Hi everyone,
This week, we're thinking academically. At tonight's Geek Night, we'll be
trying out the *Coq proof assistant* and on Wednesday David Chisnall, the
Modern Compiler Design lecturer at Cambridge, will be talking about
his *open-source
work* with Objective-C and FreeBSD let him put his *research ideas into
practice*.
If you enjoyed Richard Baker's talk on UAVs two weeks ago, you'll be
pleased to find he us provided his slide
Hi everyone,
This week, we're thinking academically. At tonight's Geek Night, we'll be
trying out the *Coq proof assistant* and on Wednesday David Chisnall, the
Modern Compiler Design lecturer at Cambridge, will be talking about
his *open-source
work* with Objective-C and FreeBSD let him put his *research ideas into
practice*.
If you enjoyed Richard Baker's talk on UAVs two weeks ago, you'll be
pleased to find he us provided his slides, which are attached.
The remaining CompSoc events this term are the Week 7 *LAN Night*, the *Annual
General Meeting* and the *40th Anniversary Dinner*. If you're interested in
helping run CompSoc, talk to one of the committee to find out more.
Other events include Microsoft Student Partner's last workshop of
term, on *machine
learning*, the deadline for the *Microsoft Imagine Cup* and the Materials
Society hosting *AI and robotics experts* from Rolls-Royce.
Have a great week,
*Edward and the rest of the committee*
Events Geek Night 6: Computer-assisted proofs
<https://www.facebook.com/events/167812100673190/>
*19:00 Saturday 6th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
Bring your laptop for a well-deserved evening of relaxing, chatting, games,
coding and a selection of food and drink. This week sees the return of geek
night themes! This week we'll be using automated theorem provers to provide
proofs of mind-boggling theorems like "A implies A" and that "Boolean OR is
commutative".
Tech talk: Open source in research
<https://www.facebook.com/events/152250855487158/>
*19:00 Wednesday 7th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
*Abstract.* This talk will discuss open source both as a mechanism for
involvement in research and as a means of technology transfer. I will
discuss the transition from the Étoilé Objective-C runtime, which
incorporated a number of novel research ideas, to the GNUstep runtime,
which is now used in numerous Android applications and as the base of
Microsoft’s WinObjC project. I will also discuss some of my experience on
the FreeBSD Core Team, particularly in terms of engagement of research and
industrial communities, and out current work using LLVM and FreeBSD for
both prototyping and industrial engagement.
As usual, pizza and drinks will be provided.
*Bio.* David Chisnall is the Bye Fellow in Computer Science at Murray
Edwards College, Cambridge, and teaches Modern Compiler Design. He is a
contributor to the Étoilé user environment, GNUstep development environment
and LLVM project. His research interests include cross-language
interoperability, architectures for modern programming languages and
dynamic object-oriented programming languages.
Geek Night 7: LAN Night <https://www.facebook.com/events/161994861263548/>
*19:00 Saturday 7th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
CompSoc will be hosting a *decent* LAN night on Saturday 7th week, with a
working LAN, working router and some games to play. Come and enjoy an
experience better than the last one.
Annual General Meeting <https://www.facebook.com/events/199652360770362/>
*19:00 Wednesday 8th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
It's election time at CompSoc! The 2018–2019 CompSoc executive committee
will be elected and, if there are enough keen people, non-executive
positions may be created (the role of the new positions may or may not be
going to meetings no one else wants to go to). There's no need to come up
with a manifesto or have 3–5 years experience being a hack; just turn up on
the night and say why you'd be good for the role.
We'll also be voting on approving the minutes of all meetings made in the
last 15 years. The Proctors mandated a new constitution in 2014, which
we've only just noticed requires us to formally minutes of meetings.
CompSoc hasn't done that since 2003, so please email me with any minutes
you'd like to see.
There will also be the usual committee reports and pizza, and the return of
cheese and wine.
The official agenda is attached. If you want to submit any other motions,
email me to add them to the agenda.
