Student Clubs and Societies
UNSW has over 200 clubs and societies, including the Bioinformatics Society and Computer Society specifically for computing students. The ACM and IEEE UNSW Student Chapter at UNSW are also popular with our students. Together, these societies organise many industry talks, training sessions, help with Linux and even BBQs. More clubs and societies.
The CSE Society drives the social life of students at UNSW COMPUTING through writing up a weekly newsletter (from which many of the articles in this student guide are adapted), to a weekly FREE BBQ, to trivia nights and so on.
The CSE Revue Run by UNSW COMPUTING students and with over 200 members, this annual stage comedy extravaganza has CSE students venture out of the computer labs to showcase their talents in video production, special effects, acting, singing and dancing! www.cserevue.org.au
Robocup 4 Legged League is an international competition using Sony AIBO robot dogs to play soccer! There is no remote-control - once the game starts the Robots are in control of themselves. They see the ball, the goals, and work together to score. Our team is also unique in that we use a new team of undergraduate students every year while most others rely on PhD students or even academics! Our students have the best results from any team in the world!
The 2006 Robocup Team
| Year | Rank | Location |
| 1999 | 2nd | Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2000 | 1st | Melbourne, Australia |
| 2001 | 1st | Seattle, USA |
| 2002 | 2nd | Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2003 | 1st | Padova, Italy |
| 2004 | 1/4 finals | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2005 | 3rd | Osaka, Japan |
| 2006 | 2nd | Bremen, Germany |
| 2008 | 1/4 finals | Suzhou, China |
The ACM "Prog Comp" is the largest programming competition in the world for university students. Teams of three compete to solve as many problems as possible in the shortest time. UNSW has come first (and often second as well!) in the South Pacific from 2001 to 2005.
The 2005 ACM Team
| Year | Rank | |
| 2001 | 1st | South Pacific Region |
| 11th | from 1,079 Universities worldwide | |
| 2002 | 1st | South Pacific Region |
| 11th | from 1,337 Universities worldwide | |
| 2003 | 1st & 2nd | South Pacific Region |
| 21st | from 1329 Universities worldwide | |
| 2004 | 1st | South Pacific Region |
| 15th | from 1300 Universities worldwide | |
| 2005 | 1st | South Pacific Region |
