November STMU

By Superkom | Published: November 1, 2011

Tonight we have our November STMU starting at 6.45 in G.07 in the Informatics Forum. Tonights speakers are:

Deloitte: Controlling Chaos – An Agile Approach to Application Delivery
Abertay Ethical Hacking Society – Ethical Hacking
LAUNCH.ed: Getting to Zuckerberg – How to Launch a Tech Startup Before You Graduate

Free pizza as always.

See you all there!

COMPSOC <3 YOU

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Compsoc vs Gamesoc game night – VICTORY!!!!

By Superkom | Published: November 1, 2011

Just an update on our first Compsoc vs Gamesoc gaming night, the night was great fun for everyone involved. The headline game for the night was TF2 however we played many games over the evening. The first game was CoD4 and frankly. We got our asses kicked. Gamesoc had a few veteran players against us and try hard as we might. We just failed.

Second game was a game of L4D which was a mix of the two societies and was amazing fun. Lots of good competition and everyone had a laugh.

Then game the game of the night TF2! Compsoc lost the warm up rounds 3-1 to Gamesoc so it didn’t look great. Not so. We won 7-0! After starting fresh rom 0-0 we had some very quick rounds that rapidly brought us up to 3-0 very quickly and then Gamesoc brought their A game. After what some people would call flukey and frankly I would call raw unadulterated talent we managed to only just win the 4th round making us that evenings winners. The following rounds were well fought by Gamesoc but nothing could be done and we all had amazing fun!

The Game for the prize pot was Flatout 2 and there our evenings winner won by 0.01 of a second! Congrats Vincent and I hope you spent it wisely!

 

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Startup Saturday

By Yacoby | Published: October 31, 2011
If you have any plans to start a business, you may be interested in this event, run by LAUNCH.ed:

On Saturday, 5th November 2011, join LAUNCH.ed for a special half-day workshop to help you bridge the gap between your business idea and your first customers!

What you’ll get out of it:

  • A structured way to “search” for the perfect business model for your idea.
  • Dedicated help from experienced mentors and entrepreneurs.
  • A specific plan of action to test and improve your business idea (and to strengthen your Business Ideas Competition entry!).
  • An opportunity to follow-up with mentors at a later date.

The sign up link is here

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STMU Code Quality Slides

By Yacoby | Published: October 6, 2011

For those who wanted them here are the slides from Archie Binnie’s talk on Code Quality at the October 2011 Student Tech Meetup:

code_quality_pdf
code_quality_pptx

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Student TechMeetup

By Yacoby | Published: October 4, 2011

Come to CompSocs first Student TechMeetup of the academic year! Held on Tuesday the 4th of October from 6:45pm to 9pm in the Informatics Forum (Room G.07) it gives you a good chance to network with the companies and fellow students while listening to the talks and consuming the free pizza provided by CompSoc.

We have the following talks lined up for you:

Amazon - Code Quality – Methods and Tools
Talking about code quality (test driven development, static code analysis, integration testing, continuous deployment) with a focus on Java.

Skyscanner - Zoombu – From idea to acquisition and the future
Skyscanner’s CTO Alistair Hann is talking about their acquisition of Zoombu with details on Amazon Web Services and the details about Zoombu’s architechture.

CereProc - Speech Synthesis
CereProc’s CTO Matthew Aylett is talking about Speech Synthesis.

Free for CompSoc members, non-members pay £2. If you haven’t already joined CompSoc you can join on the door.

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Booksale!

By Superkom | Published: September 21, 2011

Don’t go buying your books yet! We are having a book sale on the 28th of September, if your wanting to buy or sell your old books please follow the link below for more details!

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193736257366757

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Welcome Freshers 2011!

By oliland | Published: September 10, 2011

We’re busy getting ready to welcome you in to Edinburgh and getting the party started. Until then, come and say hi on our IRC channel!

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Annual Report 2010/11 *UPDATED*

By Jammy | Published: March 4, 2011

It’s finally here! The CompSoc Annual Report for 2010/11 can be found at Annual Report 10/11.

Update: Now with financial summary

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CompSoc AGM!

By drayshak | Published: March 3, 2011

This is a (somewhat) gentle reminder that our annual general meeting is taking place tomorrow at 6pm, in the Appleton Tower Level 4 Open Area.

Be sure to come vote for which exalted bums shall sit upon the throne of the committee and who gets to make CompSoc even more awesome next year!

There’s a Facebook event if you’re in to that sort of thing, and the date time and location are available on our Google Calendar should you wish to share it.

https://www . facebook . com/event . php?eid=172086909505216

Nominations are also available here:
http://www.comp-soc.com/agm/agm-nominations/

COMPSOC <3 CHANGE

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February STMU Almost Here

By Jammy | Published: January 31, 2011

After 3 months of planning, it’s finally here! Our best Student TechMeetup ever will be held at 6:45pm on Wednesday 2nd February in the Informatics Forum. We’ve broken 2 records (I think) in this event:

  1. Our first speaker from outside Edinburgh, Alistair Blair from Thales Optronics Ltd, speaking about Model-Driven Development
  2. Our first speaker from outside Scotland, Bloomberg, flying in all the way from London to speak about Sentiment Analysis of News Stories

In addition to those, we also have Alastair Broom from Valley Technology telling us More Tales from the Trenches. As ever, there’ll be copious amounts of free pizza and soft drinks, and plenty of time to network with other students and speakers.

One final (very exciting) announcement. Entry is always free for CompSoc members, however, we’ve made a special deal for non-members. Pay the £2 entry fee, and we’ll give you a FREE CompSoc membership for the rest of the year. So that’s basically entry to 2 Student TechMeetups for the price of one! Plus you’ll get all the other great CompSoc benefits.

See you on Wednesday, and bring all of your friends, because this is going to be our best event ever!

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