CS @ uWaterloo announcements

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is offering a special topics course for Winter 2023 called ECE 493 LEC 002 (Foundations of Multi-agent Systems) and it is taught by Seyed Majid Zahedi. If CS students have questions on the course, then they can contact the course instructor at smzahedi@uwaterloo.ca. ECE will override any interested CS students into the course beginning on December 7 as per their enrolment website - https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/course-enrolment-w23#StudentCS. Students should email eceadvis@uwaterloo.ca to request an override as they won’t be able to add the course themselves in Quest. Course Descriptions: This course is an introduction to the mathematical and computational foundations of modern multi agent systems, with a focus on game theoretic analysis of systems in which rational and self-interested agents interact strategically. The course studies problems at the interface of economic theory, computer science, and co...

The successful applicant(s) will work with Professors Maura R. Grossman and Dan Brown on a LITE seed grant studying the efficacy of their new course on discrimination in computing. Assigned tasks will include, but will not be limited to, assisting in generating a student questionnaire, attending class sessions to code student activity, data analysis, and help in preparing a manuscript (read:   publication opportunity!).   Ideally, the student(s) would be available to begin working before January 2023 to assist in planning the study. Hours are not expected to exceed five per week in W23 and/or 6.5 per week in S23, with a salary of $31.50 per hour (plus 4% vacation allotment). If interested, please email both Professors Grossman ( maura.grossman@uwaterloo.ca ) and Brown ( dan.brown@uwaterloo.ca ) an expression of interest, a copy of your resume, and an unofficial transcript. Questions welcome.

Columbia Business School has a unique interdisciplinary PhD program  in the Decision, Risk and Operations division, where it combines math, engineering, economics, and data science, to improve decision making and policy via mathematical models and data-driven analytics. Key differentiators of the program include a low student-to-faculty ratio, full funding, all-star faculty, flexibility to choose an advisor, rigorous coursework, deep and impactful research, an attractive location, brilliant fellow students from diverse backgrounds, and an unparalleled academic placement record.    The PhD program webpage, including an informational video, is  here  (application deadline: Dec 15, 2022). There will be multiple opportunities to interact with faculty and students during the admissions process.  Please contact Dan Spacher ( ds2187@gsb.columbia.edu ) if you encounter any logistical issues in submitting your application.   In addition, ...

MedInclude  is looking for CS students to help build the back-end of the thier platform from December 2022 to March 2023 (can start in January 2023 if preferred). This venture is supported by GreenHouse as a social impact venture that is simplifying medical information for newcomers (and other groups). Below is the summary of the project: Problem Miscommunication is the primary factor in 80% of all medical errors. Every year, healthcare institutions spend billions of dollars worldwide on malpractice litigation, non-adherence to medication, and unnecessary care, all caused primarily by miscommunication. Regardless of the medium, audience, or topic, oftentimes, medical information is written the same way; with a lot of medical jargon. This is ok for a peer-reviewed article but not so much for a patient discharge note or other patient-facing documents. Target ● Patients ● Caregivers ● Physicians ● Hospital admin Solution features ● Patient app/platform -...

If you want a great job but feel stuck, join Zero Work; a single weekend crash course in better job hunting and career design from scratch. “This gave me a no-fluff rundown of how to get started thinking about my career. It helped me a lot – I would recommend Zero Work to everyone.” -Jayne, 1B In two engaging and interactive workshops, you’ll learn what employers are looking for and what you’re looking for. Practice breaking down your career options, networking without feeling like a fraud, rebuilding your resume, nailing interviews, and finding personal success within a cohort of like minded peers.   “Zero Work is the best instructions on how to build a career that you love!” -Jordan, Graduate Studies Plus get dozens of career strategies written by students like you about your shared problems, fireside Q&As with expert career advisors, incredible friendship opportunities, and more. This isn’t school. You’ll be taking real career steps and getting real results. “Zero Work...

As always, there are great opportunities to build real-life solutions, learn new skills and get a shot at some fantastic prizes. NEAR MetaBUILD III Hackathon by Near Protocol PRIZES: $1,000,000 in prizes  DEADLINE: Nov 21, 2022 @ 5:00pm EST JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/nearbuild3u AWS Data Exchange for APIs Challenge by Amazon PRIZES: $35,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Nov 21, 2022 @ 5:00pm EST JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/adx4apisu XDC DeFi Hackathon by XDC Network PRIZES: $50,750 in prizes DEADLINE: Dec 19, 2022 @ 5:00pm EST JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/xdcnetworku Please feel free to reach out with any questions to cassie@devpost.com

The Hackathon is being hosted by the Green Software Foundation (GSF) and is running in Oct/Nov. The GSF has managed to pool together $90K prize money, free access to WattTime’s API and a terrific judging panel. The hackathon website is https://grnsft.org/hack22 .

