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CS Club: Code Party 1 W15
by Computer Science Club 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Greetings programs, the last code party of this semester is this Friday! Brand new room, and food for everyone! We're hitting some code golf, and we'll have leaderboards in our IRC channel, #csc-codeparty on irc.freenode.net . You don't have to code golf though. Bring a backburner project, or a project you started at a hackathon last weekend! We're very accepting. EIT 1015, Friday March 27 at 6pm. (Yes, that's right after the GM, you should come to that as well.) Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/360936394093221/ Facebook event for GM: https://www.facebook.com/events/1555574964725934/ See you soon! --- tl;dr: * Code Party 1 on Friday March 27 EIT 1015, 6pm start * Free food * Code Golf --- Chair Being Extraordinaire, Calum T. Dalek

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CSC General Meeting on March 27th
by Computer Science Club 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Greetings Programs, Here are important updates about the upcoming General Meeting: * The Code of Conduct proposed by the Executive Council has been modified based on feedback. It can be found here: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct, and the full proposed patch can be found here: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch. * yj7kim has proposed an amendment to the constitution to move elections a week earlier in the term, to increase the amount of time in a term that we have an elected Executive Council. The patch can be found here: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/election-date-change-constitution…. * The General Meeting will be taking place at 5pm on March 27th 2015. Please arrive with your WatCard. --- tl;dr: * the proposed Code of Conduct has been modified based on feedback * a constitution amendment to hold elections sooner has been proposed * both changes are attached * The GM is March 27th, 5pm in EIT 1015. Bring your WatCard. --- Chair Being Extraordinaire, Calum T. Dalek

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General Meeting Notice & Constitution Amendment
by Computer Science Club 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

Greetings Programs, The Computer Science Club Executive Council is calling a General Meeting on the 27th of March. Time and location TBD. The GM is being called to discuss amendments to the CSC Constitution that would allow the CSC to adopt a Code of Conduct. There are many reasons for adopting a code of conduct. We have outlined what we feel to be the most important below. The exec are responsible for ensuring that the club's spaces and events that we run are places that members enjoy. As part of this, we have to make sure that the club has an inviting, friendly atmosphere for newcomers and members alike. Creating that atmosphere involves asking members to behave in a respectful manner, and sometimes it requires addressing complaints of inappropriate behaviour from members. We hope that the Code of Conduct never has to be explicitly enforced, but if it must we want to have something to direct the offending members to. Up to this point, the CSC Office has been the only thing covered under anything resembling a code of conduct ( https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Office_Policies) The proposed changes would affect all events and spaces run by the CSC including (but not limited to) our IRC channels (#csc, #csc-codeparty, #csc-syscom), and any event that we organize or co-organize. --- The proposed changes to our Constitution can be found here: * a diff: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch * in full: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/constitution And the proposed Code of Conduct: * https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct Both the diff and proposed Code of Conduct will be posted in the CSC Office. As part of the proposed changes our President, glgambet, will be holding office hours from 11:45-12:45 for every week day until the GM, starting on 11th of March 2015. Feel free to bring forward any comments, questions or concerns. Likewise, the Executive Council can be reached at exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. glgambet can be contacted directly at glgambet(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca for those who feel uncomfortable bringing things forward in the office, or up to the entire Executive Council. --- tl;dr: * General Meeting the 27th, for changing Constitution and adopting a Code of Conduct. * Constitution diff: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch * Proposed Code of Conduct: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct --- Chair being extraordinaire, Calum T Dalek

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Code Party 0 ROOM CHANGE, info -- mtrberzi SAT/SMT tech talk -- Mozilla JITting tech talk
by Computer Science Club 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

