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Elections for Winter 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:

The following people were appointed:

It's been a while since we last ordered shirts for members. As such, we would like to order a new batch, and invite you to supply the design for the shirt! The winning candidate (and possibly some runner-ups) will receive a free shirt in the size of their choice. Please send your submissions to the executive.

The deadline will be Nov. 13 at midnight, and winners will be announced by Friday, Nov. 15. At that point, a signup sheet will be made available.

Bowling has been moved from Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. See the event details for more information.

A number of talks on security and privacy have been planned for this term. Email progcom if you are interested in getting involved. See individual events for more detail.

Is there something that you're particularly passionate about and would like to share with others? Do you want to practice presenting on a topic of interest to the membership? We are accepting proposals for member talks for the Fall 2013 term. Tell us about a project you're really passionate about, or perhaps a theoretical problem you find interesting.

Please send a proposed abstract and some possible talk dates to our programme committee and we will get to work on getting your talk scheduled.

Congratulations to this term's new executive!

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Consider attending the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference in Montreal, Quebec this semester, July 10—14. Funding for transportation and accommodations has been generously provided by MEF, MathSoc, and the Dean's Office.

To apply for funding, please fill out this form.

If you have any questions, please contact me directly.

Congratulations to this terms new executive!

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

The position of librarian has not yet been filled.

Welcome to Spring 2013!

Elections for the Spring term have been set; see above.

Elections for Winter 2013 have concluded. The following people were elected.

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Due to repeated power failure in the MC building, multiple CSC systems are experiencing critical service interruptions. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Elections for Fall 2012 will be held on September 13 at 4:00 PM. Nominations will begin on September 6th, and will end 24 hours prior to elections. Nominations may be emailed to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. This term's CRO is Owen Smith (omsmith).

To all of our members who are interested in attending CUMC at UBCO this summer, please remember to apply for funding!

The CSC and AMD are running an OpenCL programming contest! If you're interested in winning a laptop or a graphics card, you should read more and register here.

Registration has been reopened for anyone who did not get a chance to register on time, so make sure you sign up!

Recorded talks from 2010 to 2012 have been added to the media page.

Elections for Winter 2012 have concluded. The following people were elected.

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Elections for Fall 2011 have concluded. The following people were elected.

Additionally, the following people were appointed.

Nominations for the Fall 2011 exec are closed. Nominees are as follows:

Elections will be held Monday, September 19th in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001) from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are invited to come by and vote. If you are unable to attend but would like to vote please e-mail your ballot to the CRO. Voting will take place by approval voting, so vote for as many people in each race as you like.

Nominations for the Fall 2011 exec are open. You can nominate candidates for President, Vice President, Treasurer or Secretary by writing their name on the office whiteboard under the appropriate heading, or by emailing cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with their name and position(s). Nominations close Sunday, September 18th at 4:30PM.

Elections will be held Monday, September 19th in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001) from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are invited to come by and vote.

The results, including appointments, are:

The election is over. The new executive are The new Office Manager is m4burns. The new Librarian is asbumste. There is a correction in the nominee list. m4burns was nominated for Vice-President, not b4taylor. Apologies. If you cannot attend the meeting, please send a vote to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations have closed at some point. The nominations are as follows: It has come to my attention that some people believe I previously claimed that nominations close at 3:00 PM. This is false. They close, and have always closed, at 4:30. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Nominations for Winter 2011 executive are now open on the CSC whiteboard. They close at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, January 11. Elections will be held at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, January 12 on the brand-new furniture in the Comfy Lounge. You can also nominate someone or ask any other questions or just complain to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. The CSC has been invited to MathSoc's annual Charity Ball. If you are interested in attending with the CSC, please contact Gwynneth Leece gnleece@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. The Charitby Ball costs $20 per person and includes a three-course dinner. It is Saturday November 20th at 6pm. We experienced a recent power outage which caused the RAID array hosting mirror data to need to be rebuilt. As a result, the mirrored data is temporarily read-only. We hope to resume synchronizing as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience. You can view the reconstruction progress on the mirror's index page Elections are over. The results are: Nominations are now closed. The nominations are as follows: Time for the election on September 14th has been decided. It will be held at 16:30 in the MC comfy lounge. Nominations for the fall term executives are now open. They will close on Sunday September 12. The election will be held on Tuesday the 14th. To enter a nomination write the name/position on the CSC office whiteboard or send it to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Elections have concluded, congratulations to the new executive: Nominations for the spring term executive are closed. Nominees are: Elections will occur as listed in the events section for the two contested positions. If you would like to vote absentee, please send your votes (one vote per position) to the Chief Returning Officer before 5:30 PM EDT on May 11, 2010.

Contest now open!

This term's programming contest is now open. Check out the website. The problem is Tron, and there will be prizes offered, but if you want details you should really check the website.

Contest Over

Congratulations to amstan for taking first place.

Contest Still Open!

Go to the website now and get to it!

Do you text... do you iPod?

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study on mobile hand held device use and any related health or comfort troubles experienced during their use. As a participant in this study, you would be asked to fill out a 5-8 minute computer-administered confidential questionnaire.

If you would like to participate, please follow this link: http://ithumb.iwh.on.ca/ This study is being conducted by Richard Wells and Sophia Berolo, Department of Kinesiology, and Benjamin Amick, Institute for Work and Health. If you wish more information, please contact Sophia Berolo at sberolo@uwaterloo.ca. The study has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance through, the office of Research Ethics, University of Waterloo.

