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National Computer Science Education Week is December 9-15, 2012. The week recognizes that computing impacts our daily lives and plays a critical role in society. To celebrate, the CS Department, its computing student organizations, and Drexel's iSchool will be holding events and activities leading up to the week between November 28-December 5. All students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend.
Learn more about National Computer Science Education Week here. Visit http://www.drexel.edu/cs for more information about the week's events.
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Can you hear me now? Law enforcement surveillance of Internet and mobile communications
Wednesday, November 28
5 to 6 p.m.
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, room 120
To kick-off the CS Ed Week celebration, the Department of Computer Science and iSchool welcome Dr. Christopher Soghoian for a special privacy lecture. Dr. Soghoian is well-known in the privacy and security field and currently working as the Principal Technologist and a Senior Policy Analyst with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. This presentation will be webcasted and you can view the video here. Read the full talk description here.
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Video Game Party
Friday, November 30
 4 to 6 p.m. University Crossings 151 and 153
Drexel Game Developers Group will be hosting a video game night to celebrate CS Education Week and share the excitement of true gaming. Join members and guests for two hours full of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and various other games. Whether you're interested in making games or not, playing them can be enjoyable for everyone.
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Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia
Saturday and Sunday, December 1-2  9 a.m. (Saturday) to 5 p.m. (Sunday)
ExCITe Center (3401 Market Street)
Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia is back for its fourth event at Drexel University. Work alongside local, regional, and national technology experts, programmers, hackers, and designers to create immediately applicable solutions to real world problems. RHoK is a competition where groups will choose one of the many social impact problem-definitions available and create the solution by the event's conclusion. The best project will be featured around the globe. Register at RHoK.org.
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WellsCap Lecture and Workshop
Monday, December 3
 4 to 5 p.m. Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 106
Drexel's Women in Computing Society welcomes Wells Capital Management (WellsCap), a multi-boutique, asset management firm focused on institutional clients. WellsCap has a number of areas within Technology: Fixed Income Investments Technology, Equity Investments Technology, Enterprise Technology, Systems Architecture & Data Warehouse, Infrastructure and Strategic Projects & Initiatives. Simon Bass, Director of Fixed Income Investment Technology, is the guest speaker and running the workshop.
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Movie and Discussion Featuring Revolution OS
Monday, December 3  6 to 8 p.m.
Disque 103
Upsilon Pi Epsilon will screen the documentary "Revolution OS" that examines the genesis of the Open Source Movement, which is centered on the belief that computer software should be free both in the economic and intellectual senses of the word. Before the movie, Dr. Jeff Popyack will lead a discussion about the movement and its impact on the future of computing and society. In addition to this film and topic of conversation, food and drinks will be available.
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Website and Mobile Device Protection
Tuesday, December 4  4 to 5 p.m.
University Crossings 153
Drexel's Math and Computer Science Society welcomes Mayunk Jain, a manager at Vanguard, who will discuss how to protect websites while conducting secure transactions, as well as multi-factor authentication for websites and mobile devices. Free pizza and beverages will be provided.
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Department of Computer Science | 3141 Chestnut Street | Philadelphia, PA 19104 | 215-895-2669
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