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  <!-- Winter 2021-->
  <eventitem date="2021-01-26" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="CTCI136">
    <short>
      <p>
        Join us for tips and tricks on technical interviews.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p> LeetCode? What is that?</p>

      <p> Your favourite course is back and ready to help you cram for your upcoming WaterlooWorks interviews.</p>

      <p> Join us on January 26 at 7PM EST on Twitch where we'll walk you through all the important concepts such as coding challenges, behavioural questions, and algorithms to help you crack the coding interview! Get your notebooks out and stay until the end to witness a CSC exec go through a sample problem and get some behind the scenes tips and tricks.</p>

      <p>
        The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
      </p>
      <p>
        Register at <a href="https://forms.gle/pqG47mPh8cyf2sWB8">https://forms.gle/pqG47mPh8cyf2sWB8</a>
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2021-01-14" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="RES 135">
    <short>
      <p>
        Join us for resume and WaterlooWorks tips for the upcoming coop search.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
      Class is in session and the job search is starting! Want your resume reviewed before applying?
      </p>

      <p>
      With WaterlooWorks applications opening next week, we want to help you prepare for the coop hunt! Come join us on January 14th at 7pm EST on Twitch to get some WaterlooWorks tips and tricks and watch upper-year/alum students critique your resumes live.
      Take notes as we provide resume advice from the perspective of engineers currently working in the tech industry!
      </p>

      <p>
      Drop your resume in the registration link for a chance to get your resume reviewed live!
      </p>

      <p>
      Not interested in a public critique? You can also drop your resume in the registration link for emailed feedback! More details on the RES135 registration form
      </p>
      <p>
        The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
      </p>
      <p>
        Register at <a href="https://forms.gle/KFygHB6N6mmnwWpm7">https://forms.gle/KFygHB6N6mmnwWpm7</a>
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2021-01-11" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="Get involved in CS Club!">
    <short>
      <p>
        Learn about how you can involved with CS Club this term.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>Do you want to take part in CS Club's exciting upcoming events? Want to help out with our website redesign? Come join us on January 11th at 7pm EST on Twitch to learn about how you can become a member of CS Club, the roles that you can take on and how to participate in existing and brand-new community initiatives.
      </p>

