Hello all,
CompSoc has had a great Michaelmas, and we hope you've enjoyed our
events this term. If you have any feedback, please don't hesitate to
contact a committee member :). Before I wish you a great vac, I'd like
to slip in a few eighth week notices. Firstly, we have our Termly
General Meeting on Wednesday, when the committee will report on the term
and we plan to pass some minor changes to the constitution. *If you
can't come and you're a member, please contact me with your intention to
vote by proxy.*
We won't have an /official/ geek night this Saturday, but if you're
still in Oxford at least one committee member will be in the department
on Saturday evening.
Have a great vac!
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Events
Termly General Meeting
<https://www.facebook.com/events/211158335995232/>
*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm
Wednesday (8th week)*
The committee will report on its activity this term, and we plan to pass
a few minor changes to our constitution. In order to meet quorum, we
need at least 20 people to attend. If you cannot attend but you are a
member of the society, please inform a committee member of your
intention to vote by proxy.
Food will be provided :).
Sponsor notices
Bloomberg Tech Talk and Trading Game
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tech-talk-and-trading-game-at-bloombergs-lon…>
*Bloomberg HQ, London - 5:30pm Tuesday (8th week)*
This event is in London, but Bloomberg have kindly offered to pay for
train tickets for CompSoc members wishing to attend the event. If you're
interested in going, please sign up via the above link and contact me so
that I can pass on your name to Bloomberg if you'd like your ticket
refunded.
*Tech Talk: Data Mining usage patterns for building the right thing,
building the thing right and supporting the thing better!*
This talk will cover how Data Analysis and Machine Learning from usage
patterns across large data sets is being used to predict bug reports,
improve automated testing, and make tough decisions on what features to
add to our software. We realised that data gathered for regulatory audit
purposes, on millions of daily trades at Bloomberg, is an invaluable
resource for analysis of our system's behaviour.
In this talk, we'll share the various opportunities this data has
uncovered, the techniques we used for statistical analysis-based machine
learning, and the data visualization behind it. The work we're planning
and discoveries we've made promise to answer some very hard questions
around prioritizing features to implement, reducing support costs,
improving the automated test coverage and beyond. This also spawned an
automated testing framework that allows the system to self-test by
replicating the millions of daily trades in a secure test environment to
achieve quality assurance. This has opened up horizons to build
autonomic systems in the future systems that can both self-test and
self-repair.
*Trading Game*
The talk will be followed by the Bloomberg Trading Game! This is a fun
simulation where participants will be invited to understand the
financial markets and trading activities through an active, sometimes
frantic team trading game. Mentors will show you how to play the role of
traders, sales and market makers and understand how these different
players add value to the trading ecosystem.
This is a great opportunity to learn how Bloomberg's technologies help
bring transparency and efficiency to the exciting and sometimes volatile
financial market
Entrepreneur First: Flexciton
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flexciton-a-revolution-in-industrial-automat…>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 1pm Tuesday (8th week)*
25% of the worlds electricity consumption is consumed by a certain type
of industrial machine, rotating equipment. An industrial plant can spend
hundreds of millions of pounds annually operating these machines yet
their operation is still highly inefficient. The operation of these
machines is highly complex and their inefficiency is driven by human
operators making ad-hoc decisions about their operation - usually based
on the operators past experience. They have significant amounts of data
at their disposal but it is far too complex for the human brain to
comprehend on its own. In this talk we will demonstrate the problem at
hand and show how Flexciton technology applies statistical models and
mathematical optimisation to determine the optimal operation of these
machines.
Jamie Potter, 25, is CEO and co-founder of Flexciton, a startup company
disrupting the industrial world. He graduated from Oxford with a masters
in Mathematics and Statistics and then began his career in a consultancy
firm specialising in energy. There he built statistical software for
several large companies including DECC, National Grid and RWE where his
software was used to make multi-billion pound decisions.