*Code Party 0* <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/EV3_1408-2015-02-27-6:00_PM> is coming up! *Important*: We have moved to *EV3 1408*. If you are interested in the Code Retreat, read this Google doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LCTYh-QhlXziLK5YqNRoQm87NH77JTRgwIKc8b-…> for how things are going to go down. If you are not interested in code retreat, it's still totally fine if you bring your own project. Come out, free food awaits! Here's the Facebook event page <https://www.facebook.com/events/1434507486839811/>. Don't remember to RSVP as soon as possible <https://bit.ly/code-party-0>!! *mtrberzi's SAT/SMT* <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_2038-2015-03-03-6:00_PM> talk is scheduled for 6pm on March 3rd, a Tuesday, in MC 2038. The SAT and SMT theories combined allow you to programmatically determine whether a computer program is satisfiable or not. Will there be free food? Good question. Yes. Are you interested? Understandable. Read more at the Facebook event page <https://www.facebook.com/events/816500978442872/>. *Mozilla's Kannan Vijayan's JS JIT talk* <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4040-2015-03-09-6:00_PM> will happen across two days, March 9 <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4040-2015-03-09-6:00_PM> and March 10 <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4040-2015-03-10-6:00_PM> (a Monday and a Tuesday), both at 6pm in MC 4040. Two days is necessary to do the topic justice: A history of the development of efficient and tightly optimized JIT compilers. How can one infer the type of a variable at run-time? To find out, come out. Here's the day 1 Facebook event <https://www.facebook.com/events/383711748474717/> and the day 2 Facebook event <https://www.facebook.com/events/989375507778990/>. That's it for now. See you at a subset of these events! ~Your CSC Exec

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Winter '15 Code Party 0 upcoming!
by Computer Science Club 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hello fellow CSC members! (*TL;DR* at the bottom) Our first code party is coming up after reading week, and we've decided to mix it up a little. We have a new room (E2 1306 Lever lab), good food (no pizza), and pair programming challenges in collaboration with Boltmade (a local company). These programming challenges are just for fun, no presenting required! And if you want to work on your long-term side project, totally come hack on that as well. "Pair programming you say?" We will be pairing people up to work on coding challenges during the code party. We haven't decided on these challenges yet, but they'll be fun and you can count on that. *TL;DR* New room, good food, pair programming, coding challenges, RSVP at https://bit.ly/code-party-0 pls. Hope to see you there! -C. T. Dalek

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Upcoming Events
by Computer Science Club 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Greetings Programs, With reading week just around the corner, there are some awesome upcoming events and things to be aware of! --- * Racket's Magical match, by Theo Belaire, Monday, 2nd of February, 2015. In MC 4063 at 6:00pm. Theo Belaire, a fourth-year CS student, will show you the basics of how this amazing function works, and help you get your feet wet with some code examples. He will also cover some more advanced use cases and a little bit about the performance of match. If you’re interested in knowing about the more powerful features of Racket, then this is the talk for you! The material covered is especially useful for students in CS 241 who are writing their compiler in Racket, or are just curious about what that might look like. * (Hosted by the SCS) Making Robots Behave, by Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Thursday, 5th of February, 2015. In DC1302, 3:30-4:30pm. The fields of AI and robotics have made great improvements in many individual subfields, including in motion planning, symbolic planning, probabilistic reasoning, perception, and learning. Our goal is to develop an integrated approach to solving very large problems that are hopelessly intractable to solve optimally. We make a number of approximations during planning, including serializing subtasks, factoring distributions, and determinizing stochastic dynamics, but regain robustness and effectiveness through a continuous state-estimation and replanning process. This approach is demonstrated in three robotic domains, each of which integrates perception, estimation, planning, and manipulation. --- Your chairbeing extraordinaire, Calum T. Dalek.

