Newsletter for 5 November 2007

Posted on 5th November 2007

All,

Welcome to Week 6, there are lots of events happening this week so we
hope to see you all at some of them.

A highlight of this week (other than the LAN) will be a talk "Functional
Programming from Dummies" by Dr Steve Matthews of the Department of
Computer Science. The talk will introduce an alternative to Java
programming using a new language and design methodology.

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This week:

- Monday, 18:30, Pub Social, Phantom Coach
- Wednesday, 15:00-16:00, Department of Computer Science (CS1.04), Guest
Lecture - Dr Steve Matthews (see below)
- Wednesday, 19:00, A0.23 Social Studies, WUGLUG Meeting
- Friday - Sunday, 20:00, LIB1/2, LAN

(Please see: http://www.uwcs.co.uk/society/events/all for updated list)

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--- Phantom Coach Pub Social ------------

The Social (Monday) starts at 18:30 at the Phantom Coach on the A45.

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Society Books: WUGLUG and CompSoc have the opportunity to request
sample review books from O'Reily, in return we have to write a small
review. You can request that we ask for a book by emailing the WUGLUG
list.

Network Cable: Can be obtained by emailing the exec, cost 0.40 + 20p
per metre, e.g. 0.40 + (5 x 0.2) = £1.40 (5 metres), 0.40 + (10 *
0.20) = £2.40 (10 metres) etc.

Disk Space: Why not upgrade your CompSoc account disk quota? £2.50
for 500Mb, email the tech team to upgrade your account.