Forum

Programming Competitions

We are interested in competing in programming competitions to get COSI’s name out to people outside of Clarkson more.

Fish

COSI would like to purchase a fish for the labs.

Mirror

The Mirror fundraising project has begun. Rust will bring a formal email to send out next week to Alumni.

New Switches

Graham and Rust have found a managed gigabit 24 port switch that we are planning to purchase to replace one of our current switches.

Lightning Talks

Hike by Reference

Alan gave a talk about our annual hike to Ampersand Mountain

Tableau Software Talk

A few Tableau employeers talked about what they’re doing with Data Analytics.

Siege Technologies Talk

Siege Technologies visited and discussed their company that focuses on reverse engineering and how they

Cool Commandline tools

Baha showed unix tools that include, cal, rev, cowsay, fortune, sl, cmatrix, telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl, oneko, ddate, and aafire.

Linux Kernel Module

Graham showed how simple it is to write simple kernel modules.

Encryption and PGP

Rust gave a talk about Pretty Good Privacy and methods of encryption.

Project Updates / Announcements

Bouncer

Graham showed off our Bouncer Server which is currently used for our IRC channel (##cosi on freenode).

Robigalia

Work is continuing with the POSIX/seL4 project.

Godot Game

Yoel is going to be making a platformer game with the Godot game engine.

Jeanna’s Science Cafe

Jeanna will be giving a science cafe about Big Data next Tuesday and Wednesday in Canton and Postdam respectively.

Open house

October 10th will be our first Open House of the semester. Any COSI members can come in that morning to talk to perspective students about the labs.

Career Fair

Many companies are hiring Comp Sci majors. Even if you are a freshman, it is good to see what companies work on and show that you’re possibly interested in working for them in the future.

Potsdam ACM Picnic

This sunday, the Potsdam ACM will be hosting a potluck picnic at 2pm in Ives Park.

Faculty Research (Undergrad & Graduate)

11 - 12:30pm Tomorrow in the ITL, Clarkson’s CS Faculty will be going over their individual research. come if you need ideas for a Graduate Thesis or interested in Undergraduate Research.

CACI Info Session

Omar worked at CACI this past summer and Oct. 5, they’ll be hosting an info session about their company.

After Meeting Slot

There was no after meeting slot for this week.