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<!DOCTYPE eventdefs SYSTEM "csc.dtd" [<!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;">]>
<eventdefs>
<!-- Fall 2018 -->
<eventitem date="2018-11-29" time="6:00 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>