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BOT Announcements: Upcoming Events and Volunteering
by Computer Science Club 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Greetings Programs, Welcome and welcome back, and happy new year! We have a bunch of exciting events planned for this term; here they are, so mark your calendar pages, and finish those assignments to make sure you can come out! ~Alex Tsay, "High Availibility Distributed File Systems": Wednesday, January 21, 18:00, MC 2017. The CAP Theorem outlined the fundamental limitations of a distributed system. When designing a distributed system, one has to constantly be aware of the trade-off between consistency and availability. Most distributed systems are designed with consistency in mind. However, AeroFS has decided to build a high-availability file system instead. In this tech talk, I'll be presenting an overview of AeroFS file system, advantages and challenges of a high-availability file system, and examine the inner workings of AeroFS's core syncing algorithm. ~(WiCS) Leigh Honeywell, "Trust Your Gut: Adventures in the Worst Parts of the Tech Industry": Friday, January 23, 17:30, DC1302. Leigh Honeywell is a Security Engineer at Heroku, a Salesforce.com company. Prior to Heroku, she worked at Microsoft, MessageLabs/Symantec, and Bell Canada. Last year was Leigh's tenth year working in tech. From startups to the biggest tech companies in the world, she will share with her lessons learned about careers, sexism, secure software development, management, burnout and ambition. ~Office Training, Wednesday, January 28, TBD in MC 3036/3037. If you're around the office often, or just want to get a little more involved, come out and do office staff training! It'll help us keep the office open as much as possible, and you get a say in the awesome music that we hear in the office. --- Other than events, there are other interesting things going on this term! If you're interested in helping out with the CSC's infrastructure, looking for some great war stories to impress your friends, or interested in dev-ops, then get in touch with exec@, or syscom@. We're looking for volunteers to help out with the care and maintenance of our infrastructure, whether you have no experience, or you run a server farm out of your garage. --- Happy coding, Gianni Gambetti President Computer Science Club

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Nominations Closed, Candidates Announced
by Computer Science Club 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Nominations for elections are now closed! The candidates are: President --------- Luke Franceschini (l3france) Gianni Gambetti (glgambet) Ford Peprah (hkpeprah) Khashayar Pourdeilami (kpourdei) Vice-President -------------- Luke Franceschini (l3france) Gianni Gambetti (glgambet) Patrick Melanson (pj2melan) Ford Peprah (hkpeprah) Khashayar Pourdeilami (kpourdei) Treasurer --------- Weitian Ding (wt2ding) Aishwarya Gupta (a72gupta) Edward Lee (e45lee) Secretary --------- Ilia "itchy" Chtcherbakov (ischtche) Luke Franceschini (l3france) Patrick Melanson (pj2melan) Ford Peprah (hkpeprah) Khashayar Pourdeilami (kpourdei) Additionally, Sarah Harvey (sharvey) and Murphy Berzish (mtberzi) have indicated interest in the Systems Administrator position, but this is not an elected position. You can send your absentee votes to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Please note that voting is restricted to current club members who are Social Members of the Mathematics Society.[*] See you tomorrow at the election! (Comfy Lounge, after the Google talk at 7PM.) Cheers, -- Elana Hashman Chief Returning Officer Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca [*] http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution#membership

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Upcoming Events: Google Talk! Elections!
by Computer Science Club 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hey everyone, Happy Monday, and welcome back to campus! We have two events for you this week: 1. *Google Tech Talk (Google Fiber Internet: The Messy Bits)* A Google software engineer from the Google Fiber team, Avery Pennarun, will be giving a tech talk on *THURSDAY* at *6:00pm* in *MC 2065*! Avery graduated from Waterloo in Computer Engineering, started some startups and some open-source projects, and now works at Google Fiber on a small team building super fast wifi routers, TV settop boxes, and the firmware that runs on them. For the talk's abstract, please see here <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_2065-2015-01-15-6:00_PM>. Be sure to *RSVP* <http://bit.ly/GoogleFiberTalk> and show up on time to make sure you get some food (and swag)! 2. *Winter 2015 Elections* The Computer Science Club is holding elections on *THURSDAY* at *7:00pm* in the *Comfy (MC 3001)*, right after the Google talk. 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), - send our CRO, Elana, an email at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, - deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc (MC 3038), - let Elana know in person. Nominations close this *Wednesday* at *6:00pm*. *tl;dr:* 1. *Google Tech Talk: THURSDAY, 6:00pm, MC 2065* (RSVP here: http://bit.ly/GoogleFiberTalk.) 2. *Elections: THURSDAY, 7:00pm, Comfy (MC 3001)* (Nominations close Wednesday at 6:00pm.) If you have any questions, feel free to email us <exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, or drop by our office. Cheers, Jinny Kim President, Computer Science Club <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> University of Waterloo <https://uwaterloo.ca/>

