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  <h1>
    Events
    <span><a href="/sponsor/">Sponsored</a> by Facebook, Microsoft, Ness, Qualcomm, GreenGoose, Boeing, &amp; Stanford Computer Forum.</span>
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    Winter
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  <time>Jan 28</time>
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    <span>Windward International Collegiate Programming Finals</span>
    <span>10AM - 7PM @ Gates 104</span>
    <p>Compete in the first Windward programming "code war" - a contest where each team (2-5 members each) races to solve the same problem (in this case, an AI-based challenge). Schools represented include MIT, CMU and Harvey Mudd. Put your programming talents to the test, engineer brilliant solutions, and represent your Cardinal swag with the chance to bring home some hardware. Learn more <a href="http://www.windward.net/Windward_International_Collegiate_Programming_Championships.php">here</a> and register your team <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&pli=1&formkey=dEc5LWtpWVJINHlvVWlhYmlybk9zeUE6MQ#gid=0">here</a>.</p>
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  <time>Jan 28</time>
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    <span>LAN Party with Low Battery</span>
    <span>8 PM - 3 AM @ Ricker</span>
    <p>This will be the first of three LAN parties we're hosting with Low Battery this quarter. Come for Mario Kart, Brawl, Starcraft 2, TF2, Kirby, and many other awesome games! Bring your laptop and/or desktop. Got a console and projector? Bring that too. See you there!</p>
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  <time>Feb 2</time>
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    <span>Hack Hour at the SVI Hackspace</span>
    <span>5PM - 9PM @ Huang Engineering Center Basement</span>
    <p>The first hack hour of 2012. Co-sponsored by Stanford ACM and BASES at the SVI Hackspace. Come chill, code, and hack on projects and homework with an intrepid group of engineers from BloomReach led by the hackspace's Stormy Shippy who will be sponsoring free Ikes for those who <a href="http://bit.ly/yg8bNc">RSVP!</a></p>
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  <time>Feb 17</time>
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    <span>Forever-a-LAN: LAN Party with Low Battery</span>
    <span>8 PM - 4 AM @ Ricker</span>
    <p>Second of three LAN parties we're hosting with Low Battery this quarter. There will be DotA and Brawl tournaments starting at 10pm. There will be a Diablo 2 hardcore speed run starting at midnight. There will be competitive Minecraft. And of course... there will be epicness.</p>
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  <time>Feb 18</time>
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    <span>Windows Phone Development Workshop</span>
    <span>3 PM - 5 PM @ Arrillaga Dining Room 132 (Multipurpose Room)</span>
    <p>Interested in Windows Phone Development? Check out this awesome workshop where Microsoft engineers will show you how easy it is to create engaging Windows Phone apps. There will be free Windows CDs for those with Macs. Five lucky attendees will walk away with FREE Windows Phones! Use your new skills the following Saturday, in a hack competition to make the hottest Windows Phone app.</p>
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  <time>Feb 25</time>
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    <span>Windows Phone Hackathon</span>
    <span>12 PM - 12 AM @ Huang Basement</span>
    <p>Now that you're pumped and ready to make Windows Phone apps (courtesy of last Saturday's workshop), it's time to put your skills to the test. Form a team and compete from noon to midnight to make the best Windows Phone app. Each winner will receive a free phone and possibly some other goodies. Microsoft engineers will be there to answer your budding API and technology questions. There will be free Windows CDs for Mac users, and we will help you get setup to dual boot.</p>
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  <time>March 3</time>
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    <span>Winter Hackathon</span>
    <span>10 AM - 10 PM @ Huang Basement</span>
    <p>Compete at Stanford ACM's Winter Hackathon. Sign up <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHBnT2dRd1lzUXAwMEFyRHBwWUpRRGc6MQ#gid=0">here</a> with teams of four or less. Come chill, hack, and make cool stuff...and win iPads or Xboxes.</p>
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    Tech Talks
    <span>Sponsored by Yahoo. <strong>Every Friday @ 6 PM in Gates 104.</strong><br>
    If you want to give a tech talk, <a href="/techtalks">read this</a>.