Entrepreneur First Careers Fair
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/entrepreneur-first-engineering-careers-fair-…>
*EF headquarters, London - 4:30pm 8th December*
On 8th December Entrepreneur First are hosting an engineering careers
fair for startups in our portfolio who are looking to grow their teams.
Our alumni companies are some of the fastest-growing tech startups in
Europe - they're building anything from low-cost robot arms, to deep
learning visual inspection software; AI assistants for personal finance,
to affordable nano-satellites. You can find out more about the companies
attending here <https://www.joinef.com/alumni>.
*N.B. This careers fair isn't open to the general public and will be
focused on technical positions only. Capacity is limited to 150 tickets,
but if you'd like to reserve a free spot please RSVP.*
If you would like to send across a CV ahead of the day to be submitted
to all companies please email apply(a)joinef.com.
Jane Street Estimathon
<https://docs.google.com/a/janestreet.com/forms/d/1TDMDha6KO6Qm-ohIJX7U6Q5vF…>
*7pm Tuesday (8th week)*
"What's an Estimathon" you ask?! It's a team contest where the goal is
to create confidence intervals to difficult math and science questions.
e.g., what's the volume of the earth's oceans (in cubic km); or, how
many prime number contain strictly increasing digits.
It's a very interactive game and focuses on some ideas that are central
to what we do at Jane Street: thinking about hard problems, assessing
confidence levels, trying to strike a balance between quick-and-rough
estimates versus more refined solutions.
There'll be prizes for the winning team and of course food and drinks
will be provided.
Please sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/a/janestreet.com/forms/d/1TDMDha6KO6Qm-ohIJX7U6Q5vF…>
Jane Street: Women in Trading & Technology
This December, we're excited to host our second edition of Women in
Trading and Technology (WITT) at Jane Street. We're inviting women to
spend two days in our London office to learn more about what we do and
how we do it through a series of classes and activities. Attendees will
receive an in-depth look into the ways we use math and computer science,
as well as insight into the different roles that exist within our firm.
Selected students will arrive in London the morning of Thursday 8th
December and will depart the evening of Friday 9th December. Jane Street
will provide all travel to and from London, housing and of course food
and drinks throughout the event.
The workshop itself will be an introduction to Jane Street. You will
learn about how we use maths and statistics to decide what to trade and
also find out how we use OCaml, a functional programming language, to
build complex distributed systems. You will take part in some problem
solving sessions and interactive games that will give you some insight
in to how we work.
*Application Process*
Women interested in attending should apply here
<https://www.janestreet.com/apply-witt/> to be considered for a spot in
the program. Soon after applying, you’ll receive an invitation to
complete a puzzle.
*The deadline to apply for this event is Wednesday 30th November.* If
you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email lborgo(a)janestreet.com
Good luck with the application process and we hope to meet you soon!
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The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise
meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing
interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page
<https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
--
Thomas Denney
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>
Hello all,
We're celebrating Oxmas with our final talk of the term from Microsoft
and a special Oxmas themed Geek Night. Microsoft will be giving an
introduction to machine learning, and we expect this talk to have high
attendance so /please be sure to arrive early/ if you want to guarantee
a seat.
Shortly before the Microsoft talk on Wednesday there is another
Microsoft talk on their Bot Framework, which will serve as preparation
for a hackathon hosted by CodeSoc and Microsoft in Hilary (details below).
Next week we will be holding our termly general meeting, which can be
attended by any CompSoc member.
If you're interested in joining the society, please remember to bring
five pounds to any of our upcoming events, and we can provide you with a
membership form.
Have a great week,
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Events
Microsoft: Machine Learning Demystified
<https://www.facebook.com/events/240022973081334/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(7th week)*
Bianca Furtuna from Microsoft will be joining us for a talk on machine
learning, which will be followed by free pizza and drinks.
Machine Learning can solve all your problems, it can tell you what to do
better and how to improve your business processes, increase revenue,
reduce waste etc.