Sponsor notices Microsoft Azure Functions & Computer Vision Workshops
Microsoft’s
Vision and Language services: an interactive lab
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1355046071308201/>
*19:10–20:30, Monday 7th Week – Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church*
Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are delighted to welcome Ms Frances
Tibble from Microsoft to give a talk on Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Frances recently graduated from Imperial College London, joining Microsoft
as a Software Engineer. She now specialises in Machine Learning and AI,
which means she gets to throw lots of buzzwords around. In this session
we’ll be looking at a great source of those words: computer vision and
language.
The event is free with pizzas, drinks, Microsoft swag and more; you get
$100 worth of Azure credit simply by turning up to the workshop! On Azure,
you can make apps that recognise images and speech, set up bots that
understand what you say, or build and train your own machine learning model.
To get more updates, join the Microsoft Student Partners Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/OxfordMSP/>.
*Part 1: Vision (30 mins)*
This will be a presentation on how we can extract information from images
using Microsoft’s computer vision APIs, followed by a hands-on lab where
we’ll build our own machine learning model to classify images.
*Part 2: Language (30 mins)*
This will be a deep-dive presentation into language understanding using
Microsoft’s LUIS, followed by a guided lab to build our own custom language
model.
*FAQ*
*What programming language will we be using?*
This is a “no-code” lab, which means we’ll build our models without having
to write any code.
*What will I learn?*
You’ll get started with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services so you can build
projects of your own. Check out what students built using these
services at Hack
Cambridge <https://aka.ms/hackcambridge> and IC Hack <https://aka.ms/ichack>
.
*What do I need?*
Bring yourself and your laptop!
Microsoft Imagine Cup
Not long to go until Microsoft’s annual student developer competition
submission deadline (18th of March)!
*If you have a technical University project, hackathon idea, or even a side
project you are working on, why not enter it into the Imagine Cup?* It
doesn’t need to be 100% polished and perfected, as long as you have a
strong concept and have started on the technical development, your idea
could see you go to the UK National finals and win a cash prize of £5000
and an Xbox One X (1st prize). 2nd prize is £3000 and 3rd is £2000. Teams
can be up to 3 people and the only requirement is that the idea is built on
Azure. If you would like to access an Azure grant code ($100 a month for 3
months), please email Oxford’s Microsoft Student Partner lead to get one
Shu Ishida (shu.ishida(a)chch.ox.ac.uk).
Register here – https://aka.ms/imaginecupuk
Other notices Cutting Edge Research: Inside the Rolls-Royce Future
Technologies Group
*17:00 Tuesday 7th Week – Wolfson Meeting Room, Materials Science
Department*
The Materials Society is hosting researchers from Rolls-Royce’s Future
Technologies group, who are talking about the exciting work they do. The
talk includes work Rolls-Royce is doing using AI to design new aerospace
materials, and developing snake robots for inspection and repair.
Space is limited, so you *must sign up*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMYxo70diz9fB_mG6c151ecBgB4WPO6Te…>
.
*Dr Al Lambourne* is a materials specialist, looking at novel electrical
and magnetic materials, functional coatings and composites.
*Dr Bilal Nasser* is an expert in robotics and computer vision, having
worked for Rolls-Royce developing tele-operative and snake-like robots.
*Dr Bryce Conduit* is an expert in AI, and is building an AI platform to
better optimise design and manufacture.
The event is free and food will be provided.
------------------------------
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/> or visit our Website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
Edward Hart
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net
Hi everyone,
Will some programs become too complex to understand? Will computers have to
program themselves? *Ensoft*'s CTO will show us how *computer-assisted
programming* is going to be make our lives easier and the future of the
career programmer.
Congratulations to those who have been going every week to *Learn to Code*!
We're nearly at the end and we'll be continuing with our exercise-based
format. This week, we'll be building upon our knowledge of lists and
dictionaries and looking at ways you can use your new programming skills.
Next Saturday, *Geek Night* will have a theme for the first time since
Michaelmas (I'm sorry for my laziness): *computer-assisted proofs*. Then,
we'll be hosting David Chisnall from Cambridge, who'll be talking about how
he used *open-source* work in Objective-C and FreeBSD to put *research
ideas into practice* and to transfer technologies.
Outside of CompSoc, *Microsoft's* student partners are hosting workshops
covering *machine learning* and *computer vision*.
