Hi there,
The TPP Pub Quiz is running on Wednesday. If you've booked a ticket and can't make it, cancel your booking as demand is very high and lots of people are on the waiting list.
We are just three 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 me, Joe or Ben to find out what it involves. Also, if you have any motions for the AGM, send me an email and I'll add it to the agenda.
Upcoming hackathons include R. U. Hacking? in Reading, St Andrews CompSoc's 8-bit hackathon and Google HashCode in Oxford (details for that will follow next week.)
Details for all these events (and more!) are below.
Have a great week,
Edward and the rest of the committee
19:00, Wednesday, Week 5, Royal Oak, Woodstock Road
Gold sponsor TPP is excited to announce a Coding Challenge on Wednesday 13th February, in collaboration with the Oxford Computer Society!
Unlike a typical pub quiz, you'll need to exercise your problem solving skills to tackle the range of challenges set instead of applying your general knowledge.
There will be free food and drinks, both soft and alcoholic, available for attendees throughout the whole event. There will also be great prizes on offer for the winning teams (Raspberry Pis and a Hotel Chocolat hamper).
We recommend teams of about 5–6 people, but smaller groups are welcome too, and if you're unsure who to come with then we'll be happy to match you up with other keen problem solvers on the day.
Tickets are already fully allocated, so if you can't make it then free up your slot as soon as you know for those on the waiting list.
19:00, Thursday, Week 5, Lecture Theatres A and B, Department of Computer Science
This session will cover functions and modules, which we can use to avoid having to repeat code all the time, and allow us to pool several files into one respectively.
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 5, UGSA, Department of Computer Science
A fun evening of coding and games.
Code up some fractals! Full creative freedom for this challenge.
Bring your laptops, we'll provide pizza.
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
We'll be covering classes, basically a description for a thing that has properties, and objects, instances of classes.
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.
If you have experience soldering chipsets together or working with Arduinos, Oxford's National Rocketry Championship team needs you. The Championship is quickly approaching and the Rocketry Society has formed a team of physicists and engineers to design the rocket. However, the team needs help building and programming the rocket's Arduino-based avionics. The entry deadline is quickly approaching and any help you can provide would be a big help to them.
Contact the team leader, Roman Hawrych, if you can help.
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.
18:30, Wednesday, Week 5, The Old Library, Lady Margaret Hall
Come to the launch event of the recently re-established Oxford Drone Society!
We'll count with the presence of professionals and researchers from the drone sphere, who will give short talks about their work and research. There will also be a chance for drinks and networking, as well as drone racing tryouts on our simulator!
Applications close: Midnight 17th February
All-Innovate is Oxford’s first University-wide ideas competition! Whether you have an idea already or would like to develop one, whatever your interests, All-Innovate is a fantastic opportunity to get creative and explore the process of turning that idea into a reality.
Saturday–Sunday, Week 5, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Reading University Hacking and Henley Business School proudly present our second annual 24-hour Student Hackathon at the University of Reading, welcoming students from all over Thames Valley!
Whether you're completely new to programming or are a seasoned hackathon veteran, you are welcome to join us in this fun and collaborative invention marathon! Bring your laptops and bright ideas, and we'll cover food, power and Wi-Fi - beginners welcome!
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.
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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