Well, not really. Machine Learning is not magic. You don't just apply
machine learning in your organisation and intelligent, innovative
solutions come out of nowhere. Machine Learning has its limitations and
its beauty, but it all comes down to data and questions. You need good
data and the right questions and then you are good to go.
In this session, we are going to look at a typical machine learning
process and how to apply it to some real world data. We are going to use
Azure Machine Learning to transform data and ideas into models that are
production ready in minutes, all of this while keeping the real world in
mind.
Geek Night 7: Oxmas
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1055633714549169/>
*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm
Saturday (7th week)*
We're going to have some Christmas themed programming (and food!) to
celebrate the final (official) Geek Night of the year.
Bring your laptop, and we'll supply the food.
Please note that there will be an "unofficial" Geek Night in 8th week,
however we won't be creating a Facebook event for it.
Termly General Meeting
<https://www.facebook.com/events/211158335995232/>
*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm
Wednesday (8th week)*
The committee will report on its activity this term, and we plan to pass
a few minor changes to our constitution. In order to meet quorum, we
need at least 20 people to attend. If you cannot attend but you are a
member of the society, please inform a committee member of your
intention to vote by proxy.
Food will be provided :).
Sponsor notices
Bloomberg Information Session
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 1pm Tuesday (7th week)*
Zahir Hussain is doing a talk in the department tomorrow on what it is
like working at Bloomberg.
The information session will give you an overview of what the 3500+
Bloomberg developers do and how the software we build drives some of the
world's most important financial decisions.
We will discuss some of the complex challenges our developers can face
including dealing with billions of messages a day. We will also discuss
how Bloomberg embraces open source and the languages we use followed by
the campus opportunities and how you can apply.
Zahir looks after the training needs for Engineering new hires and
experienced developers. He teaches on the graduate training program and
guides new hires towards successful careers at Bloomberg. In addition,
he runs a software development team that builds applications to support
our internal training and documentation departments.
When he is not learning, coding or teaching, he is running... moving
from newbie to completing his 3rd half marathon in a year.
Introducing the Microsoft Bot Framework
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1125955697483229>
*Department of Computer Science - 4:30pm Wedenesday (7th week)*
We hope you are as excited as we are about the upcoming CodeSoc
Hackathon! To give you the tools you need we are happy to host the
Pre-Hackathon Prep Talk "Introducing the Microsoft Bot Framework" by
Microsoft. This talk will give an introduction to the Technology that
will be used in the upcoming Hackathon in Hilary.
No matter what your coding back ground is, experienced hacker to
complete beginner, you are welcome to join the CodeSoc hackathon.
Experienced or beginner, do come along to this talk as it will tell you
what you need to know to allow you to create the coolest apps in the
hackathon and simply have more fun hacking!
This is also a good way of meeting all of the CodeSoc committee members
and potential teammates/fellow coders :)
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The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise
meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing
interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page
<https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
--
Thomas Denney
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>
Hello all,
This week we have our penultimate tech talk of the term from Metaswitch
and the Jane Street etc hackathon. Metaswitch will be "putting the
science back in computer science" as they discuss testing. Tomorrow one
of our sponsors, Ensoft, will be doing a talk on internet security at
the department. Please note that the Jane Street hackathon is close to
capacity, so if you are keen on participating please register soon!
We will not be running a Geek Night this week as it would clash with
Jane Street etc.
Next week, for the final talk of the term, Microsoft will be joining us
for an introductory talk on machine learning.
If you're interested in joining the society, please remember to bring
five pounds to any of our upcoming events, and we can provide you with a
membership form.
Have a great week,
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Events
Metaswitch: Putting the Science in Computer Science
<https://www.facebook.com/events/329354574096043/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(6th week)*
Edmund Pringle from Metaswitch will be joining us to discuss testing.
The talk will be followed by free pizza and drinks.
I'm perennially amazed as to how bad otherwise bright people are at
testing (including me!). And that's not surprising – we don't really
talk about it or get taught it as part of our undergraduate degree and
just about everything we've encountered called "testing" in our lives up
to and including our degree isn't actually testing. This talk (in among
the ranting, chocolate and invisible spoons) is intended to cover what
testing is (and isn't), what's interesting about it and to offer a very
basic skeleton that will hopefully let you learn more, enjoy more, and
be a vastly better computer scientist.
