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Week 7 Newsletter
by Peter York 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! Sorry about the lateness of this email - I was completely knackered after paintball, and entirely forgot about it. Last week was a great week for comp soc, on Wednesday we had a great talk on secure distributed computing from Nigel Smart, as always on Saturday geek night was great fun, and, most importantly of all, we had our inaugural Oxford Comp Soc vs CUCaTS paintball match. I am quite sure everyone had a great time despite the horrendous mud, and bitter cold. *A huge thanks to Palantir for PAYING FOR EVERYONE TO GO PAINTBALLING.* This week we have the Annual General Meeting, which may not be as exciting as paintball, but is at least as important - at the AGM we vote in a new committe, and discuss what the society should be doing next term, so it's important to come along and have your say. And of course there's going to be free pizza. * NB* this event is on *Tuesday *due to room booking constraints. As always there will be geek night on Saturday - http://www.facebook.com/events/394877090608840/. Details below Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annual General Meeting Tuesday 26th February, 19:00 St. Catherine's College, Bernard Sunley Building Room A http://www.facebook.com/events/544998552189142/ *NOTE:*The date and time of this event has changed since the termcards were created. It has been moved from 8^th Week to 7^th Week. In this meeting, the elections for the 2013/2014 committee will be held, along with usual general meeting matters. Refreshments and pizza will be provided.

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Week 6 Newsletter
by Peter York 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! Hopefully you all enjoyed games night, which was huge again, and this time we had wired internet! To follow it up we have a very busy week - Wednesday we have a talk from security expert Nigel Smart, from Bristol University, on Saturday we have, as usual, geek night, and on Sunday, we have the postponed paintball vs Cambridge! This time the weather forecast is favourable, and we have more people booked to come, so it should be a great day! Details of all of this below. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Security Talk Wednesday 20th February, 18:00 Comp Sci Department Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/events/123498824496096/ Leading Academic Nigel Smart from Bristol University will be coming to give a talk on Cyber Security. Pizza will be served afterwards. Computing on Encrypted Data In the last couple of years amazing advances have been made on techniques to perform computation on encrypted data. Some of the techniques are even becoming practical. In this talk I will show a novel technique which utilizes techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes to provide efficiency improvements in Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols. No prior knowledge of FHE or MPC will be assumed. Coding Night 6 Saturday 23rd February, 19:00 Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area This event is part of a new series of events that run each weekend. To find out more information, see thecoding nights <http://compsoc.net/coding_nights/>page. Facebook Event:http://www.facebook.com/events/346813105437534/ <http://www.facebook.com/events/346813105437534/> Paintball vs Cambridge Sunday 24th February, 07:45 Comp Sci Department Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/events/326248314143885/ This event is due to go ahead, finally, on Sunday. It should be great fun.

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Week 5 Newsletter
by Peter York 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! I hope everyone enjoyed Ensoft's talk on Wednesday. This week we have games night! Come along to play games and eat free pizza! It will be in the computer science department again, like last term. Details and link to the facebook event below. As always there is geek night on Saturday. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Games Night* Wednesday 13th February Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area If you are having trouble getting into the building on the night, call 01865 283599. If you plan on attending you will need to bring a laptop with any games you want to play*installed and updated*- the internet will be too slow to download games and updates! You will also need a LAN cable and probably a power supply for your laptop. Team Fortess 2 and Super Monday Night Combat are both free to install and play fromstore.steampowered.com/ <http://store.steampowered.com/>(you have to install Steam first, though). It is also possible to install TF2 from another computer with it already installed on, we will probably be able to facilitate this but should stress that it is a much better idea to*make sure it is installed and up to date beforehand!*If there are any other games you'd like to play (and think others will have) bring them along and we might play them too! Once again, pizza and refreshments will be provided! Facebook Event:https://www.facebook.com/events/595591777121875

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Week 5 Newsletter
by Peter York 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! I hope everyone enjoyed Ensoft's talk on Wednesday. This week we have games night! Come along to play games and eat free pizza! It will be in the computer science department again, like last term. Details and link to the facebook event below. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Games Night* Wednesday 13th February Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area If you are having trouble getting into the building on the night, call 01865 283599. If you plan on attending you will need to bring a laptop with any games you want to play*installed and updated*- the internet will be too slow to download games and updates! You will also need a LAN cable and probably a power supply for your laptop. Team Fortess 2 and Super Monday Night Combat are both free to install and play fromstore.steampowered.com/ <http://store.steampowered.com/>(you have to install Steam first, though). It is also possible to install TF2 from another computer with it already installed on, we will probably be able to facilitate this but should stress that it is a much better idea to*make sure it is installed and up to date beforehand!*If there are any other games you'd like to play (and think others will have) bring them along and we might play them too! Once again, pizza and refreshments will be provided! Facebook Event:https://www.facebook.com/events/595591777121875

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Week 4 Newsletter
by Peter York 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Hi, Thanks to everyone who came along and gave talks on Wednesday. They were great fun and really interesting. This week we have a talk from Ensoft about multi-terabit routers and security, and of course pizza as always. Also, Facebook are holding a women in computing hackathon in London on 23rd February, if you would like to attend register before 15th February. Details of both below. Regards, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ensoft Talk Wednesday 6th February, 18:30 Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A Facebook Event - http://www.facebook.com/events/255910344542216/ How to break the Internet core: multi-terabit routers and security Ensoft ([ensoft.co.uk]) will be coming to give a talk and Pizza will be served. The presenter is CTO of Ensoft Ltd, whose experience includes helping to bring into existence the Guinness Book of Records' "World's Highest Capacity Internet Router". Facebook Women in Computing Hackathon Saturday 23rd February, 8:30 Facebook London To champion women in computing, Facebook London will be hosting a hackathon at their Central London office. We invite female engineers to join us for a day of high energy coding, tech talks and lots of fun. The theme for the hackathon will revolve around "Health & Fitness", bring your ideas that fall into this category to give you and your team a head start when we kick off the hackathon at 8:30am. We'll have industry experienced engineers on hand to answer questions and offer guidance as you hack. In addition to that, we'll also have numerous tech talks throughout to inspire and give you the key information you'll need to build a great hack. Information and Registration: http://www.amiando.com/fbwomenhack.html

