20/10/2014
What's On
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Seminar TODAY: Huxley 145 at 1pm, Patrick Snape will be giving a talk "Facial Feature Point Detection: Recognising eyes from noses using Menpo", about current and novel object recognition techniques. Full abstract and comments on our website [1].
Seminar next Monday: John Lees-Miller of WriteLaTeX will be discussing WriteLaTeX itself, the trials of forming a startup, and how to make TeX webscale.
Bowling! November 30 1900-2100 at Queen's Ice and Bowl [2]. Members of the ACM Student Chapter will be sponsored for two games! (More on membership below). Contact Christina Koutsoumpa ([email protected]) by Nov 22, or see her in Huxley 306 Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 14-1430 to book a place with a fully refundable deposit of £10.
Outside the ivory tower
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OS update blastorama! Google have announced Android 5.0 Lolipop, to be rolled out from November, and Apple released OSX 10.10 Yosemite. If your Mac has been stuck at "2 minutes remaining" since Friday you'll just have to wait it out, but for those who have yet to update, move big things (e.g., Homebrew, Texlive) out from /usr/local to somewhere else first, then move them back after the update.
Inside the ivory tower
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There's a writeup of the Imperial ACM Student Chapter (that's us!) titled "From zero to excellence" [4], detailing how we went from non-existent two years ago to winning the 2013-14 Student Chapter Excellence Award. Comments on our page [5].
Membership
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Please do sign up to our ACM Student Chapter [3]; it's free, requires nothing of you but your name and email, gets you discounted stuff from us, and shows the support we need to keep doing events.
[1]: http://acm.doc.ic.ac.uk/events/seminar-facial-feature-point-detection/
[2]: http://www.queensiceandbowl.co.uk/
[3]: http://acm.doc.ic.ac.uk/membership/
[4]: http://xrds.acm.org/article.cfm?aid=2667633
[5]: https://www.facebook.com/imperialacm/posts/869166773107975
Imperial College London ACM Student Chapter
