Hi all,
The CSC will be running three or so member talks this term. If you've been
doing interesting CS-related research or just happen to know a lot about
something cool and want to share, send an email to
progcom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca by Monday Feb 28 with a proposed title for your
talk and a 1-2 paragraph summary of what you intend to talk about. Keep in
mind that member talks usually last about an hour.
Thanks,
Jenny Wong
VP Winter 2011
Hello everyone,
There are several things happening in the CSC this week.
--- Perl Talks ---
First of all, we will be holding Perl Talks with the KW Perl Mongers.
The talks will be on Thursday, Feb 17, from 7:00pm - 8:30pm in MC2017.
Several short talk will be presented. These talks are intended for
programmers who are curious about the Swiss Army Chainsaw of languages,
Perl.
Tyler Slijboom will present:
* Prototyping in Perl,
* Perl Default Variables,
* HOWTO on OO Programming, and
* HOWTO on Installing and Using Modules from CPAN
Daniel Allen will present:
* Coping with Other Peoples' Code
Justin Wheeler will present:
* Moose: a Modern Perl Framework
Light refreshments will be provided, or possibly heavy refreshments,
courtesy of the Perl Mongers.
--- CSC Goes to Grad Ball ---
The fine folks at the Mathematics Graduation Committee have saved us a
table at the Grad Ball. The ball will be on March 5th at St. George's
Hall.
MGC adds this: Not graduating? Doesn't matter --- come party with your
friends who are. Many prizes are up for grabs, including gift
certificates.
For more information go to:
http://www.mgc.uwaterloo.ca/grad-ball/
If you are interested in attending please contact me
(ebering(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca). We have 8 places, tickets are $50 per
person (discount off of the single price), and you must confirm with me by
this Friday.
--- Watson on Jeopardy ---
IBM's Watson will be appearing on the quiz-show Jeopardy this week,
competing against the great human champions. This could be as landmark as
Kasparov v. Deep Blue in terms of demonstrating the state of the art in
machine learning and natural language processing, if possible we will
organize a screening of the match.
For more information go to:
http://www.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
--
Edgar Bering, President ebering at uwaterloo dot ca
Computer Science Club http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~ebering
Mathematics Society MC 3036, (519)888-4567,x33870
University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario CANADA N2L 3G1
Hey CSC,
Come one, come all to the Code Party happening in the Comfy Lounge this
Friday. The event starts at 7:00PM and will run through the night. Why sleep
when you could be hacking on $your_favourite_project or doing
$something_classy in great company? Join us for a night of coding and
comraderie! Food and caffeine will be provided.
-Jenny AKA Emily
Veep W11