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<eventitem date="2021-02-19" time="8:00 pm" room="Online" title="Fun Friday">
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<short>
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Join CSC as we play games all night!
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Join CSC as we play games all night! Come for an opportunity to play League (win some free skins :eyes:), Scribbl.io, Among Us, Jackbox, Tetris and more!
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This event will be occurring on our Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg">https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2021-02-18" time="8:00 pm" room="Online" title="Theatre Thursday">
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<short>
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Come watch a movie with CSC!
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come watch a movie with CSC! Bring your popcorn and your movie commentary, we'll be looking for your input on what we watch so keep an eye out for a poll on our Discord.
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This event will be occurring on our Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg">https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2021-02-16" time="8:00 pm" room="Online" title="Talk to CSC Tuesday">
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<short>
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Come meet and chill out with CSC execs.
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</short>
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<abstract>
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Come meet and chill out with CSC execs. This is an opportunity for you to meet new people and socialize with us!
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This event will be occurring on our Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg">https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2021-01-28" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="Recovering From a Rough Term">
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<short>
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Join us to learn about other students have bounced back from a rough term, and how you can too.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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The fall term has ended and the winter term is ramping up. Maybe you didn't meet all your expectations last term, you are feeling overwhelmed with your coop search, or you are feeling stuck with a bad mindset-we've been there before and you're not alone.
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</p>
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<p> Introducing the first session of our Afterhours series, join us for a chat with fellow UW CS students. Learn about how they bounced back from their rough times and how you can too! </p>
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<ul>
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<li> Where: Zoom</li>
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<li> When: January 28th 7 - 8 pm EST</li>
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<li> Sign up: <a href="https://forms.gle/MnKmGcXeazwKhTd7A">https://forms.gle/MnKmGcXeazwKhTd7A</a></li>
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</ul>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2021-01-26" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="CTCI136">
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<short>
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Join us for tips and tricks on technical interviews.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p> LeetCode? What is that?</p>
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<p> Your favourite course is back and ready to help you cram for your upcoming WaterlooWorks interviews.</p>
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<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>
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The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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Register at <a href="https://forms.gle/pqG47mPh8cyf2sWB8">https://forms.gle/pqG47mPh8cyf2sWB8</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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<eventitem date="2021-01-14" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="RES 135">
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<short>
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Join us for resume and WaterlooWorks tips for the upcoming coop search.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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Class is in session and the job search is starting! Want your resume reviewed before applying?
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</p>
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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.
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Take notes as we provide resume advice from the perspective of engineers currently working in the tech industry!
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</p>
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<p>
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Drop your resume in the registration link for a chance to get your resume reviewed live!
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</p>
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<p>
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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
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</p>
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<p>
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The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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Register at <a href="https://forms.gle/KFygHB6N6mmnwWpm7">https://forms.gle/KFygHB6N6mmnwWpm7</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2021-01-11" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="Get involved in CS Club!">
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<short>
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<p>
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Learn about how you can involved with CS Club this term.
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</p>
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<abstract>
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<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.
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</p>
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The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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Register at <a href="https://forms.gle/WBGPkvs5HzX1CEj98">https://forms.gle/WBGPkvs5HzX1CEj98</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Fall 2020-->
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<eventitem date="2020-11-25" time="7:00 pm" room="Online" title="Roasting Our First Year Resumes">
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<short>
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<p>
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Upper years students will be critiquing their own resumes from first year.
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</p>
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<p>
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👉 Streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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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&A!
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</p>
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<p>
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The event will be streamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/uwcsclub">twitch.tv/uwcsclub</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2020-11-19" time="5:00 pm" room="Online" title="WiCS x CSC: Alt-Tab">
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CSC and WiCS are hosting Alt-Tab on November 19th, 5-7 PM EST.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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!
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</p>
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<p>
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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!
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Winter 2020-->
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<eventitem date="2020-03-12" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy" title="WiCS x CSC Bondfire">
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<short>
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"Bonfire" with WiCS Thursday March 12th @ 6PM in MC Comfy
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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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!
