Hello CSC members and robots,
This very well may be the last email of term! It's been a big term, so
why don't you come on down to the comfy and hang out. We're ordering in
pitas (and dessert?????) and just hanging out. Literally no other
activities, just hanging out.
6pm in the Comfy, Wednesday (April 4, last day of classes). Good food
and company!
Two more things,
First, we're going to be amending our Constitution and Code of Conduct
in a month and a half (at the S18 elections). Here's the summary:
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pj2melan/csc/about/amendments-explanation
And finally, it's come to our attention recently that there have been
situations where people have left the office open without office staff
present. This goes against office policies and is explicitly forbidden.
Since we depend on office staff to sign up/renew memberships, oversee
our library, and keep an eye on the office, we're unable to operate
normally without office staff present and have to close.
Last term after similar issues we sent out an email to then-current
office staff detailing that this is not allowed, so they should be aware
of it. We also note that office staff should be aware of this as it is
the very first policy listed in the Office Policies, which are explained
to them during training and also posted in the office and on our wiki.
As there is a certain level of trust instilled in office staff and a
certain level of responsibility expected, we have decided that anyone
who is found to be leaving the office open without office staff present
is breaching that trust and will be removed from office staff.
In this particular incident the comment made by one of the students who
was still in the office without staff present was that "they said they
would be back soon". This is not sufficient, an office staff member must
be present at all times. If the last office staff member present needs
to leave at all - even if it's just down the hall or to C&D or the
washroom - they need to close the office.
Similarly, if you are not a member of office staff and are in the office
without office staff present, you need to leave. Lights should be turned
off and both doors should be closed. We also ask that you email
offsck(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca to report it.
If you would like to stay in the office even after office staff leave,
then talk to the Office Manager about getting trained for office staff
(usually they will send out an email for training).
Please remember that we provide the space to CSC members and as members
and users of said space, you have agreed to abide by said policies.
Thank you for a big term!
--
The Exec team
Greetings Programs,
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is our termly Alt-Tab event, where members give
relatively accessible and short talks on a variety of topics. It will be
in MC 4020 on Wednesday, March 28 from 6:00 PM until approximately 9:00 PM.
This term's speakers and their talk titles can be found on the event
webpage https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4020-2018-03-28-6:00pm. We
have a superstar lineup this term (hint: all of them).
There will be food.
Come and witness the frontier of computer science knowledge! No, not
really, but come and listen to the nice talks.
--
Charlie Wang
Vice President,
Computer Science Club
Greetings programs,
We have three Computer Science Club events coming up. There will be
food.
Professor Richard Mann's talk on black box testing of audio gear is
tomorrow (Thursday) at 6:00 PM in MC 4059. Details at
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4059-2018-03-22-6:00pm. There will
be food.
We are having a joint Code Party with Women in Computer Science (WiCS)
next Monday, March 26 at 7:00 PM in QNC 2502. This time, it's an Uncode
Party, where you try to find the worst solutions possible to programming
problems that we will provide. For example,
http://wiki.c2.com/?SlowSort. Come and write shoddy code with us. No
prior experience required, but most of you probably have some. You can
work on your projects or your assignments too. There will be food.
Finally, Alt-Tab is on Wednesday, March 28 in MC 4020 at 6:00 PM until
late. We will listen to at least seven confirmed talks from a variety of
members. Expect another email with talk titles and a schedule soon.
There will be food.
See you all there! There will be food.
Charlie Wang
Vice President
Computer Science Club
Hi all,
Professor Richard Mann will be giving a talk this Thursday, March 22 at
6:00 PM in MC 4059: Black Box testing of Audio Gear. Come out and to see
fancy audio gear, learn more about his Advanced Topics course, and eat
free food! His abstract is as follows.
Black box testing usually refers to computer testing, either
software or hardware.
In this talk I apply similar ideas to testing analog and digital
audio gear. For example, given an audio device, such as a guitar effects
pedal, can we stimulate the system with test signals and determine what
processing is done inside?
