This Saturday the 1st of May, Compsoc will be going to The Royal Bengal in Earlsdon just out of Coventry for a curry. For more information take a look at the details page on our website: http://www.warwickcompsoc.co.uk/events/details/?id=303 Any other questions, ask NeXuS7 on our IRC channel or email paulbroadbridge@hotmail.com.

Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading University's Cybernetics Department will be giving a guest lecture here on Tuesday, April 20th at 6:00pm in R0.21 (Ramphal Lecture Theatre). Professor Warwick claims to be the world's first cyborg, and had an electronic chip implanted in his arm. If you're going to go to one lecture next term, make it this one!

This lecture is open to everyone, not just Compsoc members. All are welcome!

Update:

The date has passed, and the lecture happened. Hopefully everyone found it e...

This week we have scheduled a talk by Dr. Steve Matthews. The talk will be an hour's introduction to "Philosophy for Programmers", Dr. Steve Matthew's research topic. This will be on Tueday of Week 10 at 5pm, in the L4 lecture theatre (beside L3).

This is an event that should not be missed!

Update:

Lecture was had, and it was so popular that we outnumbered the people in the lecture next door! Thanks to everyone who turned up for making it a success, and thanks especially to Dr Steve Matthews for giving t...

The Java Swing Tutorial was had, with a good turnout! Thanks to everyone who turned up, I hope you found it informative.

The finished notes (complete with Phil's threading code example) can be found here, with the demo archive being found here.

Please see http://www.uwcs.co.uk/~nexus7/kartinglocation.JPG and let me know if you want a lift from Leamington to Karting. We need to be there for 3pm so don't be late (Sadiq!). Robo and DrWatson have kindly offered lifts from campus, so please contact them if you require one. I would suggest that you would all need to meet at rootes reception about 2.15pm which then gives us plenty of time to get there for 3pm. I have paid £10 deposits for everyone so make sure you have £30 and some change for vending...

The Elections were held at the end of Week 6, with the following results:

* President - Richard Wilson (Si1entDave)
* Vice President - Andrew Sully (Crazy_Piglet)
* Treasurer - Timothy Troy (Zephran)
* Secretary - Pete Ellis (PlanarPlatypus)
* Technical Officer - Chris Boyle (cmb)
* Academic Officer - Michelle D'Israeli (Mishima)
* Social Officer - Paul Broadbridge (NeXuS7)

Congratulations to all the new Exec. They will spend the rest of this term learning how to perform their roles, and officially take ...

The CompSoc AGM will be this Saturday (14th) at 8pm in MR4/5 (Union North - above Costcutter; the door is on the right of Costcutter) all members are encouraged to show up - we'll be voting on the new exec finding out how you thought the society has been going, as well as presenting accounts for the past year.

We look forward to seeing a large part of our membership there, and are hoping for candidates for the new exec to be from a more academic background this year - if you'd like to apply, just turn up!

On the Wednesday afternoon of Week 7 Compsoc will be going Karting at Mr.Karting near Leamington. Signups are now open and further details can be found on the events page.

Server Update: The migration from MySQL3 to MySQL4 is now complete. All users, grants and database files have been transferred, MySQL4 is now running on the default port of 3306, and the MySQL3 server has not been restarted. If anyone has any questions, or finds that something has suddenly stopped working, mail techteam@warwickcompsoc.co.uk and we'll get it fixed.

The Compsoc "all you can eat" Chinese will take place on the Wednesday of week 5 at 7.30pm in the Oriental Star in Leamington. Signups for this event will be open shortly and will close on midnight Sunday at the end of week 4.