      <p>
        The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
      </p>
      <p>
        Register at <a href="https://forms.gle/WBGPkvs5HzX1CEj98">https://forms.gle/WBGPkvs5HzX1CEj98</a>
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <!-- Fall 2020-->
  <eventitem date="2020-11-25" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="Roasting Our First Year Resumes">
    <short>
      <p>
        Upper years students will be critiquing their own resumes from first year.
      </p>
      <p>
        &#128073; Streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        Looking to start your resume for next term but don’t know where to start? CSC is hosting a Roasting Our First Year Resumes event.
      </p>
      <p>
        Join us on November 25 from 7-8pm on Twitch to hear from some Waterloo upper years as they critique their resumes from first year.
      </p>
      <p>
        Be sure to tune in to hear resume tips from a diverse group of upper years in varying tech domains and bring your questions for the Q&amp;A!
      </p>
      <p>
        The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2020-11-19" time="5:00 pm" room="Online" title="WiCS x CSC: Alt-Tab">
    <short>
      <p>
        CSC and WiCS are hosting Alt-Tab on November 19th, 5-7 PM EST.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        Come join the UW Computer Science Club (CSC) and Women in Computer Science (WiCS) on Thursday, November 19th from 5-7PM EST for Alt-Tab!
      </p>
      <p>
        Alt-Tab is a lightning tech talk series presented by students and alumni. This term's Alt-Tab event will comprise of 4 different speakers who will be talking about topics including Ethereum NFT gaming, proof assistants and vanity Tor URLS. There will also be a raffle to win $20 gift cards!
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <!-- Winter 2020-->
  <eventitem date="2020-03-12" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy" title="WiCS x CSC Bondfire">
    <short>
      <p>
        "Bonfire" with WiCS Thursday March 12th @ 6PM in MC Comfy
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        CSC and WiCS are hosting an indoor get together event Thursday March 12th @ 6PM in MC Comfy. Gather around the "bonfire" for a night of fun, food, and friends! Free hot chocolate, food and s'mores on us!
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2020-02-11" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4045" title="Physical Security Workshop">
    <short>
      <p>
        Physical Security Workshop on Tuesday, Feb 11th, at 6:00 PM in MC 4045
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        In this physical security workshop, students will learn about the theoretical considerations of what makes a system secure. Then, we will break into teams for a hands-on exercise, and a screening of the legendary movie "Hackers".
      </p>
      <p>
        Snacks and drinks will be provided.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2020-01-28" time="6:30 pm" room="STC 0010" title="Code Party 0">
    <short>
      <p>
        Code Party 0 on January 28th, 2020, at 6:30 PM in STC 0010
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        Code Party 0 on January 28th, 2020, at 6:30 PM in STC 0010
      </p>
      <p>
        The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term from 6:30 pm until 9 pm in STC 0010, on Tuesday, January 28. 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. Come any time after 6:30 pm.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <!-- Spring 2019 -->
  <eventitem date="2019-07-29" time="6:00 PM" room="MC Comfy" title="End of Term Event">
    <short>
     <p>
        The Computer Science Club will be holding a end of term event on Monday, July 29th
        at MC Comfy at 6:00 PM.
     </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
     <p>
        Come hang out and celebrate the end of the term with us. There will be pizza, 
        ice cream sandwiches, and juice boxes. :)
     </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-07-18" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 5417" title="Alt-Tab">
    <short>
      <p>       
        The Computer Science Club will be holding a joint event with Women in Computer
        Science on Thursday, July 18th at MC 5417 at 6:00 PM.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
     <p>    
Alt-Tab is back, and this time being co-hosted with WiCS.
Come listen to lightning tech talks by fellow students that will knock your metaphorical socks off!
    </p>
        <p>The speaker lineup:</p>
        <ul>
                <li>Falah Shazib - How Not To Build A Virtual Escape Room</li>
                <li>Anubhav Srivastava - The Fast Inverse Square Root Algorithm</li>
                <li>Frieda Rong - Arrow's Impossibility Theorem</li>
                <li>Charlie Wang - Gentle Introduction to Meltdown</li>
                <li>Stacy Gaikovaia - Intro to Verilog: Hardware Simulation and Synthesis</li>
                <li>William Gertler - Ethics in the Age of Lonely Qubits</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Food and Bubble Tea will be provided!</p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-07-09" time="7:00 PM" room="MC Comfy" title="Movie Night">
    <short>
      <p>
        The Computer Science Club will be holding a joint event with Women in Computer Science on 
        Tuesday, July 9th at MC Comfy at 7:00 PM.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
     <p>    
        Come hang out and watch The Lego Batman Movie with us! There will popcorn and pizza!
     </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-06-18" time="6:00 PM" room="PHY 150" title="Code Party 0">
    <short>
      <p>
        The Computer Science Club will be holding Code Party 0 on Tuesday, June 18th
        at PHY 150 at 6:00 PM.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
     <p>    
        Come hang out with us! Study for midterms, do assignments, work on side projects, or
        prep for interviews. We'll have free food - we aren't ordering pizza, so don't worry. :)
     </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-06-05" time="7:00 PM" room="MOVED to MC Comfy" title="WiCS x CSC Bondfire Night">
    <short>
      <p>
    The Computer Science Club will be holding a joint event with Women in
    Computer Science on Wednesday, June 5th at MC Comfy at 7:00 PM. NOTE: the
    event has been moved from the Laurel Creek Firepit due to rain.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
     <p>    
       Come and join us for a night of Campfire, friends, fun and yeah Free food 😁,
       we'll be having Pitas, drinks, water(Gotta Keep my Fam hydrated eh! 😉) and 
       last but not the least we'll be having S'mores too, because any Campfire is 
       incomplete without them.
     </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-05-16" time="7:00 pm" room="MC Comfy (MC 3001)" title="Spring 2019 Elections">
    <short>
      <p>
        The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Spring 2019
        term on Thursday, May 16th in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 7:00 PM.
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        During the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and
        assistant vice-president (formerly 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 an email to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. You can also
        deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to
        the CRO, Charlie Wang, in-person. Nominations will close at 6:00 PM on
        Wednesday, May 15th.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <!-- Winter 2019 -->
  <eventitem date="2019-04-05" time="3:30 pm" room="STC 0020" title="Prof talk: Making the Switch: Going from 2D to S3D">
    <short>
      <p>
        We will be having our second prof talk of the term with Lesley Istead, on April 5, 3:30 pm in STC 0020. She will be talking about the problems and algorithms used in the film industry to go from 2D to S3D. Come listen to the talk and enjoy some free food!
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        We will be having our second prof talk of the term with Lesley Istead, on April 5, 3:30 pm in STC 0020. She will be talking about the problems faced, and algorithms used in the film industry to go from 2D to S3D. Come listen to the talk and enjoy some free food!
      </p>
      <p>
        For the last 10 years, most blockbusters have been released in both 2D and stereoscopic 3D. The move from 2D to S3D is non-trivial and involves many new algorithms and technologies.

