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March 2017

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Hotspot JVM talk and rescheduled Unix 201
by Computer Science Club 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Hey everyone, WiCS is hosting a talk this Tuesday March 14th that should be of general interest to CSC members: # Hotspot Virtual Machine's Execution by Monica Beckwith Abstract: Monica Beckwith has worked with the Java Virtual Machine for more than a decade not just optimizing the JVM heuristics, but also improving the Just-in-time(JIT) code quality for various processor architectures as well as working with the garbage collectors and improving garbage collection for server systems. During this talk, Monica will cover a few JIT and Runtime optimizations and she will dive into the HotSpot garbage collection and provide an overview of the various garbage collectors available in HotSpot. The talk is open to everyone and is happening in STC 0040 at 6pm on Tuesday. You can register for free tickets here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monica-beckwith-hotspot-virtual-machines-execu… # Unix 201 Rescheduled In other news, the Unix 201 event I mentioned in my last csc-general email has been rescheduled from Thursday and is now probably going to be on Wednesday March 22nd at 6pm. Check the CS Club website before then for further updates and room number. Reminder: Unix 201 is a talk and demo about more advanced Unix tricks and tools than are taught in our regular Unix 101 events. Topics may include customizing your prompt, the ranger console file manager, fancy shells, htop, rsync and using terminal escape sequences in your programs. - Tristan Hume Vice President Computer Science Club

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Upcoming Events: Alt+Tab Talks, Workshops and Unix 201
by Computer Science Club 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Hello everyone! There’s a few different CS Club events coming up this week and afterwards: # Alt+Tab Talks Thursday, March 9th at 6pm in MC 4042 Come watch interesting 10-15 minute talks by CS Club members. Talks so far are: - "Online database migrations at scale” by Shirley Miao - "Stitching spaces in subdivision surfaces” by Luke Franceschini - "Stepping into math: building a step-by-step algebra solver” by Evy Kassirer - “How your text editor does syntax highlighting” by Tristan Hume - “Theory of computation” by Bryan Coutts http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4042-2017-03-09-6:00_pm # Road to Node Workshops Tuesday, March 7 at 7pm in STC 0020 + Tues, March 14 @ 7 + Tues, March 21 @ 7pm Three workshops introducing the Node.js framework for people of all skill levels. Starting with an introduction to Javascript and ES6 this Tuesday and continuing with further sessions on Node.js, promises and the Express framework. See the Facebook event for details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1415253851840971/ # Unix 201 Thursday, March 16th at 6pm A talk and demo about more advanced Unix tricks and tools than are taught in our regular Unix 101 events. Topics may include customizing your prompt, the ranger console file manager, rsync and using terminal escape sequences in your programs. Check the CSC website before the event next week for a room number. Remember to mark your calendars! - Tristan Hume Vice President Computer Science Club

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