Hi all, Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful holiday filled with happiness, magic, and ponies. However, it's time to replace the tinsel with cat5s and the Christmas carols with server beeps, because the break is over and Redbrick is back to its Very Serious Business again! Over the next semester, you can look forward to a plethora of fun Redbrick events, our regular totally uninterrupted 99.999% server uptime*, and the usual healthy dose of public indecency we hope you've come to expect from us <3 So let's get the ball rolling! Here's a taste of what's cooking in the Redbrick oven this week: +Hackers in the Movies - Tuesday 09/02 - 5.30.pm +Google Hash Code - Thursday 11/02 - 5.30pm ============================================================ Damian Gordon: Hackers in the Movies +Date: Tuesday 09/02 +Time: 5.30pm - 6.30pm +More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/919339894827889/ ============================================================ On Tuesday, Damian Gordon from DIT will be coming in to talk to us about the very serious topic of hacking in Hollywood. Damian's talk will look at the portrayal of computer hackers in the movies, how they are represented in terms of the age, gender, profession, etc. and how this portrayal has evolved over the decades, and it will also will look at the depiction of the types of things hackers can do in the movies as opposed to real life. ============================================================ Google Hash Code Online Qualification +Date: Thursday 11/02 +Time: 5.30pm - 9.30pm +Location: LG25 +More info: https://hashcode.withgoogle.com ============================================================ Do you want to flex your problem solving biceps, and show off your programming man-meat to the GOOG? Hash Code is a competition for students and industry professionals; pick a team, a programming language, and get a real-life engineering problem to solve. Registration closes 9th February (this Tuesday). If this sounds like your sort of thing, don't hesitate to sign up! ============================================================ Techweek +Date: 15-19 February +Location: DCU +More info: http://techweek.dcu.ie/ ============================================================ While you've been eating turkey and unwrapping great new pairs of socks, the Redbrick committee has been hard at work organising Techweek, the biggest tech event of the DCU year. Between the 15th and the 19th of February, we'll have a full schedule of talks, demos, workshops and parties to excite and delight every techno viking out there. You'll see appearances from Google, HEAnet, and Hubspot, along with our usual host of Redbrick vagrants and veterans, so make sure to watch this space for all the hot Techweek details! If you just can't wait until the 15th, you can catch up on last year's Techweek gossip at http://techweek.dcu.ie/2015/ ============================================================ Inter-Computer Society Hackathon +Date: Friday 04/03 - Sunday 06/03 +Location: NUI Galway +More info: https://hackathon.netsoc.co/ ============================================================ Did you know that there were others out there? Blueblocks hiding in such exotic places as Cork, Galway, and the South side? This is your chance to meet your peers in the lesser universities, and hack together something cool at the same time. NUIG CompSoc are providing all sorts of hardware from Arduino Hydroponics to home automation systems. If you're the type of person who likes to make things, or the type who likes to break things, this is sure to appeal to you. Redbrick will be organising transport and accommodation to the event, so if you're interested, or perhaps just lonely, email us at committee@redbrick.dcu.ie. See you in Galway! Don't forget to hack into our calendar and social media pages: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar *uptime promised in this email is not actually guaranteed </3 Best regards from myself and the rest of the Redbrick committee, Noah Donnelly (~cac) 1st Year Computational Problam Solving & Software Development Redbrick Secretary 2015/16 Bona fide gangsta