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!
The new Exec have been elected as follows:
Academic President: Alex Wilson (Mr_Wilson)
Gaming President: Thomas Doherty (TeamDoherty)
Secretary: Robert Steele (SigmaD)
Treasurer: Matthew Cranham (cranman)
Tech. Officer: Kim Mantas (Fyorl)
Socials Officer: William Harris (Dirtus)
We will announce the first exec meeting when a time and place has been decided, feel free to come along and meet us.
Robert Steele(SigmaD)
Secretary
Our longer running 2010 programming competition has just launched and you can find all the details on the site, http://progcomp10.uwcs.co.uk/. There will be 5 problems to solve, one each week for the rest of the term, and some great prizes for the top solutions.
If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch via email or IRC, and good luck to all who enter!
We’d like to extend a warm welcome both to previous, and prospective new members, to the new academic year.
Over the summer, we’ve been working to extend the range of services that we offer to our members. We now have a range of gaming servers operating from on campus, and also have plans laid for some great activities over the course of the next year. These include forthcoming trips to IBM, interesting talks from people in the technology industry and of course a number of our fantastic LAN parties.
If you want to keep abreast of what we’re offering, it’s strongly recommended you keep an eye on the Events section of this site, which also has a handy RSS feed.
To become involved in the society, the best way is to pop into our IRC chat room and get to know us!
Finally, if you’ve just joined the University this year, come and see us at the society’s fair, where we’ll be on both Wednesday and Thursday! We’ll have cookies, or… something.
We’re happy to say that today we opened a number of game servers for a number of source based games. These are:
Counter-Strike: Source – 137.205.210.236:27015
Team Fortress 2 – 137.205.210.236:27011
Left 4 Dead – 137.205.210.236:27010
These are in addition to existing Warsow and DoTA servers which are also being hosted on campus. Furthermore, we have a Mumble (free voice communication software) server running at mumble.uwcs.co.uk:19000.
If you’re interested in playing any games with us, but particularly Valve Source based games, please feel free to join our Steam group.
Thanks to favourable power situation in Lib2 we decided to extend signups by 10 spaces to a total of 70. Therefore if you missed your signup now is your chance.
Please note: The 5th table in the seating plan is imaginary, please do not use it.
