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2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27 August at Tessensohn Clubhouse |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
The 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in the evening of 27 August (Wednesday) at the Civil Service Club, Tessensohn Road. We have prepared an exciting program for the night. As in our past AGMs, we will have a pre-AGM talk. This year our talk will be on the programming language Python that has received recent attention worldwide. The talk will be given by Mr. Mervin Beng who has been actively promoting Python interests in Singapore. In conjunction with the talk, we will invite a graduating PhD student Mr. Pham Minh-Tri from NTU to do a short demo on face detection using Python to demonstrate the features of Python for pattern recognition research. Incidentally, Mr. Pham was one of the two recipients of the PREMIA second prize best student paper awards in February this year.
After the demo, members are invited to a buffet dinner while we will also conduct the AGM plus election at the same time. At the end of the AGM, each member will receive a door gift which is a 2G thumb drive. A limited quantity of the following books will be given away to members on request at the registration desk on a first come first served basis: (1) Data Mining, Concepts and Techniques by J. Han and M. Kamber (this is the text book used for the recent PREMIA Short Course on Data Mining), (2) Data Mining Applications for Small and Medium Enterprises by Prof. Koh Hian Chye (Prof. Koh was one of the instructors in the recent PREMIA Short Course on Data Mining).
The full program for that night is as follows:
6.30 pm – 7.00 pm Registration (Giving away books while stock lasts)
7.00 pm – 7.30 pm “An Introduction to Python” by Mr. Mervin Beng
7.30 pm – 7.40 pm “Demo: Python for Face Detection” by Mr. Pham Minh-Tri
7.40 pm – 9.30 pm Buffet Dinner begins
AGM Agenda:
Confirmation of Minutes of AGM 2007
President’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Election of the Board 2008/2010
Appointment of Auditors 2008/2010
Any Other Business
Distribution of Door Gifts (2G Thumb Drive)
The Tessensohn Clubhouse is easily accessible by buses and is within 5 minutes walk from the Farrer Park MRT on the North East Line. Please visit the Club’s website at http://www.csc.gov.sg/Html/tessensohn.htm for more details. For catering purposes, please register here by 20 August 2008. Further details of the talk and the buffet dinner are appended below.
Title of talk: An Introduction to Python
Synopsis: In recent years the python language has become a favourite among academics and researchers. Originally seen as a high level scripting, the availability of high quality scientific and imaging libraries have made it an attractive prototyping and delivery language. This talk introduces the key features and characteristics of python.
About the Speaker: Mervin Beng is the Director of Republic Polytechnic’s School of Information and Communications Technology (SIT). An early adopter of software and programming languages, he was an early user of Pascal and C when they were still viewed as innovative new languages. At SIT he drove the adoption of python as an introductory language for game development.
Buffet Menu:
1. Spring Roll *
2. Samosa *
3. Fried Prawn
4. Sweet & Sour Sliced Fish
5. Fried Chicken Wing
6. Sambal Sotong
7. Braised Mushroom with Broccoli *
8. Vegetarian Fried Bee Hoon *
9. Longan Bean Curd Jelly *
10. Orange Squash *
(* vegetarian)
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