        But there are still many problems to be solved and many improvements that can still be made. In this talk, we'll explore artifacts of traditional 2D photography, methods to represent them comfortably in S3D, and their meaning in a 3D world.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-03-21" time="6 pm" room="MC Comfy" title="CSC + WiCS Movie Night">
    <short>
      <p>
        CSC + WiCS Movie Night on March 21th, 2019, at 6 PM in MC Comfy
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        CSC + WiCS Movie Night on March 21th, 2019, at 6 PM in MC Comfy
      </p>
      <p>
        Join us and bring all your friends to CSC and WiCS' movie night! We will be showing your fave tech-related movies and serving some delicious snacks.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-03-20" time="4 pm" room="PHY 150" title="Prof talk: Animated Tilings">
    <short>
      <p>
        Professor Craig Kaplan will be talking about tiling arrangements on March 20th, 2019, at 4 PM in PHY 150
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        By slowly varying the shapes of tiles in a tiling, it's possible to create fun and interesting abstract animations. Many of these animations are a good fit for the genre of looping mathematical GIFs that proliferate in social media. In this talk, I'll introduce a few core concepts from tiling theory and then discuss techniques for constructing tilings that evolve in space or in time.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-03-13" time="6 pm" room="QNC 1502" title="Code Party 0">
    <short>
      <p>
        Code Party 0 on March 13th, 2019, at 6 PM in QNC 1502
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        Code Party 0 on March 13th, 2019, at 6 PM in QNC 1502
      </p>
      <p>
        The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term from 6 pm until 9 pm in QNC-1502, on Wednesday, March 13. 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. Come any time after 6 pm.
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-03-02" time="12 pm" room="QNC 1502" title="Git 101">
    <short>
      <p>
        Git 101 workshop on March 2nd, 2019, at 12 PM in QNC 1502
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        Git 101 workshop on March 2nd, 2019, at 12 PM in QNC 1502
      </p>
      <p>
        Git and source code management is an essential tool in software development. Knowing how to make the best out of it will help you get out of tricky situations, and allow you to be a better engineer.
      </p>
      <p>
        Come learn some basic topics with us including the motivation for using git, interaction with git using the command line, pull requests, feature branch workflow, etc. This event targets first years with minimal git experience.
      </p>
      <p>
        We are also searching for mentors for the workshop. Instructions for signing up are <a href="https://github.com/uwcsc/git-101-mentor-signup">here</a>
      </p>
      <p>Pizza will be provided.</p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
  <eventitem date="2019-01-24" time="6:30 pm" room="STC 0060" title="Algorithms practice workshop">
    <short>
      <p>
        Algorithms practice workshop on January 24th, 2019, at 6:30 PM in STC 0060
      </p>
    </short>
    <abstract>
      <p>
        Algorithms practice workshop on January 24th, 2019, at 6:30 PM in STC 0060
      </p>
      <p>
        Worried about your upcoming WaterlooWorks technical interviews? Want to nail your dream internship this term? Come to the Algorithms Practice Workshop at 6:30 PM, January 24th at STC 0060!
      </p>
      <p>
        During the workshop, you will learn tons of useful technical interview tips collected from experienced upper-year students, as well as gain hands-on experience by practicing efficiently!
      </p>
      <p>
        Writing a good solution to the problem is only the beginning — technical interviewers are evaluating more than just your code. Let's learn how to impress them in multiple ways!
      </p>
      <p>
        Please register <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/WnUOd5VWwUfwA3Ru2">here</a>
        <br />
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/554508501696081">Facebook event page</a>
      </p>
    </abstract>
  </eventitem>
<!-- Fall 2018 -->
<eventitem date="2018-12-03" time="7:00 - 9:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
           title="CSC EOT">
   <short>
     <p>
       CSC End of term celebrations on December 3rd, at 7 PM in MC Comfy.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <p>
       CSC End of term celebrations on December 3rd, at 7 PM in MC Comfy.
      </p>

     <p>
       The term is coming to an end, and we will be celebrating as such on Monday December 3rd 7-9pm in the MC Comfy.
     </p>
     <p>
       Come hang out with fellow CSC members, and enjoy food and cake!
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-11-29" time="6:00 pm - 8:00 pm" room="MC 5479"
           title="Alt-Tab">
   <short>
     <p>
     Alt-Tab is coming up next week on Thursday Nov. 29th 6-8pm at MC 5417. We have an amazing group of members giving short talks on topics of their choice.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <p>
     Alt-Tab is coming up next week on Thursday Nov. 29th 6-8pm at MC 5417. We have an amazing group of members giving short talks on topics of their choice.
      </p>

