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CSC Goes Outside | Friday, July 5, 2013
by Computer Science Club 04 Jul '13

04 Jul '13

Hello, CSC is going outside tomorrow: Friday, July 5. We're having a campfire BBQ at 7PM at the Laurel Creek firepit, across from Environment 3. There will be meat and other food items for consumption. Feel free to bring friends, musical instruments, a frisbee, and/or other fun things. We hope to see you there! Shane Creighton-Young / srcreigh President

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CODE PARTY 0!
by Computer Science Club 31 May '13

31 May '13

Dear CS Clubers, I am excited to announce our first code party of Spring 2013! Code Party 0 will take place in MC Comfy Lounge at 7:00pm on Friday June 7, 2013. Please bring your laptops and get ready to have fun! Unix 101 will precede the code party and will start at 6:00pm in the same location. I can't wait to see you all there! Cheers, VVIJAYAN CSC VEEP

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Elections Reminder & Voting Instructions
by Computer Science Club 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hey CSC members! Nominations have closed for the Spring 2013 executive elections. The lists of nominees is at the bottom of this message. The elections will be held tomorrow at 6:00 PM in the Comfy Lounge. As usual, all CSC members who are also MathSoc members (which for the most part means current math students) are allowed to vote. Following the elections, the System Administrator will be appointed, as well as the Office Manager and the Librarian. If you are unable to attend, please send a ranked list of candidates for each position. You may list as many or as few candidates as you would like. Your voted will be counted tomorrow along with those from the meeting. If you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca scshunt CRO (Chronic Ragnarok Obliterator) President jdonland, laden, srcreigh, m4burns, yj2kim, vvijayan Vice-President srcreigh, m4burns, vvijyaan, laden Treasurer baherghi, dchlobow, m4burns, omsmith, vvijayan, jj2baile Secretary yj2kim, m4burns, vvijayan

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CSC Elections: Wednesday, May 15, 6:00 PM, MC Comfy Lounge
by Computer Science Club 11 May '13

11 May '13

Hey CSC, The elections for the Spring term executive will be held next Wednesday, May 15, at 6:00 PM in the Comfy Lounge. As per the usual, the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary will be elected by the membership, and the Sysadmin will be selected and approved. Once the executive have been picked, they appoint a new Office Manager and Librarian. The new executive will be held personally responsible for every broken chair in the office, for every moment of downtime, and for every time I receive a piece of spam. Tread wisely! Nominations can be sent to me by email, or can be written on the whiteboard in the CSC office. Nominations must be submitted by 4:30 PM on Tuesday, May 14. I will send out an email with a list of nominees and instructions on remote voting at that time. Sean CRO (Chief Rambling Orator)

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Call for Member Talks
by Computer Science Club 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Greetings, members. This is our termly call for member talks. As a CSC member, you have the opportunity to present a topic of your choice to interested CSC members and others in the university community! Talks should run about one hour. We will take care of room booking, refreshments, video recording, and promotion. If you're interested, send us an abstract no later than March 24th. Cheers, Marc Burns VP, Computer Science Club

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Talk on C++ and Machine Architecture
by Computer Science Club 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Greetings, members. The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club hereby cordially invites you to attend a talk by Herb Sutter on the topics of Machine Architecture, Performance, and Scalability. Herb's talk will be held on Thursday, February 28th at 4:30 PM in DC 1302. An abstract: Machine Architecture, Performance, and Scalability: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You. High-level languages insulate the programmer from the machine. That's a wonderful thing -- except when it obscures the answers to the fundamental questions of "What does the program do?" and "How much does it cost?" The C++ and C# programmer is less insulated than most, and still we find that programmers are consistently surprised at what simple code actually does and how expensive it can be -- not because of any complexity of a language, but because of being unaware of the complexity of the machine on which the program actually runs. This talk examines the "real meanings" and "true costs" of the code we write and run, especially on commodity and server systems, by delving into the performance effects of bandwidth vs. latency limitations, the ever-deepening memory hierarchy, the changing costs arising from the hardware concurrency explosion, memory model effects all the way from the compiler to the CPU to the chipset to the cache, and more -- and what you can do about them. ---- Herb Sutter is an influential authority on software development using C++ and concurrency. He is the best selling author of Exceptional C++ and three other books, along with hundreds of technical papers and articles including the widely-cited essay "The Free Lunch Is Over" which described the software sea change now in progress to exploit increasingly parallel hardware. He is chair of the ISO C++ standards committee and chief native languages architect at Microsoft. If you have received this message twice, we apologise. Cheers, Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire Computer Science Club University of Waterloo

