CompSoc’s second guest talk of the term is taking place this Wednesday (23rd of Novemver), courtesy of CoreFiling Ltd.

The talk will be taking place in S0.18, from 1pm, about “Using Machine Learning To Solve Real-World Problems”

“How do you approach a classification problem involving thousands of categories rather than the 'usual’ five or six? What happens when your data-set is several gigabytes and growing? What open-source tools are available, are they any good, and can they be put to commercial use? How do you measure the system’s effectiveness when you’re not allowed to see the real data because of client confidentiality?”

David North, from Oxford-based software company CoreFiling, will aim to answer all these questions and more in a talk on machine learning from an industry perspective.”

Hope to see you all there!

Alex Wilson

UWCS Academic President

Hello, one and all.

It’s the start of a brand new year, which means new people, new places to visit, and all manner of interesting things for the society.

Events will be continuing as normal from next Monday (which is our “Fresher Pub”, so don’t be late and not get a seat!), but as mentioned at the Fair, there is NO GAMING THIS FRIDAY (the 7th October).

However, Gaming will resume next Friday, the 14th.

See you all around

Alex Wilson

UWCS Academic President

Hi all,

Remember that programming competition we ran during Term 2? Well, the results are now in and we are pleased to announce the winners!

1st Place: Konrad Dabrowski

The prize for first place will be a shiny new netbook.

2nd Place: Connor Dunn
3rd Place: Phil Hazelden

The prizes for second and third place will be Amazon Kindles.

Prizes will be distributed before the end of Term 3.

Alex Wilson, Academic President.

The AGM is now over and the results are in as follows:

Academic President – Alex Wilson (MrWilson)
Gaming President – Thomas Doherty (TeamDoherty)
Secretary – Michael Clarke (MikeCobra)
Treasurer – Matthew Cranham (cranman)
Tech. Officer – Benedict Falconer (zed0)
Socials Officer – Alex Martin (EvilGenius666)

We will announce the first exec meeting when a time and place has been decided, feel free to come along and meet us.

Michael Clarke (MikeCobra)
Secretary

The University of Warwick Computing society is pleased to announce its first all day programming competition, for the chance to win several fabulous prizes.

It will take place on Saturday the 12th of February, from 12pm to 6pm, consisting of multiple rounds of problem solving, a catered lunch/social period and a talk by a guest lecturer from Bloomberg, who are generously sponsoring this event.

The venue will be the Department of Computer Science’s Terminal Room 1, so there will be ample computers for those who wish to take part. Don’t worry if you don’t have a DCS login/password, we will provide an account for the day for all contestants who need one.

If you’d prefer not to use the departments computers and would like to use your own, there will be facilities in the same room for setting them and connecting to the internet.

The top prize will be a netbook, with Amazon Kindles for the next top 2 entries, and all participants will receive a USB stick for taking part.

Hello, all!

We have a few announcements to make for the next few weeks.

Next Guest Lecture

A big thank you to all who turned out to Paul Yarrow’s talk yesterday, and to follow this up we are pleased to announce that we have another IBM talk next week (24th November) at 6:15pm in S0.11, as usual.

The talk will be led by Gray Bachelor, a Solutions Architect, on the topic of “Systems Engineering: SMARTer products and services’’. Gray will explore the challenges, leading practices, advanced modelling and tools that support combined devices and IT back-end including cloud computing.

IBM Mainframe Competition

The IBM Mainframe Competition runs each year, and we highly recommend entering.
Registrations are open and the competition finishes at the end of December, so sign up now to have a chance at winning fabulous prizes!

“Mainframes make the world go round. Seriously, most of the biggest businesses in the world use a mainframe for their most mission-critical operations. If you’ve ever taken cash out of the wall, booked a flight or bought anything on the Internet, you’ve probably used a mainframe.

So, we are pleased to announce the IBM student mainframe challenge! You’ll join a fictional company and, over three increasingly challenging stages, develop mainframe knowledge that translates into real skills for your C.V. Learn how businesses use these powerful machines.
Prove your new-found abilities, and you’ll have the chance to win a t-shirt, an Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader, and the top 3 winners receive a Sony PlayStation 3 with Move motion controller or Xbox 360 with Kinect!

The winners will also have the opportunity to visit IBM’s Development Laboratory at Hursley (near Winchester) and see mainframes and other innovative technologies in action.

Students from all across the world are entering national Mainframe Challenges. The 2010 Mainframe Challenge is now open for registration.

Register now at: http://www-05.ibm.com/employment/uk/graduates/mainframe.html “

Hello, all!

To start off this academic year’s set of external speakers for the society, we have Paul Yarrow, a Systems Specialist from IBM speaking on the topic of “A New Dimension in Computing” on Wednesday 17th of November.
The talk will cover the most current and cutting-edge topics facing the business world today.

The venue is S0.11 as always, and free pizza will be provided.

Hope to see you there!

Alex Wilson

Hello members!

For those of you who didn’t already know, the Fresher and Member sign ups for the first LAN of term are now open.
The first LAN of the year is always a good one, so we recommend signing up soon!

(Sign ups for non-members will open on Friday 5th November, one week before the LAN starts).

If there are any games that you would like to see played, speak to either Tom (TeamDoherty) or Nick (Agaeki) so we can add them to the schedule.

A huge welcome to all of the new members of the Computing Society, and an equally large welcome back to our members from last year!

Now that Term 1 proper has started, we are pleased to announce the first of our Academic Talks.

It will take place this Wednesday in S0.11 at 6:15pm and will be about “Getting the most out of your Shell Account”, a highly useful topic especially for new Computer Science students. The speaker will be Chris Sinjakli (Sinjo on IRC), and there will be pizza provided.

So come along!

Welcome to uwcs.co.uk, home of Warwick’s Computing Society!

This year promises to be an exciting one, with academic talks lined up from IBM and Bloomberg, our popular programming competitions, and our awesome weekly gaming meetings in DCS.

We have a stall on the Thursday of Freshers’ Fair, so come along and say hi, and receive goodies from us and our sponsors!