     <h3>Talk List:</h3>

     <h4>Anna Lorimer - &lt;redacted&gt;</h4>
     <p>
       All about Slitheen (no, not the dr who alien)
     </p>

     <h4>Will Gertler - Quantum Information: a Primer</h4>
     <p>
       An introduction to elementary topics in quantum information theory as an analogous extension of classical information, including simple applications.
     </p>

     <h4>Fatema Boxwala - GANs, Generative Art and Edward Bellamy</h4>
         <p>On October 25th of this year, the first AI-generated work of art sold on the high-end art market at Christie's - for half a million dollars. A Portrait of Edward Bellamy is an image generated by a GAN, a Generative Adversarial Network. Fatema is going to wax poetic about GANs, generative art, and what it really means for something to be art.</p>

     <h4>Alex Zvorygin - Designing Large Scale Systems for the Web</h4>
     <p>
       Learn to build systems that scale! Handle millions of users, keep latencies low, and your systems stable!
     </p>
     <h4>Patrick Melanson - ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ</h4>
     <p>
       ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ! It will let you talk to all your friends in Egyptian hieroglyphs, pictures of rocketships, Urdu, or even just Latin characters!
     </p>
     <p>
       ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ: BUT WHAT SECRETIVE CABAL CONTROLS THIS UNIMAGINABLE POWER? Find out at this talk!
     </p>
     <p>
       ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ; not just a blessing, but a curse! Reset Spotify forum passwords, make fradulent PayPal sites, send misunderstood texts to your girlfriends' parents, and prevent all of these real-world examples!!
     </p>
     <p>
       ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ. ؟؟Can you really afford to not tap into this power??
     </p>
     <h4>Zichuan Wei - Quantum Computers: what they are and what they can do</h4>
     <p>
       Recently, quantum computing is getting a lot attention and companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft are investing millions of dollars into the field. What is it? and Why people are willing to spend so much money on it? This talk aims to partially answer these questions.
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-11-12" time="5:30 pm" room="MC-4063"
           title="Netplay in emulators">
   <short>
     <p>
     Professor Gregor Richards will be talking about netplay in emulators, which allows for playing video games over the internet.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <h3>Abstract:</h3>

     <p>
     You've got a game, but you didn't write it. You're running it by emulating the machine it was meant to run on, and the machine it was meant to run on never had support for networking. Now, you want to play with your friend, over the Internet. Oh, and it's not acceptable to incur any latency between your controller and the game while we're at it. Surely that can't be possible, right? Wrong. This talk will discuss the re-emulation technique for netplay used commercially by a system called GGPO and freely in an emulator frontend called RetroArch, and how similar techniques can be applied to make networking work in other scenarios it was never meant for. This will be an unprepared, impromptu talk with no slides, so it should either be a fascinating dive into a little-heard-of technique, or an impenetrable mess of jargon and algorithms. Either way, it should be fun.
     </p>
     <p>
     Prof. Richards is the maintainer of the netplay infrastructure for RetroArch, a popular emulator frontend for multiple platforms.
   </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-11-05" time="5:30 pm" room="MC-4063"
           title="[Cancelled] BBC micro:bit computer: What is it good for?">
   <short>
     <p>
        Professor Richard Mann will be talking about the BBC micro:bit, an embedded computer that is popular with hobbyists and comes with a variety of peripherals.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <p>This talk was cancelled. The material for the talk can be found <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr">here.</a></p>
     <h3>Abstract:</h3>
           <p>
      BBC micro:bit (microbit.org) was introduced in 2015 and has since become popular with educators and hobbyists.
     </p><p>
      Micro:bit uses an ARM Cortex M0 processor running the "mbed" OS/runtime (mbed.arm.com).  It has a built in LED 7x7 array, two buttons, compass, accelerometer, infra red transceivers, and low power wireless communication.  Most importantly, it has multiple analog and digital pins to connect to the external world.
     </p><p>
      Web based tools compile gui/blocks, javascript, or python to executable (HEX) files that run on the device.  The device appears as a USB drive.  It is programmed by copying (dragging) the HEX image to the device.  Once programmed, the device runs standalone and communicates with the the host computer via a serial port API.
     </p><p>
      All of this is great fun and a gateway into electronics and real time programming.
     </p><p>
      In this talk I will present a brief introduction to micro:bit, electronics, and electronic signal measurement (voltmeter, function generator, oscilloscope).
     </p><p>
      We will measure the run time performance of the micro:bit, in particular the operation of the analog inputs and outputs and the response time/latency of the device and consider its suitability for user interface, music and audio projects.
     </p>
     <h3>Bio:</h3>
     <p>
      Richard Mann is Associate Professor in Computer Science.  His research is in AI, Sound/Audio, Acoustics, and Electro/acoustic measurement. Details at www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr 
     </p><p>
      In W19 I will teach: CS489 -- Advanced topics, Computational Sound and Audio.  This is a project-based course (no final).
     </p><p>
      I am also looking for URA students in the Sound/Audio area.
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-10-29" time="5:30 pm" room="QNC-1506"
           title="Gloves 101">
   <short>
     <p>
       Make touchscreen gloves with the CS Club on October 29, 5:30 PM in QNC 1506.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
       Do you have a pair of favorite gloves that you wish you could use with your phone? Do you not have that but have always wondered how touchscreen gloves work? Join us on Monday Oct 29th 5:30-6:30pm at QNC1506 to learn how you can make your own pair of touchscreen gloves! Fatema Boxwala will be teaching a hands-on workshop with all materials provided (but you can also totally bring your own). Come and learn a super easy introduction to wearable electronics and sewing!

