compsoc-announce February 2013

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Week 7 Newsletter
by Peter York 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! Sorry about the lateness of this email - I was completely knackered after paintball, and entirely forgot about it. Last week was a great week for comp soc, on Wednesday we had a great talk on secure distributed computing from Nigel Smart, as always on Saturday geek night was great fun, and, most importantly of all, we had our inaugural Oxford Comp Soc vs CUCaTS paintball match. I am quite sure everyone had a great time despite the horrendous mud, and bitter cold. *A huge thanks to Palantir for PAYING FOR EVERYONE TO GO PAINTBALLING.* This week we have the Annual General Meeting, which may not be as exciting as paintball, but is at least as important - at the AGM we vote in a new committe, and discuss what the society should be doing next term, so it's important to come along and have your say. And of course there's going to be free pizza. * NB* this event is on *Tuesday *due to room booking constraints. As always there will be geek night on Saturday - http://www.facebook.com/events/394877090608840/. Details below Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annual General Meeting Tuesday 26th February, 19:00 St. Catherine's College, Bernard Sunley Building Room A http://www.facebook.com/events/544998552189142/ *NOTE:*The date and time of this event has changed since the termcards were created. It has been moved from 8^th Week to 7^th Week. In this meeting, the elections for the 2013/2014 committee will be held, along with usual general meeting matters. Refreshments and pizza will be provided.

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Week 6 Newsletter
by Peter York 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! Hopefully you all enjoyed games night, which was huge again, and this time we had wired internet! To follow it up we have a very busy week - Wednesday we have a talk from security expert Nigel Smart, from Bristol University, on Saturday we have, as usual, geek night, and on Sunday, we have the postponed paintball vs Cambridge! This time the weather forecast is favourable, and we have more people booked to come, so it should be a great day! Details of all of this below. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Security Talk Wednesday 20th February, 18:00 Comp Sci Department Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/events/123498824496096/ Leading Academic Nigel Smart from Bristol University will be coming to give a talk on Cyber Security. Pizza will be served afterwards. Computing on Encrypted Data In the last couple of years amazing advances have been made on techniques to perform computation on encrypted data. Some of the techniques are even becoming practical. In this talk I will show a novel technique which utilizes techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes to provide efficiency improvements in Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols. No prior knowledge of FHE or MPC will be assumed. Coding Night 6 Saturday 23rd February, 19:00 Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area This event is part of a new series of events that run each weekend. To find out more information, see thecoding nights <http://compsoc.net/coding_nights/>page. Facebook Event:http://www.facebook.com/events/346813105437534/ <http://www.facebook.com/events/346813105437534/> Paintball vs Cambridge Sunday 24th February, 07:45 Comp Sci Department Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/events/326248314143885/ This event is due to go ahead, finally, on Sunday. It should be great fun.

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Week 5 Newsletter
by Peter York 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! I hope everyone enjoyed Ensoft's talk on Wednesday. This week we have games night! Come along to play games and eat free pizza! It will be in the computer science department again, like last term. Details and link to the facebook event below. As always there is geek night on Saturday. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Games Night* Wednesday 13th February Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area If you are having trouble getting into the building on the night, call 01865 283599. If you plan on attending you will need to bring a laptop with any games you want to play*installed and updated*- the internet will be too slow to download games and updates! You will also need a LAN cable and probably a power supply for your laptop. Team Fortess 2 and Super Monday Night Combat are both free to install and play fromstore.steampowered.com/ <http://store.steampowered.com/>(you have to install Steam first, though). It is also possible to install TF2 from another computer with it already installed on, we will probably be able to facilitate this but should stress that it is a much better idea to*make sure it is installed and up to date beforehand!*If there are any other games you'd like to play (and think others will have) bring them along and we might play them too! Once again, pizza and refreshments will be provided! Facebook Event:https://www.facebook.com/events/595591777121875

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Week 4 Newsletter
by Peter York 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Hi, Thanks to everyone who came along and gave talks on Wednesday. They were great fun and really interesting. This week we have a talk from Ensoft about multi-terabit routers and security, and of course pizza as always. Also, Facebook are holding a women in computing hackathon in London on 23rd February, if you would like to attend register before 15th February. Details of both below. Regards, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ensoft Talk Wednesday 6th February, 18:30 Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A Facebook Event - http://www.facebook.com/events/255910344542216/ How to break the Internet core: multi-terabit routers and security Ensoft ([ensoft.co.uk]) will be coming to give a talk and Pizza will be served. The presenter is CTO of Ensoft Ltd, whose experience includes helping to bring into existence the Guinness Book of Records' "World's Highest Capacity Internet Router". Facebook Women in Computing Hackathon Saturday 23rd February, 8:30 Facebook London To champion women in computing, Facebook London will be hosting a hackathon at their Central London office. We invite female engineers to join us for a day of high energy coding, tech talks and lots of fun. The theme for the hackathon will revolve around "Health & Fitness", bring your ideas that fall into this category to give you and your team a head start when we kick off the hackathon at 8:30am. We'll have industry experienced engineers on hand to answer questions and offer guidance as you hack. In addition to that, we'll also have numerous tech talks throughout to inspire and give you the key information you'll need to build a great hack. Information and Registration: http://www.amiando.com/fbwomenhack.html

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compsoc-announce February 2013