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
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=dENpTGE3QmhLZGQtT1AyOWVZeS04ZkE6MQ#gid=0
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
Greetings,
As the fall 2010 term winds down a close and we get ready to start exams,
the CSC will be having one more final event. No, it's not an invited talk
or a code party; this time, it's THE CSC GOES CLUBBING!
On Friday, December 10th, our very own CSC member Elyot Grant will be
behind the decks at Waterloo's Revolution Nightclub, playing electronic
dance music as a special guest DJ inside The Purple Room. In the past,
Elyot has given many theory talks for the CSC on topics like approximation
hardness and incompressibility, but this Friday, he'll be letting the
music do all the talking.
The event poster is here:
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~egrant/PurpleRoom13_Dec10th2010.jpg
There is NO COVER BEFORE 11pm (in other words, it's FREE!!!)
Come join us as we march out to the purple room in full force to support
Elyot and dance our asses off to his selection of chiptastic beats.
Here's a word from Elyot himself:
"Hi everyone! If you want an idea of what I might play, there are some DJ
mixes of mine at:
http://soundcloud.com/elyot
and some additional music I made over at:
http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~egrant/
As a special treat for the CSC, I will try to drop some chippy tracks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b172UA1smO0&t=3m20shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21aifX0lZY&t=2m06shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10GkrLbgKE&t=3m17s
The facebook event is:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=145655702152203
You must be 19+ to attend and must bring your ID (health card doesn't
count; driver's license, passport, or LCBO card are all fine.) Cover is
free before 11pm and $5 afterwards. My set time is 11:30pm - 1:00am. The
party usually lasts until about 2:45am.
There is a guestlist available, which enables you to bypass the line
anytime before 12am (so you get in more quickly). If you arrive before
10:45, there is usually not too big of a line. But if you arrive later
than that, you may have to wait outside for a while, so you might want to
consider guestlist if you think you'll be coming any later than that.
Then, instead of getting in line to get in, you just talk to the guy with
the clipboard who finds your name, checks it off, and lets you in right
away.
If you wish to be guestlisted, email me at egrant(a)uwaterloo.ca with your
full name and number of guests before Friday at 6pm.
Rev is a short walk from the #12 and #7 bus routes and has free parking.
I don't think there's a dress code other than "no athletic wear"
(essentially, no jerseys, baseball caps and gangsta stuff). You don't
have to dress up; most people (including me) will be wearing normal
clothes. The crowd is friendly, there is room to dance, there are lasers,
and there are big (but not deafening) speakers.
Cheers! Hope to see you Friday.
~ Elyot"
--
Edgar Bering, Vice 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
Hello, the CSC is hosting a talk entitled "Mathematics and
aesthetics in maze design" on 2010-11-17 at 04:30 PM in MC4061.
It will be presented by Craig S. Kaplan.
Abstract:
For thousands of years, mazes and labyrinths have played
an important role in human culture and myth. Today, solving
mazes is a popular pastime, whether with pencil on paper
or by navigating through a cornfield.
The construction of compelling mazes encompasses a variety of
challenges in mathematics, algorithm design, and aesthetics.
The maze should be visually attractive, but it should also be
an engaging puzzle. Master designers balance these two goals
with wonderful results.
In this talk, I discuss the role of the computer in the process
of designing mazes. I present some well known algorithms for
maze construction, and more recent research that attempts to
novel mazes with non-trivial mathematical or aesthetic properties.
Hope to see you there.
If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
In case you're interested in grad school:
Graduate Opportunities at the University of Toronto
Speaker: C.C. Gotlieb, University of Toronto
Date: Wednesday Nov 17
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: DC 1304
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Bio.:
Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb has been called the "Father of Computing" in
Canada. He received his MA in 1944 and his PhD in 1947 from the
University of Toronto. In 1948, he was part of the first team in Canada
assembled to design and construct digital computers and to provide
computing services. In that year, he co-founded the original Computation
Centre at the University of Toronto. He established the first university
credit course on computing in Canada in 1950, and offered the first
Canadian graduate courses in computing in 1951. In 1964, he founded the
first graduate department of Computer Science in Canada, at the
University of Toronto.
