Termcard for Trinity Term 2001

Strachey Lecture — Professor E W Dijkstra

Tuesday 24th April, 04:30
Comlab

Note: This event is not organised by Compsoc.

Professor Dijkstra of the University of Texas at Austin will present his recollections of operating system design from about 1956 to 1966. He hopes for an audience young enough to remember little from those years!

Social — Perl

Wednesday 25th April, 06:30
NAPL

The first of a new style of Compsoc meeting, rather than a talk from a speaker this is an informal social. To give the meeting some focus we'll initially be playing around with some perl but the meeting will be shaped by the interests of whoever turns up.

We're starting early and will be heading out for food at some point during the evening. Meet outside the Keble Road entrance to NAPL at 18:30.

Sophos

Thursday 3rd May, 08:00
Comlab

Phil Wood, Senior Technical Support Consultant at Sophos, will be speaking about the threat which viruses pose to modern computing and related issues. Sophos is one of the largest anti-virus vendors in the world and their product Sophos Anti-Virus has a userbase of millions and is the anti-virus tool recommended by OUCS.

OxLUG — SmoothWall

Sunday 6th May, 06:30
Comlab

At the May meeting of the Oxon Linux User Group, Richard Morrell will give a talk on SmoothWall. See http://www.oxlug.org/ for more information on OxLUG.

Social — Compsoc Programming Project

Wednesday 9th May, 08:00
NAPL

Note: The time of this event has been changed.

Well, you certainly missed out if you didn't make our social in 1st week, but fortunately you've got another chance!

In the (possibly mythical) past Compsoc members have worked together to write (or at least talk about writing) world leading (right) programs. In keeping with this fine tradition come along to chat about computers, code, beer and maybe even get something together.

Cool Linux

Tuesday 15th May, 08:00
Trinity

No, not cool in the refrigerated sense. We'll be taking a look at some of the more unusual or impressive tasks that Linux (and associated software) can turn its hand to.

Games Night

Wednesday 16th May, 08:00
Lamb and Flag

Do you suck at Quake? Well, so do we, so you might have a chance. Quake, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft, CounterStrike -- you name it, chances are someone's playing it. Meet at the pub beforehand to choose targets and for a 'bab afterwards to swap war stories.

The Linux Kernel

Tuesday 22nd May, 08:00
Trinity

The Linux kernel is often seen as a mysterious beast, lurking in the background, purpose unknown. This talk aims to shed light on the goals and purpose of the kernel and outline some of the more interesting algorithms and techniques which it implements.

MathEngine

Wednesday 23rd May, 08:00
Comlab

Bringing together physics and computer science, MathEngine are a commercial company who produce a world-leading physics engine aimed at both the entertainment/game industry and engineering and academic modeling. Primarily specialising in collision detection with arbitrary meshes and articulated rigid body simulation, the MathEngine Karma toolkit has been used in a range of products, notably the PlayStation 2 game `Primal Image' where it was used to realistically model Yuki Terai, one of Japan's best known virtual celebrities.

Several members of the MathEngine team will be speaking to Compsoc on a range of related topics including application development, the toolkit itself and considerations and optimizations involved in deployment on a console such as the PS2.

Termly General Meeting

Tuesday 29th May, 08:30
Corpus Christi

Note: The venue for this meeting has now been decided.

Come along and tell the new committee how much you wish you had voted for someone else.

C# and .NET

Wednesday 30th May, 08:30
Comlab

Microsoft's new vision for the future of humanity, er, computing. But what is it? No one seems to know but Chris Venus is paid to, so he'll be unraveling the myths and mystery behind this new architecture for networked computing.

OxLUG — TBA

Sunday 3rd June, 06:30
Comlab

Note: This event is not organised by Compsoc.

The June meeting of the Oxon Linux User Group. The topic had not been announ ed at the time of writing -- see http://www.oxlug.org/ nearer the meeting date.

LaserQuest

Wednesday 6th June, 07:30
Gloucester Green

Get revenge in real life for your defeats during 4th Week Games Night. Meet outside LaserQuest in Gloucester Green.

If you'd like to come, please email compsoc@compsoc.net by the end of 5th week since we need to have some idea of numbers in order to book.

Social — Cool Web Stuff

Thursday 7th June, 08:00
NAPL

Note: The time of this event has been changed.

Come along, meet up, work out that pre/post/mid(!) Finals stress. Again, we'll theoretically be chatting about web design, Javascript and Flash but, as with the other socials, the idea is to come along and have fun.

Compsoc Punting

Saturday 9th June, 01:30
Lamb and Flag

Enjoy a sunny afternoon on the river with the rest of Compsoc. Meet outside the Lamb & Flag. Please email compsoc@compsoc.net by the end of 5th week if you intend upon coming since we'll need to know numbers to book punts.

Barbeque

Thursday 14th June, 06:00
11 Goodson Walk, Marston

Beer, burgers, sun (yeah right) and computers, it has to be the annual Compsoc barbeque.

To reach Goodson Walk go north along South Parks Road past the science area. When the road turns right take the cycle path to Marston. At the second cattle grid continue straight on past the first road on the right. Turn right, then immediately left. Follow that road, ignoring the road on the right. At the end of the road take the small footpath and follow it for about 20m, then turn right after about 10m, then left into Goodson Walk.

A group will be leaving Keble lodge at 6pm if you don't feel like braving the 15 minute walk to outer Oxford by yourself.