I will present our open source testing software to test the
frequency response, time delay and distortion in audio systems. We will
show several real world testing situations, including microphones, loud
speakers, digital keyboards, digital audio mixing boards, and guitar
effects pedals.
Students are encouraged to bring their own musical instruments
and/or sound processors for testing.
Finally, I will present information about my current audio course,
CS489/689 -- Advanced Topics in Computer Science -- Computational Sound.
This is a project based course, normally offered in the Winter term.
See also the event listing on our website and our Facebook event:
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4059-2018-03-22-6:00pmhttps://www.facebook.com/events/579916839035782/
Hope to see you all there,
Charlie Wang
Vice President
Computer Science Club
Greetings Programs,
This term's order of CSC T-Shirts have now arrived and are available for
pickup in our office. If you have preordered a shirt, come by the office
when it's open and ask an office staff member to get it for you. If you
have not preordered a shirt but still want one, we have some available
in both fitted and unisex, in various sizes, for $15. Come by the office
and talk to an office staff member to see what's still available.
Zoe Laing
Office Manager
Computer Science Club
Greetings programs,
CSC will be hosting Alt-Tab, the Computer Science version of Short
Attention Span Math Seminars (SASMS) hosted by that math club down the
hall. It will be a night full of friendly talks on Wednesday, March 28,
6:00 PM until late.
We need talks! Contact me, s455wang(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, with your
tentative talk title and a short abstract if you would like to give a
talk. Slides are not required. Please aim for a 10-15 minute talk. I'll
send an email with the list of talks closer to the date of the event.
Here are some topics that our members have presented before. The titles
make them seem more technical than they actually were.
- Overview of SAT solvers
- Communication complexity
- Register allocation in compilers as graph colouring
- Web application security
- PXE booting
- UI and UX
- Train signalling and sensing
- Typed Racket
- Modern GPU architecture
- How to unsubscribe from CSC emails
Again, please contact s455wang(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you would like to
participate.
Thanks,
Charlie Wang
Vice President,
Computer Science Club
Hello programs!
Some of our members have been hard at work organizing events for you,
and there are now three this very week! There's a git + Python workshop
this Thursday, and an out-of-town speaker on Monday and Tuesday. All
good things!
Of course, we're having food and coffee at all the events.
You can see the three events on our Facebook page or website, but here's
a quick summary for our important members.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/watcsc/events/
1. maddog's talk - Programming in the 22nd Century
We're bringing in maddog to talk on Monday, he's the executive director
of Linux International and was just in Brazil for another conference.
He'll be talking about how programming has changed since C was a hot
topic in the 1970s and RAM was measured in kilobytes. For those of you
who have been exposed to CS 350, this may be of interest!
The event is at 6pm on Monday, in the MC Comfy, and we'll be bringing
you food.
2. talk to maddog (and eat food)
We're getting maddog to stay for another day, just so that you can hang
out with him. He's been in the industry since the 1970s, so he'll have
lots of war stories. Want to ask him whether you should choose an
Arduino or an RPi for FINE 204 wearable media? Want to find out how to
save money by using FOSS? I do, and he'll know.
The event is at 6pm on Tuesday, in the MC Comfy, and we'll be bringing
you food.
3. Git + Python workshop (2A members, come on out!)
And finally, a workshop event hosted by amazing members Charlie and
Fatema! For those of you in 2A or lower, this workshop is geared to you.
Come with a laptop and a GitHub account and we'll feed you and show you
how to use version control in a digestible way. GitHub is a really
common tool, Python is also really fun, and we're giving you yummy
pastries so it's pretty low risk.
The event is at 6:30pm on Thursday, in STC 0020, and we'll be bringing
you food.
Here are the events again:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/watcsc/events/
See you!
--
Patrick Melanson
President
CS Club
Hello CSC,
I'll be conducting office training Monday March 5th at 15:30 in the CSC
office. If this time isn't good please email me at
offsck(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Kind regards,
Zoe Laing
Office Manager
