CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Radix is a research-driven trading startup (~35 people) led by Michael Rauchman (former CTO and lead architect of GETCO), and Ben Blander (UChicago math PhD and former head of Citadel's high-frequency group).  Over the past two seasons, we've added 12 graduating students from Princeton, Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Columbia, and UChicago, and we’re excited to expand our efforts to Waterloo! Having a technologist as an equal partner in the firm gives us an appreciation and understanding of how much impact technologists can have to the bottom line, so we're excited to throw a ton of responsibility at new grads, provide complete access to our entire stack, mentorship from industry leading technologists, and top tier compensation.  We’re visiting campus next week (Wednesday, July 5 and Thursday, July 6) to meet students interested in full-time opportunities in 2018 and beyond (even if you're already committed to fall and winter internships). Below is when we’re ava...

OpenText is inviting Waterloo students (as well as staff and faculty) to a really great (really free) event this summer called  Future Forward .  If you’re able to, you should take advantage. The event, which is akin to TedX, is designed to help post secondary students explore a career path in Enterprise Software.  Talks are followed up with access to the Expo Hall floor, a fantastic networking opportunity including booths, pods, and demos.  They have several U of W speakers including President Hamdullahpur and Larry Smith.  Future Forward is part of OpenText’s annual user conference.  This year, it’s occurring at the  Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Thursday, July 13 (10am-5:30pm) .  There’s even free travel from Waterloo (and back)!  Not to mention:         FIVE  Paid Internship Opportunities        FREE Alienware Machine Drawing        FREE Food/Refreshments S...

T he Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre and Public Safety Canada (CCIRC) and Public Safety Canada would like to extend an invitation to current students or recent graduates of Computer Engineering, Computer sciences, Information Technology and /or any related program to participate in our annual event, GeekWeek ( https://g33kw33k.ca ). The event is held from October 19 to 27 2017 in Ottawa at the Library and Archives building. This is not an internship offer as participation is not remunerated. However, it is an opportunity for students to work with cyber security experts and build their network in the field, as well as displaying their skills and potential to many employers on the lookout for new talent. The previous edition of GeekWeek welcomed more than 100 participants from Canada and six other countries representing no fewer than 60 companies in varying sectors. The Canadian Cyber Incident Response Center, wishes to contribute to the training of the next generation of cy...

SOLVE BIG PROBLEMS OpenText Future Forward Conference July 13, 2018 Metro Toronto Convention Centre FREE with Student ID Hear from and connect with enterprise software though leaders, subject matter experts, partners, startups, and professionals solving big problems for big companies. Free PAID Internship Opportunities Free Alienware Hardware Drawing Free Professional Profile Photo Free Food/Refreshments Free Transportation from Waterloo. For more information, go to opentext.com/futureforward

CUCSC is an academic conference bringing students from across Canada together to engage with the latest in undergraduate computer science research. The three-day event invites discussion and collaboration between Canada’s brightest computer science undergraduates and experts from academia and industry.  For more details, visit  cucsc.ca/en/about  and  fb.com/cucscccei .

The Horizons One Fellowship The Horizons One Fellowship supports 15 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology. The program provides immersive software engineering and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college students. It also provides Fellows a full-year of industry experience as a software engineer at a high-growth company. Students need not have a computer science background! Our curriculum, developed by ex-Salesforce and Optimizely engineers alongside PhDs in computer science, is designed to teach students how to build web, mobile, and desktop applications. We have 2-year, 4-month and 3-month programs in cities across the U.S. Our Horizons Speaker Series brings in successful founders, investors, and technologists into the classroom. You'll hear from some of the industry's foremost experts. We've had some amazing speakers like the founders of Zenefits, Coinbase, Digital Ocean, Andela, x.ai, Shapewa...

#StudentServe: How we’re celebrating social impact and all the ways students                 across the world are giving back in their local communities. The Actions Challenge: Develop an app for the Google Assistant to win a trip                          to I/O 2018 and more than 20 other prizes. Read on to learn more. Hope to see you at our upcoming YouTube Live event  Save the Date:  June 5) and on social media. Happy summer, Caitlin, on behalf of Google's University Programs Team #StudentServe: How are you giving back this summer? In June, Googlers will join together to give back in their local communities as part of  our 10th  annual “GoogleServe.” We know many of you will be doing service in your  communities,  too—and we’re excited to celebrate the impact ...