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2020-02-11" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4045" title="Physical Security Workshop">
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<short>
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Physical Security Workshop on Tuesday, Feb 11th, at 6:00 PM in MC 4045
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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".
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</p>
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<p>
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Snacks and drinks will be provided.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2020-01-28" time="6:30 pm" room="STC 0010" title="Code Party 0">
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<short>
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Code Party 0 on January 28th, 2020, at 6:30 PM in STC 0010
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Code Party 0 on January 28th, 2020, at 6:30 PM in STC 0010
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</p>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Spring 2019 -->
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<eventitem date="2019-07-29" time="6:00 PM" room="MC Comfy" title="End of Term Event">
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<short>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding a end of term event on Monday, July 29th
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at MC Comfy at 6:00 PM.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come hang out and celebrate the end of the term with us. There will be pizza,
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ice cream sandwiches, and juice boxes. :)
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-07-18" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 5417" title="Alt-Tab">
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<short>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding a joint event with Women in Computer
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Science on Thursday, July 18th at MC 5417 at 6:00 PM.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Alt-Tab is back, and this time being co-hosted with WiCS.
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Come listen to lightning tech talks by fellow students that will knock your metaphorical socks off!
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</p>
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<p>The speaker lineup:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Falah Shazib - How Not To Build A Virtual Escape Room</li>
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<li>Anubhav Srivastava - The Fast Inverse Square Root Algorithm</li>
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<li>Frieda Rong - Arrow's Impossibility Theorem</li>
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<li>Charlie Wang - Gentle Introduction to Meltdown</li>
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<li>Stacy Gaikovaia - Intro to Verilog: Hardware Simulation and Synthesis</li>
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<li>William Gertler - Ethics in the Age of Lonely Qubits</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Food and Bubble Tea will be provided!</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-07-09" time="7:00 PM" room="MC Comfy" title="Movie Night">
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<short>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding a joint event with Women in Computer Science on
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Tuesday, July 9th at MC Comfy at 7:00 PM.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come hang out and watch The Lego Batman Movie with us! There will popcorn and pizza!
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-06-18" time="6:00 PM" room="PHY 150" title="Code Party 0">
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<short>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding Code Party 0 on Tuesday, June 18th
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at PHY 150 at 6:00 PM.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come hang out with us! Study for midterms, do assignments, work on side projects, or
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prep for interviews. We'll have free food - we aren't ordering pizza, so don't worry. :)
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-06-05" time="7:00 PM" room="MOVED to MC Comfy" title="WiCS x CSC Bondfire Night">
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<short>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding a joint event with Women in
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Computer Science on Wednesday, June 5th at MC Comfy at 7:00 PM. NOTE: the
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event has been moved from the Laurel Creek Firepit due to rain.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come and join us for a night of Campfire, friends, fun and yeah Free food 😁,
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we'll be having Pitas, drinks, water(Gotta Keep my Fam hydrated eh! 😉) and
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last but not the least we'll be having S'mores too, because any Campfire is
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incomplete without them.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-05-16" time="7:00 pm" room="MC Comfy (MC 3001)" title="Spring 2019 Elections">
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<short>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Spring 2019
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term on Thursday, May 16th in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 7:00 PM.
