Guten Tag, Learned Member,

As the term eternally rumbles on, we're back in Week 6 with a new slate of events! Hopefully some of you were lucky enough to sign up for our socials earlier this week at Taylors and the Alchemist – if not, we have more events to come!

On Thursday, we'll be in the Department's Lecture Theatre B at 5pmfor a talk on computer vision from Dr. Hansung Kim which promises to be insightful!

On Saturday, we have our familiar dynamic duo of events – at 5:30pm, we'll be in Jesus College's E-sports Suite for the fifth session of our Learn to Code series, and at 7pm we'll be in the Undergraduate Social Area as always for our well-known Saturday Social with some much-needed pizza.

As we close out the week on Sunday, we'll be back in the UGSA yet again for our sixth Competitive Programming session of the term – come along to get some practice in with friends!

Finally, we're now accepting motions from members for our Termly General Meeting in Week 7! If you'll be around next Friday to propose a motion and you want to shape the future of CompSoc, make sure to join our Discord server and post your motion there!

— Declan, your dubitably trustworthy CompSoc envoy

Fun Computing Fact: You may by now be familiar with Bluesky, a decentralised Twitter replacement which has been rapidly growing since the US election earlier this month. Interestingly, however, distributed social media sites predate both Bluesky and its closest competitor, Mastodon, by several years!

Along with sharing characteristics of other distributed networks like email and Usenet, one of the first decentralised social networks was Diaspora – a Facebook competitor created in 2010 by students at New York University's mathematical sciences institute. Much like the Personal Data Servers of Bluesky's AT Protocol and the ActivityPub instances which form Mastodon, the Diaspora network consists of separately maintained federated pods which store user data and content.

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We'll be joined at the Department of Computer Science this week for a talk by Dr. Hansung Kim! On Thursday at 5pm, we'll be in Lecture Theatre B to learn more about the field of computer vision, which spans the processing and analysis of images and 3D representations of the world we inhabit. We'll also get to experience some demos featuring 3D sound – make sure to bring headphones and a device which can scan QR codes!

When: 5-6pm, Thursday 21st November

Where: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Computer Science 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG

Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/4XCghiyVy

On Saturday, it'll be time for your weekly fill of Learn to Code! We'll be back at 5:30pm in the E-sports Suite at Jesus College to learn all about a valuable tool in any programmer's toolbox – functions. What greater function ^{(I'm so sorry)} could your day serve than for you to come along?

When: 5:30pm, Saturday 23rd November

Where: E-sports Suite (Staircase 15), Jesus College Turl St, Oxford OX1 3DW

Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/7lTryFL6n

After some varied themes in the past few weeks, we're back for Week 6 with a good old standard Saturday Social. Join us on Saturday at 7pm for your usual Saturday Social fare – pizza, snacks and fun chatter with friends!

When: 7pm, Saturday 23rd November

Where: Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG

Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/5LK0Hji3l

As we close out this week, we're back in the Undergraduate Social Area on Sundayat 1:30pm for our typical Competitive Programming bootcamp session! Join us for our sixth bootcamp and get some practice in along with friends.

When: 1:30pm, Sunday 24th November

Where: Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG

Click 'Going' here: https://fb.me/e/hOge0FhGY

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.

or, contact us at committee@ox.compsoc.net

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