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Coop position available Winter 2019 with Prof   Semih Salihoglu .  Title: Finding maximally connected callers in phone networks Description: We are looking for a co-op student  for the Winter 2019 term to work on a project to find all maximal cliques continuously in a dynamic phone call network of a telecommunications company. In other words, the problem we will be solving is to find all "maximal" sets of phones that are calling each other as new calls are being made in a network of phones. The work will be based on applying the techniques developed by a recent MMath graduate of Prof. Semih Salihoglu (thesis here: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/14051 ) to a real-world problem of a customer of Huawei. The responsibilities will involve understanding the techniques developed in the thesis and implementing a specialized version of those techniques to undirected graphs. The final product will be a proof-of-concept tool that hopefully will be significant...

Courses have been scheduled based on pre-registration. From now until the start of the term, you can drop-add courses in Quest. Here are a few important notes moving forward: If you get a “department reserve” error when attempting to add a course, it’s likely that the course has a waiting list . You will not be able to add that course until the waiting list clears, around the start of the term.Waiting lists are only used to manage pre-registration, and we cannot add you to the waiting list. If you pre-registered for a course and didn’t get in, then you are already on the waiting list! If you didn’t pre-register, you will need to wait for the list to clear and department consent to be removed. You can find more information regarding the waitlist here . The removal of department consent will be posted on the CS Blog .  We will not override you into any classes unless you meet the specific guidelines listed below (see special cases ). We do not make exceptions to this rule! Eng...

TODAY - WiCS will be hosting a panel on careers that strive towards creating social good.  This event is open to all students.

Are you in your final year of your undergrad and are considering grad school?  If so, then you should consider applying for the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program. Our Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Christiane Lemieux, will be offering advice to current 4th year undergrad students and current grad students with their Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s (CGS-M) applications. The students can either sign up or join a drop-in session. (See dates below) Drop-in Sessions in MC 5251: • Thursday, November 22/18 at 11am – 1pm • Friday, November 23/18 from 11am – 1pm By Appointment only Sessions in MC 5251: • Monday, November 26/18 from 10am – 12pm • Tuesday, November 27/18 from 10am – 12pm • Please contact mgo@uwaterloo.ca for appointments for this session

StarCon is a two-day software engineering conference held in Waterloo on January 19-20 2019. The weekend will be filled with lightning talks about technology, computer science, programming, and the joy of learning about them! This year, the lineup features Vaidehi Joshi (creator of BaseCS), Nasma Ahmed (director of the Digital Justice Lab) and other amazing speakers! Check out the list talks here: https://starcon.io/talks/ . Tickets are $16, but in return you get free food for two days. Tickets are first come, first served, so get yours soon before they sell out! https://eventbrite.ca/e/starcon-2019-tickets-51364393283 .

Interested in Becoming an Amazonian? Amazon is excited to continue recruiting for full time Software Development Engineering positions for our Vancouver, Toronto and Winnipeg offices. Visit Amazon.jobs and enter the ID below for more information: Software Development Engineer, Full-time 723371. There will be 2019 coop position posted on Amazon in the upcoming weeks.

The Societal Computing PhD program in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is looking for PhD students. The program is designed f or students with a strong technical background and interest, but who are not satisfied with just more technical education alone. If you are someone who want to use your technical skills to help solve societal problems, then this program is for you!  For more information, have a look at our  short video , check out their  faculty , visit their  website , and browse their research projects in these broad categories: Applied Systems and Infrastructure Complex Socio-technical Systems Computing Technology and Policy Network Science and Social Networks Privacy and Security Please go to the following link to  apply .

Engineer position: Multi-dimensional data visualization XPLOR is a unique visualization software developed by the Computing and Data Science team at CNRS laboratory UNIC (Unit of Neuroscience, Information and Complexity). It offers smooth navigation inside large multi-dimensional data and fast extraction of meaningful information. It allows the exploration and fast interpretation of large volumes of neurobiology imaging data, yet it is a powerful generic platform with potential applications to all domains treating with large multi-dimensional data. Further developments of the software can include new visualization modes or linkages between different displays, as well as the inclusion of machine learning algorithms to automatically extract regularities in the data (e.g. clustering, dimension reduction, etc.). The company is looking for an engineer with skills in data visualization, graphic UI/UX programming, and/or machine learning to contribute to and promote an open-source visualiz...