     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-10-22" time="5:30 pm" room="MC-3003"
           title="Unix 101">
   <short>
     <p>
       Learn the basics of UNIX with the CS Club on October 22, 5:30 PM in MC 3003.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
        Interested in Unix, but don’t know where to start? Then come learn some
        basic topics with us including interaction with the command line, motivation
        for using it, some simple commands, and more. This event targets first years
        with minimal Unix experience.
     </p>
     <p>
        Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-10-18" time="6:30 pm" room="EV3-1408"
           title="Code Party 0">
   <short>
     <p>
       The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term from 6:30pm until ~9:30pm in EV3-1408, on Thursday October 18.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
       The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term from 6:30pm until ~9:30pm in EV3-1408, on Thursday October 18.
     </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.
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-10-15" time="5:30 pm" room="DC 1302"
           title="Data Driven UIs, Incrementally">
   <short>
           <p>
       Jane Street's Yaron Minsky is coming to Waterloo to give a talk aimed at undergraduate students.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
       Jane Street's Yaron Minsky is coming to Waterloo to give a talk aimed at
       undergraduate students. The talk titled Data Driven UIs, Incrementally
       will be held in DC 1302 on Oct. 15th 5:30-6:30pm. Yaron Minsky got his
       BA in Mathematics from Princeton and his PhD in Computer Science from
       Cornell, where he studied distributed systems. He joined Jane Street in
       2003, where he started out developing quantitative trading strategies,
       going on to found the firm's quantitative research group. Here's a brief
       description of the talk:
     </p>
     <p>
       Trading in financial markets is a data-driven affair, and as such, it
       requires applications that can efficiently filter, transform and
       present data to users in real time.
     </p>
     <p>
       But there's a difficult problem at the heart of building such
       applications: finding a way of expressing the necessary
       transformations of the data in a way that is simultaneously easy to
       understand and efficient to execute over large streams of data.
     </p>
     <p>
       This talk will show how we've approached this problem using
       Incremental, an OCaml library for constructing dynamic computations
       that update efficiently in response to changing data. We'll show how
       Incremental can be used throughout the application, from the servers
       providing the data to be visualized, to the JavaScript code that
       generates DOM nodes in the browser. We'll also discuss how these
       applications have driven us to develop ways of using efficiently
       diffable data structures to bridge the worlds of functional and
       incremental computing.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-10-03" time="7:00 pm" room="Columbia Lake Firepit 2"
           title="CSC &amp; WiCS &amp; MathSoc go outside!">
   <short>
           <p>
                   We will be having a bonfire this Wednesday, Oct 3rd 7-10pm, at Columbia Lake Firepit 2 (NW of CIF), co-hosted with WiCS and MathSoc. Smores and snacks will be provided!
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
                   We will be having a bonfire this Wednesday, Oct 3rd 7-10pm, at Columbia Lake Firepit 2 (NW of CIF), co-hosted with WiCS and MathSoc. Smores and snacks will be provided!
      </p>
      <p>
        Here's a map that shows the firepit location: <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/economics/sites/ca.economics/files/uploads/files/firepit_map_oct_2012.pdf">https://uwaterloo.ca/economics/sites/ca.economics/files/uploads/files/firepit_map_oct_2012.pdf</a>
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<!-- Spring 2018 -->
<eventitem date="2018-07-17" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4041"
        title="Sound: From microphones to speakers and everything inbetween">
        <short>
                <p>
                        The CSC will be hosting a Prof Talk by Richard Mann.
                </p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
                        The CSC will be hosting a Prof Talk by Richard Mann.
                </p>
                <p>
                        When you hit record on your phone how is the sound recorded? Air pressure changes come to a microphone, which converts electricity to voltage. The analog signal is digitized by an analog to digital converter (ADC), and finally stored as a digital file in memory. For playback, the process is reversed, and output to head phones or a (tiny) speaker.</p>
                <p>
                        In a loud room does your phone distort? Can you hear the sound clearly? Phones are getting better. But what is needed to achieve professional quality sound recording?</p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-07-11" time="6:00 pm" room="STC 0010"
           title="Capture the Flag">
   <short>
           <p>
                   Test your programming, web, networking, and trivia skills in this computer security themed contest. Learn how to reverse engineer, crack codes, find flaws in websites, and use security tools.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
                   Test your programming, web, networking, and trivia skills in this computer security themed contest. Learn how to reverse engineer, crack codes, find flaws in websites, and use security tools.
      </p>
   

