CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Come and support fellow  students and learn about their projects at that  2019 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium. Everyone is welcome to explore these groundbreaking projects on Thursday, March 28, 2019 throughout the day in the Davis Centre. Teams will present their projects from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with awards for best projects to follow at 6:00 p.m.  The 2019 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in software engineering design. Computer Science projects will also be interspersed along with software engineering projects. A variety of topics will be showcased from gaming and food applications to automotive safety features and breast cancer research.  The projects span areas within computer science and software engineering and they relate specifically to the personal interests of students. For more information about team members and their proj...

Courses have been scheduled based on pre-enrollment/course selection and you can now drop/add courses in Quest. Please read the following as they might apply to you, especially if you find that you are not able to enroll into certain courses. I get a "department reserve" error, what do I do? OR I selected a course and wasn't enrolled into it, what do I do? If you get a “department reserve” error when attempting to add a course, it’s likely that the course has a waiting list. If you did not pre-register/course select for the course, then you will not be able to add that course until the waiting list clears (usually around the start of the term). Waiting lists are only used to manage pre-registration, and we cannot add you to the waiting list. You will need to wait for the list to clear and department consent to be removed. You can find more information regarding the wait list here . The removal of department consent on a course will be posted on the CS Blog as well. ...

As a gentle reminder, Vitalik Buterin will give a talk in Professor Alfred Menezes’s class on Monday March 25 at 9:30AM in RCH 101, followed by a discussion with students at 10:20AM in RCH 205. All are welcome to attend.

Join us for an exciting talk from Vitalki Buterin, creator of Ethereum and cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine. Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are one of the most interesting technological developments of the last decade, allowing us for the first time to build applications that are fully decentralized, so no one controls them, and that can hold a long-term memory of what happened in the system in what order with what consequences. Originally invented to allow peer-to-peer payments to take place without relying on payment processing monopolies and central banks as intermediaries, today they are starting to be used for a much wider array of applications, and a whole science, combining elements of cryptography, distributed systems and game theory, is forming around how to design blockchain-based applications in different contexts. Vitalik Buterin is the creator of Ethereum. He first discovered blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies through Bitcoin in 2011, and was immediate...

Come and support fellow  students and learn about their projects at that  2019 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium. Everyone is welcome to explore these groundbreaking projects on Thursday, March 28, 2019 throughout the day in the Davis Centre. Teams will present their projects from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with awards to follow at 6:00 p.m. The 2019 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in software engineering design. A variety of topics will be showcased from gaming and food applications to automotive safety features and breast cancer research.  The projects span areas within computer science and software engineering and they relate specifically to the personal interests of students. For more information about team members and their projects, please see the 2019 Software Engineering Capstone Design Projects list .  The 2019 Software Engineer...

Come join HeForShe Arts for an exciting and free screening of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, A L I E N (1979): The crew of  Nostromo  investigates a strange distress call from a nearby moon, but the is marooned when their ship breaks down. Unable to leave, they investigate the strange desolate moon. Meanwhile the distress call is decoded, but to their horror, it’s a warning message to stay away, but it’s already too late as their team is picked off one by one...   There will be a casual discussion about the themes after the movie screening. Don’t fear if you don’t handle horror movies well! Bring your friends and you can all scream in comradery, after all,  in space, no one can hear you scream. We will serve free pizza (vegan options available). Please RSVP at https://bit.ly/2Vz8bEM Event details: Tuesday, March 14, 2019 5:30pm – 8:30pm MC 2065

MongoDB has just launched the MongoDB World Hackathon , an online competition for developers to build applications that use at least one of the following MongoDB tools: MongoDB Server, MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB Stitch, MongoDB Mobile, and MongoDB Charts. Participants who submit an eligible application will qualify for a chance to win the $10,000 grand prize.  Three finalists will also receive flights to New York City and a complimentary two night stay at the Hilton Hotel ( see website for full details   at  mongodbworld19.devpost.com ) for MongoDB World 2019 to present their submission for a chance to win the cash prize. Submissions are open now until April 30, 2019 at 5pm EDT. Please contact Cassie Breen ( cassie@devpost.com ) for more information or join the Slack Channel where there is a dedicated MongoDB personnel that can help you with questions and technical assistance.  MongoDB World Hackathon Join the Slack Channel (#hackathon): https://launchpass.co...