Have a great week,
*Edward and the rest of the committee*
Events Tech talk with Ensoft: Will Skynet win? Five ways computers write
software better than you <https://www.facebook.com/events/184165005688535/>
*19:00 Wednesday 6th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
*Bio.* Simon Chatterjee is a Director and CTO of Ensoft, whose experience
includes helping to bring into existence the Guinness Book of Records'
"World's Highest Capacity Internet Router".
*Abstract.* The Internet is perhaps the most complex machine ever invented,
and it's made of software. This pushes the limits of human capacity for
creating and testing code, but with recent advances, the machines are
starting to rise up and take on these challenges. I'll talk about what's
happening, why it's awesome, and what it means for your future career.
As usual, pizza and drinks will be provided.
Learn to Code 5: List, dictionaries, stacks and more
<https://www.facebook.com/events/173211989952029/?event_time_id=173212276618…>
*19:00 Thursday 6th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
In the final session of the term, we will continue to look at fundamental
data structures like lists and dictionaries before moving on to looking at
how we can use lists as stacks and then at how to use stacks to model stack
machines, which underpin how Python is executed on your computer. Finally,
we’ll look at problems that the skills you’ve learned this term can be
applied to, such as data processing for statistics, machine learning, and
image processing.
Next term, we will run the previously advertised seventh week session with
a machine learning expert covering the basics of machine learning in Python.
Geek Night 6 <https://www.facebook.com/events/167812100673190/>
*19:00 Saturday 6th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
Bring your laptop for a well-deserved evening of relaxing, chatting, games,
coding and a selection of food and drink. This week sees the return of geek
night themes! This week we'll be using automated theorem provers to provide
proofs of mind-boggling quick mathz like 2 + 2 = 4 and 4 − 1 = 3.
Open source in research <https://www.facebook.com/events/152250855487158/>
*19:00 Wednesday 7th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
*Bio.* David Chisnall is the Bye Fellow in Computer Science at Murray
Edwards College, Cambridge, and teaches Modern Compiler Design. He is a
contributor to the Étoilé user environment, GNUstep development environment
and LLVM project. His research interests include cross-language
interoperability, architectures for modern programming languages and
dynamic object-oriented programming languages.
*Abstract.* This talk will discuss open source both as a mechanism for
involvement in research and as a means of technology transfer. I will
discuss the transition from the Étoilé Objective-C runtime, which
incorporated a number of novel research ideas, to the GNUstep runtime,
which is now used in numerous Android applications and as the base of
Microsoft’s WinObjC project. I will also discuss some of my experience on
the FreeBSD Core Team, particularly in terms of engagement of research and
industrial communities, and out current work using LLVM and FreeBSD for
both prototyping and industrial engagement.
Sponsor notices Microsoft Azure Functions & Computer Vision Workshops
Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are running two coding workshops next
week on the exciting topics of cloud computing and computer vision.
All events are free with pizzas, drinks, Microsoft swag and more; you get
$100 worth of Azure credit simply by turning up to one of our workshops! On
Azure, you can make apps that recognise images and speech, set up bots that
understand what you say, or build and train your own machine learning model.
To get more updates, join the Microsoft Student Partners Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/OxfordMSP/>.
Machine Learning Workshop <https://www.facebook.com/events/788434401367266/>
*19:10–20:30, Tuesday 6th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church*
Do you want to build your own Machine Learning model but don't know where
to start? Well look no further! We are running a workshop to teach you
exactly how to build and train your model using Azure Machine Learning.
Anyone from intermediate CS students to non-CS students new to machine
learning are welcome! We'll provide a step-by-step hand out with examples.
Free pizzas and drinks are always a thing here, and even better, we give
out *Free Azure Subscription* worth $100, just for those of you who joined
the workshop!
Save your interests to stay updated!
- Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church
- Time: 19:10–20:30, Tuesday 20th Feb
- Benefits: Free pizzas, Microsoft swag and $100 worth Azure subscription
- Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/788434401367266/
Microsoft’s Vision and Language services: an interactive lab
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1355046071308201/>
*19:10–20:30, Monday 7th Week – Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church*
Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are delighted to welcome Ms Frances
Tibble from Microsoft to give a talk on Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Frances recently graduated from Imperial College London, joining Microsoft
as a Software Engineer. She now specialises in Machine Learning and AI,
which means she gets to throw lots of buzzwords around. In this session
we’ll be looking at a great source of those words: computer vision and
language.
