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New Year

Posted on 6th October 2011

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

Bloomberg Programming Competition Results.

Posted on 16th May 2011

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.

AGM Results

Posted on 10th February 2011

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

Bloomberg Programming Competition

Posted on 2nd February 2011

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 thos...

Mainframe Challenge, and Next Talk

Posted on 18th November 2010

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 modelli...

Guest Talk from IBM

Posted on 15th November 2010

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

LAN Signups

Posted on 31st October 2010

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.

First Academic Talk of the Year

Posted on 16th October 2010

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 al...

A new year!

Posted on 4th October 2010

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!

AGM Results

Posted on 24th February 2010

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