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Bloomberg talk & Jane Street etc hackathon
by Thomas Denney 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

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>

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Week 5 Newsletter: Bloomberg talk and Geek Night
by Thomas Denney 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

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>

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Week 4 Newsletter: CoreFiling talk, LAN night, Geek Night
by Thomas Denney 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

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>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- Thomas Denney Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>

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Coding Challenge 5PM Today Computer Science Department
by Matthew Burke 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

Hi all, *It's not too late to sign up for the GResearch Coding Challenge today at 5pm in the Computer Science Department Room 051. Non members are welcome to attend.* A great event that everyone enjoyed last year, the coding challenge will pit small teams against each other to build the best stock trading program. Laptops are provided, along with a basic working program to get you started. No prior experience necessary. Sign-up as a team of 4, or on your own and form a team when you arrive. *Please email GResearch (details below) to sign-up or just turn up and we'll do our best to fit you in.* There will be plenty of food and drink after the event, as well as leading into our usual geek night. Have a great week, Matthew and the rest of the committee Events G-Research Coding Challenge 2016 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1798724137031670/> *Room 051, Department of Computer Science - 5:00pm Saturday (3rd week)* G-Research is a well-established and rapidly growing firm with a leading platform for developing quantitative research and systematic investment ideas. We have created a community designed to inspire the best minds in the world to tackle the toughest intellectual challenges and deliver the best work of their careers. Our platforms and technologies are constantly evolving to meet the real-world scenarios we throw at them and we are seeking world-class software engineers to join us. Can your code beat the markets? Test your coding skills and systematic investment ideas on our simulated stock exchange. 1st place wins a Â£50 Amazon voucher for each member of your team, swag and other prizes for runners up! Which team will turn the largest profit? Here's a great chance to test your problem solving and coding skills, and to see what it's like to work in a dynamic, innovative environment on the cutting edge of finance and technology. Teams of three or four students will have one hour to devise and code their investment ideas to run on our simulated exchange. Final strategies will be run through the exchange and will compete against other teams. Pizza and drinks afterwards, plus opportunities to network with current staff to find out more about life at G-Research. *To register please either enter individually (any individual entries will be allocated into teams on the day) or in a team by sending names to graduates(a)gresearch.co.uk <mailto:graduates@gresearch.co.uk>.* Geek Night 3 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1632158010410028/> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Saturday (3rd week)* An informal geek night following the G-Research event, with pizza and drinks. Feel free to come along with any games or coding projects you've been doing recently and share then with other members. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- Matthew Burke President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week 3 Newsletter - Palantir tech talk, G-Research coding event, Geek Night
by Thomas Denney 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Hello all, We have a busy week ahead with a tech talk from Palantir, a coding event from G-Research, and Geek Night on Saturday. Tomorrow we will be joined by engineers from Palantir to discuss what it is like building tools and working with big data. On Saturday we will also be hosting a G-Research coding event, which will then run into Geek Night later in the evening. Please be aware that you *must register in advance* for the G-Research event (details below). Next week CoreFiling will be doing a tech talk on open source software in a corporate world. 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 Palantir Tech Talk: Think Like a Palantir Engineer <https://www.facebook.com/events/356324308042095/> *Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday (3rd week)* Palantir is a company of individuals who are passionate about building world-class data integration and analysis software. If you want to work on the global problems you read about on the front page of the newspaper, we want you to come work with us. Ever wonder what types of problems Palantir is fighting and how we work to solve them? Come hear about them first-hand and openly discuss your approach to solve them with us. We will be hosting an interactive workshop all around the hardest data problems the world is facing. G-Research Coding Challenge 2016 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1798724137031670/> *Room 051, Department of Computer Science - 5:00pm Saturday (3rd week)* G-Research is a well-established and rapidly growing firm with a leading platform for developing quantitative research and systematic investment ideas. We have created a community designed to inspire the best minds in the world to tackle the toughest intellectual challenges and deliver the best work of their careers. Our platforms and technologies are constantly evolving to meet the real-world scenarios we throw at them and we are seeking world-class software engineers to join us. Can your code beat the markets? Test your coding skills and systematic investment ideas on our simulated stock exchange. 1st place wins a £50 Amazon voucher for each member of your team, swag and other prizes for runners up! Which team will turn the largest profit? Here's a great chance to test your problem solving and coding skills, and to see what it's like to work in a dynamic, innovative environment on the cutting edge of finance and technology. Teams of three or four students will have one hour to devise and code their investment ideas to run on our simulated exchange. Final strategies will be run through the exchange and will compete against other teams. Pizza and drinks afterwards, plus opportunities to network with current staff to find out more about life at G-Research. *To register please either enter individually (any individual entries will be allocated into teams on the day) or in a team by sending names to graduates(a)gresearch.co.uk <mailto:graduates@gresearch.co.uk>.* Geek Night 3 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1632158010410028/> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Saturday (3rd week)* An informal geek night following the G-Research event, with pizza and drinks. Feel free to come along with any games or coding projects you've been doing recently and share then with other members. 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. Sponsor notices Metaswitch: "Your Career. Your Choice" - Insight and networking event <https://forms.akkroo.com/#/events/metaswitch/102977?type=preregister&backgr…> *Randolph Macdonald - 7:00pm - 1st November (Tuesday of 4th)* RSVP for Oxford via our website <https://forms.akkroo.com/#/events/metaswitch/102977?type=preregister&backgr…> to attend and find out about Metaswitch and the opportunities we have available for Interns and Graduates. The night will feature an insight into life at Metaswitch from the people that work here, games and competitions (with prizes!), a chance to meet Metaswitch employees from all levels of the business, plus FREE FOOD AND DRINK! Some keys things you should know about working for us. * At Metaswitch you will be solving complex problems every day, helping us to continue innovating and accelerating our expansion into new markets and technologies. * You will be treated as an individual, but with plenty of training and support. This means you can decide where your career goes - and how fast * No experience is necessary - yes really :). We take on interns (from all year groups - even first years) and graduates from ALL backgrounds! Register for the event now via our website (we don't want to run out of food and drink!) and please feel free to share this invite with anyone else you think might be interested. 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>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- Thomas Denney Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>