*Part 1: Vision (30 mins)*
This will be a presentation on how we can extract information from images
using Microsoft’s computer vision APIs, followed by a hands-on lab where
we’ll build our own machine learning model to classify images.
*Part 2: Language (30 mins)*
This will be a deep-dive presentation into language understanding using
Microsoft’s LUIS, followed by a guided lab to build our own custom language
model.
*FAQ*
*What programming language will we be using?*
This is a “no-code” lab, which means we’ll build our models without having
to write any code.
*What will I learn?*
You’ll get started with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services so you can build
projects of your own. Check out what students built using these
services at Hack
Cambridge <https://aka.ms/hackcambridge> and IC Hack <https://aka.ms/ichack>
.
*What do I need?*
Bring yourself and your laptop!
Other notices Internship Placements in IT and Computing
*Micro-Internship Programme*
Keen to enhance your CV with work experience? The Micro-Internship Programme
<https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/micro-internships/> facilitates 2–5 day work
experience placements in 9th and 10th week of every term. Applications are
OPEN and the deadline is *midday, Monday 19th February*. Please see our
handy sector list
<http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/MIP-HT18-Second-Batc…>
to browse micro-internship opportunities which may be of interest to your
students.
*Looking for guidance with your application?*
Previous hosts have given helpful application feedback and advice
<http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Employer-Feedback-on…>.
Stay up to date with our internship programmes by signing up to the Internship
Office email alerts <http://bit.ly/2hUWOHY> and visiting the Internship
Office Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/internshipoffice/>. For any
questions please email micro-internships(a)careers.ox.ac.uk.
------------------------------
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/> or visit our Website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
Edward Hart
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net
Hi everyone,
*Drones* are one of the most exciting technologies to hit the mainstream in
recent year, promising to revolutionise logistics and warfare – if they
stop getting stuck in trees. This week's talk is about drones: drones for
the consumer, their exciting future, their creative misuses and how we can
protect ourselves.
*Learn to Code* continues and we'll have practising advanced list features
and introducing the dictionary data type.
This is also the last week you can sign up for our *40th Anniversary Dinner*
!
Outside of CompSoc, *Microsoft's* student partners are hosting four(!)
workshops covering *cloud computing* with Azure, *computer vision* and *machine
learning*. The Oxford Foundry is launching a *startup accelerator program*
and hosting a workshop on *building a landing page* in two hours.
Have a great week,
*Edward and the rest of the committee*
Events Geek Night 4 <https://www.facebook.com/events/160936788020771/>
*19:00 Saturday 4th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
Bring your laptop for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding and a
selection of food and drink.
UAVing a laugh!? <https://www.facebook.com/events/105499533603409/>
*19:00 Wednesday 5th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
*Abstract.* Drones have been in consumer hands and newspaper headlines for
several years now. While their much-touted potential to dramatically change
modern existence is slowly beginning to emerge, it sometimes seems like
their most notable success thus far has been in crashing into everything in
sight.
This talk will take a brief look at the devices currently available for the
everyday consumer. It will then explore some exciting legitimate uses as
well as the manifold creative misuses people have devised. Finally it will
discuss the potential countermeasures that have been proposed to detect
UAVs, disable or commandeer them, and trace misuse back to operators.
There will be a selection of commodity drones to have a look at, from tiny
FPV ones up to an octorotor that will lift a kilo of payload.
*Bio.* Richard Baker is a member of the Cyber Security CDT at Oxford.
Learn to Code 4: Lists and dictionaries
<https://www.facebook.com/events/173211989952029/?event_time_id=173212273285…>
*19:00 Thursday 5th Week – Lecture Theatre A and Room 051, Department of
Computer Science*
In the fourth session, we're going to continue the exercise-based format we
had last week. We'll continue our practice with lists and introduce a new
data structure, dictionaries (aka maps).
The video for last week's session is now on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1aisio7IU>, whilst the exercises and
solutions are on GitHub
<https://github.com/oxcompsoc/learntocode/blob/master/session3/README.md>.
