Hi everyone,
This week we're helping MathSoc run their movie night, and as such we get
to pick the movies. So, if you want to watch some classic films about
computer culture and enjoy free popcorn come to the Comfy Lounge this
Thursday at 7pm for Tron and 8:45pm for Hackers.
Bring your friends!
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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
Hi everyone, come out today to the contest kickoff event in MC3003 at
4:30PM. The contest this year is being run in conjunction with Google, who
will be promoting it worldwide, but its being run by us, and it would
certainly be a shame if we lost. Can't make the kickoff? Just check out
the website and get started!
Learn how to create an intelligent game-playing program. No past
experience necessary. Submit your code online to watch it
compete with programs written by other students from around the
world. Follow your ranking on the Global Leaderboard. Beginners and
experts welcome!
Cash prizes will be awarded to the top entries. There is a special
prize for the top entry by a first-year student. Check out the
website for everything that you need to get started today!
contest.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Google AI Challenge
Organized by the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
Feb 1 to February 27
contest.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
--
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 "Deep learning with multiplicative interactions"
on 2010-01-26 at 05:00 PM in DC1302. It will be presented by Geoffrey Hinton.
Geoffrey Hinton, from the University of Toronto and the Canadian Institute
for Advanced Research, will discuss some of his latest work in learning networks
and artificial intelligence. The talk will be accessable, so don't hesitate to
come out. More information about Dr. Hinton's research can be found on his website[1].
The detailed abstract:
Deep networks can be learned efficiently from unlabeled data. The layers
of representation are learned one at a time using a simple learning
module, called a "Restricted Boltzmann Machine" that has only one layer
of latent variables. The values of the latent variables of one
module form the data for training the next module. Although deep
networks have been quite successful for tasks such as object
recognition, information retrieval, and modeling motion capture data,
the simple learning modules do not have multiplicative interactions which
are very useful for some types of data.
The talk will show how a third-order energy function can be factorized to
yield a simple learning module that retains advantageous properties of a
Restricted Boltzmann Machine such as very simple exact inference and a
very simple learning rule based on pair-wise statistics. The new module
contains multiplicative interactions that are useful for a variety of
unsupervised learning tasks. Researchers at the University of Toronto
have been using this type of module to extract oriented energy from image
patches and dense flow fields from image sequences. The new module can
also be used to allow motions of a particular style to be achieved by
blending autoregressive models of motion capture data.
Hope to see you there.
If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
Hello CSCers,
Do you find yourself in our office often? If so you may want to
consider attending our first office staff training session.
We will be choosing our office staff partially based on attendance at
this meeting. Even if you are experienced, there are a few procedures
we would like to clarify. If you intend to be an office staff this
term you must go through training.
The session will be held this Sunday at 2:30 pm in MC 2065.
Hope to see you there.
Hi everyone,
This term we (myself and the volunteers who help me run events) are
planning on organizing a series (3-4) of talks by you all (the members)
about things you want to talk about. I know that a lot of you have various
personal side projects, have taken strange courses (or even done reading
on the side) about interesting topics, and are generally very outspoken.
So, if you would like to present your ideas (or what you've learned) in a
more formal setting to a large audience (not that formal and not that
large, don't be scared) please reply with your idea, preferably as a
title and an abstract (short summary) for the talk you'd like to give. We
will in some fair manner (probably a poll conducted somehow, that or
heated debate in a smoke filled back room) which talks get selected.
If you've never given a talk before but are interested, don't worry;
someone on the program committee will help you through the process, things
from presentation tips to making sure that the room is booked and has the
materials you need.
A final piece of information for all of you potential talk-givers who are
itching to write an abstract: the club has typically held talks around
4:30pm on Tuesday or Thursday. This time just seems to work well.
Tentative dates are the following Tuesdays: Feb 9, Mar 2, Mar 16, and Mar
30. If these days don't work for you but you'd still like to speak, just
say so in your message and we'll see what we can do.
--
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 on 'Wilderness Programming' on 2010-01-18 at 15:30 PM in MC2066.
It will be presented by Paul Lutus.
Paul Lutus describes his early Apple II software development days, conducted
from the far end of a 1200-foot power cord, in a tiny Oregon cabin. Paul
describes how he wrote a best-seller (Apple Writer) in assembly language,
while dealing with power outages, lightning storms and the occasional
curious bear.
Paul also describes his subsequent four-year solo around-the-world sail in a
31-foot boat. And be ready with your inquiries -- Paul will answer your
questions.
Paul Lutus has a wide background in science and technology. He designed spacecraft
components for the NASA Space Shuttle and created a mathematical model of the solar
system used during the Viking Mars lander program. Then, at the beginning of the
personal computer revolution, Lutus switched career paths and took up computer
science. His best-known program is "Apple Writer," an internationally successful
word processing program for the early Apple computers.
