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IBM Extreme Blue Internship Application Deadline Extended

Posted on 8th February 2008

Extreme Blue is IBM's summer internship programme which combines top undergraduate technical and business talent to develop and commercialise emerging technologies from IBM's internal portfolios. The internship programme runs at IBM Hursley, near Winchester and the interns work in small project teams of 4 that include business and technical students, along with IBM mentors from various disciplines and divisions. As an Extreme Blue student, you'll face the challenge of making a real impact in the industry. I...

Warwick Game Design Society - 48 Hour Programming Competition

Posted on 8th February 2008

Warwick Game Design are holding a game programming competition at this coming weekend. Details of the event are available at: http://www.warwickgamedesign.co.uk/events/3831

Annual General Meeting - Tonight

Posted on 6th February 2008

The Society will hold its Annual General Meeting tonight where the new Exec will be elected. Feel free to come and ask questions after which voting will take place. Members can continue to nominate themselves for positions. If you want more information then email exec@uwcs.co.uk.

Location: R0.03/4 (Ramphal), Time: 18:00.

IBM Extreme Blue Internship Application Deadline Extended

Posted on 5th February 2008

Extreme Blue is IBM's summer internship programme which combines top undergraduate technical and business talent to develop and commercialise emerging technologies from IBM's internal portfolios. The internship programme runs at IBM Hursley, near Winchester and the interns work in small project teams of 4 that include business and technical students, along with IBM mentors from various disciplines and divisions. As an Extreme Blue student, you'll face the challenge of making a real impact in the industry. I...

Society AGM

Posted on 4th February 2008

The Society will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 6th February to elect next year's Exec.

The meeting will be held in R0.03/4 starting at 18:00. A list of candidates will made available shortly. Members can vote by proxy (closing on Wednesday 14:00) or in person at the meeting.

If you need more details email exec@uwcs.co.uk

Special General Meeting

Posted on 28th January 2008

The Exec will be holding a special general meeting for members on Wednesday 30th January (details are in the events page). The meeting is being held to discuss the future direction of the Society and to plan the Exec structure for the next academic year. Contributions from all members are welcome including views on splitting the Society, changing its focus to be more academic/game oriented or other issues which affect membership.

Come along and be part of the decision making process. Immediately after the...

IBM Extreme Blue Internship

Posted on 20th January 2008

Extreme Blue is IBM's summer internship programme which combines top undergraduate technical and business talent to develop and commercialise emerging technologies from IBM’s internal portfolios. The internship programme runs at IBM Hursley, near Winchester and the interns work in small project teams of 4 that include business and technical students, along with IBM mentors from various disciplines and divisions. As an Extreme Blue student, you'll face the challenge of making a real impact in the industry....

Guest Lecture: How we built the world's fastest web server (and what we did next)

Posted on 20th January 2008

Zeus Technology is a Cambridge-based software company, working mainly in application traffic management. This technical talk from two members of the development team will cover some of the design and implementation challenges encountered during the company's history. Migrating to The Graduate afterwards.

Happy New Year

Posted on 9th January 2008

Welcome back after the Christmas break. For any refreshers, just a reminder of compsoc's events: We have pub socials on Mondays, WUGLUG on Wednesdays and Gaming on Fridays. If you have not been before, don't worry, we don't bite. Don't forget to sign up to the LAN in week 2!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The Compsoc Exec.

Week 9

Posted on 26th November 2007

In addition to our usual weekly events, we have two specialities this week:

This Wednesday sees an exciting talk from IBM, entitled "Virtualise Everything and Save the Planet!", its at 2pm in L4. Full details can be found on the "events":http://www.uwcs.co.uk/society/events/details/863 page.

This Friday the Computing Society holds its annual Christmas Meal signups are availible "online":http://www.uwcs.co.uk/society/events/details/865 .