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Jan. 15: Elections Time Change and Google Tech Talk
by Computer Science Club 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Hello all! Sorry for the second email. Prior to the elections on Thu. Jan. 15, I would like to announce a Google Tech Talk in MC 2065 at 6PM. Talk title and abstract to soon follow. The elections will follow the talk at 7PM in the Comfy Lounge. There will be no corresponding change in the nomination period. You can continue to send me nominations via the office whiteboard, via email at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, by mail (box is in MathSoc), and in person. Cheers, -- Elana Hashman Chief Returning Officer Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca

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Winter 2015 Elections: Thu. Jan. 15, 18:00
by Computer Science Club 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Greetings, programs! The Computer Science Club will be holding its termly elections[*] this upcoming Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6PM in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). During the election, 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 an email at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. You may also, if you wish, deposit nominations in the CSC mailbox in MathSoc or present them to me in person. Nominations will close at 6PM on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Both veteran members and newbies are welcome to run! Voting will be heads-down, hands-up, restricted to MathSoc social members. Cheers, -- Elana Hashman Chief Returning Officer Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca [*] Here are the relevant sections of the constitution, for your reference: """ The election of officers shall be accomplished by the following procedure: 1. Before the end of the prior term, the then-Executive shall choose a willing Chief Returning Officer, who is responsible for carrying out elections according to this procedure. 2. The CRO shall set the date and time of the election meeting, and set the nomination period. The nomination shall be at least one week long and shall end at least 24 hours before the start of the election meeting. 3. Announcements of the election and the nomination procedure must be distributed to all members by the members' mailing list, and should also be advertised by posters in the MC building. 4. During the nomination period, the Chief Returning Officer (CRO) shall be available to receive nominations for the posts of officers of the club, either in person, by email, by depositing nomination forms in the CSC's mailbox in the MathSoc office, or by writing the nomination in a place in the CSC office to be specified by the CRO. 5. A nomination shall consist of the nominee's userid, and post(s) nominated for. Nominees must be full members of the Computer Science Club. A member may decline a nomination at any point prior to the taking of the vote. 6. The election shall commence with the offering of memberships for sale. After a reasonable time, control of the meeting is given to the CRO who will preside over the election of the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary, in that order. 7. Each election shall be carried out by secret vote, in a manner to be decided on by the CRO, with the approval of the members at the meeting. A simple heads-down-hands-up method is considered acceptable. 8. The CRO shall not vote except to break a tie. 9. The CRO may, if feasible, accept absentee ballots from full members. No absentee vote from a member shall be counted if the member is present at the time the vote is taken. The CRO shall make a best effort to ensure that absentee ballots are compatible with the method of voting chosen; if this is not possible (for instance, if the CRO is overruled by the membership), then the absentee votes shall not be counted. 10. Immediately after the vote is taken, the CRO will announce the results of the election and the winner will be removed from subsequent contests. If, due to lack of candidates (because there were no nominations, or candidates withdrew or were eliminated), there is no one elected to an office, then the members at the meeting will decide whether or not to hold extra elections in accordance with the procedure for vacancies. If they choose not to, this does not prevent the Executive or a group of members from calling extra elections later in the term in accordance with the usual vacancy provisions. """

