CS @ uWaterloo announcements

P lease be aware that department consent has been removed for CS338, CS451, and CS467 for Winter 2021 as per the information on the course selection page:  https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/majors/cs-course-enrollment . If the class is full, then you will need to wait for students to drop the course before you could add the course for Winter 2021. Please note that the deadline to add courses is Friday, January 22 at 11:59 PM (EST).

Lowe's is looking for exceptional applied research scientists to join their search relevance and ranking team. The Search sciences team works on applying a wide range of information retrieval concepts such as query understanding, NLP, ranking and relevance to improve the overall search experience for their customers. Your work will help millions of home improvement customers search and discover the best products that satisfy their information needs from our catalog of millions of items. About the work: Your work will involve implementing the latest information retrieval approaches to improve product search in the home improvement domain. You will be delivering projects with significant impact on customer satisfaction and revenue. You will build custom NLP models to improve search query understanding based on the latest research in the field of NLP and machine learning. Your work will also involve designing and implementing highly scalable, and efficient machine learning applicati...

CBIT’s Annual Healthcare Hackathon  Jan 2021 | Big Data and Real – World Evidence  Virtual Format: January 22th through the 24th   Apply Here to Participate in the 2020 Healthcare Hackathon!  Visit yalehackhealth.org to complete the Application  Wondering what a healthcare hackathon is? Watch an overview of our past Healthcare Hackathon here .  Questions? Contact us at Yalehackhealth@gmail.com 

We made it! We finally have a Twitter account:  https://twitter.com/UWCheritonCS ! If you'd like to hear more announcements about all the awesome things happening here in the School of Computer Science, then please follow us @UWCheritonCS.