The end of the school year is approaching fast, which means WiCS elections is also just around the corner. As a result, we'll be holding an informational meeting this upcoming Wednesday, April 19th, at 4:30pm in Muhly Lounge (3 MLH). At this meeting, we will be discussing the different roles of WiCS and the current leadership will answer questions in regards to what they do and how you can get involved in leadership this upcoming academic year!

Come participate in our annual ACM@UIOWA chapter officer elections. Here is a brief summary of each of the positions we will be voting on: 

Due to surging prices and a mostly unregulated ecosystem, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have become a frequent talking point on the national stage. Tech companies, however, are more excited about the underlying technology (blockchain) that enables these cryptocurrencies. What is all the hype about?

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Datacenters host a wide range of today's low-latency applications. To meet their strict latency requirements at scale, datacenter networks are designed as topologies that can provide a large number of parallel paths between each pair of hosts. The recent trend towards simple datacenter network fabric strips most network functionality, including load balancing among these paths, out of the network core and pushes it to the edge. This slows reaction to microbursts, the main culprit of packet loss -- and consequently performance degradation -- in datacenters.