      <p>Play as an individual, a team of up to three, or join a team at the event.</p>

      <p> Bring your laptops, have fun, win prizes!</p>


      <p>Run by Capture The Flag Club in partnership with CACR and the CS Club.</p>

      <p>See http://ctf.uwaterloo.ca/ for more info!</p>

   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-07-04" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4058"
           title="Alt-Tab">
   <short>
           <p>
        Come hear 10-15 minutes talks from CSC members on a variety of topics.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
           <p>
        Come hear 10-15 minutes talks from CSC members on a variety of topics. Currently planned talks include:
      </p>
      <ul>
              <li>Abstract Machines, what a PL person thinks a computer looks like!</li>
              <li>Rendering with Signed Distance Fields</li>
              <li>Strength, weaknesses, and applications of genetic algorithms</li>
      </ul>
      <p>
              Interested in talking? Email djauhar@edu.uwaterloo.ca with your title and
              a short abstract.
      </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-06-04" time="6:00 pm" room="Laurel Creek Firepit"
           title="CSC and WiCS Go Outside">
   <short>
           <p>
                   Come join us for a bonfire outside at the Laurel Creek firepit (across Ring. Rd. from EV3) with fellow CSC and WiCS 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 and WiCS 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="2018-05-28" time="6:30pm" room="STC 0020"
  title="Code Party 0">
        <short>
                <p>
          The CS Club is hosting our first Code Party of the term from 6:30pm until ~9:30pm in STC 0020!
      </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 from 6:30pm until ~9:30pm in STC 0020!
      </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.

      </p>
      </abstract>
</eventitem>

<!-- Winter 2018 -->
<eventitem date="2018-03-28" time="6:00pm" room="MC 4020"
  title="Alt-Tab: W18">
  <short>
    CSC will be hosting our termly Alt-Tab event, the Computer Science
    version of Short Attention Span Math Seminars (SASMS) hosted by that
    math club down the hall. It will be a night full of friendly talks.
  </short>

  <abstract>
    Our current lineup includes:
    <ul>
      <li>Ifaz Kabir: Efficient Type Inference with Union Find</li>
      <li>Jordan Garside: GraphQL and APIs</li>
      <li>Ansley Peduru: Lessons Learned from Cross-Compiling Rust</li>
      <li>Sean Harrap: Implementing Structs Almost From Scratch</li>
      <li>Ashish Gaurav: Teaching Programs to play Simple Games</li>
      <li>Jennifer Zhou: Garbage Collection Concepts</li>
    </ul>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-03-26" time="7:00pm" room="QNC 2502"
  title="Uncode Party with WiCS">
  <short>
    We are having a joint Code Party with Women in Computer Science (WiCS).
    This time, it's an Uncode Party, where you try to find the worst solutions
    possible to programming problems that we will provide.
  </short>

  <abstract>
    <p>An example of a good "bad" solution is
    <a href="http://wiki.c2.com/?SlowSort">SlowSort</a>.
    Come and write shoddy code with us and eat free food. You can work on
    your assignments too. No general meeting will be bundled with this event.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2018-03-22" time="6:00pm" room="MC 4059"
  title="Prof Talk with Richard Mann">
  <short>
    <p>Professor Richard Mann will be giving a talk on black-box testing
    of audio gear. Come out to see fancy audio gear, learn more about his
    Advanced Topics course in Computational Sound, and eat free food! Click
    through for his abstract.</p>
  </short>
  <abstract>
    <p>
    Black box testing usually refers to computer testing, either software
    or hardware.
    </p>