Professor Gotlieb has over a hundred publications in many areas of
Computer Science and Information Processing, and has co-authored four
books: "High Speed Data Processing", "Social Issues in Computing", "Data
Types and Structures", and "The Economics of Computers".
Professor Gotlieb has dedicated much of his professional work to the
promotion of information science and technology and the advancement of
national and international cooperation in this field. He has been a
consultant to the United Nations on Computer Technology and Development,
and to the Privacy and Computers Task Force of the Canadian Federal
Department of Communications and Justice. He was a founding member of
the Canadian Information Processing Society in 1958, and served as
Canada's representative at the founding meeting of the International
Federation of Information Processing Societies in 1959, and from
1960-1966. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the
Association of Computing Machinery, and a member of the Editorial
Advisory Board of Encyclopaedia Britannica and of the Annals of the
History of Computing.
Professor Gotlieb is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the
British Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. He
received honorary DMath and DEng degrees from the University of Waterloo
and the Technical University of Nova Scotia respectively. In 1994, he
was awarded the Isaac L. Auerbach Medal by the International Federation
of Information Processing Societies, and in 1996 the Order of Canada
award. He is currently Professor Emeritus in Computer Science and in the
Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto.
Hello everyone,
This is a reminder that we are going to Toronto on Nov. 13. We will be
meeting UofT's CSSU and going to the pub with them to discuss computer
science and other things after touring some subset of their facilities.
The bus leaves from in front of DC at 1pm, and we will leave Toronto at
11pm.
Space is limited so please sign up in advance. The price for the bus is $2
per member. To sign up come to the office in MC3036.
--
Edgar Bering, Vice 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
Hello, the CSC is hosting a Hackathon on 2010-11-05 at 07:00 PM in C&D Lounge (MC3002).
Come join the CSC for a night of code, music with only 8 bits, and comradarie. We will be
in the C&D Lounge from 7pm until 7am working on personal projects, open source projects, and
whatever else comes to mind. If you're interested in getting involved in free/open source development,
some members will be on hand to guide you through the process.
Hope to see you there.
If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Hello everyone,
In case you weren't aware, our friends across the hall at MathSoc have
cordially invited us to their Charity Ball, on Saturday Nov. 20th starting
at 6pm. The event will include a three course dinner and a charity
auction as well as a dance DJ'd by DJ Phat Albert.
The CSC has reserved two tables for our members, if you are interested in
attending with our group please contact either Gwynneth Leece
(gnleece(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca) or the executive as soon as possible before
Friday morning to reserve a place. Tickets are $20 per person, and we only
have a limited number reserved.
Thanks,
--
Edgar Bering, Vice 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
Hello fellow members,
Do you want to write some code for outside class? Ever wanted to
participate in the open source software movement? Maybe you've got
some bug in a program that you want to fix, but you're not sure where
to get started.
Sometime soon, the CSC will be having one of our famous code parties.
Join us in the MC comfy for a night of writing code, playing games,
eating snacks, and solving puzzles. If you've never been to one
before, you should come out. And if you have, then come again!
Details will be announced soon, but first, we need you to help us
organize the event.
During the code party, there's going to be plenty of code writing on
lots of projects. If there's an open source project, or one of your
own, that you know you'll be working on and you'd like others to work
with you, let me know now so we can get some stuff prepared ahead of
time. Ideally we'll have a couple projects with a bunch of people
working together on, and we'd like to get some support for those
projects ahead of time.
If there's anything else you want to do, let me know too. There's
lots of other things you can do besides write code at our parties too.
You could test software, edit Wikipedia, debate technology topics,
watch movies, play games, or just chat with all the other members.
Tell me what you're interested in, and we'll make it happen!
More details with things like the date will follow soon.
See you there,
Matthew McPherrin
University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
Hello everyone,
We (as promised some time ago) are finally organizing an invasion of
Toronto. On Saturday, November 13th at 1pm we will board a bright yellow
combat transport (school bus) and head to the UofT campus to tour their
CSSU (CS Student Union), have lunch, meet them, and go get beer. We'll
return that night, leaving Toronto at 11pm.
If you would like to go, the bus will be $2 per member, sign up in advance
in the club office, MC3036. If a friend would like to go and they are not
a member, encourage them to join the club.
As usual if you have any questions e-mail the executive.
Thanks,
--
Edgar Bering, Vice 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