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</p>
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</short>
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During the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and
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assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected, the
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sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office manager will be
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appointed.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone,
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you can write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC
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3036/3037) or send an email to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. You can also
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deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to
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the CRO, Charlie Wang, in-person. Nominations will close at 6:00 PM on
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Wednesday, May 15th.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Winter 2019 -->
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<eventitem date="2019-04-05" time="3:30 pm" room="STC 0020" title="Prof talk: Making the Switch: Going from 2D to S3D">
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-03-21" time="6 pm" room="MC Comfy" title="CSC + WiCS Movie Night">
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CSC + WiCS Movie Night on March 21th, 2019, at 6 PM in MC Comfy
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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CSC + WiCS Movie Night on March 21th, 2019, at 6 PM in MC Comfy
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</p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-03-20" time="4 pm" room="PHY 150" title="Prof talk: Animated Tilings">
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<short>
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Professor Craig Kaplan will be talking about tiling arrangements on March 20th, 2019, at 4 PM in PHY 150
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</p>
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</short>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-03-13" time="6 pm" room="QNC 1502" title="Code Party 0">
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<short>
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Code Party 0 on March 13th, 2019, at 6 PM in QNC 1502
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Code Party 0 on March 13th, 2019, at 6 PM in QNC 1502
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</p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-03-02" time="12 pm" room="QNC 1502" title="Git 101">
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Git 101 workshop on March 2nd, 2019, at 12 PM in QNC 1502
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Git 101 workshop on March 2nd, 2019, at 12 PM in QNC 1502
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</p>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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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>
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<p>Pizza will be provided.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2019-01-24" time="6:30 pm" room="STC 0060" title="Algorithms practice workshop">
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<short>
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Algorithms practice workshop on January 24th, 2019, at 6:30 PM in STC 0060
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Algorithms practice workshop on January 24th, 2019, at 6:30 PM in STC 0060
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</p>
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<p>
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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!
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</p>
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<p>
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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!
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</p>
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<p>
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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!
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</p>
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<p>
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Please register <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/WnUOd5VWwUfwA3Ru2">here</a>
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<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/554508501696081">Facebook event page</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Fall 2018 -->
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<eventitem date="2018-12-03" time="7:00 - 9:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
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title="CSC EOT">
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<short>
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<p>
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CSC End of term celebrations on December 3rd, at 7 PM in MC Comfy.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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CSC End of term celebrations on December 3rd, at 7 PM in MC Comfy.
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</p>
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<p>
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The term is coming to an end, and we will be celebrating as such on Monday December 3rd 7-9pm in the MC Comfy.
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</p>
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<p>
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Come hang out with fellow CSC members, and enjoy food and cake!
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2018-11-29" time="6:00 pm - 8:00 pm" room="MC 5479"
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title="Alt-Tab">
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<short>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<h3>Talk List:</h3>
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<h4>Anna Lorimer - <redacted></h4>
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<p>
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All about Slitheen (no, not the dr who alien)
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</p>
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<h4>Will Gertler - Quantum Information: a Primer</h4>
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<p>
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An introduction to elementary topics in quantum information theory as an analogous extension of classical information, including simple applications.
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</p>
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<h4>Fatema Boxwala - GANs, Generative Art and Edward Bellamy</h4>
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<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>
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<h4>Alex Zvorygin - Designing Large Scale Systems for the Web</h4>
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<p>
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Learn to build systems that scale! Handle millions of users, keep latencies low, and your systems stable!
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</p>
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<h4>Patrick Melanson - ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ</h4>
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<p>
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ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ! It will let you talk to all your friends in Egyptian hieroglyphs, pictures of rocketships, Urdu, or even just Latin characters!
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</p>
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<p>
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|
ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ: BUT WHAT SECRETIVE CABAL CONTROLS THIS UNIMAGINABLE POWER? Find out at this talk!
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</p>
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<p>
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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!!
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</p>
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<p>
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ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ. ؟؟Can you really afford to not tap into this power??
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</p>
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<h4>Zichuan Wei - Quantum Computers: what they are and what they can do</h4>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2018-11-12" time="5:30 pm" room="MC-4063"
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title="Netplay in emulators">
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<short>
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<p>
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Professor Gregor Richards will be talking about netplay in emulators, which allows for playing video games over the internet.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<h3>Abstract:</h3>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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<p>
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Prof. Richards is the maintainer of the netplay infrastructure for RetroArch, a popular emulator frontend for multiple platforms.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2018-11-05" time="5:30 pm" room="MC-4063"
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title="[Cancelled] BBC micro:bit computer: What is it good for?">
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<short>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>This talk was cancelled. The material for the talk can be found <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr">here.</a></p>
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<h3>Abstract:</h3>
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<p>
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BBC micro:bit (microbit.org) was introduced in 2015 and has since become popular with educators and hobbyists.
