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== Creation Date ==
The Computer Science Club is quite old, and the exact date of founding is unknown. This article will outline major events in the CSClub's history.


The Computer Science Club has been in existence since 1931. The club was not officially part of the University of Waterloo, rather was a general interest club formed by a collection of interested individuals who read Kleene, Church, and Turing's work that formed the basis of Computer Science. The club joined the University of Waterloo shortly after the founding of the University in 1957. Much of the history prior to the creation of the University is unclear, as documents dating back this far have only recently been recovered.
* 196? - founding of the CSClub

** I have attached an emailed frmo 1997 that suggested that we were at least 30 years (as of 1997). This was based on the conclusion that the CSClub existed when the MC was built in 1967.
== The CSC Fire ==

It is believed that many of the documents describing the original club were destroyed when the original office destroyed by a fire at the then Waterloo University (now Wilfred Laurier University).

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Latest revision as of 23:49, 6 September 2010

Creation Date

The Computer Science Club has been in existence since 1931. The club was not officially part of the University of Waterloo, rather was a general interest club formed by a collection of interested individuals who read Kleene, Church, and Turing's work that formed the basis of Computer Science. The club joined the University of Waterloo shortly after the founding of the University in 1957. Much of the history prior to the creation of the University is unclear, as documents dating back this far have only recently been recovered.

The CSC Fire

It is believed that many of the documents describing the original club were destroyed when the original office destroyed by a fire at the then Waterloo University (now Wilfred Laurier University).