If you missed last week's session, we *strongly* encourage that you take
the time to go through a few more of the exercises before next week's
session.
Geek Night 5 <https://www.facebook.com/events/2000752436861057/>
*19:00 Saturday 5th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
Congratulations on surviving another fifth week! Bring your laptop for a
well-deserved evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding and a selection
of food and drink.
Tech talk with Ensoft: Will Skynet win? Five ways computers write software
better than you <https://www.facebook.com/events/184165005688535/>
*19:00 Wednesday 6th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
*Abstract.* The Internet is perhaps the most complex machine ever invented,
and it's made of software. This pushes the limits of human capacity for
creating and testing code, but with recent advances, the machines are
starting to rise up and take on these challenges. I'll talk about what's
happening, why it's awesome, and what it means for your future career.
As usual, pizza and drinks will be provided.
*Bio.* Simon Chatterjee is a Director and CTO of Ensoft, whose experience
includes helping to bring into existence the Guinness Book of Records'
"World's Highest Capacity Internet Router".
40th Anniversary Dinner <https://www.facebook.com/events/601485016909802/>
*Drinks reception from 19:00, Wednesday 8th Week – Foyer B, St Anne's
College*
CompSoc turns 40 next year and we're celebrating in style! A sumptuous
three-course dinner at St Anne's (Domino's was booked up), joined by
CompSoc members spanning the society's 40-year history. All for just
£20. Reserve
your place here <https://ox.compsoc.net/dinner/> (don't worry about the
donation bit – that's just for old members who are in full-time
employment). There are a limited number of places and *reservations close
on Friday*, so act quickly!
Sponsor notices Microsoft Azure Functions & Computer Vision Workshops
Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are running two coding workshops next
week on the exciting topics of cloud computing and computer vision.
All events are free with pizzas, drinks, Microsoft swag and more; you get
$100 worth of Azure credit simply by turning up to one of our workshops! On
Azure, you can make apps that recognise images and speech, set up bots that
understand what you say, or build and train your own machine learning model.
To get more updates, join the Microsoft Student Partners Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/OxfordMSP/>.
Azure Functions Workshop <https://www.facebook.com/events/2039172689699093/>
*19:10–20:30, Tuesday 5th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church*
Do you want to have image processing for your IoT device, or manage bots to
run scheduled tasks? Want to learn the fastest way to get your JavaScript
code running online?
Azure Functions is a great solution for processing data, integrating
systems, working with the internet-of-things (IoT), and building simple
APIs and microservices.
- Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church
- Time: 19:10–20:30, Tue 13th Feb
- Benefits: Free pizzas, Microsoft swag and $100 worth Azure subscription
- Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2039172689699093/
Computer Vision Workshop – learn to code AI powered apps
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1732026393487459/>
*19:10–20:30, Friday 5th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church*
Do you want to make your own AI powered app but don't know where to begin?
We are running a workshop that teaches you exactly how to make your app
"see the world"! We will walk you through how to start using Microsoft
Computer Vision and Custom Vision APIs, and at the end of the day, let you
train your own image recognition model!
- Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church
- Time: 19:10–20:30, Fri 16th Feb
- Benefits: Free pizzas, Microsoft swag and $100 worth Azure subscription
- Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1732026393487459/
Machine Learning Workshop <https://www.facebook.com/events/788434401367266/>
*19:10–20:30, Tuesday 6th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church*
Do you want to build your own Machine Learning model but don't know where
to start? Well look no further! We are running a workshop to teach you
exactly how to build and train your model using Azure Machine Learning.
Anyone from intermediate CS students to non-CS students new to machine
learning are welcome! We'll provide a step-by-step hand out with examples.
Free pizzas and drinks are always a thing here, and even better, we give
out *Free Azure Subscription* worth $100, just for those of you who joined
the workshop!
Save your interests to stay updated!
- Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church
- Time: 19:10–20:30, Tuesday 20th Feb
- Benefits: Free pizzas, Microsoft swag and $100 worth Azure subscription
- Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/788434401367266/
Microsoft’s Vision and Language services: an interactive lab
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1355046071308201/>
*19:10–20:30, Monday 7th Week – Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church*
Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are delighted to welcome Ms Frances
Tibble from Microsoft to give a talk on Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Frances recently graduated from Imperial College London, joining Microsoft
as a Software Engineer. She now specialises in Machine Learning and AI,
which means she gets to throw lots of buzzwords around. In this session
we’ll be looking at a great source of those words: computer vision and
language.
