Our plans, 2017-18
We hope you enjoyed Welcome Week - we sure did. Here’s what we’re planning for you next:
- Tech talks
- Bar crawls
- Reading Week
- Potential Hackathon
- OMG night out
- Lightning Talks
- Code Lounge
- Discussion panels
- CSS+COGS LAN night
- Christmas Pub Quiz
- More Hackathons!
- CTF coding challenge
- and more…
Event: CSS Bar Crawl
It’s that time of year again! Get your t-shirt and join us on the 2017 CSS Bar Crawl.
Advice for Second Years
The second year of Computer Science at Bristol is a tough one - here’s a thread of valuable tips from students who’ve seen it through.
CSS joins Strava!
Who said nerds have to be unfit?
Event: CSS BBQ 2017
The Old Bowling Green, Brandon Hill - 2nd June 2017 - 12-6pm It’s that time of year again! Celebrate the end of exams with our annual CSS BBQ! Join us at The Old Bowling Green on Brandon Hill for a day of free food, drinks and entertainment!
Event: ARM Tech Talk - Formal Verification
Queen’s 1.18 - 27th April 2017 - 2-3pm
Event: AGM 2017
MVB 1.11 - 26th April 2017 - 5-6pm
Event: Talk - Monty Widenius, author of MySQL
Event: Talk - Really fun things you aren't supposed to do with a Computer Science degree
Spring 1990, Berkeley: “You’re really going to need to narrow your focus if you expect to graduate. And if you want a job afterward. I hope you’ve decided what’s important to you.” “Yes I have.” “Oh good. And that is what?” “Surprise and whimsy.”
Event: Tech Talk - Programming 14 petaflops of Xeon Phis
DownUnder GeoSolutions are giving a talk about how they use thousands of Intel Xeon Phi processor instead of GPU’s in their high performance computing setup.
Event: Google Hash Code
We’re hosting a Google Hash Code hub for the first time this year. Come and compete in the comfort of MVB 1.11 with plenty of free pizza.
Event: Explore Week Boeing Hackathon
This year we’re holding our first ever Explore Week Hackathon! Make the most of a week free from lectures and deadlines by entering our biggest, best Hackathon yet.
Event: Oracle Tech Talk - Delivering Fast and Slow
How do companies deliver software to their customers? Oracle has to do this at huge scale, delivering software at a wide variety of frequencies for a whole range of different needs.
Event: Post-exam Social
Time to celebrate the end of Exams!
Event: CSS 2016 Christmas Pub Quiz
What’s this? A CSS Pub Quiz? Christmas must have come early! (Aha, I slay myself! [Or should I say, I SLEIGH myself - Sorry, I’ll stop])
Event: BAE Systems Tech Talk - Binary Exploitation and Reverse Engineering
This talk will briefly introduce BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and the Capture The Flag event which is being hosted in MVB on December 3rd. It will cover what the challenges are, how to play them and go over some of the skills and tools required to succeed in these events.
Event: Gresham Tech Talk - AWS for secure, resilient and scalable services
Gresham Computing are coming to the department to talk about AWS and cloud computing.
Event: CSS+COGS Video Game and Pizza Night
What’s the best way to chill after a long day of lectures and studying? Obviously Free Pizza and Video Games!
Event: Expedia Tech Talk - A/B and multi-variate Testing
With any design, it is important to know how big a success (or failure!) a new feature is.
Event: BAE Cyber Security Capture the Flag
Note: signup is essential - don’t delay!
Event: Bloomberg CodeCon
Event: CodeLounge
Confused about coding? Crying over your compiler errors? Can’t cope with the computer conundrums?
Event: CSS Discusses: Wellbeing and Workload
Further to the success of last year’s Panel Discussion about Equality and Diversity, the Computer Science Society will hold a cross-faculty dialogue about Wellbeing and Workload on October 26 from 5–7pm in Pugsley Lecture Theater, Queen’s Building.
Event: CSS Bar Crawl
The CSS Bar Crawl returns for another year!
Event: Bloomberg - How the JVM Executes Java
We have an engineer from Bloomberg coming to talk to us about how the JVM executes Java.
CSS Goes Outside: join a sports team!
Interested in (casually!) playing one of these sports in a CS team?
Event: Oracle - Software Engineering at Global Scale
We’re lucky to have two engineers from Oracle’s Bristol office coming to the department next Tuesday to talk about software deployment and delivery.
Sign up to the CSS mailing list and WIN!
This year, we’re starting a monthly(-ish) email newsletter. Find out about CSS events, news, trips and job postings.
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to all of you who will be joining us this year.
Lecturer of the year 2015/16
It is that time of year again where we look back on the year that has just passed. What went well, what could have gone better, what moments we cherished - but most importantly - who got you that 2:1 in the unit that everyone failed!
2016 BBQ Photos
We held our annual CSS Summer BBQ in Brandon Hill Park on June 4. Here are the photos!
Wellbeing lunches
Interested in wellbeing in the department? Bring your lunch to 3.22MVB on a Friday.
2016 Summer BBQ - June 4
The annual CSS BBQ is upon us again!
Hello, world
Welcome to the updated CSS website!