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G-Research Coding Challenge 2016
by Thomas Denney 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hello all, We're excited to G-Research's Coding Challenge 2016, which will be at the department on Saturday of 3rd week. It will be great to see lots of CompSoc members there, but you don't need to be a member to register. We also have our usual Geek Night this Saturday (2nd) with code golfing, and a Palantir talk next week. 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 G-Research Coding Challenge 2016 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1798724137031670/> *Room 051, Department of Computer Science - 5:00pm Saturday (3rd week)* G-Research is a well-established and rapidly growing firm with a leading platform for developing quantitative research and systematic investment ideas. We have created a community designed to inspire the best minds in the world to tackle the toughest intellectual challenges and deliver the best work of their careers. Our platforms and technologies are constantly evolving to meet the real-world scenarios we throw at them and we are seeking world-class software engineers to join us. Can your code beat the markets? Test your coding skills and systematic investment ideas on our simulated stock exchange. 1st place wins a £50 Amazon voucher for each member of your team, swag and other prizes for runners up! Which team will turn the largest profit? Here's a great chance to test your problem solving and coding skills, and to see what it's like to work in a dynamic, innovative environment on the cutting edge of finance and technology. Teams of three or four students will have one hour to devise and code their investment ideas to run on our simulated exchange. Final strategies will be run through the exchange and will compete against other teams. Pizza and drinks afterwards, plus opportunities to network with current staff to find out more about life at G-Research. *To register please either enter individually (any individual entries will be allocated into teams on the day) or in a team by sending names to graduates(a)gresearch.co.uk <mailto:graduates@gresearch.co.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. -- Thomas Denney Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week 2 Newsletter - Google talk and code golfing
by Thomas Denney 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello all, For our first tech talk of the year an engineer from Google will be joining us to talk about how Google responds to major disasters. This weekend we also have our third Geek Night of the term, themed around code golfing. Next week we have a talk from Palantir and a G-Research coding event in Week 3. 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 Google Tech Talk <https://www.facebook.com/events/349790655362525/> *Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday (2nd week)* Nick Fortescue, Senior Software Engineer at Google, will talk about what it takes to get hardware and software done in a crisis situation when lives are on the line, as he talks about his time on the Google Ebola Crisis Response Team. In cooperation with Medecins Sans Frontières, the Google team produced tablets, servers and software for medical records in low connectivity, high risk locations. Nick did Mathematics & Computation at Teddy Hall, then after working at a research lab, a startup, and banks and hedge funds ended up at Google. He's been working on Google Play, with a brief stint away helping with Google's Ebola crisis response. He lives in Oxford, and in his spare time he flies gyrocopters (doing anti-poaching patrols in Kenya this summer), dances, and helps lead Thesis, a group for graduate students at St. Ebbe's church Oxford. Free food and drinks will be provided after the talk, along with a selection of Google swag. Geek Night 2: Code Golf <https://www.facebook.com/events/309692709411919/> *Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (2nd week)* The goal of code golfing is to write the shortest possible program to implement certain algorithms. This will be a great opportunity to check out some of the more esoteric tricks of your favourite programming language, although we're also going to be playing with GolfScript <http://www.golfscript.com/golfscript/index.html>, so you might want to set it up (requires Ruby) on your computer in advance. Bring your own laptop and we'll provide the pizza :). Palantir Tech Talk: Think Like a Palantir Engineer <https://www.facebook.com/events/356324308042095/> *Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday (3rd week)* Palantir is a company of individuals who are passionate about building world-class data integration and analysis software. If you want to work on the global problems you read about on the front page of the newspaper, we want you to come work with us. Ever wonder what types of problems Palantir is fighting and how we work to solve them? Come hear about them first-hand and openly discuss your approach to solve them with us. We will be hosting an interactive workshop all around the hardest data problems the world is facing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- Thomas Denney Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week 2 Newsletter - Google talk next week and Wikipedia Game this Saturday
by Thomas Denney 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hello all, For our first tech talk of the year an engineer from Google will be joining us to present some of their recent work. This weekend we also have our second Geek Night of the term, themed around the Wikipedia game. 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. Many thanks, Thomas and the rest of the committee Events Google Tech Talk <https://www.facebook.com/events/349790655362525/> *Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday (2nd week)* An engineer from Google will be joining us to present on the area of their latest work. More details will be announced on our Facebook page soon. Please note that we expect demand to be high for this talk, so be sure to arrive before 19:00. Free food and drinks will be provided after the talk, along with a selection of Google swag. Geek Night 1 <https://www.facebook.com/events/321146424929187/> *Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (1st week)* Geek Night meets Wikipedia: In the "Wikipedia Game" you click the random article link and aim for another Wikipedia page in the fewest clicks possible. We're going to be writing bots to play the game and compete with one another, but without downloading the entirety of Wikipedia. Later this week I'll be releasing some Python to get you started with getting a list of links from a Wikipedia article, but feel free to use any programming language you like (a link to the Python will be posted on the Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/events/321146424929187/> for the event). This will be also be a great opportunity for beginners to get an introduction to programming with Python and working with web APIs. Bring your own laptop and we'll provide the pizza :). Please see here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game> if you've never played the Wikipedia Game before. Other events Bloomberg CodeCon Qualifiers - 13th October <http://tinyurl.com/hc6wccx> From Bloomberg, one of our sponsors: "CodeCon is a live programming contest developed in-house at Bloomberg. Push your programming and problem solving skills to the limit against the clock to win the title of Bloomberg CodeCon champion against your peers across the UK and Europe! Your school's top winners will be invited to our Bloomberg CodeCon Global Finals in our London office in January 2017 for a chance to win an amazing prize and compete against the best students from Europe and the US! Please make sure you register with your university email address and bring your laptop. The event will take place at Room 051, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QD. Kick-off at 6.30pm, come early to get a seat! Food and refreshments will be provided!" To sign up, please click here <http://tinyurl.com/hc6wccx>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- Thomas Denney Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week 1 Newsletter - Competitive Assembly Game this Saturday
by Thomas Denney 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

