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Drinks Night, MathsSoc Social and More!
Salutations, Valued Customer,
Whew! It's Second Week already? How the time flies... anyway, we're back again with some new events through the week, along with the announcement of a talk for next week!
After the return of our Competitive Programming Mashup Contest earlier today, we have a fun drinks event planned for Thursday! We'll be down at the Oxo Bar with a huge drinks tab! If you're interested in a spot of socialising while drinking as your heart desires on our budget, read the details down below!
On Saturday, it'll be time to break with CompSci tradition and venture out in daylight hours for our social with the Oxford University Mathematics Society! We'll be hanging out at Taylors for a relaxed afternoon social.
Finally, we can announce a new talk with former CompSoc members! David North and Stephen White from CoreFiling will be dropping by to give a talk on what the IT industry can learn from the widely publicised scandal surrounding the Post Office's Horizon IT system next week. Check out the details below!
- Declan, CompSoc Secretary
Fun Computing Fact: If you've ever watched Jurassic Park, you may remember that one dramatic scene towards the endhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOeY07qKU9c where the girl exclaims 'it's a Unix system!' and instantly understands how to navigate through the weird 3D representation of the park's files. Funnily enough, that outlandish Hollywood-esque 3D file viewer is real - it's called fsn, and was written for Silicon Graphics' IRIX operating system (which, yes, was a Unix system). You can even run it today! A port to Linux and other modern Unix-like systems called fsv (File System Visualiser) is available to install online, so now you too can slowly zoom through your files like you're under raptor attack in 1993.
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[Events]
Drinks Night at Oxo Bar
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Come down to Oxo Bar to join us for a fun-filled, stress-free evening! Catch up with your friends and get entangled in enthralling conversations, all whilst enjoying more than your fair share of free drinks on us! We have a big tab, so make sure to hop on down and join in the fun!
When: 8pm, Thursday 2nd May
Where: Oxo Bar 48 George St, Oxford OX1 2AQ
Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/6cnpZSJpf
Taylors Lunch Social with MathsSoc
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Come on down to Taylors this Saturday to join us for a calmer lunch! We'll be joined by the Oxford University Mathematics Society for some charming conversation in a more relaxed atmosphere over a bite of lunch. If you're stressed out from all that revision, come along to catch your breath and chill out.
There will be a cost of £7.50 per person for this event.
When: 1pm, Saturday 4th May
Where: Taylors Woodstock Road 1 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HA
Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/1rMsI78oJ
Post Office Horizon Talk
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We'll be meeting two former CompSoc members next week to hear about the Post Office Horizon scandal! Next Wednesday, we'll be joined by David North and Stephen White from CoreFiling, who are dropping in to give a talk in which we'll be taking a look at what the IT industry should learn from what is now the largest miscarriage of justice in British history.
This talk is not being held in the Department of Computer Science. Do not go to the Department of Computer Science. You will look silly and you will feel silly.
When: 6-8pm, Wednesday 8th May
Where: Ship Street Lecture Theatre SSC Lecture Theatre, Ship St, Oxford OX1 3DW
Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/4q7BIYxR1
[And More...] 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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