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Scheduled Downtime Feb 3 12PM-Feb 4 12PM
by Computer Science Club 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Greetings programs, The CSC will be having scheduled downtime on the following hosts starting Sunday, February 3rd, 12PM: - ginseng - mail Services affected will be the following: - member home directories - club hosting - mail delivery (SMTP) As part of our continued expansion of service, we have recently acquired network storage device, and will be migrating user home directories to this device. This will allow us to host more concurrent users (both members and clubs), in addition to supporting snapshots of user home directories to facilitate backup capabilities. We are aware of the importance of having high service availability to not only our members, but to the organizations whose websites we host as well. As such, we have decided to make your data _read-only_ but still accessible during the course of migration. This means that while you will still be able to log in, you will be _unable_ to make any modifications to your files during this time period. This also means that any mail you may normally receive will be _delayed_ by up to 24 hours. It is also important to also note that database services will still be accessible during the course of the migration. We have allotted 24 hours for the process of migration. We expect all services to be up by Monday, February 4th, 12PM. To help us ensure a smooth migration, we ask that you please end any long-running jobs that write to files in your home directory. We cannot make any guarantees that these jobs will perform correctly during the migration. Cheers, Systems Committee

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BOT Announcements: Gabriella Coleman, Code Party 0, Scheduled Downtime
by Computer Science Club 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Greetings, members! Welcome and welcome back, and happy new year! We have many exciting events planned for this term; here are some of the upcoming ones, so mark up your fresh calendars (unless you prefer to preserve their beautiful, clean, glossy, white pages...). ~Gabriella Coleman, "Weapons of the Geek": Monday, Jan. 28, 4:30pm, DC 1302 An anthropologist from McGill, Gabriella Coleman researches, writes, and teaches on hackers and digital activism. Her talk is part of the CrySP Speaker Series on privacy. Here is the abstract: "Drawing on fieldwork among Free and Open Source software hackers and the Anonymous protest movement, I will discuss some attributes of hacker and geek activism that set their actions apart from other modalities of dissent and contextualize their actions in light of broader historical trends concerning censorship, intellectual property, privacy, and surveillance." ~Code Party 0: Friday, Feb. 1, 7:00pm, Comfy Lounge (MC 3001) Our first code party of the term is next Friday. There will be soda, chips, cookies, and (probably not many) other delectable delicacies to pleasure your palates. There will also be music and free Internet ((both) in limited supply). Stop by, relax, and work on that coding project you've been putting off since Christmas. Attendance is not limited to members! ~Scheduled downtime: Sunday, Feb. 3, 12:00pm until Monday, Feb. 4, 12:00pm CSC systems will be taken offline to allow us to switch homedirectory hosting to our new Netapp storage device. All CSC systems, homedirectories and hosted websites will be unavailable for the duration of our maintenance window. Make sure to save your work, and plan ahead to use a personal computer or a different machine during that time. Happy coding, Matt O. CSC Secretary, Winter 2013

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Winter 2013 election nominees
by Computer Science Club 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Greetings programs, Winter 2013 nominations closed earlier today. Elections are tomorrow, Wednesday Jan 16, at 4:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge. Come by and take part in selecting this term's executive. Librarian and Sysadmin will be selected immediately afterward as well. Nominees are as follows. President: a2brenna ( Anthony Brennan ) jdonland ( Jesse Onland ) m4burns ( Marc Burns ) mimcpher ( Matthew McPherrin ) qxi ( Qifan Xi ) wlritchi ( William Ritchie ) Vice-President: b2coutts ( Bryan Coutts ) m4burns ( Marc Burns ) mimcpher ( Matthew McPherrin ) sharvey ( Sarah Harvey ) wlritchi ( William Ritchie ) Treasurer: b2coutts ( Bryan Coutts ) jsmumfor ( Jonathan Mumford ) m4burns ( Marc Burns ) wlritchi ( William Ritchie ) Secretary: b2coutts ( Bryan Coutts ) h292zhan ( Heming Zhang ) jsmumfor ( Jonathan Mumford ) m4burns ( Marc Burns ) mgolechn ( Mateusz Olechnowicz ) mimcpher ( Matthew McPherrin ) wlritchi ( William Ritchie ) If you are unable to attend during the election event, votes my also be e-mailed to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, listing preference. With warm regards, Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire

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Winter 2013 Elections Have Begun
by Computer Science Club 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Greetings members! The election period for Winter 2013 Computer Science Club executive has begun! Come down to the MC Comfy Lounge on Wednesday January 16, 2012 at 4:00PM, where elections will be held for this term's President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. Sysadmin, Librarian and Office Manager selections will also occur at this time. Nominations will run until Tuesday January 15, 2012 at 4:00PM. You can submit a nomination ( including yourself ) by writing the person's user id in the nomination chart on the office whiteboard. Alternatively, you may e-mail nominations to this term's CRO at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. With warm regards, Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire

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