November 2018 - csc-general

End of term celebrations incoming, Monday Dec 3rd, 7pm - 9pm @ MC Comfy
by Computer Science Club 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Greetings fellow deterministic turing machines, The term is coming to an end, and we will be celebrating as such on Monday December 3rd 7-9pm in the MC Comfy. Come hang out with fellow CSC members, and enjoy food and cake! Regards, -Uday VP, Computer Science Club

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Alt-Tab Speaker Series - Thursday Nov. 29 6-8pm @ MC5479
by Computer Science Club 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Greetings fellow programs, Alt-Tab is coming up next week on Thursday Nov. 29th 6-8pm at MC 5479. We have an amazing group of members giving short talks on topics of their choice: Anna Lorimer - <redacted> - All about Slitheen (no, not the dr who alien) Will Gertler - Quantum Information- a Primer Fatema Boxwala - GANs, Generative Art and Edward Bellamy Alex Zvorygin - Designing Large Scale Systems for the Web Patrick Melanson - ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ Zichuan Wei - Quantum Computers: what they are and what they can do Come enjoy some cool talks and free food! -Uday Veep, CSC

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Prof. Gregor Richards gives a talk on November 12, 5:30 PM in MC 4063
by Computer Science Club 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Greetings Programs, We will be having a prof talk with Professor Gregor Richards, on November 12, 5:30 PM - 7 PM, in MC 4063. He will be talking about netplay in emulators, which allows for playing video games over the internet. Prof. Richards is the maintainer of the netplay infrastructure for RetroArch, a popular emulator frontend for multiple platforms. Abstract: You've got a game, but you didn't write it. You're running it by emulating the machine it was meant to run on, and the machine it was meant to run on never had support for networking. Now, you want to play with your friend, over the Internet. Oh, and it's not acceptable to incur any latency between your controller and the game while we're at it. Surely that can't be possible, right? Wrong. This talk will discuss the re-emulation technique for netplay used commercially by a system called GGPO and freely in an emulator frontend called RetroArch, and how similar techniques can be applied to make networking work in other scenarios it was never meant for. This will be an unprepared, impromptu talk with no slides, so it should either be a fascinating dive into a little-heard-of technique, or an impenetrable mess of jargon and algorithms. Either way, it should be fun. -- Neil Parikh AVP Computer Science Club

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Richard Mann Prof. Talk - Cancelled
by Computer Science Club 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Greetings fellow programs, Due to an unexpected illness, Professor Richard Mann's talk today is cancelled. Apologies for the late notice, -Uday VP, CSC

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