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Three more events!
by Computer Science Club 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hello everyone! The exec has organized three events to wrap up the term: 1. *Code Party 1 / SE Hack Day #13* [Nov.21 (TOMORROW), 18:00, M3 1006] Why sleep when you could be hacking on $SIDE_PROJECT, or working on $THE_NEXT_BIG_THING with some cool people? Come when you want, hack on something cool, demo before you leave. If you don't have a project, don't worry - we have a list of ideas, and people will be looking for a helping hand on their projects. *NOTE*: Due to the high interest, dinner and snacks will only be served to those working on projects/demoing during the event. 2. *TALK: C++ ABI (Sean Hunt)* [Nov.25 (Tuesday), 17:30, MC 4041] Our own sysadmin, Sean Hunt, will be giving a talk on the C++ compiler ABI, and how all of the magic in C++ is implemented at the binary level. 3. *TALK: Heroic Android HTTP (Jesse Wilson)* [Nov.27 (Thursday), 18:00, MC 4020] The network is unreliable. 3G networking is slow. Using WiFi drains your battery. The NSA is spying on you. Different versions of HttpURLConnection have different bugs. Jesse Wilson, a software developer at Square, will be talking about OkHttp, a library that he maintains, and how to use it to make your app's networking work even when conditions aren't ideal. He will talk about how to configure caching to improve behavior and save resources, cryptography, and he will give advice on which libraries to use to make good networking easy. *NOTE*: You *must* RSVP via this website <https://www.ticketfi.com/event/77/heroic-android-http> if you are attending! We need to have an accurate count for food. :) That's all, folks! Thanks for coming out to our events, and hope to see you next term! Cheers, Jinny Kim President, Computer Science Club <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> University of Waterloo <https://uwaterloo.ca/>

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Fwd: Upcoming Events, Nov. 12, 17
by Computer Science Club 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Greetings, programs, We have upcoming events! 1. Machine Learning at Bloomberg [Tomorrow, Wednesday Nov 12th, 5:30 PM, EIT 1015] The financial world reacts very quickly to news. We will illustrate some examples that demonstrate this phenomenon and the difficulties involved. We will also show some of the machine learning applications at Bloomberg that are useful in this environment. (Food from Subway) 2. Why Pattern Recognition is Hard, and Why Deep Neural Networks Help [Monday, Nov 17th, 6:00 PM, QNC 1502] In the last few years, there has been breakthrough progress in pattern recognition -- problems like computer vision and voice recognition. This sudden progress has come from a powerful class of models called deep neural networks. This talk will explore what it means to do pattern recognition, why it is a hard problem, and why deep neural networks are so effective. We will also look at exciting and strange recent results, such as state of the art object recognition in images, neural nets playing video games, neural nets proving theorems, and neural nets learning to run python programs! 3. Code Party 1 [Nov 21st, 5:30pm, M3 1006] Come out, code, learn, mentor. We're partnering with SE Hackday to make this the best event we can.

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UW firewall may affect CSC servers
by Computer Science Club 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Greetings programs, The University of Waterloo is currently in the process of putting a perimeter firewall in place around the campus, which will block incoming traffic on all but selectively-enabled ports. It will be enabled for the MC, including all CSC machines, sometime this week. We will be working with UW IST to ensure that exceptions are added to the firewall for the services normally operated by the CSC; however, if you run a server on a different port, or otherwise depend on incoming connections, this will no longer work. Connections from inside UW will continue to work normally. If you have a specific service for which you would like CSC systems committee to consider an exception to the firewall, please contact syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca and explain: - Which server(s) your service needs to be given exceptions on - Which port(s) you need opened - The purpose of the service Syscom will take each request under consideration, but please be aware that since we have not yet decided on a policy for exceptions, we cannot offer any guarantees that your request will be granted. Thanks for your patience, Sean Hunt CSC Sysadmin

