloaded from
the network. (Boring, right? But we have to start somewhere.) From
there we'll get into the really exciting stuff: the latest innovations
in Web browsers and how those innovations enable — even encourage —
developers to build more complex applications than ever before. You'll
see real-world examples of people building technologies on top of
these "simple rendering engines" that seemed impossible a short time
ago.

Bio of the speaker:
Ehsan Akhgari has contributed to the Mozilla project for more than 5
years.  He has worked on various parts of Firefox, including the user
interface and the rendering engine.  He originally implemented Private
Browsing in Firefox.  Right now he's focusing on the editor component
in the Firefox engine.
                </p>

                <p>
                There will be 4 more code parties this term.
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-09-30" time="7 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 1">
        <short>
                <p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. The Computer Science Club is having our first code party of the term! The theme for this code party will be collaborative development. We'll present several ideas of small projects to work on for the unexperienced. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends! There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
                The Computer Science Club is having our first code party of the term! The theme for this code party will be collaborative development. We'll present several ideas of small projects to work on for the unexperienced. Everyone is welcome; please bring your friends! There will be foodstuffs and sugary drinks available for your hacking pleasure.
                </p>

                <p>
                There will be 4 more code parties this term.
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-09-29" edate="2011-09-29" time="4:00 PM" etime="5:30 PM" room="MC 3004" title="UNIX 101: An Introduction to the Shell">
        <short>
                <p><i>by Calum T. Dalek</i>. New to Unix? No problem, we'll teach you to power use circles around your friends!</p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>Unix 101 is the first in a series of tutorials on using Unix. This tutorial will present an introduction to the Unix shell environment, both on the student servers and on other Unix environments. Topics covered include: using the shell, both basic interaction and more advanced topics like scripting and job control, the filesystem and manipulating it, and secure shell. If you feel you're already familiar with these topics, don't hesitate to come to Unix 102 to learn about documents, editing, and other related tasks, or watch out for Unix 103, 104, and 201 that get much more in depth with power tools and software authoring on Unix. </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-09-19" edate="2011-09-19" time="4:30 PM" etime="5:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
        <short>
                <p>
                Club elections. See related news items for details.
                </p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                Club elections. See related news items for details.
        </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Spring 2011 -->
<eventitem date="2011-07-29" time="6 PM" room="home of askhader, see abstract" title="CTRL-D">
        <short>
                <p>
                The end of another term is here, and so we're having our End-of-Term dinner.

                Everybody's welcome to come to CTRL-D. We are running this like a potluck, so bringing food is suggested.
                </p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~askhader/">askhader's</a> house is at: <br/>
                9 Cardill Cresent<br/>
                Waterloo, ON<br/>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-07-22" time="7 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 3">
        <short>
                <p>
                        The final Code Party of the term is here!  Come hack on some code,
                        solve some puzzles, and have some fun. The event starts in the evening and will run
                        all night.  You can show up for any portion of it.  You should bring a laptop, and
                        probably have something in mind to work on, though you're welcome with neither.
                </p>
                <p>
                        Snacks will be provided.  Everyone is welcome.
                </p>
                <p>
                        Please note this date is postponed from the originally scheduled date due to
                        conflicts with <a href="http://www.kitchenerribandbeerfest.com/">Kitchener Ribfest &amp; Craft Beer Show</a>
                </p>
        </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2011-07-20" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 2038" title="An Introduction to Steganography">
        <short>
                <p>
                        As part of the CSC member talks series, Yomna Nasser will be presenting an introduction to steganography.
                        Steganography is the act of hiding information such that it can only be found by its intended recipient.
                        It has been practiced since ancient Greece, and is still in use today.
                </p>
                <p>
                        This talk will include an introduction to the area, history, and some basic techniques for hiding information
                        and detecting hidden data.  There will be an overview of some of the mathematics involved, but nothing too
                        rigorous.
                </p>
        </short>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2011-07-09" time="4 PM to 10PM" room="Columbia Lake Firepit"
        title="CSC Goes Outside">
        <short> <p> Do you like going outside?  Are you
                        vitamin-D deficient from being in the MC too long?  Do you think
                        marshmallows, hotdogs, and fire are a delicious combination?  </p>