Microsoft: Machine Learning Demystified
<https://www.facebook.com/events/240022973081334/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(7th week)*
Bianca Furtuna from Microsoft will be joining us for a talk on machine
learning, which will be followed by free pizza and drinks.
Machine Learning can solve all your problems, it can tell you what to do
better and how to improve your business processes, increase revenue,
reduce waste etc.
Well, not really. Machine Learning is not magic. You don't just apply
machine learning in your organisation and intelligent, innovative
solutions come out of nowhere. Machine Learning has its limitations and
its beauty, but it all comes down to data and questions. You need good
data and the right questions and then you are good to go.
In this session, we are going to look at a typical machine learning
process and how to apply it to some real world data. We are going to use
Azure Machine Learning to transform data and ideas into models that are
production ready in minutes, all of this while keeping the real world in
mind.
Sponsor notices
Ensoft: How to Break the Internet
<http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/1684.html>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 1pm Tuesday (6th week)*
The Internet itself is under constant attack from hating hackers,
authoritarian agencies, boring bugs and annoying accidents. Core routers
stand alone in the hurricane, far beyond the capacity of any protective
firewall, left to defend themselves. How can they do this? And how safe
is the Internet really? This talk will reveal all.
The presenter is Director & CTO of Ensoft, whose experience includes
helping to bring into existence the Guinness Book of Records' "World's
Highest Capacity Internet Router". Free food and drink will also be
provided.
Please note that this is a department event rather than a CompSoc event.
Jane Street etc hackathon
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1633180670308427/>
*10am - 10pm 19/11/16 (Saturday 6th)*
A day-long programming contest. Form teams and have your software
compete against others and the markets.
A significant cash prize is on the line for the winning team. There'll
be lots of (free) food and drinks available.
Absolutely no knowledge of finance, nor OCaml is required. You don't
have to be a CS student or a full on programmer to participate but you'd
need some knowledge of coding. 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.
Check out our events <https://events.janestreet.com/home/etc/> website
for more info and register on this link
<https://docs.google.com/a/janestreet.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPVl1z3y6rpao69P…>
if you're interested in participating! Please bear in mind spaces are
limited.
We look forward to seeing you then!
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The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise
meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing
interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page
<https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
--
Thomas Denney
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>
Hello all,
In a break from our usual schedule we would like to remind you of the
Bloomberg <https://www.facebook.com/events/208490852918521/> talk
tonight on how Java is executed by the JVM and the forthcoming Jane
Street etc hackathon
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1633180670308427/>. If you want to
participate in the Jane Street hackathon please remember to sign up
(details below).
If you're interested in joining the society, please remember to bring
five pounds to any of our upcoming events, and we can provide you with a
membership form.
Have a great week,
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Bloomberg Tech Talk: How the JVM executes Java
<https://www.facebook.com/events/208490852918521/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(5th week)*
James Gough from Bloomberg will be joining us to discuss details about
the implementation of Java. Pizza and drinks will be provided after the
talk.
When Java was released in 1995 it was slow, a reputation it has carried
for many years... Today Java can give performance that is comparable to
C++ and can emit instructions that are more optimal than code which is
statically compiled. But how? This talk will take a tour of code and the
journey through the JVM and the optimisations in between. Using
practical examples, JVM flags and the Open Source JIT Watch we will
explore what the JVM does in an adaptation of the classic Hello World
program, you'll never look at Java in the same way again.
Jane Street etc hackathon
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1633180670308427/>
*10am - 10pm 19/11/16 (Saturday 6th)*
A day-long programming contest. Form teams and have your software
compete against others and the markets.
A significant cash prize is on the line for the winning team. There'll
be lots of (free) food and drinks available.
