Hello all,

Over the next week we have a bunch of cool events to hopefully pre-emptively counter fifth week blues ;). Tomorrow CoreFiling, a local tech company, will be giving a talk on open source software in the corporate world, and later in the week we have a LAN night with the eSports society https://www.facebook.com/oxfordesports/ and a Geek Night.

Bloomberg will be joining us next Wednesday for a talk on how the JVM executes Java.

If you're interested in joining the society, please remember to bring five pounds to any of our upcoming events, and we can provide you with a membership form.

Have a great week,

Thomas and the rest of the committee

Events

CoreFiling Tech Talk: Open source software in a corporate world https://www.facebook.com/events/1175973019156033/

*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday (4th week)*

An engineer from CoreFiling will join us to discuss how a proprietary software vendor can contribute and participate in the open source community.

The talk will be followed by free pizza and drinks.

LAN Night https://www.facebook.com/events/1267375823303782/

*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Friday (4th week)*

In collaboration with the Oxford eSports society https://www.facebook.com/oxfordesports/, CompSoc will be hosting a LAN night, with free pizza. Bring your laptop and we'll play games of your choosing!

Geek Night 4 https://www.facebook.com/events/1334404966583127/

*Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Saturday (4th week)*

Please note that we'll likely add a theme for this geek night later in the week :). Irrespective of whether there is a theme, I've got hold of an Adafruit IoT starter kit https://www.adafruit.com/product/3031 from Microsoft, which is an Arduino with integrated WiFi and a load of sensors. I also have a BBC micro:bit http://microbit.org, and I'll be taking both of these to this Geek Night in case anyone wants to play with them or learn about embedded programming.

Bring your laptop, and we'll provide free pizza.

Bloomberg Tech Talk: How the JVM executes Java https://www.facebook.com/events/208490852918521/

*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7:00pm Wednesday (5th week)*

James Gough from Bloomberg will be joining us to discuss details about the implementation of Java. Pizza and drinks will be provided after the talk.

When Java was released in 1995 it was slow, a reputation it has carried for many years... Today Java can give performance that is comparable to C++ and can emit instructions that are more optimal than code which is statically compiled. But how? This talk will take a tour of code and the journey through the JVM and the optimisations in between. Using practical examples, JVM flags and the Open Source JIT Watch we will explore what the JVM does in an adaptation of the classic Hello World program, you'll never look at Java in the same way again.

Sponsor notices

Jane Street http://www.janestreet.com

*The Old Bank Hotel, 92-94 High Street - 7:30pm 3rd of November (Thursday of 4th)*

Jane Street is always looking for great new people to join our talented team! We invite you to spend an evening with us and learn more about Quant Trading and the Technology we use at Jane Street. You'll get to meet our Traders and Developers and learn more about our recruitment process over finger food and drinks.

Our entrepreneurial culture is driven by our talented team of traders and programmers. At Jane Street, we don't come to work wanting to leave. We come to work excited to test new theories, have thought-provoking discussions, and maybe sneak in a game of ping-pong or two. Keeping our culture casual and our employees happy is of paramount importance to us. We hope to meet you in Oxford!

Please note that no sign up is required for this event. For more information on Jane Street, visit janestreet.com http://www.janestreet.com.

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