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This Week: Perl Talks, CSC goes to Grad Ball, Watson on Jeopardy
by Computer Science Club 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

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

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Code Party this Friday
by Computer Science Club 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

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

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Winter 2011 Office Training
by Computer Science Club 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hello CSC members, Winter 2011 office training will be held in the CSC office at 4:00 PM on Saturday, January 22. All members are welcome to attend. I will be selecting several new office staff, and distributing up to five office keys. Marc Burns CSC Office Manager Winter 2011

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Call for Member Talks
by Computer Science Club 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

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 10:00pm this Thursday 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

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Winter 2011 Executive
by Computer Science Club 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

The elections have concluded, and the new executive are: President: ebering Vice President: jy2wong Treasurer: kspaans Secretary: ehashman Sysadmin: pbarfuss m4burns was appointed Office Manager and asbumste was appointed Librarian. Thanks for coming out! Sean Hunt Chief Returning Officer

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Nominee error
by Computer Science Club 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

I apologize again for the error, folks. I accidentally listed b4taylor as being a nominee for Vice-President. This is not the case. m4burns is the nominee, along with ssalbiz and jy2wong. My apologies. Sean Hunt Chief Returning Officer

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My apologies
by Computer Science Club 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

In the last message, I accidentally left out that you can submit votes by email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca up until the election meeting as well. -scshunt

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Elections Tomorrow
by Computer Science Club 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hey all, Winter 2011 elections are tomorrow at 4:00 PM in the Comfy, and the nominees are: * President: ebering * Vice President: ssalbiz, jy2wong, b4taylor * Treasurer: kspaans, qxi, mspang, d2huo, a42ahmed * Secretary: kspaans, d2huo, ehashman If you believe (maybe because you were paid) that one of them should be elected (or not elected), then you should come out and cast a vote for (or against) them. If you don't, you have no right to complain when ctdalek exterminates us. Sean Hunt CRO Winter 2011

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Elections for Winter 2011
by Computer Science Club 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Elections are coming for Winter 2011 executive! Nominations are open - nominations can be made by sending them directly to me or by writing them on the whiteboard in the Club office. Nominations close at 4:30 PM on Tuesday, January 11. Elections take place in the Comfy at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, January 12. We currently have no nominees for Vice-President. The Vice-President is needed to run events including the awesome talks. Please come out and volunteer! Thanks, scshunt CRO

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Eduroam Quiz
by Computer Science Club 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello CSCers! There appears to be a large group of students that have trouble with the eduroam wireless network. To help IST debug the problems we have created the following poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dENpTGE3QmhLZGQtT1Ay… We will email the results (minus names) to IST on Monday, so get your answers in soon. We will be giving out 4 free pop (retail value $2!) to 1 person, at random, who answers this quiz. You may share this link with other, non-CSC UW members. This quiz was not in any way written by IST. Thanks

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