compsoc-announce February 2015

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Week 6 Newsletter - Palantir
by Joe Fowler 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Palantir - Building trusted infrastructure in the cloud <https://www.facebook.com/events/1404173943222015> Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday How do you gain the benefits of cloud computing without handing over your data? Come and learn how Palantir hosts customers in the cloud without them handing over control of their data, all while still automating management of large clusters of machines Speaker: Huw Pryce Huw has been a Software Engineer at Palantir since 2012 after graduating with a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Oxford. He currently works on the Deployment Infrastructure team at Palantir where you’ll find him worrying about how we scale out to more customers and more data without increasing the burden on our Forward Deployed Engineers. Geek Night 6 <https://www.facebook.com/events/779549255468925/> Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday Annual General Meeting Next Week <https://www.facebook.com/events/1549165502000856/> Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Wednesday Week 7 Our AGM will be happening on*Wednesday of Week 7*, at which each of the elected roles for the society will be re-elected. For clarification, these roles are: * *President* - Ultimately in charge, responsible for event organisation and relations with sponsors. * *Secretary* - Interchangeable responsibilities with the president, and with re-registering the society with the Proctors each term. * *Treasurer* - Responsible for keeping track of the accounts, and producing summaries for each term. Additional roles may be assigned at the discretion of the President/Secretary. Ultimately, the positions do not require a vast amount of time to be invested, but they *do* require good organisational skills. If you are interested in running for any of these roles, you have one more week to make up your mind! Kind Regards, Joe -- Joe Fowler President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week 5 Newsletter - AGM Announcement!
by Joe Fowler 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Here are our events for this week, as well as the announcement for the *AGM* in week 7. Ensoft - How to Break the Internet <https://www.facebook.com/events/1555814134698779/> Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday The Internet itself is under constant attack from hairy hackers, authoritarian agencies, fat fingers and boring bugs. Core routers stand alone in the hurricane of harm, far beyond the capacity of any protective firewall, and left to defend themselves. How can they do this? And how safe is the Internet really? This talk will reveal all. 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". Geek Night 5 <https://www.facebook.com/events/405605016275380/> Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday No introduction necessary - casual gaming and snacks as usual. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Annual General Meeting <https://www.facebook.com/events/1549165502000856/> Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Wednesday, Week 7 Our AGM will be happening in *week 7, Wednesday*, at which each of the elected roles for the society will be re-elected. For clarification, these roles are: * *President* - Ultimately in charge, responsible for event organisation and relations with sponsors. * *Secretary* - Interchangeable responsibilities with the president, and with re-registering the society with the Proctors each term. * *Treasurer* - Responsible for keeping track of the accounts, and producing summaries for each term. Additional roles may be assigned at the discretion of the President/Secretary. Ultimately, the positions do not require a vast amount of time to be invested, but they *do* require good organisational skills. If you are interested in running for any of these roles, you have two weeks to make up your minds! To reiterate: the AGM is NOT taking place THIS week, it's in WEEK 7, which is the week after the week after this week, *NOT* this week, which is not the week of the AGM. Kind Regards, Joe

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Week 4 Newsletter
by Joe Fowler 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi all, Here are our events this week: The Hut Group <https://www.facebook.com/events/1536406883278781/> Real World Lessons from building a search engine for e-commerce <https://www.facebook.com/events/1536406883278781/> Wednesday 7pm - Lecture Theatre A How do you help your customers find products that they want to buy? How do you build a search engine that handles several thousand queries per minute, in multiple languages, over a heavily diversified product set that includes DVDs, dietary supplements, clothing, makeup and more? This talk covers the real-world challenges we faced in building such a search engine and how we solved them with insights from software engineering, information retrieval and natural language processing. We will also announce the launch details of highly anticipated 2014/2015 Computer Science Challenge, following on from our very successful 2013/2014 recommendation challenge http://www.thehutchallenge.com/ Open to university students across the UK/Europe, the challenge carries a 1st prize of £5000 and offers of highly paid graduate technology jobs and internships. * **(Pizza /drinks provided!)* Speaker details: Dhruv Kumar joined THG in Jan 2014 and has worked on the in-house search system since then. Before joining THG , he has worked for HP Autonomy as a software developer and as a researcher assistant at the Computer Vision Group of the University of Reading. Dhruv holds an MPhil in Computer Science from Cambridge and a BEng from the University of Reading. Shaun Hall joined THG ’s Growth & Innovation team in July 2013 and has spent most of his time working on our search and browse algorithms. Prior to this, he worked on an algorithmic trading platform at an Investment Bank. Shaun graduated with a first class degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2011. Geek Night 4 <https://www.facebook.com/events/343510472507055/>Video games + stuff <https://www.facebook.com/events/343510472507055/> Saturday 7pm - Undergraduate Social Area No description is really necessary.. -- Joe Fowler President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>

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Talk tonight POSTPONED
by Joe Fowler 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hi all, Unfortunately, due to an unfortunate series of events, The Hut Group is unable to host their talk tonight; they wish to postpone the event until a later date, and say that they "will supply extra pizza and drinks to compensate ;)" Kind Regards, Joe -- Joe Fowler President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week 3 Newsletter
by Joe Fowler 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi all, Here are our events for this week: The Hut Group - Real World Lessons from building a search engine for e-commerce Wednesday 2015/02/02, 7pm - Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science How do you help your customers find products that they want to buy? How do you build a search engine that handles several thousand queries per minute, in multiple languages, over a heavily diversified product set that includes DVDs, dietary supplements, clothing, makeup and more? This talk covers the real-world challenges we faced in building such a search engine and how we solved them with insights from software engineering, information retrieval and natural language processing. We will also announce the launch details of highly anticipated 2014/2015 Computer Science Challenge, following on from our very successful 2013/2014 recommendation challenge http://www.thehutchallenge.com. Open to university students across the UK/Europe, the challenge carries a 1st prize of £5000 and offers of highly paid graduate technology jobs and internships. *(Pizza /drinks provided!)* Speaker details: Dhruv Kumar joined THG in Jan 2014 and has worked on the in-house search system since then. Before joining THG , he has worked for HP Autonomy as a software developer and as a researcher assistant at the Computer Vision Group of the University of Reading. Dhruv holds an MPhil in Computer Science from Cambridge and a BEng from the University of Reading. Shaun Hall joined THG ’s Growth & Innovation team in July 2013 and has spent most of his time working on our search and browse algorithms. Prior to this, he worked on an algorithmic trading platform at an Investment Bank. Shaun graduated with a first class degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2011. Geek Night 3 Saturday 2015/02/07, 7pm - Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science Regards, Joe -- Joe Fowler President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>

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