Hello all, Firstly, welcome to all our new members! Several hundred of you signed up over the last three days and we're really looking forward to meeting you all over the coming year. To everyone else, welcome back! We send out a weekly e-mail, but feel free to like us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/oxcompsoc/>. We've got talks from Google, Palantir, GResearch, Core Filing, Bloomberg, Metaswitch, and Microsoft coming up this term, along with regular geek nights, hackathons, and a LAN party. Our introductory Python course, Learn to Code, will be back in Hilary. We'll be hosting our first Geek Night tomorrow at the department with Core War, a competitive assembly game, and next week we'll be writing bots to play the Wikipedia Game. Please note that the term card states that the Palantir Escape Room is coming up next week, but it has been delayed. We'll post an update on Facebook with a new date soon. Many thanks, Thomas and the rest of the committee Events Geek Night 0 <https://www.facebook.com/events/610987752395640/> *Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (0th week)* Geek Night meets Core War: CompSoc will be learning and playing Core War, a classic programming game where players build competing programs to battle over control of a virtual computer. No experience needed, so join us as we battle for the core. Bring your own laptop and consider familiarising yourself with the basics beforehand. http://vyznev.net/corewar/guide.html Pizza, snacks, and drinks provided. Geek Night 1 <https://www.facebook.com/events/321146424929187/> *Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (1st week)* Geek Night meets Wikipedia: In the "Wikipedia Game" you click the random article link and aim for another Wikipedia page in the fewest clicks possible. We're going to be writing bots to play the game and compete with one another, but without downloading the entirety of Wikipedia. Bring your own laptop and we'll provide the pizza :). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game Other events Bloomberg CodeCon Qualifiers - 13th October <http://tinyurl.com/hc6wccx> From Bloomberg, one of our sponsors: "CodeCon is a live programming contest developed in-house at Bloomberg. Push your programming and problem solving skills to the limit against the clock to win the title of Bloomberg CodeCon champion against your peers across the UK and Europe! Your school's top winners will be invited to our Bloomberg CodeCon Global Finals in our London office in January 2017 for a chance to win an amazing prize and compete against the best students from Europe and the US! Please make sure you register with your university email address and bring your laptop. The event will take place at Room 051, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QD. Kick-off at 6.30pm, come early to get a seat! Food and refreshments will be provided!" To sign up, please click here <http://tinyurl.com/hc6wccx>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- Thomas Denney Secretary - Oxford University Computer Society secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:secretary@ox.compsoc.net>

