Twelve vigintillion and seven greetings upon this finest hour,
Congratulations on making it through 5th week!
We are just two weeks away from the committee elections at the AGM! If you're interested in a committee role – of any kind – feel free to email/speak to any of us to find out what it involves. As a committee member, you get to be involved with a huge variety of events with some of the world's largest tech companies. It's a fun and rewarding experience (and not just through having something to put on your CV).
Also, if you have any motions for the AGM, send me an email and I'll add it to the agenda (attached).
Wednesday sees Silver sponsor Ensoft giving a talk on cloud-scale data centres!
In Week 7, St Andrews CompSoc's hackathon returns with a 8-bit theme. Edinburgh University is also hosting HackTheBurgh 2019 in the Easter vac. All the hackathons!
Details for all these events (and more!) are below.
Also attached are the slides from last week's "IPv6: Are we there yet?" talk, kindly provided by CoreFiling.
X-tuple greetings for arbitrarily large X,
Joe G and the rest of the committee
19:00, Wednesday, Week 6, Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science
Abstract: Cloud-scale data centres are the biggest computing machines ever built, and warp the very structure of the Internet. This talk gives an accessible view into these creations, including how networking is evolving to enable them.
Bio: Simon Chatterjee is a Director and CTO of Ensoft, whose experience includes helping to bring into existence the Guinness Book of Records' "World's Highest Capacity Internet Router".
Pizza and drinks will also be provided.
19:00, Thursday, Week 6, Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science
Last week we covered Dictionaries, now we're covering yet more data structures ;)
Bring your laptops!
Learn to Code is kindly sponsored by Gold sponsors JP Morgan Tech Connect and TPP, Silver sponsor Ensoft and bronze sponsor HSBC.
19:00, Saturday, Week 6, Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science
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^ Fill in that form. It's the film form!
Free pizza after the film ;) (eat it in the UGSA, not LTA since we can't bring food in there!)
19:00, Wednesday, Week 7, UGSA, Department of Computer Science
Democracy hype! As the new term passes, the society turns over a new leaf. The 2019–2020 CompSoc executive committee is about to get elected. If you're interested in all that but would like more information on what our roles are, drop us an email and we'll explain everything you want to know. If you'd like to introduce more, non-executive roles, please send us an email so we can add it to the agenda.
This year will likely see a committee where nobody on committee was on previously - a full replacement. However, we'll still be on hand to provide help if needed and we have written handover docs as well.
We'll also be voting on approving the minutes of meetings from the previous TGM, and any other things people propose to the agenda. If there's anything you'd like to see on the minutes, send it our way.
There will also be the usual committee reports and pizza.
The official agenda is attached. If you want to submit any other motions, email us to add them to the agenda.
19:00, Thursday, Week 7, Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science
We're combining everything we learned together to make a game of Snake in Python. (How apt!)
Bring your laptops!
Learn to Code is kindly sponsored by Gold sponsors JP Morgan Tech Connect and TPP, Silver sponsor Ensoft and bronze sponsor HSBC.
18:00-20:00, Wednesday, Week 7, Oxford Foundry
FREE STUDENT MASTERCLASS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING!
Acclaimed coach David Nihill will coach you in how to get past your fear of public speaking, and use humour to make your presentations and talks truly memorable – for all the right reasons! His masterclasses are renowned for being fun, high-energy and enlightening. David is the author of ‘Do You Talk Funny?’, and is one of the best speaking coaches out there. Don’t miss out!
Why attend? Public speaking is a skill that we all need to master for future success, whether that’s in job interviews, for professional presentations, or for speaking in front of a more informal crowd. You will learn:
Most importantly, you’ll have a lot of fun!
PLACES WILL FILL UP QUICKLY SO REGISTER NOW TO ATTEND
The Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference is an annual conference that brings together junior and senior computer scientists to encourage collaboration through formal and informal discussion and provides a perfect opportunity for young researchers to present their research and get valuable feedback in an open, friendly and informal environment.
The conference is free to attend for computer scientists at all UK universities and this year will be held on 9th March 2019, at University of Oxford. It will include talks by key speakers from industry and academia who will share their experiences with the participants.
Important Dates and Information:
To attend the conference, please register here. There is no registration fee for the conference, and lunch and a conference dinner will be provided free of charge. The deadline for registration is 25th February 2019.
Current female undergraduate, MPhil/MSc, PhD/DPhil students, RAs and Postdocs are encouraged to submit short abstracts (up to 1 page) for presentations or posters on their topic of research.
Presentations will be 10 minutes long, followed by 3 minutes questions and discussion. Posters can be up to size A1. Each presentation and poster abstract will be reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee. Rejected presentations will still be offered a poster slot. There are no proceedings for the conference, and hence presentations and posters can be under submission for other conferences or workshops. The deadline for submission is 15th February 2019.
We hope that you will join us for this wonderful conference, which will help promote research and create connections between female computer scientists.
Friday, Week 7, The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, the City of London
Do you want to learn more about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Come to Applied AI, a one-day conference for developers and computer scientists, with speakers from Google, Microsoft and IBM. Events include a days' worth of talks, tutorial and social events. Find out more at https://www.appliedai.co.uk.
Student tickets are £24, less than a quarter of cost price. Tickets come with access to all events, plus breakfast, lunch and 2 cake & coffee breaks.
08:00 Saturday to 16:00 Sunday, Week 7, π Potato Avenue, St Andrews, KY16 9SX
You've waited long enough, it's time to be a player in the game.
St Andrews Computing Society (Stacs) StacsHack is back and bigger than ever! Now in it's fifth - more pixelated - iteration, our annual hackathon is going to be a great event. Filled with Food, Fun, and Freebies, what's not to love!
For those of you who don't know what a hackathon is, it's a fantastic opportunity to use your skills and create a project from the ground up over the course of 24 hours within a team.
All levels of experience are welcome, whether you're an end-boss level hackathon enthusiast, or a newbie, level 1 coder there's always something you can contribute!
We're excited to also welcome students from other universities!
More information to follow on the Facebook page, so press 'going' to be sure that you can stay up to date!
StacsHack is sponsored by CompSoc Gold sponsors TPP and Bloomberg, amongst others.
Saturday to Sunday, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
HackTheBurgh is a 24-hour student Hackathon at the University of Edinburgh.
Any student currently enrolled in full-time further education may join — if you graduated less than a year ago, you're also eligible. You may team up with up to three other people. Teams exceeding four people are ineligible for prizes.
Info is listed on the website and questions about the event should be sent to hello@hacktheburgh.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 or visit our website for more information about the society. Our Discord channel is https://discord.gg/xA9PFvy.
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