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</p><p>
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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.
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</p><p>
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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.
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</p><p>
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All of this is great fun and a gateway into electronics and real time programming.
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|
</p><p>
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In this talk I will present a brief introduction to micro:bit, electronics, and electronic signal measurement (voltmeter, function generator, oscilloscope).
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|
</p><p>
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|
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.
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</p>
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|
<h3>Bio:</h3>
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<p>
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|
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
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|
</p><p>
|
|
In W19 I will teach: CS489 -- Advanced topics, Computational Sound and Audio. This is a project-based course (no final).
|
|
</p><p>
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|
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>
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<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!
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</p>
|
|
</abstract>
|
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</eventitem>
|
|
<eventitem date="2018-10-22" time="5:30 pm" room="MC-3003"
|
|
title="Unix 101">
|
|
<short>
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<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>
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<p>
|
|
Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.
|
|
</p>
|
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</abstract>
|
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</eventitem>
|
|
<eventitem date="2018-10-18" time="6:30 pm" room="EV3-1408"
|
|
title="Code Party 0">
|
|
<short>
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|
<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>
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|
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>
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|
Come any time after 6:30pm.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</abstract>
|
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</eventitem>
|
|
<eventitem date="2018-10-15" time="5:30 pm" room="DC 1302"
|
|
title="Data Driven UIs, Incrementally">
|
|
<short>
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<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 & WiCS & 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 -->
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|
<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>
|
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</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
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response, time delay and distortion in audio systems. We will show several
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real world testing situations, including microphones, loud speakers,
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digital keyboards, digital audio mixing boards, and guitar effects pedals.
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</p>
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<p>
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Students are encouraged to bring their own musical instruments and/or
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sound processors for testing.
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</p>
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<p>
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Finally, I will present information about my current audio course,
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CS489/689 -- Advanced Topics in Computer Science -- Computational
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Sound. This is a project based course, normally offered in the Winter term.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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|
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<eventitem date="2018-03-13" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
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|
title="Discussion with maddog">
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|
<short>
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<p>
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|
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!
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|
</p>
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|
</short>
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|
<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/>
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|
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"
|
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title="Fall 2017 Elections">
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<short>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
|
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Spring 2017 President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
|
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Additionally, the Systems Administrator, Office Manager and
|
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Librarian, CTF Club Liaison and Fridge Person will be appointed.
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</p>
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</short>
|
|
<abstract>
|
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the
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Fall 2017 term on Friday, September 15th at 6:00pm
|
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in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001).
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</p>
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|
<p>
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|
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.
|
|
|
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</p>
|
|
<p>
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|
Nominations will close at 6:00pm on Thursday, September 14th
|
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(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>.
|
|
|
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Any questions related to the election can be directed to
|
|
<a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<!-- Spring 2017 -->
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<eventitem date="2017-07-24" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
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title="End of Term Party">
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<short>
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<p>
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|
Come celebrate the end of the term with us in MC Comfy!
|
|
</p>
|
|
</short>
|
|
<abstract>
|
|
<p>
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|
Come celebrate the end of the term with us in MC Comfy! We will be serving Urban Bricks!
|
|
</p>
|
|
</abstract>
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|
</eventitem>
|
|
<eventitem date="2017-07-18" time="5:00 pm" room="MC4040"
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|
title="Alt-Tab: S17">
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|
<short>
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<p>
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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>
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|
<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&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&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>
|
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-11-25" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 4063" title="Edmund Noble Member Talk">
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<short>
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<p>
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CSC member Edmund Noble will be giving a talk, titled "Purely
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|
Functional Programming with Freely-Generated Domain Specific
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|
Languages". The talk will focus on embedded DSLs that exist within
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other languages, and how they can easily be constructed.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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|
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
|
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other languages, and how they can easily be constructed. The abstract
|
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for this talk is below. <br/><br/>
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</p>
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<p>
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|
Dependency injection is an often-used technique in object-oriented
|
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programming to easily modify the behaviours of an object by providing
|
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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
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|
monad (F f) for a type constructor (and domain-specific language
|
|
instruction set) f provides a syntax tree with internal nodes as
|
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domain-specific language instructions, which in combination with
|
|
coproduct functors, allow domain-specific languages to be composed and
|
|
combined easily.