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UW firewall may affect CSC servers
by Computer Science Club 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Greetings programs, The University of Waterloo is currently in the process of putting a perimeter firewall in place around the campus, which will block incoming traffic on all but selectively-enabled ports. We will be working with UW IST to ensure that exceptions are added to the firewall for the services normally operated by the CSC, however, if you run a server on a different port or otherwise depend on incoming connections, this will no longer work. Connections from inside UW will continue to work normally. If you have a specific service that you would like CSC Syscom to consider for an exception to the firewall, please contact syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca and explain: - Which server(s) your service needs to be given exceptions on - Which port(s) you need opened - The purpose of the service Syscom will consider all requests but as we have not yet decided on a policy for exceptions, I cannot offer any guarantees that syscom will make a decision one way or another. Thanks for your patience, Sean Hunt CSC Sysadmin

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Upcoming Women in CS Events: Nov. 7, 13, 20
by Computer Science Club 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Dear CSC, Your friends on the Women in Computer Science Undergrad Committee would like to remind you of/invite you to a few of our upcoming events! MOVIE NIGHT: HACKERS: Fri. Nov. 7, 7PM, Comfy Lounge (MC 3001) --- A reminder that we'll be meeting to watch Hackers tomorrow night. Check out the event description: http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2014-11-07-7:00_PM TECH FEMINISM 101 PANEL: Thu. Nov. 13, 5PM, MC 2065 --- WiCS is hosting our first educational panel on tech feminism. If you are curious about the claims of sexism and discrimination in STEM and the software industry, we highly recommend you attend; there will be an open Q&A following the panel session. You can find more information about the event and speakers here: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tech-feminism-101-panel SARAH SHARP PUBLIC LECTURE: Thu. Nov. 20, 5:30PM, ML Theatre of the Arts --- We are pleased to introduce Sarah Sharp, author of the Linux USB 3.0 driver and Linux kernel maintainer to give a talk on breaking into Linux development. The talk is intended for all students interested in learning more about kernel development. For more info and tickets, See https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/talk-sarah-sharp-breaking-open-source-and-li… Hope to see you there! Please send questions or comments to myself or WiCS-ugrad at wics-ugrad(a)lists.uwaterloo.ca. -- Elana Hashman Undergraduate Representative Women in Computer Science Committee David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca

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Nov. 7, 7PM: WiCS and CSC watch Hackers!
by Computer Science Club 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Greetings, programs, This Friday night at 7PM, Women in Computer Science (WiCS) and the Computer Science Club (CSC) will meet up in the Comfy Lounge to watch a favourite cult classic: Hackers. Join us as we relive our 90s teenage hacking fantasies and stuff our faces with popcorn and junk food. Hackers of the world, unite! -- Elana Hashman Undergraduate Representative Women in Computer Science Committee David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca

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Book Cataloguing
by Computer Science Club 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hey guys, Gianni <glgambet(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca> is cataloguing all of the books in the office. He will be done by *Wednesday, November 5, 2014*. Please do not rearrange the books or remove books from the shelves/office until after that date. If you have any questions, please email me or Gianni. Thanks! Jinny Kim President, Computer Science Club <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> University of Waterloo <https://uwaterloo.ca/>

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Prof Talk TONIGHT! UNIX 101/Code Party 0 Friday!
by Computer Science Club 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hello everyone, We hope that you are surviving midterm/cold and flu season! If you'd like a break from studying, here are three events happening this week: 1. *In Pursuit of the Travelling Salesman* [*TONIGHT*, 5:00PM, MC 4041] For those of you unfamiliar with TSP, it is the problem where you are given a number of cities with the cost of travel between each pair of them, and you have to find the cheapest way to visit all of the cities and return to your starting point. It sounds simple, but it is very difficult to solve. This problem has many interesting applications from genome sequencing to arranging music on iPods. Professor Bill Cook is one of the leading experts on TSP, and he will be discussing the history, applications, and computation of this fascinating problem during this talk. 2. *UNIX 101* [Friday, 5:00PM, MC 3003] In this tutorial, we will be teaching you how to use the shell, why we use it, some simple commands, and more. If you are already a whiz, why not come out and help out fellow members? 3. *Code Party 0* [Friday, 6:00PM, MC Comfy] Code Party immediately follows UNIX 101, and CSC will be taking over the MC Comfy to work on side projects, discuss cool topics in computer science, and enjoy some free dinner! If you would like to work on a side project but don't have any ideas, we'll have some ideas you can tackle. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me. Cheers, Jinny Kim President, Computer Science Club <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> University of Waterloo <https://uwaterloo.ca/>