    </span>
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    Winter
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  <time>Jan 13</time>
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    <span>Sam King</span>
    <span>Stanford student</span>
    <p><a href="/files/techtalk_slides/winter-2012/sam_king_jan13.pdf">Social Change and Traditional CS Research Topics</a></p>
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    <span>Juan Batiz-Benet</span>
    <span>Stanford student</span>
    <p><a href="/files/techtalk_slides/winter-2012/juan_jan13.pdf">Distributed Version Control for Application Data</a></p>
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  <time>Jan 20</time>
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    <span>Feross Aboukhadijeh</span>
    <span>Stanford student</span>
    <p><a href="http://speakerdeck.com/u/feross/p/database-passwords-everywhere">CMSploit: Database Passwords Everywhere!</a></p>
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    <span>Jack Stahl</span>
    <span>&hearts; @ Asana. Stanford Alum</span>
    <p><a href="/files/Luna-ACM-2010-01-20.pdf">Luna Learnings: The delicate dance of abstraction and pragmatism</a></p>
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  <time>Jan 27</time>
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    <span>Chris Cinelli</span>
    <span>Sr. Software Engineer at FormativeLearning, Inc.</span>
    <p>As simple as possible, but not simpler:  Principles of software engineering for startups</p>
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    <span>You!</span>
    <span>yes, you!</span>
    <p>Contact the ACM officers if you would like to give a 2-5 minute lightning tech talk.</p>
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  <time>Feb 3</time>
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    <span>Vikas Yendluri and Rowan Chakoumakos</span>
    <span>Stanford students</span>
    <p>Titanium: Native Mobile Applications in Javascript</p>
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    <span>Ariya Hidayat</span>
    <span>Engineering Director @ Sencha</span>
    <p>Next-generation Web Technologies: HTML5 and Beyond</p>
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  <time>Feb 10</time>
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    <span>Jim Sproch</span>
    <span>Berkeley grad student &amp; Stanford alum</span>
    <p>Building fast &amp; scalable eventual-consistency databases</p>
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    <span>Keith Schwarz</span>
    <span>Stanford CS Lecturer</span>
    <p>Darts, Dice, and Coins</p>
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  <time>Feb 17</time>
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    <span>Eldar Sadikov</span>
    <span>CEO @ Qwhisper</span>
    <p>Social Search vs. Web Search: Key Insights</p>
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    <span>David Fifield</span>
    <span>Stanford MS student</span>
    <p>Routing through the browser to defeat network censorship</p>
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  <time>Feb 24</time>
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    <span>Jon Rodriguez</span>
    <span>Stanford Student</span>
    <p>3D display with depth of field</p>
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    <span>Andrew Sutherland</span>
    <span>Founder @ Quizlet</span>
    <p>Open Sourcing Education</p>
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  <time>Mar 2</time>
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    <span>Bob Baldwin</span>
    <span>Product Engineering @ Facebook</span>
    <p>Engineering Facebook Events</p>
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    <span>Sanjit Biswas</span>
    <span>CEO @ Meraki. Stanford Alum.</span>
    <p>TBD</p>
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    Spring
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  <time>Apr 6</time>
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    <span>Abi Raja</span>
    <span>Stanford Student</span>
    <p>The Coolness of Agda (a functional programming language)</p>
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    <span>Suyash Joshi</span>
    <span>Software engineer at Oracle</span>
    <p>Getting Started with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and PhoneGap for your mobile web apps</p>
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  <time>Apr 13</time>
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    <span>Tomas Rokicki</span>
    <span>Stanford CS Ph.D. '93</span>
    <p>Finding God's Number</p>
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    <span>Nicolás García Belmonte</span>
    <span>Senior Software Architect at Sencha</span>
    <p>TDB</p>
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  <time>Apr 20</time>
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  <time>Apr 27</time>
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    <span>Sam King</span>
    <span>Stanford student</span>
    <p>Social Coding 4 Good: Drupal from Issue Trackers to Email</p>
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