Sponsors

Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale. Palantir’s software is deployed at public institutions, private enterprises, and in the non-profit sector to address the challenges of responsibly making sense of complex and diverse data.

We solve the technical problems, so they can solve the human ones. Combating terrorism. Tracking disease outbreaks. Finding missing and exploited children. We believe that with the right technology and enough data, people can still solve hard problems and change the world for the better.

View a live demo of our data fusion platforms, and learn how you can be a part of our mission.

http://www.palantir.com

If you have any questions about career opportunities, feel free to contact ruth@fb.com

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the marketing name for the company’s global banking and global markets businesses.

Technology embraces everything we do. From trading and research applications, sales, trade processing and risk management to portfolio management, payment services, security analytics and relationship management, being at the cutting edge of technology is essential at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In order for us to maintain our market-leading position, we know we have to take on the right people and give them the support they need in order to succeed.

We’ve developed programmes that allow you to work with the latest technologies and some of the smartest people. The global nature of this function will also allow you to travel, work and interact with colleagues from around the world.

Opportunities We are looking for ambitious technology graduates to work with the latest technology and the smartest people at the heart of the financial world.

Insight Week For students graduating in 2015, we are offering a one-week insight programme at our London office in March 2013. This will be an opportunity for you to gain an early insight into Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and to get ahead in the race for Summer Internship positions.

Summer Internships Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Summer Internship programme is the ideal opportunity to gain an introduction into the world of banking. The nine-week programme begins with an induction week covering core skills where you will work alongside our full-time employees to gain valuable work experience in the financial industry.

Industrial Placements Six- and 12-month industrial placements are available within the Technology division.

Application deadlines Full-time analyst: 13 December 2012 Summer Internship deadline: 13 December 2012 Industrial placement deadline: 13 December 2012

Red Gate Software produces ingeniously simple tools for technology professionals worldwide. We design highly usable, reliable tools that solve the problems of DBAs and developers. We’re an entrepreneurial bunch and are often experimenting with new tools, products and special projects. Our award-winning software is used by over 500,000 customers globally, we’re successful, growing steadily and have been recognised by the Sunday Times ‘Best Small Companies To Work For’ list for six years running.

The people at Red Gate are some of the brightest in the industry and those who join us find themselves constantly learning from those around them. Learning from and collaborating with people who are experts in their field and are truly passionate about what they do is a big part of life here. We work in small, close-knit teams with all the support and encouragement needed for people to challenge themselves and grow professionally.

G-Research produces quantitative investment research, software and IT systems for use in investment management.

They have provided the society with significant sponsorship and we look forward to a lasting, productive relationship.

Metaswitch Networks develops, manufactures, markets and supports Class 5 Softswitch products for central office and regional switching center deployments.

Metaswitch sponsor the CompSoc Technology Competition.

Jane Street Capital is a quantitative proprietary trading firm that operates around the clock and around the globe. Founded in 2000, Jane Street is over 280 committed people in New York, London, and Hong Kong.

Jane Street have provided the society with financial support which has enabled us to keep membership costs low and support social events as well as cover general running costs.

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath which provides internet data analysis, defences against fraud and phishing, web application security testing, and automated penetration testing. In particular, Netcraft's anti-phishing services are very widely licensed, ultimately protecting hundreds of millions of people.

Netcraft have provided the society with significant financial sponsorship, which has helped us restart the society this year.

Deloitte is the second largest professional services firm in the world, with 182,000 employees in more than 150 countries providing audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services.

Deloitte have provided the society with some financial assistance, and the society hopes to build a lasting relationship with them.

Until April 2007 Energis Squared provided a secondary DNS server, hosting outside .ox.ac.uk for stanley, and handled secondary MX.

Black Cat used to provide web hosting and domain names to small users. They sponsored our termcard on several occasions, provided secondary DNS for us, and used to provide our primary DNS server.

WDR became involved with the society in 1998. They attended a few talks as guests, presented their own talk on "Big Brother" and subsequently donated a substantial amount of equipment to the society. This donation included two Sun UltraSparcs, a Hewlett-Packard C110 and a range of SCSI disk and tape drives. Read the report on this event.

CI-Net, formerly Community Internet, is an Oxford based internet service provider which provides colocation outside of the University network for Stanley, and used to provide a secondary DNS server.

AMD donated a computer in Hilary 2002. Read the full report.

In Hilary 2007, they donated another computer, after the previous one lost its magic smoke.

In late 2002 IMM donated Compsoc a Compaq Proliant server and RAID array.

Mondus made a substantial cash donation of £500. This was used in the celebrations of Compsoc's twenty first anniversary in 2000 as well as to cover general running expenses.

Daffy, which was our main server for a long time, was donated by Progress Computer Systems in 1995.

In Hilary 2005 the Department of Astrophysics in Oxford donated a server to Compsoc.