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Office Staff Training
by Computer Science Club 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hi, If you are member of the CSC and are interested in becoming Office Staff, I will be holding training sessions on the follow dates: Date #1: Wednesday October 8th, 2014 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Date #2: Wednesday October 15th, 2014 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM Information about Office Staff: http://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Office_Staff

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Fall 2014 Election Nominations Closed
by Computer Science Club 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Nominations for the Fall 2014 elections have closed. The candidates are: President: - yj7kim - srcreigh Vice President: - srcreigh - tbelaire Treasurer - s7au - srcreigh - dchlobow - scshunt - jj2baile Secretary - m4farrel - srcreigh If you nominated someone and they are not in this list, they probably withdrew their candicacy. If there is an error in the above, contact be at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca immediately. The election will be held at 6:00 PM tomorrow (Friday, September 19) in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). The voting system is approval voting; you can vote for nobody, or as many people as you want to for each position. The person with the most votes will be elected. You can vote either by showing up to the election, or by sending an absentee ballot to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, where you specify your vote for each position. You should send your ballot by 5PM Friday at the latest. Thanks, Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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Google Talk tonight!
by Computer Science Club 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hey guys, Welcome to our new members, and welcome back for returning members! We are very excited to run some great events this term, and hope to see many of you there. Here is a last-minute reminder of tonight's event: A Google software engineer (Wesley Tarle) is coming to *MC 4021* *tonight* at *6:00PM* to give a talk on building a mobile platform for Android and iOS! Wes has been leading development at Google in Kitchener and Mountain View, and building stuff for third-party developers on Android and iOS. He's contributed to Google Play services since its inception and continues to produce APIs and SDKs focused on mobile startups. Come on time to make sure you get some food (and swag)! Please RSVP here: http://goo.gl/Pwc3m4. *tl;dr: Google Talk tonight in MC 4021 at 6:00PM*. If you have any questions, feel free to email us <exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, or drop by our office. Cheers, Jinny Kim President, Computer Science Club <http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/> University of Waterloo <https://uwaterloo.ca>

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Fall 2014 Election and General Meeting
by Computer Science Club 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