                <p> If so, you should join us as the CSC is going outside!  </p>

                <p> Around 4PM, we're going to Columbia Lake for some outdoor fun.
                        We'll have Frisbees, kites, snacks, and some drinks.  We'll be
                        sticking around until dusk, when we're going to have a campfire
                        with marshmallows and hotdogs.  We plan to be there until 10PM, but
                        of course you're welcome to come for any subinterval.  </p>
        </short>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-07-04" time="1:30 PM" room="MC 5158" title="Our Troubles with Linux and Why You Should Care">
        <short>
                <p>
                A joint work between Professors Tim Brecht, Ashif Harji, and
                Peter Buhr, this talk describes experiences using the Linux
                kernel as a platform for conducting performance evaluations.
                </p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
                Linux provides researchers with a full-fledged operating system that is
                widely used and open source. However, due to its complexity and rapid
                development, care should be exercised when using Linux for performance
                experiments, especially in systems research. The size and continual
                evolution of the Linux code-base makes it difficult to understand, and
                as a result, decipher and explain the reasons for performance
                improvements. In addition, the rapid kernel development cycle means
                that experimental results can be viewed as out of date, or meaningless,
                very quickly. We demonstrate that this viewpoint is incorrect because
                kernel changes can and have introduced both bugs and performance
                degradations.
                </p>
                <p>
                This talk describes some of our experiences using the Linux kernel as a
                platform for conducting performance evaluations and some performance
                regressions we have found. Our results show, these performance
                regressions can be serious (e.g., repeating identical experiments
                results in large variability in results) and long lived despite having
                a large negative impact on performance (one problem appears to have
                existed for more than 3 years). Based on these experiences, we argue
                that it is often reasonable to use an older kernel version,
                experimental results need careful analysis to explain why a change in
                performance occurs, and publishing papers that validate prior research
                is essential.
                </p>
                <p>
                This is joint work with Ashif Harji and Peter Buhr.
                </p>
                <p>
                This talk will be about 20-25 minutes long with lots of time for
                questions and discussion afterwards.
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-06-24" time="7 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 2">
        <short>
                <p>
                        The second Code Party of the term takes place this Friday!  Come hack on some code,
                        solve some puzzles, and have some fun. The event starts in the evening and will run
                        all night.  You can show up for any portion of it.  You should bring a laptop, and
                        probably have something in mind to work on, though you're welcome with neither.
                </p>
                <p>
                        Snacks will be provided.
                </p>
        </short>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-06-14" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 2054" title="Taming Software Bloat with AdaptableGIMP">
        <short>
                Ever use software with 100s or 1000s of commands? Ever have a hard time
                finding the right commands to perform your task? In this talk, we'll
                present AdaptableGIMP, a new version of GIMP developed at Waterloo to
                help simplify complex user interfaces.
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
                        Ever use software with 100s or 1000s of commands? Ever have a hard time
                        finding the right commands to perform your task? We have. And we have
                        some new ideas on how to deal with software bloat.
                </p>
                <p>
                        In this talk, we'll present AdaptableGIMP, a new version of GIMP
                        developed by the HCI Lab here at the University of Watreloo.
                        AdaptableGIMP introduces the notion of crowdsourced interface
                        customizations: Any user of the application can customize the interface
                        for performing a particular task, with that customization instantly
                        shared with all other users through a wiki at adaptablegimp.org. In the
                        talk, we'll demo this new version of GIMP and show how it can help
                        people work faster by simplifying feature-rich, complex user
                        interfaces.
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-06-09" time="4:30 PM" room="MC 2054"
        title="General Purpose Computing on Graphics Cards">
        <short>
                In the first of our member talks for the term, Katie Hyatt will give a
                short introduction to General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit
                computing.  This expanding field has many applications. The primary
                focus of this talk will be nVidia's CUDA architecture.
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p> This is the first of our member talks for the term, presented by
                        CSC member and Waterloo undergraduate student Katie Hyatt
                </p>
                <p>
                        GPGPU (general purpose graphics processing unit) computing is an
                        expanding area of interest, with applications in physics, chemistry,
                        applied math, finance, and other fields. nVidia has created an
                        architecture named CUDA to allow programmers to use graphics cards
                        without having to write PTX assembly or understand OpenGL. CUDA is
                        designed to allow for high-performance parallel computation controlled
                        from the CPU while granting the user fine control over the behaviour
                        and performance of the device.
                </p>

                <p>
                        In this talk, I'll discuss the basics of nVidia's CUDA architecture
                        (with most emphasis on the CUDA C extensions), the GPGPU programming
                        environment, optimizing code written for the graphics card, algorithms
                        with noteworthy performance on GPU, libraries and tools available to
                        the GPGPU programmer, and some applications to condensed matter
                        physics. No physics background required!
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-06-03" time="7 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party 1">
        <short>
                The Computer Science Club is having our first code party of the term.
                The theme for this week's code party is personal projects. Come show us
                what you've been working on! Of course, everybody is welcome, even if you
                don't have a project.
        </short>
        <abstract>
                The Computer Science Club is having our first code party of the term.
                The theme for this week's code party is personal projects. Come show us
                what you've been working on! Of course, everybody is welcome, even if you
                don't have a project.

                Personal projects are a great way to flex your CS muscles, and learn interesting
                and new things. Come out and have some fun!

                Two more are scheduled for later in the term.
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2011-05-09" time="5:31 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections Nominees List">
    <short>
    <p>CSC Elections, final list of nominations for Spring 2011</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
    <p>The nominations are:
    <ul>
    <li>President: jdonland, mimcpher, mthiffau</li>
    <li>Vice-President: jdonland, mimcpher</li>
    <li>Treasurer: akansong, kspaans</li>
    <li>Secretary: akansong, jdonland</li>
    </ul>
    </p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2011-05-09" time="5:30 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Elections">
    <short>
    <p>CSC Elections have begun for the Spring 2011 term, nominations are open!</p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
    <p>It's time to elect your CSC executive for the Spring 2011 term. The
       elections will be held on Monday May 9th at 5:30PM in the Comfy Lounge
       on the 3rd floor of the MC. Nominations can be sent to the Chief
       Returning Officer, <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
       Nominations will be open until 4:30PM on Monday May 9th. You can also stop by the office in
       person to write your nominations on the white board.</p>

    <p>The executive positions open for nomination are:
    <ul>
    <li>President</li>
    <li>Vice-President</li>
    <li>Treasurer</li>
    <li>Secretary</li>
    </ul>
       There are also numerous positions that will be appointed once the
       executive are elected including systems administrator, office manager,
       and librarian.</p>

    <p>Everyone is encouraged to run if they are interested, regardless of
       program of study, age, or experience. If you can't make the election,
       that's OK too! You can give the CRO a statement to read on your
       behalf. If you can't make it or are out of town, your votes can be
       sent to the CRO in advance of the elections. For the list of nominees,
       watch the CSC website, or ask the CRO.</p>

    <p>Good luck to our candidates!</p>
    </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Winter 2011 -->
<eventitem date="2011-03-17" time="04:30 PM" room="MC2034" title="Software Patents">

    <short><p><i>by Stanley Khaing</i>. What are the requirements for obtaining a patent? Should software be patentable?</p></short>

<abstract>
        <p>Stanley Khaing is a lawyer