This event is a full day workshop running from 11am to 6pm, with free pizza at lunchtime. The presenters behind this event are academics from the University of Cambridge open zetta scale lab. The event covers all the basics of Intel’s SYCL implementation, including how to get started, program structure, unified shared memory, kernels, Intel Vtune profiler, buffers & accessors and reduction operations. This workshop is being taught by academics from Cambridge university who work on zetta scale compute and have significant experience working with heterogeneous compute technologies. Read more...

On the 6th of October, HackSoc and Medieval Combat Society will be going out for a joint pub crawl! We’ll start at the White Hart at 7pm! This is a nice social event to start off the term, and while no, there is no real reason why these two societies have a joint pub crawl, it’s always a fun night. No booking required, just find us at the White Hart (29 Gregory Street, Lenton)! Read more...

Welcome to HackSoc! This will be our first event of the year, and a good taster to give you an idea of what kind of events we’ll be running throughout the year. At 4:30pm, we’ll be gathering in C33 where the committee will be giving three short-ish talks on various tech-related topics: An introduction to game development by our President A talk about bug bounties by our Cyber Security Secretary And two more, details to be confirmed The event in whole is supposed to take around two hours, finishing at approximately 6:30pm, to give you plenty of time to have dinner afterwards. Read more...

After exams have finished, HackSoc will be doing our patriotic duty and hosting a BBQ to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (which is the day after.) This will be a great place to unwind from the stresses of exams which will have just finished! As this event is a BBQ, food and drink will be provided. If you are thinking of coming along, please can you fill out a quick form at hacksoc. Read more...

On the 28th of May, HackSoc and Medieval Combat Society will be going out for a joint pub crawl! We’ll start at the White Hart at 7pm.

Hello and welcome to our programming cafe events! This is a much more laid back event than our workshops and talks, just rock up and work on a project, and speak to other people about their projects! We’ll be encouraging people to do a brief show and tell towards the end, and you may end up spotlit in our newsletter! We will also have coffee, tea, and biscuits. The event will take place in A07, in the Computer Science Building. Read more...

We’ll be starting off the term on the 5th of May at 7PM, Computer Science A07 with an event sponsored by Intel, where we will talk about OneAPI and teach you how to use it to plot the Mandelbrot set! But what is OneAPI? It’s a toolkit for enabling accelerated heterogeneous computing that is platform and vendor agnostic. This promises to be a very interesting workshop, so be sure to come along! Read more...

Hello and welcome to our programming cafe events! This is a much more laid back event than our workshops and talks, just rock up and work on a project, and speak to other people about their projects! We’ll be encouraging people to do a brief show and tell towards the end, and you may end up spotlit in our newsletter! We will also have coffee and tea. The event will take place in the Exchange Building C33. Read more...

A bunch of short talks given by members. There will also be a fun quiz. If you want to give a talk, please go to hacksoc.net/lightning and tell us what you talk will be about. This event will be hosted in the function room of the Rose & Crown pub, which is near Jubilee Campus.

Come and elect your next committee! On Thursday the 31st we have our AGM, where we will be electing next year’s committee. Candidates will give a short speech on why they should do the role, and then you, the members, will vote in the candidates you want to see on next year’s committee. There will be free pizza for everyone that comes to the AGM, so please come along to vote! Read more...