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|
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://slides.com/edmundnoble/freely-generated-domain-specific-languages/fullscreen#">Slides</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/edmundnoble/free-dsl">Sources</a></li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-11-21" time="6:15 PM" room="MC 4063" title="Richard Mann Prof Talk">
|
|
<short>
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<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.
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|
</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/>
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|
</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>
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<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!
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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!
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The prof talk will be on Surrounding a Polygon:
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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.
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<p></p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-03-29" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 4021"
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title="SASMS Style Talk Night">
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<short>
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<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.
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Some talks already arranged are on topics ranging from modern Javascript, to the Linux Kernel.</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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.
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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
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There will be a break for food halfway through.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-03-23" time="6:00 pm" room="QNC 1502"
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title="SAT and SMT Solvers for Software Engineering and Security">
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<short>
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<p>A talk about SAT and SMT Solvers for Software Engineering and Security by Dr. Vijay Ganesh</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-03-16" time="6:00 pm" room="MC3003"
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title="Git 102">
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<short>
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<p>Git 102 : Why you learned git in the first place. </p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-03-09" time="6:30 pm" room="MC4058"
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title="Steve Bourque and Mike Patterson Network Infrastructure talk">
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<short>
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<p>
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Steve Bourque and Mike Patterson of IST will give a brief overview of campus network connectivity and interconnectivity.</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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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!
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-03-03" time="6:00 pm" room="MC Comfy"
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title="Tea and Study">
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<short>
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<p>
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It's midterms season, and everyone has to study. So why not come study with the CS Club? Everyone welcome, especially new members!
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There will be tea and delicious snacks and outlets. Plus our delightful company.
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See you there!
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Come join CSC at our Tea and Study event! Everyone welcome, especially new members!
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There will be tea and delicious snacks and outlets. Plus our delightful company.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-02-10" time="6:30 pm" room="MC Comfy"
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|
title="Movie Night: Big Hero 6">
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<short>
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<p>
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Movie Night! Come watch "Big Hero 6" with the CSC!
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</p>
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</short>
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|
<abstract>
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<p>
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Come watch "Big Hero 6" with the Computer Science Club this wednesday the 10th at 6:30 PM in the MC Comfy Lounge.
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|
Why "Big Hero 6"? It's an award-winning animated Disney movie involving an inflatable robot fighting evil in "San Frasokyo". Enough said.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-02-04" time="6:00 pm" room="STC 0010"
|
|
title="Code Party">
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|
<short>
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<p>
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|
The CS Club is having its termly code party! Come out and work on projects, assignments, and more. Food is provided!
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|
</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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|
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.)
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|
</p>
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|
<p>
|
|
Be there, we'll have dinner!
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|
</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2016-01-28" time="6:00 pm" room="MC 3003"
|
|
title="Unix 101">
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|
<short>
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<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 -->
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|
|
|
<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>
|
|
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<eventitem date="2015-09-30" time="5:00 PM" room="DC 1304"
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title="Back to Back Talks: Culture Turnaround and Software Defined Networks">
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<short>
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<p>
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Back to back talks from John Stix and Francisco Dominguez on turning
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a company's culture around and on Software Defined Networks!
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Back to back talks from John Stix and Francisco Dominguez on turning
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a company's culture around and on Software Defined Networks!
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</p>
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<p>
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John Stix will be talking about how he turned around the corporate culture at Fibernetics Corporation.
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</p>
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<p>
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Francisco Dominguez will be talking about Software Defined Networks, which
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for example can turn multiple flakey internet connections into one reliable
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one.