*Part 1: Vision (30 mins)*
This will be a presentation on how we can extract information from images
using Microsoft’s computer vision APIs, followed by a hands-on lab where
we’ll build our own machine learning model to classify images.
*Part 2: Language (30 mins)*
This will be a deep-dive presentation into language understanding using
Microsoft’s LUIS, followed by a guided lab to build our own custom language
model.
*FAQ*
*What programming language will we be using?*
This is a “no-code” lab, which means we’ll build our models without having
to write any code.
*What will I learn?*
You’ll get started with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services so you can build
projects of your own. Check out what students built using these
services at Hack
Cambridge <https://aka.ms/hackcambridge> and IC Hack <https://aka.ms/ichack>
.
*What do I need?*
Bring yourself and your laptop!
Other notices The Oxford Foundry launches the LEV8 accelerate program
*LEV8* – /ˈɛlɪveɪt/ – pron: el-ev-ate
verb
To raise or lift (something) to a higher position.
To raise to a more impressive level.
*What is OXFO LEV8?*
OXFO LEV8 at the Oxford Foundry is the University of Oxford’s newest
accelerator, designed to support and nurture early-stage start-up teams
affiliated to the University by helping to develop them into strong,
scalable businesses.
*Who can apply?*
OXFO LEV8 welcomes applications from any start-up team that includes at
least one Oxford University student, member of staff, or alumnus/alumna
within 10 years of graduation.
*Why apply?*
- OXFO LEV8 welcomes ventures from all sectors. We believe that
innovation thrives in a diverse community.
- Our programme is led and influenced by entrepreneurs – we practice
what we preach!
- We offer a bespoke programme, tailored to the needs and interests of
our venture teams.
- Our programme focuses on bringing relevant industry experts to all of
our ventures.
- We are global: we will be bringing international angels, investors and
thought leaders to our doorstep – physically and via video links and
webinars.
- We offer access to excellence in entrepreneurial learning, through the
University of Oxford, and through access to world leading intellectual
capital.
- Our programme will focus on personal growth, and developing an
entrepreneurial mind set while you shape and scale your start-up.
*Applications are now open – apply by midnight on 20 February!*
Full information at https://www.oxfordfoundry.ox.ac.uk/about-oxfo-lev8.
How to Build a Landing Page in 2 hours
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-build-a-landing-page-in-2-hours-ticke…>
*18:00–20:30, Thursday 5th Week – The Oxford Foundry, 3–5 Hythe Bridge
Street, OX1 2EW*
The Oxford Foundry have arranged a *free Coding Workshop* for you in
partnership with CodeSoc and Le Wagon – Change your Life: Learn to Code.
Anyone can learn to code. *No previous coding experience required.*
Create your Landing Page in 2 Hours.
Please bring your booking confirmation and a fully charged laptop! Requires
no prior knowledge.
Reserve your space here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-build-a-landing-page-in-2-hours-ticke…>
(capacity limited to 50 students).
*For university of oxford students only.*
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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/> or visit our Website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
Edward Hart
Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society
secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net
Hi everyone,
This week, David North of *CoreFiling* will be introducing us *continuous
deployment*: how you can release product as soon as changes are made, not
just every six months. This week's *Learn to Code* session will on lists,
strings and using functions. The week ends with our usual *Geek Night*.
Outside of CompSoc, *Entrepreneur First* are hosting a *drinks event* at
The Jam Factory where they'll be demystifying the tech startup scene.
*Microsoft's* student partners are hosting two workshops on *cloud
computing* with Azure and *computer vision*. If you're itching for a chance
to stretch your webdev skills, *The Oxford Student* is seeking a developer
to modernise and revamp their website.