Absolutely no knowledge of finance, nor OCaml is required. You don't
have to be a CS student or a full on programmer to participate but you'd
need some knowledge of coding. 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.
Check out our events <https://events.janestreet.com/home/etc/> website
for more info and register on this link
<https://docs.google.com/a/janestreet.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPVl1z3y6rpao69P…>
if you're interested in participating! Please bear in mind spaces are
limited.
We look forward to seeing you then!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise
meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing
interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page
<https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
--
Thomas Denney
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>
Hello all,
Fifth week is upon us. As we come to the terrifying realisation that we
are /only/ half way through the term, hopefully the great events that we
have coming up should ease the blues.
As well as Geek Nights each Saturday, we also have three more tech talks
from Bloomberg, Metaswitch, and Microsoft on the Java Virtual Machine,
testing, and an introduction to machine learning coming up (descriptions
below). Next Saturday Jane Street, one of our sponsors, are also running
a hackathon.
This week, to my amusement, I discovered that the society didn't have a
Twitter account. As promoting society events is my job, I figured we
might as well have one. If this is at all useful to you, please follow
@oxcompsoc <https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc> and help get us more than a
single-digit number of followers...
If you're interested in joining the society, please remember to bring
five pounds to any of our upcoming events, and we can provide you with a
membership form.
Have a great week,
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Events
Bloomberg Tech Talk: How the JVM executes Java
<https://www.facebook.com/events/208490852918521/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(5th week)*
James Gough from Bloomberg will be joining us to discuss details about
the implementation of Java. Pizza and drinks will be provided after the
talk.
When Java was released in 1995 it was slow, a reputation it has carried
for many years... Today Java can give performance that is comparable to
C++ and can emit instructions that are more optimal than code which is
statically compiled. But how? This talk will take a tour of code and the
journey through the JVM and the optimisations in between. Using
practical examples, JVM flags and the Open Source JIT Watch we will
explore what the JVM does in an adaptation of the classic Hello World
program, you'll never look at Java in the same way again.
Geek Night 5 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1823510761194036/>
*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm
Saturday (5th week)*
Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the
usual selection of food and drinks. We will also have an Adafruit IoT
starter kit <https://www.adafruit.com/product/3031> and a BBC micro:bit
<http://microbit.org> if you are interested in learning some embedded
programming.
Metaswitch: Putting the Science in Computer Science
<https://www.facebook.com/events/329354574096043/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(6th week)*
Edmund Pringle from Metaswitch will be joining us to discuss testing.
The talk will be followed by free pizza and drinks.
I'm perennially amazed as to how bad otherwise bright people are at
testing (including me!). And that's not surprising – we don't really
talk about it or get taught it as part of our undergraduate degree and
just about everything we've encountered called "testing" in our lives up
to and including our degree isn't actually testing. This talk (in among
the ranting, chocolate and invisible spoons) is intended to cover what
testing is (and isn't), what's interesting about it and to offer a very
basic skeleton that will hopefully let you learn more, enjoy more, and
be a vastly better computer scientist.
Microsoft: Machine Learning Demystified
<https://www.facebook.com/events/240022973081334/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(7th week)*
Bianca Furtuna from Microsoft will be joining us for a talk on machine
learning, which will be followed by free pizza and drinks.
Machine Learning can solve all your problems, it can tell you what to do
better and how to improve your business processes, increase revenue,
reduce waste etc.
Well, not really. Machine Learning is not magic. You don't just apply
machine learning in your organisation and intelligent, innovative
solutions come out of nowhere. Machine Learning has its limitations and
its beauty, but it all comes down to data and questions. You need good
data and the right questions and then you are good to go.
In this session, we are going to look at a typical machine learning
process and how to apply it to some real world data. We are going to use
Azure Machine Learning to transform data and ideas into models that are
production ready in minutes, all of this while keeping the real world in
mind.
Sponsor notices
Jane Street etc hackathon
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1633180670308427/>
*10am - 10pm 19/11/16 (Saturday 6th)*
A day-long programming contest. Form teams and have your software
compete against others and the markets.
