It's time for another annual potluck — where everyone brings food native to their culture for all of us to enjoy! This is a chance to get together and take an afternoon off and celebrate our accomplishments.

We're asking everyone to bring some food. As a rule of thumb, your dish should contain four or five servings. Make sure that you bring a serving utensil. If your dish needs to be heated, make sure you come an hour early (i.e., 11:00), and that it can actually fit in the microwave. If you your dish needs to be refrigerated, you may use the fridge in HP 5115 until noon. In respect to those with food restrictions, please label your food carefully as to meat, dairy, seafood, and nut content.

Everyone is invited. If you can't bring anything please contact Julie Thorpe for alternatives. When you've decided what to bring, please contact Sharmi Namasivayampillai.

Finally, the always popular gift exchange will be in full effect. Anyone that wants to participate brings a small item, worth under five dollars. These gifts are anonymously put into a pile. Participants are given a total ordering, and they pick a gift in turn. Gifts can be chosen from the pile, or from someone that has already chosen! Wackiness ensues. Successes from previous years include small children's toys, puzzles, books, and showerheads!

Contact the Computer Science Graduate Society for more details (see About Us).

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Faculty and students enjoyed a nice Halloween Coffee Social. Some got into the spirit of things and showed off their wonderful costumes!

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Ottawa has the world's longest outdoor ice-skating venue and hosts the Winterlude festival every winter for a couple of weeks. Let's go and see what kinds of interesting things are going on, at this first activitiy of the new year!

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The CSGS is back in the swing of things with this event! Yah! Quite a few people showed up, and fun was had by all!

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The 1st Annual Table Tennis Tournament was a success! Game play consisted of a ladder-style elimination tournament, with best-of-3 matches. Each player was guaranteed to play at least two opponents before being eliminated. First prize was a VIP pass to Camp Fortune, and second prize was a suite of Java software from Sun.

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The Graduate and Undergraduate Computer Science Societies are holding their 1st annual Table Tennis Tournament on February 14, 2002 at 1pm in Room 137 of the Gym. This is everyone's chance to test their table tennis skills against their friends or profs!

Anyone interested in competing is asked to send their name and email address to ccss-exec (at) ccss.carleton.ca.

The event is free for all Computer Science grads, undergrads, and profs, regardless of past table tennis experience. Its all for fun after all! So be sure to drop by. Paddles and balls will be provided. There will also be pizza!

The exact format of the game play will be determined based on the number of participants, so please send your participation request by February 13th, 2002.

For more information, please email ccss-exec (at) ccss.carleton.ca or csgs (at) scs.carleton.ca.

The Computer Science Graduate Student Association of the University of Ottawa would like to invite both Computer Science grads and profs from Carleton University to the Wine and Cheese Christmas party they will be holding on Monday, the 10th of December at the Cafe Nostalgica.

It's completely free, with no formal dress code, so all you have to do is show up and have a good time!

It's time for another annual potluck — where everyone brings food native to their culture for all of us to enjoy! This is a chance to get together and take an afternoon off and celebrate our accomplishments.

We're asking everyone to bring some food. As a rule of thumb, your dish should contain four or five servings. Make sure that you bring a serving utensil. If your dish needs to be heated, make sure you come an hour early (i.e, 11:00), and that it can actually fit in the microwave. In respect to those with food restrictions, please label your food carefully as to meat, dairy, seafood, and nut content.

Everyone is invited. If you can't bring anything please contact Darrell Ferguson or Shahzad Malik for alternatives.

This year we're also asking for non-perishable food items to be donated to a local food bank. We'll have a drop box at the party, so please come out and support your local community.

Finally, the always popular gift exchange will be in full effect. Anyone that wants to participate brings a small item, worth *under* five dollars. These gifts are anonymously put into a pile. Participants are given a total ordering, and they pick a gift in turn. Gifts can be chosen from the pile, or from someone that has already chosen! Wackiness ensues. Successes from previous years include small children's toys, puzzles, books, and showerheads!

Contact the Computer Science Graduate Society for more details.

Sandy and Nicki have started to put the SCS Seasonal Party together. They have found a nice location downtown called "Nicole's Cafe"!

What they have decided to do is another buffet. They have also hired a DJ who will play until 1 a.m. What they need to know is who would be interested in coming to this Seasonal Party. The cost will be $30 a person, which includes the meal and dancing.

The date of this event will be Saturday December 8th. Starting at about 6:30, eating by 7:00, dancing by 7:05.

Tickets should be purchased by December 1, 2001, so contact Nicki (NickiEnouy (at) pigeon.carleton.ca soon!

Due to the large amount of construction in the department, assignment of Graduate Student space has been delayed. If you would like to be considered for office space, please complete an application for space and return it to the main computer science office by Friday October 5th. Forms are available in the main office room 5302 Herzberg.

If you currently have a desk assigned to you in room 5151 Herzberg or 5325 Herzberg please TAPE A PIECE OF PAPER TO YOUR DESK WITH YOUR NAME AND STUDENT NUMBER. If this is not done by Friday, October 5th you risk losing your desk.