Have a great week,
*Edward and the rest of the committee*
Events Tech talk with CoreFiling: Continuous deployment
<https://www.facebook.com/events/2021121251489386/>
*19:00 Wednesday 4th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
David North will talk about CoreFiling’s journey from product releases
every six weeks, to every two weeks, to every week, and finally to a
continuous deployment process where changes to our web apps can go live
within hours of coding and testing being completed. He’ll talk about both
the technology that made it possible, and the business processes and
challenges involved.
Learn to Code 3: Loops and functions
<https://www.facebook.com/events/173211989952029/?event_time_id=173212263285…>
*19:00 Thursday 4th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer
Science*
In the third session we're going to continue looking at while loops by
building a number guessing game before learning how to write your own
functions. Like this second session, much of the session will require you
to work on a laptop, so we highly recommend taking one.
Geek Night 4 <https://www.facebook.com/events/160936788020771/>
*19:00 Saturday 4th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of
Computer Science*
Bring your laptop for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding and a
selection of food and drink.
Sponsor notices Evening with Entrepreneur First
<https://www.facebook.com/events/809585852559130/>
*17:00 Monday 4th Week – The Jam Factory, Hollybush Row, 27 Park End
Street, OX1 1HU*
You are warmly invited to attend a free evening at the Jam Factory,
complete with free drinks and snacks, hosted by Entrepreneur First, to find
out more about the exciting opportunities available at EF.
Entrepreneur First are coming to Oxford, to demystify the exciting world of
technology entrepreneurship! Europe's leading startup builder, EF's mission
is to build the world's most important companies, by supporting ambitious
individuals to build tech startups from scratch. Its uniqueness is that you
don't need a team or idea to join the programme, just pure talent! EF
supports you to find a co-founder, build a team, develop your idea, and
secure funding. Around 80–100 talented individuals join every cohort, and
applications are currently open for the next programme; come along to see
if its for you!
Microsoft Azure Functions & Computer Vision Workshops
Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are running two coding workshops next
week on the exciting topics of cloud computing and computer vision.
All events are free with pizzas, drinks, Microsoft swag and more; you get
$100 worth of Azure credit simply by turning up to one of our workshops! On
Azure, you can make apps that recognise images and speech, set up bots that
understand what you say, or build and train your own machine learning model.
Azure Functions Workshop <https://www.facebook.com/events/2039172689699093/>
*19:10–20:30, Tuesday 5th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church*
Do you want to have image processing for your IoT device, or manage bots to
run scheduled tasks? Want to learn the fastest way to get your JavaScript
code running online?
Azure Functions is a great solution for processing data, integrating
systems, working with the internet-of-things (IoT), and building simple
APIs and microservices.
- Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church
- Time: 7.10 – 8.30 pm, Tue 13th Feb
- Benefits: Free pizzas, Microsoft swag and $100 worth Azure subscription
- Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2039172689699093/
Computer Vision Workshop – learn to code AI powered apps
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1732026393487459/>
*19:10–20:30, Friday 5th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church*
Do you want to make your own AI powered app but don't know where to begin?
We are running a workshop that teaches you exactly how to make your app
"see the world"! We will walk you through how to start using Microsoft
Computer Vision and Custom Vision APIs, and at the end of the day, let you
train your own image recognition model!
- Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church
- Time: 7.10 – 8.30 pm, Fri 16th Feb
- Benefits: Free pizzas, Microsoft swag and $100 worth Azure subscription
- Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1732026393487459/
Other notices Web developer sought by *The Oxford Student*
We’re looking to build a new website, and we need someone with coding
expertise and web design experience to help us with this. The position
would entail designing and setting up a new website for the newspaper where
we can publish articles and videos to our audience. Our current website
receives an average of 1,000 hits per month but is slow and outdated, and
we’re hoping to massively improve our online presence this term so having a
well-designed and fast website is something we’d really value.
The role would be for this term, and would involve working alongside our
team to ensure our content is represented in the best way possible.
Like all in student journalism, the role is unpaid but is a great
opportunity to get some experience and exposure of your work, and to meet
new people.
Applications should be send to mailto:editor@oxfordstudent.com with the
title ‘Website application’, and should consist of a brief (100–200 words)
outline of relevant experience and plans for the new website.
Penny Young Editor-in-Chief, *The Oxford Student*
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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/> or visit our Website
<https://ox.compsoc.net> for more information about the society.
