compsoc-announce March 2007

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Week 8: Simon Cole (AMD) on virtualisation and Barcelona
by Will Thompson 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Good people of Compsoc, A year has passed, and it is with some sadness that I compose my final missive to the Compsoc masses. In celebration of the end of Dave, Michael and my time in our posts, I think you should come to the last event of term, which is tomorrow! AMD Virtualization and Barcelona (Simon Cole) ============================================= When: Tuesday 6th March, 20.00 Where: Keble College, Pusey Room Simon Cole, who spoke to Compsoc in Michaelmas 2001 and presented a server[0] donated by his employer, AMD, in Hilary 2002, returns to give us an overview of AMD's on-chip virtualization technology, and introduce their forthcoming "Barcelona" quad-core processors. [0] http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/descriptions/amd.shtml If you came to Dominic Hargreaves' geo-fu talk in week 5, this is in the same place. If not, http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour might prove useful. The Pusey room is on the Pusey Quad, roughly opposite the lodge. Someone will be hovering in the lodge to point you in the right direction in any case. If you've got no other plans for food tomorrow evening, why not come to Noodle Bar on Gloucester Green[1] at 18.39 (this time was agreed upon after bitter negotiations on #compsoc) and eat with Simon and fragments of the outgoing and incoming committees? Feel free to give me a ring or an SMS, or drop an email to -discuss, if you have any questions about meeting up. [1] http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?id=Noodle_Bar Epilogue ======== People seem to like pictures of cats. I hope that http://tinyurl.com/35xqmg pleases you. It's been a fun year. I have no doubt that I will enjoy the next year at least as much: all the Compsoccy goodness, with none of the responsibility! Take it away, Andy, Martin and David, Will -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society's outgoing President Jabber: <resiak(a)feayn.org>; Mobile: +44 (0)7771 77 40 70 <http://www.ox.compsoc.net>

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Tonight: Peter Gradwell on Mobile VoIP
by Will Thompson 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hello, good people of Compsoc, You should come to tonight's talk! Mobile VoIP - Will VoIP learn to walk in 2007? ============================================== When: Thursday 1st March, 20.00 (tonight!) Where: Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building[1] Peter Gradwell of Gradwell dot com[2] will be speaking to us on the possibilities of combining mobile devices with Voice over IP technology: The past two years have seen much development in the VoIP fixed handset market, and anyone who is purchasing a small office phone system would be silly to ignore it. But what about those who are mobile? Can VoIP be used in the mobile environment, who has working products and what are the challenges of making a call from a Wi-Fi hotspot? We'll have someone at the entrance to let you in. If you're late, you'll be stuck outside, since there's no phobile reception in the lecture theatre. If you're likely to get there late, phone or SMS or email someone (possibly even by hitting reply!) and we'll see what we can do. [1] http://tinyurl.com/yeqtzg [2] http://www.gradwell.com/ Also, you might like to know what happened at last night's AGM. The 2007-08 committee was elected: President: Andrew Godwin Secretary: Martin Smith Treasurer: David North The minutes of the meeting will be on the interglobal tubosphere Real Soon Now(TM). The new committee will be at tonight's talk, so if you want to complain at them about how much you hated us, tonight would be a good opportunity. I promise to try not to listen carefully. Will -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society President Jabber: <resiak(a)feayn.org>; Mobile: +44 (0)7771 77 40 70 <http://www.ox.compsoc.net>

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