CS @ uWaterloo announcements

a nyWare is a SSHRC funded interdisciplinary/inter-institutional research creation project between Fine Arts (University of Waterloo - Assistant Professor Jane Tingley), Game Design, (Sheridan College - Professor Cindy Poremba), and Software Engineering (author of OpenSCAD - Marius Kintel). The goal of anyWare is to design an interactive, distributed sculpture, in three different locations in the world - Vienna, Toronto, and Montréal, that incorporates game design in order to structure interaction. We are seeking motivated and responsible students to work on this project.  1. We are seeking highly motivated students who can contribute to software development for the project. This includes core and distributed logic, backend development and DevOps, as well as embedded and physical computing. We are looking for full-stack developers with experience with agile methodologies and knowledgeable in one or more of the following fields: • node.js (MEAN stack) • Distributed Sy...

Students interested in Software Engineering, Engineers from Apple, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, FaceBook,  and  Amazon are available to help you with career advice. CareerDean is an online community for students and professionals to learn and share career tips with the top software engineers through Q&A. If you don’t know what to ask, see the popular Q&A's here:  https://www.careerdean.com/?section=popular Learn How To Best:  1. Market yourself as a student to employers 2. Learn how to prepare for interviews and what to do at career fairs 3. Select between multiple offers (Startup or Corporate?) CareerDean is backed by 9 investors including the the  VP of HR at   GoPro , Jeff Ryan, and the former  Director of Recruiting at Twitter , Oliver Ryan. We understand the hurdles of recruiting from the student's perspective as well as the employer's. Ask your career questions here:  https://www.careerdean.com/

Please review the latest Computer Science projects from MindSumo. MindSumo partners with employers to create projects that you can complete to get work experience, win prizes, and be hired for jobs and internships. Questions can be directed to aaron@mindsumo.com Cigna Challenge: How would you effectively scale a large number of production databases? - $600 in prizes Logitech Challenge: Propose a product to improve remote communication between two people - $1000 in prizes Astrazenca Challenge: Propose a tool to capture information during a brainstorming session - $1000 in prizes Direct Links: https://www.mindsumo.com/contests/how-would-you-effectively-scale-a-large-number-of-production-databases https://www.mindsumo.com/contests/propose-a-product-to-improve-remote-communication-between-people https://www.mindsumo.com/contests/propose-a-tool-to-capture-information-during-a-brainstorming-session

The deadline for Waterloo students to apply to the FirstMark Elite < http://firstmarkcap.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bef1ee93f6f3552f43730b33e&id=6b998d3cfa&e=fb4eb68985 > summer internship program is midnight on this Friday, January 23rd.  With one application, students can apply to 25+ world-changing startups. Additional program details and the application can be found at firstmarkelite.com< http://firstmarkcap.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bef1ee93f6f3552f43730b33e&id=bd4b4606e5&e=fb4eb68985 >.

Come hear about Plottable.js, the open-source JavaScript library we developed to power charts in Palantir's web products. We'll dig into alternatives we explored, reasons we built Plottable, and show off what it's capable of. Justin Lan – Software Engineer and Matt Betten – Support Engineer, will be on site for the presentation and to answer questions.  View a live demo of our data fusion platforms, and learn how you can be a part of our mission.  www.palantir.com Location: Fed Hall (Multi-purpose room A & B) Date: Monday, January 19th Time: 7:30 pm Food will be served. Enter raffle to win a prize! We are hiring!  http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPositionLanding

The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University offers a one-week, all-expenses-paid undergraduate summer school on vision science.  This year's program will be held June 1-5, 2015. The program includes talks by CVR faculty on current research topics in vision science, as well as hands-on experience in CVR laboratories. The curriculum reflects the wide range of research areas at CVR, which includes research on human visual perception, computer vision, visual neuroscience, 3D film, immersive environments, and disorders of vision. The program will accept 24 undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in scientific research.  It is intended mainly for students who are planning to apply to graduate school in the fall of 2015, and who are interested in investigating vision science as a possible area of research. Citizens of all countries are eligible. The program provides on-campus accommodations, breakfast and lunch each day, and reimbursement ...

We are a small project team experimenting with various new user experience designs and developments for mobile apps based on the latest research on Internet data security. We believe this venture has the potential to make profound impacts on day-to-day Internet usage. We are looking for a talented, hands-on, and entrepreneurial individual to join and help shape the user experience and mobile app development. Responsibilities include designing and building advanced applications for iOS platform, and cooperating with other team members to brainstorm and define new features for the application. The ideal candidate should have some knowledge and/or experience (intern experience counted) of commercial mobile app development in iOS platform. Experience with Objective-C/Swift/Cocoa/Touch, image editing/effects/Camera and mobile social networking applications are preferred. This position requires some teamwork, but predominantly will be completed from home at your own time (Part-T...

Information Session on Graduate Studies In the Faculty of Mathematics 2nd, 3rd and 4th year undergraduates are invited to learn what  Graduate Studies is all about.  Departments represented will include: Applied Mathematics Combinatorics & Optimization Computational Mathematics Computer Science Pure Mathematics Statistics & Actuarial Science Date: THURSDAY, JANUARY 15th, 2015 Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm Place: DC 1304