Societies and sports

CompSoc

CompSoc Edinburgh is Scotland’s largest tech society – run by students at the University of Edinburgh. The society is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about the IT industry. People come to them for support in all thing's technology – they are the technology hub of the university!

CompSoc host monthly Student Tech Meetups, regular workshops, and quite a few social events with a touch of Computer Science culture. They also organise one of the largest hackathons in the country, Hack the Burgh - with over 150 attendees coming from around the world. 

They have several special interest groups (SIGs) who focus on more specific aspects of computing.  

• SIGINT – Cyber Security 
• GameDevSIG – Game Development 
• Project Share - Share what you are building
• TypeSIG – Type Theory and related fields 
• Edinburgh AI – Artificial Intelligence
• Hack the Burgh – Hackathon Planning
• Tardis Project – Hosting and Server Maintenance
• CloudSIG – Cloud
• Quantsig - Quantitative Finance and Algorithmic Trading  
• BitSIG - OS, Computer Networks, Computer Architectures, Parallel and Distributed Systems 
• CCSIG - Competitive Programming

Hoppers

Edinburgh Hoppers (the Hoppers), our student-run women and gender minorities in technology group, has been going strong since September 2005. They organise a variety of events such as workshops, tech talks and socials, often in collaboration with various companies. Hoppers create a community for women in Informatics. The group is named after computer science pioneer Grace Hopper.

Hoppers Facebook group