Good morning, Compsoccers!
Summary for those who don't want to read the whole mail and will hence miss the entertaining URL I will mention later: a couple of events have been added to the termcard[0], namely the AGM and a talk by Simon Cole of AMD. There are no Compsoc events this week, but there is a British Computer Society event at Comlab on Thursday to which Compsoc folks are (as always) welcome.
[0] http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/
Annual General Meeting ======================
The AGM will take place on Wednesday 28th February, provisionally at the Big Bang[1] once again. There will be elections for positions on the 07-08 committee: president, treasurer and secretary. As per section 5.6 of the constitution[2], candidates for posts need to be proposed and seconded before the meeting, and the proposer and seconder need to be at the meeting.
[1] http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Big_Bang [2] http://www.ox.compsoc.net/info/constitution.shtml
Quite a few people have asked if the current committee will be standing again. To clear this up, we're not. Dave will not be a student next year; Michael and I hope to stay involved, but aren't standing for re-election. (However, we intend to appoint Michael as System Administration Coordinator, since he's actually set up the machines.) If you're interested in standing for any of the positions, please do contact us with any questions or just to mention your intent. :-) (Also, Michael suggests that "anyone wanting to be treasurer uses/learns gnucash[3] :)".)
AMD Virtualization and Barcelona (Simon Cole) =============================================
I mentioned an extra talk a few emails ago. It's now been arranged: Simon Cole of AMD will be speaking about on-chip virtualization technology and AMD's forthcoming "Barcelona" four-core processor on Tuesday 6th March. Add it to your diary! A more detailed abstract should be on the termcard shortly.
BCS talk: Towards secure distributed healthcare research and delivery =====================================================================
When: 22nd February 2006, 19:30 (tea and coffee from 19:00) Where: Comlab[4]
Over the past few years, members of the Software Engineering group at Oxford have been involved in a number of e-Science projects. In particular, they have been leading the development of distributed infrastructures to support large-scale research. Examples of such projects include climateprediction.net, CancerGrid, Integrative Biology, and e-DiaMoND.
The talk will first provide an overview of the activities of the Software Engineering group before describing the DTI-funded project GIMI The primary focus of GIMI is the development of dynamic authorisation techniques for the facilitation of secure aggregation of medical data from disparate sources.
This is a British Computer Society event, but Compsoc members are welcome. More information over at http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2006-7.htm#Feb.
[4] http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Computing_Laboratory
You've reached the end of the email! I feel verbose today. As compensation for your feat of endurance, you can now wander over to http://tinyurl.com/2wp86v to see a stuffed squirrel riding a go-cart for sale on eBay.
Will -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society President Jabber: resiak@feayn.org; Mobile: +44 (0)7771 77 40 70 http://www.ox.compsoc.net