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Week -1 Newsletter: Freshers' Fair Call for Help
by Matthew Burke 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Hello All, Welcome back to a new academic year. With the new year comes a new years worth of new potential CompSoc members will arrive next week. We need your help next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to help staff the Freshers' Fair stall. If you are able to help out, even if only for an hour, please add your name to the rota here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1St9Vs5zwbJq1-l-2SAKRmCboCo5yBBcOaM2…>. There will always be a committee member on the stall, and talking to potential new members about their interests can be really good fun. After the fair we return to our usual busy schedule of events, kicking off with Geek Night 0 <https://www.facebook.com/events/610987752395640/> on Saturday of 0th week. We will be focussing on Core War, a competitive assembly programming game which was a hit when we played it last term. A full term card will be announced next week. Many thanks, Matt and the rest of the committee Events Freshers' Fair <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1St9Vs5zwbJq1-l-2SAKRmCboCo5yBBcOaM2…> *Exams Schools - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of 0th Week* We really need your help to attract the next intake of CompSoc members. If you can help please add your name to the rota <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1St9Vs5zwbJq1-l-2SAKRmCboCo5yBBcOaM2…> and a committee member will be in touch with details. Geek Night 0 <https://www.facebook.com/events/610987752395640/> *Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (0th week)* Geek Night meets Core War: CompSoc will be learning and playing Core War, a classic programming game where players build competing programs to battle over control of a virtual computer. No experience needed, so join us as we battle for the core. Bring your own laptop and consider familiarising yourself with the basics beforehand. http://vyznev.net/corewar/guide.html Pizza, snacks, and drinks 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. -- Matthew Burke President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>

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