Dear HCS,

Datamatch 2011 was an astounding success. This year, Datamatch had 878 males and 1382 females participating. In case you don't have a slide rule handy, this works out to a total of 2260 participants, making this the most successful Datamatch in memory. Good work, Harvard!

Here are some fun/interesting stats from the answers that we saw this year:

One of the Harvard Computer Society's most prominent public services is mail. HCS hosts 5,000 mailing lists, and 1,700 student-group and user email/web accounts. We thought the community would find it interesting to see some of our mail statistics for Fall 2010. We started archiving log data in late September 2010, continuing through the present, with an interruption in mid-November.

Datamatch 2010 was an overwhelming success!
We ushered in a new era of decreased awkwardness and increased win by implementing bidirectional pairings for all undergraduate participants. We also received one of the largest numbers of submissions in our history, with almost 2000 validated submissions!

The Harvard Computer Society is a student group dedicated to promoting interest in computing and information technologies among members of the Harvard community, with great wit and panache. Leave your name and email address to find out how you can become involved today.

Don't let your minds be consumed by thoughts of the near term as finals approach! Come to the last Harvard Computer Society seminar of the semester and shift gears by hearing about the bigger picture. Our speaker will talk about impending developments ranging from the fusion of computer science with new fields, to a future of intelligent machines outsmarting humans.

A Future of Computer Science

Where: Maxwell-Dworkin G135

When: 7pm Tuesday, December 1