Crackling III Ultimatums,
Following Wednesday’s AGM, I’d like to wish a huge, warm welcome to our new committee! We’ve also introduced two brand new committee roles, with Serban Slincu as President, Benjamin Slater moving to Vice President, Dominic Benjamin as Secretary (replacing me! Good luck!), Samuel Boyer as Treasurer and Alexandra Manciu as Social Secretary.
Metaswitch’s talk has been rescheduled for Trinity. In its place is a chance to meet the new committee!
Gold sponsor TPP is hiring! Silver sponsor Ensoft’s CV deadline is on Sunday!
Farvel,
Joe G
19:00, Saturday, Week 7, UGSA, Department of Computer Science
Games all night long.
Bring your laptops, we’ll set up a hub for Ethernet for LAN connections. We’ll be playing whatever people want to play - e.g. Terraria, Quake III Arena, Age of Empires II, Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, etc. etc.
Pizza and snacks shall be released throughout the night! Time to get your epic gamer skills out.
19:00, Wednesday, Week 8, UGSA, Department of Computer Science
A chance to meet the new committee, with Serban Slincu as new President, Dom Benjamin as Secretary, Ben Slater as VP, Sam Boyer as Treasurer and Alexandra Manciu as Social Secretary!
Feel free to drop by and feed them with ideas and suggestions on how to make the next year as amazing as it can be!
TPP is currently looking for bright 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.
We are a UK based IT company, dedicated to delivering world class healthcare software through our innovative products. We’re looking for the brightest minds from the UK’s top universities who have a passion for problem solving. No experience is required and we accept applicants from all disciplines.
If you are interested in applying and want to find out what it’s like to work at TPP, please visit our website here; https://tpp-careers.com
Ensoft develops software that connects the world. The Internet depends every day on the code we write - it’s challenging work that matters. It’s also fun - excelling at writing complex software is what we enjoy.
We’ve grown by taking a few of the best Oxbridge graduates each year, and investing heavily in their training. It’s an ideal environment for bright, creative people who want to develop rapidly. If you bring the computer science knowledge and coding skills needed to tame Internet-scale complex systems, you can solve challenging problems as part of a world-class software engineering team.
This term we are recruiting for graduates.
Our application process is very simple:
You can find more details here, or get reminders by following us on Twitter or on Facebook. But I would encourage you to apply soon. Whilst everything is designed to take up as little of your time as we can, it is still very competitive for places.
18:00-20:00, Wednesday, 8th Week, Oxford Foundry
The reality is that there is no such thing as failure. Whenever we attempt to do something we only produce results. The session explores secrets that lead to success and gives you techniques you can use in everyday life to develop and thrive. Learn how to explore your mistakes to accelerate learning and how to use creative and innovating thinking for problem solving in this fun and interactive workshop, delivered by Dave Norwood, Laughology.
17:30, Monday, 8th Week, Oxford Foundry
Doing a PhD or Masters in a technical subject and want to make an impact, but don’t know where to start?
Learn more about the route from academic research to launching your own startup from founders who have been exactly where you are.
From PhD to Startup: Oxford is an event run each term by Entrepreneur First and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at Oxford University.
This time we will be joined by Basilio Gentile, the co-founder and CTO of Circuit Mind. Circuit Mind is completely automating the design of electronic circuit boards. Circuit boards are integral to products we use everyday - from our smartphones to our televisions and microwaves. But no two boards are the same. Each one is designed to exact specifications that meet the requirements of devices, which mean they take a huge amount of time and skill to create. In fact, every year £40bn and 1.5bn hours are spent globally in tedious and repetitive circuit board design work. Circuit Mind plans to change that. Basilio is building complex algorithms that take in the requirements for a circuit board and outputs the circuit board final design, ready for manufacture. This means better circuits, designed orders of magnitude faster, at a fraction of the cost.
Before starting this company, Basilio completed a Masters in Control Systems Engineering, a Masters in Mathematical Modeling and Computation and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich. His mastery of high-performance mathematical algorithms for complex systems is what sits at the core of Circuit Mind’s solution. He turned down postdocs at Harvard and Berkeley to join Entrepreneur First, where he met his co-founder Tomide and they created Circuit Mind.
Join us to hear more about Basilio’s research and journey. Please arrive no later than 5.30pm.
Pizza and beer are, of course, on us.
We have the following message to relay from the 2019 Fire Hack Team:
Hi CompSoc,
We’re inviting students to an international Hackathon to develop new ways of using drones to fight wildfires. We feel you and your society will be interested in this event and could excel in the hackathon. On 29th-31st March in Southampton join us for the Swarm and Search AI Challenge and support the emergency services to develop new ways of using drones to fight wildfires.
Over the course of the weekend there will be a series of three heats and the overall winners of the hackathon will be invited to the US – travel and accommodation paid for – to demonstrate their winning concepts and ideas for future development at a special event at the British Embassy, as well as being recognised at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Expo 2019.
This is a unique opportunity for you and the society to solve real (potentially lifesaving) applications. The CAA have strict regulations on flying multiple air vehicles so this really is the first step to getting swarms airborne. Alongside the hacking this will be an entertaining weekend, with free food and break out games and challenges. Industry participants and experts in drone and autonomy technology will be available to offer advice on how to progress your idea and career.
We’re asking if you could share this challenge: It will be a hackathon they’ll enjoy and could be a career changing event for them. But more importantly, successful solutions could be moved onto physical platforms that could potentially save lives. For more information please visit our Devpost page or reply to this email. This is a ticketed event and numbers are limited so register for a free ticket at Eventbrite.
Kind regards,
Greg
Part of the 2019 Fire Hack Team
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