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</p>
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<p>
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The speakers are:
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<ul>
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<li>John Stix - President, Fibernetics</li>
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<li>Francisco Dominguez - CTO, Fibernetics</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>
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Food and drinks will be provided!
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2015-09-24" time="4:30 PM" room="EIT 3142"
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title="CSC and WiCS Career Panel">
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<short>
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<p>
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The CSC is joining WiCS to host a career panel! Come hear from Waterloo
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alumni as they speak about their time at Waterloo, experience with coop,
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and life beyond the university. Please register at http://bit.ly/1OyJP6D
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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The CSC is joining WiCS to host a career panel! Come hear from Waterloo
|
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alumni as they speak about their time at Waterloo, experience with coop,
|
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and life beyond the university. A great chance to network and seek
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advice!
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</p>
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<p>
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The panelists are:
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<ul>
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<li>Joanne Mckinley - Software Engineer, Google</li>
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<li>Carol Kilner - COO, BanaLogic Corporation</li>
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<li>Harshal Jethwa - Consultant, Infusion</li>
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<li>Dan Collens - CTO, Big Roads</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>
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Food and drinks will be provided! Please register
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G-8LFLgxQUkahXvODpS2cVSvceNibTt18Uc8TnhlKI8/viewform?usp=send_form">here</a>
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2015-09-22" time="9 PM" room="MC 3001"
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title="Results of Fall 2015 Elections">
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<short>
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<p>
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The Computer Science Club has elected its executive for the term, and a new Office Manager and System Administrator have been appointed.
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|
</p>
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<p>
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See inside for results.
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|
</p>
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</short>
|
|
<abstract>
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<p>
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|
The Computer Science Club has elected its executive for the term, and a new Office Manager and System Administrator have been appointed.
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|
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.
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|
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The appointment of a Librarian was delayed because no suitable and willing candidate was found.
|
|
</p>
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|
<p>
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|
The results of the elections are:
|
|
<ul>
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<li>Simone Hu - President</li>
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|
<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>
|
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</ul>
|
|
</p>
|
|
</abstract>
|
|
</eventitem>
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<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 -->
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|
|
|
<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
|
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advanced use cases.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you're interested in knowing about the more
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powerful features of Racket, then this is the talk for you! The material
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covered is especially useful for students in CS 241 who are writing their
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compiler in Racket, or are just curious about what that might look like.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2015-01-21" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 2017"
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title="Alumni Tech Talk">
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<short>
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<p> Alex Tsay from AeroFS will talk about the high availability distributed
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file systems they develop.
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</p>
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<p>The CAP Theorem outlined the fundamental limitations of a distributed system.
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When designing a distributed system, one has to constantly be aware of the
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trade-off between consistency and availability.
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Most distributed systems are designed with consistency in mind. However, AeroFS
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has decided to build a high-availability file system instead.
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In this tech talk, I'll be presenting an overview of AeroFS file system,
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advantages and challenges of a high-availability file system, and examine the
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inner workings of AeroFS's core syncing algorithm.
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</p>
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</short>
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<abstract>
|
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<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>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2015-01-15" time="7:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge"
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title="Winter 2015 Elections">
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<short>
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<p>Elections for Winter 2015 are being held! Submit a nomination and join
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your fellow members in choosing this term's CSC executive. (Please note
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the time change to 7PM.)
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</p>
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</short>
|
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<abstract>
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<p>The Computer Science Club will be holding its termly elections this
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upcoming Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6PM in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). During
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the election, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will
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be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office
|
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manager will be appointed.
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</p>
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<p>Nominations are now closed. The candidates are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>President:<ul>
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<li>Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
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<li>Gianni Gambetti (<tt>glgambet</tt>)</li>
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<li>Ford Peprah (<tt>hkpeprah</tt>)</li>
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<li>Khashayar Pourdeilami (<tt>kpourdei</tt>)</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Vice-President:<ul>
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|
<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>
|
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</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>
|
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</ul></li>
|
|
<li>Secretary:<ul>
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|
<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>
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|
</ul>
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|
<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>
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|
|
|
<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>
|
|