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Welcome to the University of The West Indies Computing Society. Founded in 1996, this society, aims to educate its members about the role of computing, information and technology in everyday life. To this end uwics has embarked on a lecture series campaign that brings the world of computing to our members' fingertips.

All Meetings and Events are held in the Computer Science Lab 2, 2nd floor Nat Sci Bld from 2pm-4pm unless stated otherwise.

Meeting: Wired Networking This is the first part of a two part series in networking.
Wired networking will be featured this week, where you'll learn how crimp your own cables and the basics of networking.
It'll be a very informative, practical and useful session.

Feature Presenter: Mr. Naresh Seegobin
Monday, 2nd November, 2010.
Meeting: Medullan
This week we will be having one of our favourite presenters, Medullan.
Pronounced muh-duhl-uhn, they are a comprehensive technology solution consulting firm primarily serving the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries. Medullan specializes in business automation, multi-tier, multi-channel solutions for a wide spectrum of problem sizes and requirements.
Tuesday, 19th October 2010
New Website Bannner As you may have noticed, the website has a new banner. Pretty good isn't it?

Veer Maharaj
KahosTek
http://tnt-tech.blogspot.com/
kahostek[at]live.com

Monday, 11th October 2010
Event: Build-a-PC The name says it all - Build a PC.
Learn how to build a PC from scratch - What components are needed, the mix and match, what to do and what not to do!

Feature presentator: Andrew Rudder
Monday, 11th October 2010
Microsoft Imagine Cup Launch Date: Thu Thursday 14th October 2010
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Block 13, New Chemical Engineering Building
Monday, 11th October 2010
Meeting: Eye Scream Animation Ltd. On Thursday, 8th October we will have the pleasure of a presentation by Eye Scream Animation Ltd.
Eye Scream Animation Ltd. has been in the 3-D business for over eight years and has produced work for a number of companies including architectural firms, construction companies, interior designers, private developers, advertising agencies, and private & governmental institutions alike.
Monday, 4th October 2010
Event: LAN Party On Thursday 30th, Spetember will be hosting our first LAN Party. We will be playing Soldier of Fortune and DOTA. For those members not interested in gaming, we will be showing two movies, Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio during these hours. Tuesday 28th, September, 2010
Notice: Thanks We would like to thank all the members that attended our 1st meeting and to Microsoft for their presentation. Tuesday 28th, September, 2010
Meeting: Microsoft We're starting off with a bang! Microsoft will be presenting at our 1st meeting.
They will be presenting on Imagine Cup 2011 and then there will be a practical demonstartion on some of the latest Microsoft technologies such as Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure Platform.

Meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd, September in Computer Lab 2, 2nd Floor, Natural Sciences building from 2pm to 4pm.
Tuesday 21st, September, 2010
Meeting: Introductory Meeting schduled for Thursday 16th, September will be shortened to 1 hour, starting from 2pm and ending at 3pm. This is to accomidate for the UWI Matriculation Ceremony for Freshers. Wednesday 15th, September, 2010