A significant cash prize is on the line for the winning team. There'll
be lots of (free) food and drinks available.
Absolutely no knowledge of finance, nor OCaml is required. You don't
have to be a CS student or a full on programmer to participate but you'd
need some knowledge of coding. 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.
Check out our events <https://events.janestreet.com/home/etc/> website
for more info and register on this link
<https://docs.google.com/a/janestreet.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPVl1z3y6rpao69P…>
if you're interested in participating! Please bear in mind spaces are
limited.
We look forward to seeing you then!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise
meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing
interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page
<https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
--
Thomas Denney
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>
Hello all,
Over the next week we have a bunch of cool events to hopefully
pre-emptively counter fifth week blues ;). Tomorrow CoreFiling, a local
tech company, will be giving a talk on open source software in the
corporate world, and later in the week we have a LAN night with the
eSports society <https://www.facebook.com/oxfordesports/> and a Geek Night.
Bloomberg will be joining us next Wednesday for a talk on how the JVM
executes Java.
If you're interested in joining the society, please remember to bring
five pounds to any of our upcoming events, and we can provide you with a
membership form.
Have a great week,
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Events
CoreFiling Tech Talk: Open source software in a corporate world
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1175973019156033/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(4th week)*
An engineer from CoreFiling will join us to discuss how a proprietary
software vendor can contribute and participate in the open source community.
The talk will be followed by free pizza and drinks.
LAN Night <https://www.facebook.com/events/1267375823303782/>
*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm
Friday (4th week)*
In collaboration with the Oxford eSports society
<https://www.facebook.com/oxfordesports/>, CompSoc will be hosting a LAN
night, with free pizza. Bring your laptop and we'll play games of your
choosing!
Geek Night 4 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1334404966583127/>
*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm
Saturday (4th week)*
Please note that we'll likely add a theme for this geek night later in
the week :). Irrespective of whether there is a theme, I've got hold of
an Adafruit IoT starter kit <https://www.adafruit.com/product/3031> from
Microsoft, which is an Arduino with integrated WiFi and a load of
sensors. I also have a BBC micro:bit <http://microbit.org>, and I'll be
taking both of these to this Geek Night in case anyone wants to play
with them or learn about embedded programming.
Bring your laptop, and we'll provide free pizza.
Bloomberg Tech Talk: How the JVM executes Java
<https://www.facebook.com/events/208490852918521/>
*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday
(5th week)*
James Gough from Bloomberg will be joining us to discuss details about
the implementation of Java. Pizza and drinks will be provided after the
talk.
When Java was released in 1995 it was slow, a reputation it has carried
for many years... Today Java can give performance that is comparable to
C++ and can emit instructions that are more optimal than code which is
statically compiled. But how? This talk will take a tour of code and the
journey through the JVM and the optimisations in between. Using
practical examples, JVM flags and the Open Source JIT Watch we will
explore what the JVM does in an adaptation of the classic Hello World
program, you'll never look at Java in the same way again.
Sponsor notices
Jane Street <http://www.janestreet.com>
*The Old Bank Hotel, 92-94 High Street - 7:30pm 3rd of November
(Thursday of 4th)*
Jane Street is always looking for great new people to join our talented
team! We invite you to spend an evening with us and learn more about
Quant Trading and the Technology we use at Jane Street. You'll get to
meet our Traders and Developers and learn more about our recruitment
process over finger food and drinks.
Our entrepreneurial culture is driven by our talented team of traders
and programmers. At Jane Street, we don't come to work wanting to leave.
We come to work excited to test new theories, have thought-provoking
discussions, and maybe sneak in a game of ping-pong or two. Keeping our
culture casual and our employees happy is of paramount importance to us.
We hope to meet you in Oxford!
Please note that no sign up is required for this event. For more
information on Jane Street, visit janestreet.com
<http://www.janestreet.com>.
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meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing
interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page
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<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
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Thomas Denney
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>