Upcoming events: Some of the talks from the Winter term are available on the website in the media section, including the IQC talk and video from the lab tours. Joel Spolsky and Richard Stallman's talks are coming soon. The elections are complete. Your executive for the Spring 2009 term are: Kyle (The CRO) has opened the nominations for positions and set the election date. Elections will be held on Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM in the Comfy Lounge. Nominees and voting policy for the election. CSC Branded Merchindise is now available for purchase here for your owning pleasure. The contest is still open and will be until Saturday. For contest details go to the contest website, and come to the code party friday night for some last minute hacking! Richard Stallman's flight has been delayed and he will be arriving in Waterloo later than expected. As a result, the talk has been moved to the Modern Languages Theatre at 6:30PM. Drop by the CSC for more information! Sorry for the confusion! Holden (The CRO) has opened the nominations for positions and set the election date. Elections will be held on Tuesday January 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM The following people were elected today: The following were appointed: New positions were elected on Tuesday. Check the exec section to see who won. Spring 2008 elections will be held on Tuesday May 13th at 4:30pm in the Comfy Lounge.
Get your nominations in as soon as possible on the CSC whiteboard!
Nominations close 24 hours before the polls open.
You can email your nominations to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Winter 2008 elections are over; click here to see the new executive and other positions. The CSClub mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) is now on the ResNet "don't count" list. This means that downloading software from our mirror will not count against your quota. Click here for a list of Linux distributions and open-source software that we mirror. The Fall 2007 election has been scheduled for Sept 20 at 4:30 pm in the comfy lounge. Nominations are now being accepted for Fall 2007 executive positions. Nominiations close on Sept 19 at 4:30 pm. See uw.csc for details. Our talks our now mirrored on mirror.cs for ResNet and on-campus users. The executive has been elected for the Spring 2007 term. The executive has been elected for the Winter 2007 term. The executive has been elected for the Fall 2006 term. The BeBox lives again. BeOS is a unique operating system from the same era as Windows 95. If you'd like to see it run, port something to it (we have the developement tools!), or just watch the funny lights on the front of it, stop by the office and take a look Larry Smith's talk on Creating Killer applications is now online in our new section (in video :-)). The CSC executive for Summer 2006 term has been elected. The CSC executive for Winter 2006 term has been elected. The F04 CSC Programming Contest is underway. Go to the website for more information. The Fall 2004 elections have occured. We have a new executive. Here is the audio for Professor Buss' talk: Game Complexity Theorists Ponder, in mp3 format. Enjoy! Audio has been added for the Larry Smith talk: Computing's Next Great Empires. It is available in Ogg format or in MP3 format. Thanks to all who came out. The talk was a great success. The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Spring 2004. perpugilliam has been restored, with two new disks courtesy of MathSoc and MEF. There are now disk quotas for users, with a 250 MB soft quota and a 500 MB hard quota, with a 14-day grace period. carbonated-water is back up. It now runs as the backup mail exchange and also serves a a slave LDAP server. What this means is that if perpugilliam goes down, your mail will not be dropped and you'll still be able to login to other machines. perpugilliam will be going down for hardware upgrades on 2004-04-16 to 2004-04-19. We thank MathSoc and MEF for their generous support in purchasing this hardware, and apologise for any inconvenience this downtime will cause. Pictures of CTRL-D are available in the gallery. glucose-fructose is back on-line. It has a new 120 GB hard disk, a new power supply, and an nVidia GeForce FX 5900. glucose-fructose will be going down for hardware upgrades on 2004-04-02 for an indeterminate amount of time. We thank MathSoc and MEF for their generous support in purchasing this hardware, and apologise for any inconvenience this downtime will cause. Kernighan came to Waterloo, and the Computer Science Club got our books signed by him. Not only that, but we took photographs of him too. The books that we purchased have arrived. Now we have two books that can be signed by Kernighan when he comes. We voted 15 to 0 to 0 in favour of changing the constitution to follow MathSoc policy. An updated copy of the document is now online. perpugilliam went down over the weekend due to a failing disk. Please back up all your important data as it is starting to go bad. We are trying to acquire a replacement. carbonated-water, h2o, is back down. It's awaiting a new power supply. The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Winter 2004. The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Fall 2003. carbonated-water, h2o, is back up. It's a great machine for reading mail on. The CSC Procedures manual has been added to the website. Thanks go to Shannon Mann for reminding us of this document. We've finally gotten around to disabling accounts. If you find your account has been improperly disabled please email the executive. We are keeping a back up of the files and mail for each disabled account for a short period of time. Jim Elliott gave a great talk for the CSC yesterday and has put his slides online.
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events We have been notified by the Guelph Computer Club that they are unable to host our group event. Sorry for the inconvenience. We have a new computer called glucose-fructose, or sugar for short. As a result, carbonated-water is temporarily out of service, although it should return within a month. The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Spring 2003. The CSC elections took place and we have a new executive for Winter 2003. Due to lack of time for preparation, the Romp Through The Linux Kernel talks were cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully these talks will happen next term. The business meeting of 2002-09-30 was concluded and the constitutional change was approved with a 14:2 majority (and one spoiled ballot). See the new constitution. The Fall elections have occured and the results are in. We've changed to the new site! Please send your comments to the webmaster. The old site is still available. A few things may not be working quite right yet, but I'm working on it. Added books! About 2.5 shelves are there, minus a whole lot that weren't readily accessible from the Library of Congress. Getting all of the books on there is going to be a tough job. These are, by the way, managed by good-old (or new?) CEO. Thanks to Ryan Golbeck and Petio for their hard work getting ISBN numbers onto disc. Added a bunch of old events and some documents, including the constitution. Added the membership list. Old events are working. Event terms, as well as the current term are determined automagically now. Lots of work done. Some more stubs up (office etc.). And I introduce cow - that is, the CSC Ontological Webalizer - which is just a wrapper around libxslt with some extra xpath functions. It is now what is being used to build the site, instead of xsltproc. About/Memberlist stub up. Made the CSC logo gold. Isn't it nifty? XML goodness.