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Week 3 Newsletter
by Sam Lanning 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hi everyone, Thanks to all those who turned up at the Facebook Event last week, we had a great turnout! This week unfortunately Unity are unable to do their talk so instead we're going to have lightning talks at the same time and place, followed as usual by pizza. We are still interested in having more speakers at this event. Details Below. On Saturday we are having geek night again as usual. Also included at the end of this email is a message about a Geek Girl Meetup being held at the Uni. Cheers, Pete & Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lightning Talks <http://ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2013/hilary/Lightning_Talks/> Wednesday 30th January, 18:30 Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A *Please Note: The original event that was going to take place at this time had to be canceled. This is the new event* We are hosting a lightning talks session (a number of 5-10 minute talks packed together one after another). So if you have something computer-related you would like to present to attendees of this event, just send an email over to committee(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:committee@ox.compsoc.net> letting us know that you're interested, so that we know how many speakers to expect. The projector will be available for you to use, and of course you dont need to present / talk to attend! Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/151382661681939/ Posted Wed 23 Jan 2013 23:55:32 GMT Coding Night 3 <http://ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2013/hilary/Coding_Night_3/> Saturday 2nd February, 19:00 Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area This event is part of a new series of events that run each weekend. To find out more information, see the coding nights <http://ox.compsoc.net/coding_nights/> page. Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/237530619714596/ Posted Sun 27 Jan 2013 16:20:28 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geek Girl Meetup Oxford Geek Girl Meetup is holding its first ever University showcase un-conference at Oxford University on February 17th, between 13.00 and 18.00 at the Founders Room in the Said Business School. The afternoon will revolve around empowering more female students that are interested in technology and entrepreneurship. There will be 8 distinguished female entrepreneurs and technologists that will speak about what it is like to found a company, and go through a product lifecycle (idea, concept, design, development, marketing, financing, and growth). There will also be discussions allowing every participant to share their knowledge with others and ask questions. Geek Girl Meetup's goal is to create new networks and elevate female role models in the tech industry. Tickets and more information is available here: http://www.geekgirlmeetup.co.uk/2013/01/geekgirlmeetup-at-oxford-university/

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Unity Event Canceled - Replaced with Lightning Talks
by Sam Lanning 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hi Everyone, Due to Unity Technologies not being able to come down and give us a talk, after discussion, the committee have decided to instead host a lightning talks session (a number of 5-10 minute talks packed together one after another). So if you have something computer-related you would like to present to attendees of this event, just send an email over to committee(a)ox.compsoc.net letting us know that you're interested, so that we know how many speakers to expect. The event is going to take place in at the same time and place that the unity talk was going to, Wed 30th January, 6:30pm in Lecture Theatre A. So yes you also have a projector if you would like to incorporate that into your presentation. You can find the facebook event over here: https://www.facebook.com/events/151382661681939/ Looking forward to seeing you at the event! Pete & Sam, President & Secretary

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Week 3 Event
by Peter York 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hi everybody, Unfotunately Unity are unable to come and do their talk next week, so we are currently trying to find a replacement event. We will send out details of that as soon as we know about them. Sorry for anyone excited for the event, we will try to rearrange this talk for next term. One potential option is to have a set of lightning talks where anyone can do a brief talk on whichever computer related subject they like. If you would like a chance to practise your public speaking, and have an idea for such a talk, please get in touch - if we do end up doing it would be nice to know how many speakers we could get. We will try to update you as soon as possible. Cheers, Pete

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Week 2 Newsletter
by Peter York 20 Jan '13

20 Jan '13

Hello Everybody, Hope everyone enjoyed the first coding night - maybe next time we will actually do some coding. I apologise for paintball being cancelled, we will try to rearrange this soon. Looking forward, this week we have a talk from Facebook, details below. Also we will have another coding night. If you are interested in coming along here is the facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/groups/oxcompsocgeeknight/. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Facebook Talk <http://compsoc.net/termcards/2013/hilary/Facebook_Talk/> Wednesday 23rd January, 18:30 Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A Building Facebook -- Tools and Culture In this talk, Tom Elliott - Engineer at Facebook, will take a look at how Facebook manages to build new features quickly into one of the worlds largest websites, using a combination of innovative internal tools, unusual processes and hacker culture. http://www.facebook.com/events/360381854069351/

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Week 1 Newsletter 2
by Peter York 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi, Tonight's event will be in the Catz JCR Lecture Theatre rather than the PDR like it normally is. This Saturday we will have our first 'coding night'. We are going to host a social coding session (and plan to do so every Saturday) where you can come along, eat pizza, and collaborate on whatever projects you might want to work on. This will be held in the undergraduate social area, from 7pm. Details on the website. In addition to this, there is a hackathon in the works for Oxford Entrepeneurs, where people would come along with ideas for something they would like made, and then people who like to program come along, listen, and work together on whichever of these projects they are interested in. More concrete details will be available at a later date, but if this is something that would interest you, please respond and tell us, because we would like to start to get an idea of numbers. Cheers, Pete

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