Hope to see you there.
If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Hello CSC'ers! This is your CRO (Chief Returning Officer), and former
President, Jacob Parker.
A few things to say as we get going with the new term:
(-2) Renewals
Are you a member this term? If you haven't paid your $2 this term we
would appreciate your renewal. Your $2 helps us getting funding from
MathSoc to run cool events, gives you access to our terminals and
servers (better than student.cs? You decide!) and office (if you can
squeeze in.) Already a member? Encourage your friends to join! No
friends? Come hang out in our office!
(-1) Elections!
We will be holding elections at our first (and only) meeting this
Wednesday! If you are a member this term please come out to vote and
ask silly questions of the candidates. If you would like to join (or
learn about) the various committees (such as progcom) make sure to
show up.
Where: the MC Comfy Lounge
When: Wednesday, 5:00pm
More information, including distance-voting: http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~j3parker/elections
(0) Upcoming event: A talk by Geoffrey Hinton
The CS Club is hosting a talk by Geoffrey Hinton, from the University
of Toronto and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, in which
he will discuss some of his latest work in learning networks and
artificial intelligence. The talk will be accessable, so don't
hesitate to come out. An email in the coming future will have more
details
Where: DC 1302
When: Jan 26th, 5:00pm.
(1) Unix Tutorials
The ever-popular Unix tutorials will be happening in the near future.
Details to be decided. If you would like to volunteer (we would love
you) send an email progcom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(2) Cosmos Movie Nights
Due to the great success of last terms "Feynman Nights", where we
showed recordings of Richard Feynman lecturing, the Physics Club will
be hosting "Cosmos Nights", showing episodes of Carl Segan's "Cosmos:
A Personal Voyage". Information on the show can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan's_Cosmos
Come out for a nice relaxing night of science. Snacks and refreshments
will be provided.
Where: PHYS 150
When: Wednesdays at 6:30pm for 13 weeks
(3) Other Events
Have ideas for events we should run? We are all ears! An Idea that has
been discussed is having a "CSC invades Toronto" bus trip, where we
all go down to Toronto, possibly to meet up with a UofT/etc. club and
go to a pub/other activity. We are interested in hosting lectures
given by our members, so if you have an idea come talk to us. If you
are interested in this type of planning please show up at our
elections on wednesday where these matters will be discussed.
If you have questions, just hit reply.
Hey everyone,
ISG (Instructional Support Group) would like to let you know that they
are currently looking for full time tutor for CS 240 next term. The
job description is below. To apply for this position, please send your
resume to Fenglian Qiu (f2qiu(a)uwaterloo.ca).
Job Description
The Instructional Support Group requires a tutor to assist in the
delivery
of CS240.
A tutor serves as a consultant for the students of the course through
consulting hours and as a manager to co-ordinate the activities of the
graduate teaching assistants assigned to the course.
This position may be of particular interest to students who are
considering
graduate school and ultimately teaching at the post-secondary level.
There
may be an opportunity to gain teaching experience by giving tutorials.
The
tutor may also develop tutorials for the students. Other duties may
include
creation of model solutions and marking schemes, creation of scripts
needed
for assignment submission, testing and auto-marking, and assisting in
proctoring and marking.
Good communication and interpersonal skills are required, as is
familiarity
with UNIX. Students currently enrolled in the courses are encouraged to
apply.
Hello, the CSC is hosting a Code Party!!11!! on 2009-11-27 at 7:00 PM in Comfy Lounge.
Facebook has been generous enough to sponsor the event, and will be bringing food as well as
a few former Facebook coops to hang out.
So come join us for a night of coding. Get in touch with more experianced coders,
advertize for/bug squash on your favourite open source project, write that personal
project you were planning to do for a while but haven't found the time. Don't
have any ideas but want to sit and hack? Try your hand at the Facebook puzzles,
write a new app, or just chill and watch scifi.
Hope to see you there.
If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Hi everyone,
This Sunday, from 10am to whenever, we (the executive and librarian) will
be in the Club office, working on the following club projects:
Office Cleaning:
- The Treasurer, Michael Spang, did a lot of this last weekend, but there
are still things to be cleaned/organized.
Office Staff Training:
- If you would like to be one of the trusted members who is charged with
keeping the office open, please come help with cleaning, we will go over
what is expected of office staff, make sure all office staffers know
eachother, and the need to know items for office staff.
Library Work:
- Our Librarian, Sapphyre Gervais, will be around to direct either work on
the software that drives our library or the physical organization.
Video Archival:
- I will be working on transfering some of our recent videos from the
miniDV tapes to the website, as well as working on creating an indexed
archive for posterity of both talks and related materials.
This is a work day, if you attend please be prepared to do work for the
club.
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