Hello, all!

Here are the events that we have organised for this week. Note that the first is on *Tuesday*, and that there is *no Geek Night* this week, due to the hackathon.

Tech Talk: Distracted? Let’s Demand a New Kind of Design that Helps Us Spend Our Time Well

http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2015/hilary/distracted/ Date: Tuesday Week 2 - 27 January 2015 Time: 07:00 PM Facebook Event https://facebook.com/events/758205117596413/Place: Lecture Theatre A - Dept. of Computer Science http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_lta/Tags: Guest Speaker http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/guest_speaker/ Talk http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/

*Speakers:*

* Tristan Harris - Product Philosopher, Google - www.tristanharris.com http://www.tristanharris.com/ * James Williams - Google / Oxford PhD in Philosophy - http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=275

*Event Description:*

What if technology could distract us less, and respect our time & attention more? What would that world look like - and how could we build it? This question has been the focus of our Design Ethics work and thinking over the past two years at Google. In this talk we will give an overview of why we believe distraction, especially when it hijacks our collective psychological vulnerabilities, is one of the major unaddressed questions of the Information Age. In addition, we’ll suggest concrete steps you can take today - whether you’re a product engineer/designer, a business leader, or a user - to help technology design toward greater respect for users’ time and attention.

For background information, see Tristan’s TEDx talk in Brussels last month:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5rRh9AZf4

Tech Talk with CoreFiling: IPv6

http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2015/hilary/core_filing_ipv6/ Date: Wednesday Week 2 - 28 January 2015 Time: 05:00 PM Facebook Event https://facebook.com/events/843599565682423/Place: Lecture Theatre A - Dept. of Computer Science http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_lta/Tags: Guest Speaker http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/guest_speaker/ Talk http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/

*Event Description:*

IPv6 is the next generation of the Internet Protocol. We'll talk about some of the practical details of its use, and attempt to separate fact from fiction about the world running out of IPv4 addresses and the impact this will have.

*Speakers:*

David North and Stephen White are both CompSoc alumni and IPv6 early adopters, and now work for local software company CoreFiling.

eth0: JaneStreet 12-hour hackathon <www.janestreet.com/eth0>

Date:Saturday Week 2 - 28 January 2015 Time:10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/793185687413821/Place: Lecture Theatre A - Dept. of Computer Science http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_lta/Tags: Guest Speaker http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/guest_speaker/ Talk http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/

*Event Description**:*

eth0: a day-long programming contest. Form teams and hack together software to compete against others and the markets. The winning prize will be *£0x1ff* per person. There'll be lots of *(free) food and drink available*. Absolutely no knowledge of finance, nor OCaml, required. You can use any language, but we'll provide some helper libraries in a few common ones. The contest is entirely technical in nature and you won't need any visual design skills.

To sign up, or for any further queries, email: eth0@janestreet.com mailto:eth0@janestreet.com

Further details will be announced to those signed up closer to the event. Teams of up to four will be accepted. 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.

Regards, Joe Fowler President - Oxford University Computer Society president@ox.compsoc.net mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net