[ucc-announce] UCC News - 9 Sept 06

[Davyd Madeley]

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This week in UCC News:
 - Charity^WFreedom Vigil (THIS WEEKEND)
 - UCC Dinner (NEXT WEEKEND)
 - Research Programmers Wanted
 - Help Find Ex-Members
 - Murphy's Lore

===============
 Freedom Vigil
===============
The Cameron Hall Freedom Vigil (known by others as the Charity Vigil)
will be held this Friday September 8th. For UCC newcomers, the
Vigil is a chance to stay up all night and play computer games, while
raising money for charity. Our chosen charity for this year is the Stand
By Me Youth Service, which runs programs and provides advocacy for
teens. There'll be more than just a LAN running during the Vigil, though
- Unisfa will be screening movies, UWAnime will  be running an anime
screening, and Unigames will be providing boardgames  and running
one-off dungeon crawls. Pizza for dinner and pancakes for  breakfast
will be provided free. Entry will cost you $10 at the door or at  least
$8 sponsorship, but of course please try and get as much sponsorship as
you can. Sponsorship forms are available in the clubroom.

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 UCC Dinner
============
The UCC turns 32 (0x20) this year, and our annual dinner is a suitably
exciting! Just $40 for a full buffet dinner at Royal Perth Yacht Club,
just across from UWA.

Proudly supported by the UWA Guild of Undergraduates, who are providing
an hour of FREE pre-dinner drinks - meet us there at 6pm on the 15th of
September, or be at the clubroom at 5:30 to wander over.

All the details at http://ucc.asn.au/dinner06/

SIGN UPS ARE REQUIRED BY TUESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER

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 Research Programmers Wanted
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The UCC has been contacted by a local start-up - they are looking for
UWA students who are interested in working part-time for six to eight
months on research projects including advanced computer vision theory
and maths, hardware/software interface systems and processing of large
(5,000+ CPU hours) image processing tasks for large (100,000+ photos)
amounts of data.

Mr Stuart Nixon will be at the UCC on Friday evening (before the Vigil)
about 6pm to talk to anyone who's interested - more information is
available from president at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au if you're not sure if it's
for you. If you're looking at doing honours or postgraduate work in
Computer Science, this sounds like a fantastic opportunity.

[Ed. it's worth adding that anyone who needs to do a final year project
as part of their degree. There is something called CEED, which might
offer an opportunity for you to get the project, some of that required
work experience and some pocket money all at once.]

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 Find Ex-Members
=================
We'd love to see ex-members at the dinner - invite them along! - but if
they can't make it (or you're a current member who's stuck in Sydney or
San Francisco), please ask them to send us a postcard - our mailing
address is on the website at http://ucc.asn.au/aboutucc/contact.ucc 

===============
 Murphy's Lore
===============
Thanks to the incredibly dedicated hard work of Grahame Bowland and
his team of enthusiastic contributors, the UCC is proud to announce
that the first Murphy's Lore for a long time is published and ready.

Hardcopy Lore costs $2,50 and is available from the box in the
clubroom. You can `dispense lore` from any machine enabled for
dispense.

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news pieces for UCC members. If you wish to keep reading UCC News, you
don't have to do anything, if you do not wish to continue reading, stiff
bikkies. At least we're not making some plea for help, like those limey
DWN weenies.

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Davyd Madeley

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