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Mid-Vacation Sponsor Opportunities and More
Europe Terminal, Women's Europe Datathon, Jobs and Conferences!
Good Morrow, Weary Revellers,
I intrude on your well-earned rest briefly to bring you some mid-vac opportunities, delivered to you by our sponsors! Citadel is hosting two competitions which may pique your interest – Europe Terminal and Women's Europe Datathon, with applications closing on 10th April and 5th May respectively. If you're interested, check out the details and sign up below!
In addition, we also bring a job opportunity from TPP, who are looking for a Graduate Software Developer! Details are, as always, below.
— Declan, CompSoc Secretary
Fun Computing Fact: The ever-present x86 architecture officially went 64-bit in 1999, with AMD's extensions to the instruction set adding the ability to switch into 64-bit long mode. These extensions, which became known as AMD64, were later adopted by Intel in their Xeon and Pentium 4 processors. This, however, wasn't Intel's first go at making a 64-bit successor to x86 – that honour is reserved for the Itanium architecture. Itanium introduced an entirely new 64-bit instruction set architecture and included no hardware support for x86 binaries, forcing them to run in emulation.
Needless to say, Intel's approach was not a success – slow hardware combined with poor software support and confusing branding to kill Itanium in its youth. At one point, Microsoft shipped three different but similarly named 64-bit releases of Windows XP – one simple port to Itanium, one based on Windows Server 2003 which supported Itanium 2, and, finally, one for AMD64. Surprisingly, however, likely owing to use in industry, Itanium processors weren't fully discontinued until 2021!
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Europe Terminal
Correlation One, in partnership with Citadel and Citadel Securities, are inviting students across Europe to compete in this Spring season’s Europe Terminal<https://www.citadel.com/careers/students/terminal/?utm_source=correlationon…>, where participants will virtually compete for $15,000USD in our competition!
Terminal is an online game where software engineers, computer scientists and coding enthusiasts build an algorithm to play a tower defense game in a team-based setting. Watch this video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IvvWmrPX8&t=3s> to see Terminal in action!
When: 17th-24th April
Where: Virtual
Who: Undergraduate students
Prizes: $15,000 USD + exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel and Citadel Securities
Apply here by 10th April: https://www.citadel.com/careers/students/terminal/?utm_source=correlationon…
Women's Europe Datathon
Hosted by Citadel and Citadel Securities in partnership with Correlation One, this event is open to top students across Europe who identify as women.
Our Datathons challenge students from the world's best universities to tackle real-world social challenges in topics such as urban traffic, renewable energy, and education while working through large and complex datasets. Women’s Datathon is a national data science competition, bigger and more exciting than our regional events! Check out this video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO8T_CDXPxQ> from our first-ever North America Women’s Datathon event in Miami.
When: 12th-19th May
Where: Virtual
Who: Undergraduate and graduate students who identify as women
Prizes: $15,000 USD + exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel and Citadel Securities
Apply here by 5th May: https://www.citadel.com/careers/students/datathons/?utm_source=correlationo…
Graduate Software Developer at TPP
We’re looking for bright and geeky graduates to join our Software Developer team. No experience is required, and many of our successful applicants have never programmed before. If you think logically and enjoy problem solving, then you have the potential to become a great developer.
A career at TPP will challenge you every day. In your first few weeks you will be solving real-world problems as you help to develop software used by healthcare professionals and patients across the world.
You’ll be part of an agile development team, working on one of the largest real-time databases in the world. You’ll work on a wide variety of projects, ranging from AI assisting clinicians with early diagnosis of cancer to an iOS app helping patients manage their diabetes.
Developers at TPP are involved in the full software cycle, and work closely with all teams across the company to scope out new projects and design, develop and deploy our products.
To read what it’s like to work at TPP and to see our full list of benefits, visit www.tpp-careers.com<http://www.tpp-careers.com/>
University of Warwick Cybersoc Conference
misc0nfig: Warwick Cyber Security Society Conference
Run by students, for students featuring talks and workshops from industry leaders.
The schedule will be announced closer to the time, but the conference will be ran on several tracks, meaning there may be several talks / workshops going on at once - so make sure you pick wisely! There are no plans to repeat talks, however, recordings may be available.
Tickets can now be booked via the Warwick SU website: https://www.warwicksu.com/venues-events/events/61481/26830/ - this does not require you to be a Warwick student! We'd love to have some of you guys there, and we're advertising to other Cybersocs at other universities so grab a ticket soon if you want one!
Who: So many people! We will announce names and companies of speakers as they are confirmed - but we do have some big names on the way!
When: 10am-5pm, 10th May
Where: WMG, University of Warwick
Check Out OxWoCS!
Make sure to join OxWoCS (Oxford Women in CS), a society we're working closely with, if you identify as a woman or woman-adjacent person in CS! They have a host of wonderful events on, including talks, panels and socials. Computer Science is unfortunately a subject with one of the biggest gender gaps in Oxford and worldwide, and addressing this is at the core of OxWoCS.
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