The Computer Society frequently hosts talks from members of industry and academia on various Computing Topics. This page briefly outlines the talks we have hosted.

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== Microsoft - Atlas ==

Who: [http://robburke.net/ Robert Burke] - [http://www.miscorsoft.com/ Microsoft]

What: Atlas, and other improbable and free developer tools from Microsoft

When: Wednesday 11th October 2006 at 6pm (20061011)

Where: C1-060 

[http://lists.skynet.ie/pipermail/compsoc-news/2006q4/000334.html Mail Link]

[http://pf.skynet.ie/pro/MS.png Event Poster]

== Blacknight.ie - Search Engine Optimisation ==

Who: [http://www.mneylon.com/ Michele Neylon] - [http://www.blacknight.com/ Blacknight.ie]

What: Search Engine Optimisation

When: Friday 10th of November 2006 at 7pm (20061110)

Where: C1-059

[http://lists.skynet.ie/pipermail/compsoc-news/2006q4/000342.html Mail Link]

== Dr Gabriel Leen - Automotive Technologies ==

Who: [http://www.pei-csrc.ul.ie/web/Gabriel.Leen/ Dr Gabriel Leen]

What: Automotive Technologies

When: Tuesday 28th of November 2006 at 7:30pm (20061128)

Where: C1-058

[http://lists.skynet.ie/pipermail/compsoc-news/2006q4/000347.html Mail Link]

== Chris Plummer - The Challenges of Computing in Space ==

Who: Chris Plummer

What: The Challenges of Computing in Space

When: Tuesday 10th of April 2007 at 7:30pm (20070410)

Where: C1-060

[http://lists.skynet.ie/pipermail/compsoc-news/2007q2/000355.html Mail Link]

== Summer Talks - 2008 ==

When: Saturday 17th of May 2008 at 2pm (20080517)

Where: Students Union, Room 3

[http://lists.skynet.ie/pipermail/compsoc-news/2008q2/000393.html Mail Link]

=== Mel Gorman (IBM) - Maintaining Performance of Software with a Basic Awareness of Hardware ===

Who: [http://www.skynet.ie/~mel Mel Gorman]

What: Maintaining Performance of Software with a Basic Awareness of Hardware

Abstract: In bygone times, software engineers developed software with a full understanding of the underlying hardware they were developing for. This was necessary to maximise the performance based on very limited resources. In recent times with generous resources, it is convenient software programmers to ignore the hardware and focus exclusively on features. This can result in hardware-based performance problems that avoid detection unless explicitly searched for. While premature optimisation should be avoided, there are some basic performance pitfalls that should be avoided at every stage of development. This talk is a refresher on some basic hardware topics as a means to avoiding hardware-orientated performance problems before the happen. 

=== Sean Blanchfield (DemonWare) - A technical history of DemonWare ===

Who: Sean Blanchfield - [http://www.demonware.net/ DemonWare]

What: A technical history of DemonWare

=== Christian van den Bosch - Retro cryptography ===

Who: [http://cjb.ie/ Christian van den Bosch]

What: Retro Cryptography