The Computer Science Club will be holding elections on Friday, September 19 at 6:00 PM in the MC Comfy Lounge. The president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary for the fall 2014 term will be elected. The system administrator, office manager, and librarian are also typically appointed here. In addition, there will be a general meeting to vote on proposed changes to the constitution. A diff representing the changes to the constitution can be viewed at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~scshunt/constitution.diff. Anyone who is a full member of the CSC is eligible to be nominated for a position on exec. You can nominate another person or yourself for any number of positions. Nominations can be submitted either by writing the person's name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037), or by sending an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. A more detailed explanation of the nomination/election procedure follows. Any contingencies not accounted for below or mandated by the constitution or other applicable documents shall be determined at the discretion of the CRO or, in the case of disagreement on such a procedure, a majority vote of present voting members. Nomination procedure: 1. Anyone eligible to be a full CSC member may be nominated for one or more of the positions for election: president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary. 2. A person may nominate him/herself or someone else for any number of positions. 3. Nominations will be accepted by the CRO via any of the following means: (a) in person (b) email (to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (c) the CSC mailbox in MathSoc (d) the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) 4. Nominations will be accepted immediately, until the end of the nomination period (Thursday Sep 18, 2014 at 6:00 PM). Thereafter the final list will be posted on the CSC website. Election procedure: 1. Anyone present and eligible to join the CSC or renew CSC membership for the fall will be permitted to do so at the beginning of elections. 2. A list of the candidates for each position will be read. 3. The positions will be elected in the following order: president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary. Anyone elected to a position will be removed from consideration for following positions. 4. Before each position is elected, a summary of the duties attendant to that position will be given, and each candidate will be permitted to make a brief statement and take questions. 5. Elections will be conducted via heads-down-hands-up approval voting, with the CRO as the final authority on vote counts. Advance votes shall count equal to present votes, except that they are invalidated if the voter is present. In the event of a tie, a runoff election between the equal candidates will be run by the same procedure. Only full CSC members (in particular, MathSoc social members) are eligible to vote. 6. Anyone who is elected but discovered not to be a CSC member must resign the position or immediately gain membership. 7. Following the election of these four positions, the meeting will be turned over to the president-elect, who shall begin his/her office by appointing (with the other new exec) the remaining positions. Advance voting procedure: 1. If you are unable to attend the election, you may submit an advance vote via email only. Such emails must be sent to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from either your @csclub.uwaterloo.ca or @ uwaterloo.ca email, and must be received at least one hour before the beginning of elections. 2. If you attend elections anyway, you must identify yourself to the CRO so that your advance ballot can be invalidated in favour of your present vote. Thanks, Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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Event Reminder - Talk today @ 6pm in MC 4020‏
by Computer Science Club 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hey CSC, Just a reminder that we have a talk today in MC 4020 @ 6pm. The Most Important Parts of School (from a CS dropout)Hindsight is 20/20, and since leaving university David Wolever has had five years and three startups to reflect on the most valuable things that he had (and hadn’t) taken away from his time in school. David studied computer science for three years at the University of Toronto before leaving to be employee zero at a Waterloo-based startup. Since then he has been a founder of two more startups, started PyCon Canada, and has written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. He is currently CTO of Akindi, a Toronto-based startup trying to make multiple choice testing a bit less terrible. He’s best found on Twitter at twitter.com/wolever. You can find more information about the event at csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/, and an ICS file can containing all of our events can be found at csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events.ics. Also, the CSC is going outside again this Friday @ 7:30. Come relax and eat snacks in good company at the Laurel Creek Fire Pit. If you have any comments or questions, email me! Thanks, IfazSecretary, CSC

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Upcoming Events - Talk this Tuesday @ 6pm
by Computer Science Club 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Hey CSC, Here are some upcoming events for the next few days. 1. Talk: The Most Important Parts of School (from a CS dropout). Location and Time: MC 4020, on 2014-07-22, at 6:00 PM. (This Tuesday) Hindsight is 20/20, and since leaving university David Wolever has had five years and three startups to reflect on the most valuable things that he had (and hadn’t) taken away from his time in school. David studied computer science for three years at the University of Toronto before leaving to be employee zero at a Waterloo-based startup. Since then he has been a founder of two more startups, started PyCon Canada, and has written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. He is currently CTO of Akindi, a Toronto-based startup trying to make multiple choice testing a bit less terrible. He’s best found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wolever. 2. CSC goes outside again! Location and Time: Laurel Creek Fire Pit, 2014-06-25, 7:30 PM. (This Friday) Do you like going outside? Are you vitamin-D deficient from being in the MC too long? Do you think s'mores and bonfire are a delicious combination? If so, you should join us as the CSC is going outside again! Around 7:30PM, we're going to Laurel Creek Fire Pit for some outdoor fun. Come throw frisbees, relax and eat snacks in good company - even if you aren't a fan of the outside or vitamin-D deficient! We’ll also have some sort of real food - probably pizza. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me. Cheers, Ifaz Secretary, CSC

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