"Why am I Studying This?"
Data Structures, Finite State Machines, Big-O, Queuing theory, Race
conditions,
Compilers, The Halting Problem, and more!
These things get even more interesting in the real world. Come and hear
Tom Rathborne talk about how theory hits reality (often with a bang!) at
Booking.com, the biggest not-a-technology-company on the Internet.
Friday, 2015-10-02
7:30 PM
MC 4040
Food and drinks will be provided!
Back to back talks from John Stix (President of Fibernetics) and
Francisco Dominguez (CTO of Fibernetics) on turning a company's culture
around and on Software Defined Networks!
John Stix will be talking about how he turned around the corporate
culture at Fibernetics Corporation.
Francisco Dominguez will be talking about Software Defined Networks,
which for example can turn multiple flakey internet connections into one
reliable one.
Held in DC 1304, on Wednesday Sept 30, at 5:00 PM
Food and drinks will be provided!
Hi all,
Nominations have closed for CSC elections. Here is a list of
candidates for the elected positions.
President
s22hu
as3chan
VP
tbelaire
Treasurer
tkolomat
jtupiter
Secretary
p58wang
p2choudh
dmarin
Additionally, these members have expressed interest in the following
appointed positions:
Sysadmin
jxpryde
Office Manager
ischtche
wy2zheng
Librarian
jhbai
dmarin
Note that nominations can be declined at any time prior to the taking
of the vote.
Absentee votes (voting by email) can be sent to
cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. They must be sent by 18:00 on September 22,
2015.
All voting is restricted to current club members who are Social
Members of the Mathematics Society. Voting will use the approval
voting system. This means that you can vote for as many candidates as
you want for any position. At the meeting, votes will be conducted in
a heads-down hands-up fashion.
For more information on election procedures please see
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution#duties.
See you all tomorrow!
--
Charlie Wang
Chief Returning Officer
Computer Science Club
University of Waterloo
Hey there, program!
We've got someone special coming to talk next month! Cory Doctorow is the
writer of "Little Brother," "Homeland," "For The Win," a fellow of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a Waterloo alumnus.
The talk will be held at the university on October 16 7pm in the ML Theatre
of the Arts.
It looks like he's got a good talk lined up for us, we've put up an
abstract on our website
<http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/ML_Theatre_of_the_Arts-2015-10-16-7:00_PM>.
We'll be selling his books at the talk as well. I made a Facebook event
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1475340629436819/>, for the hip of you
that use this social network.
Admission is free, and the event is open to the general public. If you want
to bring someone along, totally do!
See all your faces then!
--
Patrick Melanson
Vice President
Computer Science Club
University of Waterloo
pj2melan(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Greetings programs,
For our returning members, welcome back, and for our new members, welcome
to the CSC! We will be having our first event of the term this Thursday.
Google Cardboard Talk
<http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_2065-2015-09-17-6_PM>
Thursday, September 17th, 6pm, MC 2065
Rob Suderman from Google will be giving a talk on Google Cardboard; a
recent exploration in affordable, cereal box based Virtual Reality. He will
talk about the tools available to make your own application, some of the
pitfalls to avoid, and give an overview of rendering virtual reality
content with some tips and tricks on high performance rendering. The talk
is open and accessible for everyone who is interested!
There will also be free food from Taco Farm at the talk.
Have fun with the first week of school, I hope to see you around!
Calum T. Dalek
Chairbeing Extraordinaire
Hi all,
The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2015 term on Tuesday, September 22nd in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 19:00. During the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary will be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the librarian and office manager will be appointed.
If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can write your name on the board in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) or send me (Charlie) an email at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. You can also deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to me in person. Nominations will close at 18:00 on Monday, September 21st. All members are welcome to run! First-years are especially encouraged to run for secretary, office manager, and librarian, but they are not limited to those positions.
--
Charlie Wang (s455wang)
Chief Returning Officer
Computer Science Club
University of Waterloo
cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca
P.S. For information on election procedures please see http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution#officers