    <p>
    In this talk I apply similar ideas to testing analog and digital audio
    gear. For example, given an audio device, such as a guitar effects pedal,
    can we stimulate the system with test signals and determine what processing
    is done inside?
    </p>

    <p>
    I will present our open source testing software to test the frequency
    response, time delay and distortion in audio systems. We will show several
    real world testing situations, including microphones, loud speakers,
    digital keyboards, digital audio mixing boards, and guitar effects pedals.
    </p>

    <p>
    Students are encouraged to bring their own musical instruments and/or
    sound processors for testing.
    </p>

    <p>
    Finally, I will present information about my current audio course,
    CS489/689 -- Advanced Topics in Computer Science -- Computational
    Sound. This is a project based course, normally offered in the Winter term.
    </p>
  </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2018-03-13" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
  title="Discussion with maddog">
  <short>
    <p>
      We'll be having a discussion session with maddog, an out-of-town speaker
      from the LPI. Food will be provided, as well as good company. Come out!
    </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <p>
       Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, an
       association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux
       Operating System.  During his career in commercial computing which
       started in 1969 (almost a half-century ago), Mr. Hall has been a
       programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager,
       technical marketing manager, educator, and consultant.
       <br/>
       He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna
       Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA
       Linux Systems, SGI and Futura Networks (Campus Party).
       <br/>
       Mr. Hall is currently the CEO of OptDyn, Inc (www.optdyn.com) which
       creates the Subutai(tm) suite of Open Source Peer-to-Peer Cloud
       computing tools.  He also works as an independent consultant, and is
       involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging
       marketplaces, as well as working on performance and educational issues
       with Free and Open Source Software via the Linaro Association.  He is
       the Chairman Emeritus of wit.com
       <br/>
       Mr Hall has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having
       concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994
       (almost a quarter century ago), when he first met Linus Torvalds and
       correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and
       Open Source Software.
       <br/>
       He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College
       and Daniel Webster College.  He still likes talking to students over
       pizza and beer (the pizza can be optional).
       <br/>
       Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles,
       many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".  He currently
       writes a monthly article for Linux Pro Magazine and occasionally blogs
       for them on their web site.
       <br/>
       Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia and
       Brazil as well as the United Nations and many local and state
       governments on the use of Free and Open Source Software.
       <br/>
       Mr. Hall has served and serves on the boards of several companies,
       universities and several non-profit organizations.  He is currently
       very active with the University of Sao Paulo's Centro Interdisciplinar
       Em Tecnologias Interativas (CITI), acting as a member of their advisory
       board.  Mr. Hall is also the Board Chair of the Linux Professional
       Institute, the world's premier Open Source Certification organization,
       and is the senior advisor and co-founder of Caninos Loucos, bringing
       inexpensive, locally designed and manufactured single board computers
       to Brazil.  He is also the President of Project Caua.
       <br/>
       Mr. Hall has traveled the world (over 100 countries) speaking on the
       benefits of Free and Open Source Software, and received his BS in
       Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973), and his MSCS
       from RPI in Troy, New York (1977).
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2018-03-12" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
  title="Programming for the 22nd Century">
  <short>
    <p>
      We are bringing an out-of-town speaker, John "maddog" Hall, to come speak!
      Come to this event, where he will be talking about changes in programming
      paradigms since the invention of C, and the discussion event tomorrow.
    </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <p>
       Abstract: Many things have changed since the early days of programming,
       but many programs are written as if they were for the machines of the 20th
       century which had small memories, no cache, single core CPUs, small
       address spaces.  Even the definition of "performance" has changed.  This
       talk will investigate some of these issues and hopefully lead people to
       better programming.
     </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2018-02-07" time="5:30pm" room="QNC 1502"
  title="Technical Interview Prep">
  <short>
    <p>
      Our first workshop of the term! Fatema and Arshia will be heading a
      workshop on how to prepare for technical interviews.
    </p>
    <p>
      Got technical interviews? Come out!
    </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
     <p>
       Details and abstract TBA. So far, we're going to be meeting and going
       over how to get really good at technical interviews.
     </p>

