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Title : Lecturer – Computer Science Job Field : Teaching Stream Faculty / Division : University of Toronto Mississauga Department: Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM Campus: Mississauga Closing Date : September 23, 2013 and continue until filled  Description : The Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences seeks an enthusiastic and innovative teacher for a teaching stream position at the rank of Lecturer in the field of Computer Science beginning July 1, 2014. We seek candidates who have a record of excellent teaching, possess the intellectual curiosity to pursue novel and innovative methods of thinking and teaching, and are interested in establishing a long-term teaching career with the Department. Candidates should have a PhD in computer science or a related field by the time of appointment or shortly thereafter. Evidence of excellence in teaching is necessary. Responsibilities include undergraduate teaching, managing teaching assistants, deve...

USD $31,000 in total will be awarded to winners in the international division of this open source software competition this year. International participants are exclusively allowed to submit any open source software developed within one year, even if they got a prize from another competition with it. In addition, even projects over one year old will be accepted by our judging panel as well, if it has been significantly improved recently. Please visit our website www.ossaward.org . Our registration deadline is August 4th. The final submission deadline is October 6th. I hope you encourage your students to participate. I’m quite sure that this will be a great opportunity for them. Every team that submits its completed project will get an official certificate issued by NIPA of Korea. They have only to submit project document, source code and demo video in English, or provide the project URL including all. We’ll wire the award money to the winners. If you have any questions or need...

We are seeking participants for a study that aims to improve interaction on large, multi-touch surfaces. The session will involve a brief background questionnaire, and performing some routine visual comparisons of data on a large multi-touch display.  The session will be approximately 30 minutes. The session will be held between July 31 and August 8 in DC 2303. Please contact Jim Wallace at james.wallace@uwaterloo.ca if you are interested. This project was reviewed and received ethics clearance through the Office of Research Ethics. Participants will receive $5. Thank you, Jim Wallace Investigator, School of Computer Science Ed Lank Faculty, School of Computer Science Daniel Vogel Faculty, School of Computer Science

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering program invites you to learn about career paths in finance for students with quantitative backgrounds.   The Berkeley MFE Program, which was launched in 2000, has helped hundreds of students  begin rewarding careers on Wall Street  and in   many other financial centers around the world.   We will hold an online information session for students from Canada on August 7 at 2:00 PM Pacific time.   If you are interested in learning how your degree in engineering, physics, computer science, economics, statistics, mathematics, and related disciplines can to a career in finance, please join us.  Please see below for details.   UPCOMING BERKELEY MFE INFO SESSIONS   Online Session for students from Canada Date: August 7, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM Pacific time (please see  timeanddate.com  for the conversion) Location:  berkeleymfe.webex.com MFE Executive Director...

Good morning. We are seeking applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Position in Big Data Analytic. I would greatly appreciate your help in circulating the advertisement to the faculty, recent graduates and students in your department. The posting can be found at the following link.  http://www.ryerson.ca/content/dam/jobs/postings/CRCBigDataAnalytics.pdf

Interested in Data Research?  A new and exciting research lab at New York University - Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is offering one-year research internships (open to undergraduates and graduates), PhD and PostDoc positions under the supervision of Professor Azza Abouzied. We are looking for talented and dedicated students with a strong technical computer science background to be part of an innovative, energetic, and well-funded research community. Our Research  My lab works primarily on solving problems at the intersection of data and people. We design new interaction techniques that allow people to make sense of their data. Some of our projects are motivated by real applications, where we try to enable users to make sense of a particular data set such as historical data sets, transportation or behavior data sets, etc. Other projects are more general: we build tools that support data analysis, querying, collection and curation through intuitive interfaces. My team's research meth...

Here is a job posting for Auryn Inc , a graphics company in California that specializes in artistic rendering of images. Job Description Software Engineer, Mobile Apps Picture books as we know them are being redefined as a mix of animation, story telling, interactivity and a social networking experience between parents, children and teachers. Auryn’s unique blend of professionals with backgrounds in design, animated story telling and computer graphics is uniquely positioned to create the next killer app. Be a part of history. We are looking for strong, generalist developers who can help us realize the vision of next generation picture books on tablet devices. Main responsibilities include Contribute to the roadmap for a tablet application that combines gaming, animated story telling and reading into a unified experience. Code the application that redefines the picture book market. Create immersive experiences using different sensors on tablet devices and optimize the c...