CS @ uWaterloo announcements

The History department has just added an online course for this Spring term to provide options for students looking to continue their studies remotely. The History Society is happy to offer this recently added online course for Spring 2020: A Long History of the Internet.  The Internet has enabled global connection on an unprecedented level. To live and innovate in a society dominated by network communications requires an understanding of from where we’ve come from. Yet, as Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have noted, the “Internet is among the few things humans have built that they don’t truly understand.” While the technological story of the rise of the Internet and the Web today is important – our course touches on early computing, theories of hypertext, the ARPANET, and the networking revolutions of the 1980s and 1990s – the longer human story is equally critical. How has the concept of information evolved? How has print media emerged and evolved? How ...

The NSERC  Undergraduate Student Research Award  (USRA) is a great opportunity for undergraduates to work with a researcher and carry out full-time research for a term. The goal of the program is to stimulate your interest in research and to encourage you to pursue a future in research and/or better prepare you for a graduate studies degree. If you would like to gain research work experience that complements your studies in an academic setting, this award provides you with financial support to do so.  We’re currently accepting applications for 2020/21. If you’re interested in a USRA for Spring 2020, please submit an application by March 23. All details, and how to apply, are here: https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/usra Please contact Shoshannah Holdom/Jessica Leung if you have any questions: sholdom@uwaterloo.ca / j10leung@uwaterloo.ca