     <p>We will:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>Talk about the different kinds of programming jobs you can apply and interview for</li>
        <li>Present some general advice for tech interviews</li>
        <li>have sessions in parallel for software engineering, frontend engineering, security, and devops interviews</li>
    </ul>

    <p>
If you're in 2B or below, you'll probably find this event helpful! Anyone is welcome to attend, however.
    </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2018-01-25" time="6:00pm" room="STC 0040"
  title="Code Party 0">
  <short>
    <p>
      Our first code party of the term! Food is sandwiches, constitution
      amendments are a go, and Dr. Morton will be talking there! It'll be fun.
    </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
    <p>
      The food is sandwiches, fruit platter, and coffee! You can consume this
      sustenance while:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>Dr. Andrew Morton talks about an upcoming CS final year project
        course!</li>
      <li>We take up Constitution and Code of Conduct amendments</li>
      <li>We elect someone to the position of Secretary</li>
      <li>Show off any cool things we're working on, and</li>
      <li>Just, like, hang out for a while (that's what code parties are
        for)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
      Come out! There will be cool people there we promise. Like our VP Charlie
      Wang.
    </p>
   </abstract>
</eventitem>

<eventitem date="2018-01-15" time="5:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
        title="Winter 2018 Elections">
        <short>
      <p>
         The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
         Winter 2018 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
         Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
         Librarian, CTF Club Liaison and IMAPd (fridge and snack runs)
         will be appointed.
      </p>
   </short>
   <abstract>
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2018
      term on Monday, January 15th at 5:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001).
      There will be snacks at the elections, probably Timbits.
    </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,
      Librarian and IMAPd (fridge and snack runs).
    </p>

    <p>
      If you would like to run or nominate someone for any of the elected
      positions, you can put your/their name and Quest ID as well as a list
      of positions on a piece of paper into the nominations box in the CSC
      office (MC 3036/3037) or send an email to the Chief Returning Officer
      at <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
    </p>

    <p>
      I will periodically empty the nominations box and notify the people
      nominated via their @csclub.uwaterloo.ca (or failing that,
      @edu.uwaterloo.ca) email address. Please note that club officer
      positions (elected positions, plus Systems Administrator) are
      restricted to MathSoc social members.
    </p>

    <p>
      Nominations will close at 5:00pm on Sunday, January 14th (24 hours
      prior to the start of elections). At this time, I will publish the list
      of nominations via the CSC mailing list as well as at
      <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections">
          https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections
      </a>.
    </p>

    <p>
      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>
    </p>

    <p>
      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>

<!-- Fall 2017 -->
<eventitem date="2017-12-01" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
        title="End of Term Event">
        <short>
                <p>
                        Join fellow CSC members for our end of term social. There will be food and
                        good company. We can grab board games from Mathsoc.
                </p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
                <p>
                        Join fellow CSC members for our end of term social. There will be food and
                        good company. We can grab board games from Mathsoc.
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-11-23" time="6:00pm" room="STC 0010"
        title="CTF Computer Networking Workshop">
        <short>
                <p>
                        Hosted in collaboration with the <a href="http://ctf.uwaterloo.ca">Univerisy of Waterloo CTF Club</a>
                </p>
        </short>

        <abstract>
                <p>
                        Hosted in collaboration with the <a href="http://ctf.uwaterloo.ca">Univerisy of Waterloo CTF Club</a>
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-11-15" time="5:30 pm" room="STC 0050"
           title="Code Party 1">
        <short>
      <p>
          The CS Club is hosting our second Code Party of the term from 6:00pm until late in the evening in STC 0050!
      </p>
      <p>
          Come code with us, eat some food, do some things.
      </p>
        </short>
        <abstract>
      <p>
          The CS Club is hosting our second Code Party of the term from 5:30pm until late in the evening in STC 0050!
      </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 1 and do it, with great company and great food.
      </p>
      <p>
              Come any time after 5:30pm.
      </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2017-11-14" time="6:00pm" room="STC 0020"
        title="Capture the Flag Computing Competition">
        <short>
                <p>
                        Test your programming, web, networking, and trivial skills</p>
                <p>
                        Learn how to reverse engineer, crack codes, and use various tools.
                </p>
                <p>
                        Win prizes!
                </p>
        </short>

        <abstract>
                <p>
                        Test your programming, web, networking, and trivial skills</p>
                <p>
                        Learn how to reverse engineer, crack codes, and use various tools.
                </p>
                <p>
                        Win prizes!
                </p>
        </abstract>
</eventitem>
<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", "Subsurface scattering" 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" and "Subsurface scattering", 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>