Are you an undergraduate student considering a career in leading-edge biomedical research? The Department of Medical Biophysics (MBP) at the University of Toronto will be holding a Virtual Open House on Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 10:00 am to noon (EST), via Zoom Meeting. We invite you to attend this event to explore our interdisciplinary MSc and PhD Graduate and Summer Undergraduate Research Programs. This is your opportunity to speak with Medical Biophysics (MBP) profs and graduate students. Learn how to apply to our graduate program, find out more about our programs from the perspective of our current graduate students and view poster displays by world-leading research labs. Some quick facts about MBP: - We have more than 220 graduate students and 120 faculty. - We are the only University of Toronto Department operating within hospital research institutes; our students are based in Research institutes including the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Research I...

The Centre for Society, Technology, and Values is offering STV 302: Information Technology & Society in the Winter 2023 term.  It has a new instructor: Cosmin Munteanu, who is the new  Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Healthy Aging .  

 New course: STV305 - Technology, society and the modern city. Please contact Cameron.Shelly<@>uwaterloo.ca for more information.

Looking to take your learning even further and build real-world solutions for some of the world's top companies? Take a look at the latest Devpost hackathons available for all skill levels:   AWS Health AI Hackathon by Amazon PRIZES: $48,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Oct 14, 2022 @ 5:00pm PDT JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/awshealthu     Codegeist 2022 by Atlassian PRIZES: $300,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Oct 31, 2022 @ 5:00pm EDT JOIN THE HACKATHON:  NO PURCH. NEC. Official Rules:  https://codegeist.devpost.com/rules   EVMxIdeathon by Helios Note: There is a track for ideas only and a track to build! PRIZES: $125,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Oct 31, 2022 @ 4:00pm UTC JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/evmxideathon22u     Google Maps Platform Hackathon by Google Inc PRIZES: $24,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Nov 14, 2022 @ 5:00pm EST JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/gmaps22u   ...

The main objective of this course is to provide students with the skills that are needed to design, develop, and operate the integration, release, and deployment pipelines that are at the centre of modern devops-based software releasing practices. Modern software delivery teams are tasked with selecting appropriate software delivery tools and assembling them to produce integration, release, and deployment pipelines that connect development, release, and operations processes. Through the course material, students will gain experience in developing integration, release, and deployment pipelines. More specifically, students will: understand the challenges of modern software delivery learn to leverage several key software delivery tools (e.g., build automation, infrastructure-as-code) study and improve upon existing open-source integration, release, and deployment pipelines  For more information, please go to the course website:  CS489: Software Delivery . 

Jane Street  is excited to announce their upcoming webinars featuring their  Production Engineer  internship!  If you're an avid programmer who enjoys collaborative problem-solving, join us on  October 5th or 6th at 12pm ET  to take a deep dive into the day-to-day of their Production Engineer interns and learn how you can use your skillset in this role at Jane Street. 

MAPS 2022 (Mount Allison Programming Showdown) is an open, online, ICPC-style programming competition taking place on Saturday, October 1, from 12:00 to 5:00pm EDT (hosted on Kattis). For more information, go to: https://mapscontest.com/. 

If you want to make a difference but don’t know how, The Zero Experience is now accepting applications for its Fall programming! In this wildly popular online innovation programming built by UW students, join teams of peers to research and design creative solutions for globally urgent problems. You’ll learn how to launch lucrative careers, promising startups, impactful social programs, and more from scratch. Practice being a leader for your peers, discovering novel impact opportunities, networking without feeling fake, and confidently sharing your ideas in this lightweight (once-a-week online workshops, that’s it!) but deeply impactful experience. With over a thousand UWaterloo students joining the program in the last two years, the Zero Experience is proven to work. And this isn’t school; everything you learn is immediately applicable in your daily life, but continues to return value years later.  So if you’ve ever wanted to stand out and make an impact, but you don’t know where t...

Scale AI  is a leading company in the space of machine learning data annotation and tooling. Every year Scale organizes a Machine Learning conference which is attended by well known figures in ML space e.g. Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li, Sam Altman etc. The talks are focused on ML best practices, state of the art breakthroughs and systems in production at leading companies e.g. Deepmind, OpenAI, Google. You can get a summary of last year's conference  here.   This year's conference will be a mix of in person and virtual sessions and  virtual participation is FREE . This is a great opportunity for students focusing on Machine Learning to network with and listen to industry leaders.  It would be great if you could share this with your student body . We usually have a lot of student researchers participating but historically Canadian universities have been underrepresented, so we would love to see more students participating from UW.  Regist...

I t's only a matter of time before we are headed back for the next semester, however there's still time to get in some summer hacking! These challenges provide some excellent learning opportunities and a chance to win amazing prizes, collaborate, and more. Below are the details: Build the Galaxy's Best Super App  by Rapyd PRIZES: $119,000 in prizes DEADLINE: September 15 at 5:00pm EDT JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/htg3uni     HelloSign Go Paperless Hackathon  by HelloSign PRIZES: $30,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Sep 26, 2022 @ 5:00pm EDT JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/hellosign22u

About the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Founded in 1851, the University of Minnesota has five campuses, with the flagship campus located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, US. The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is known as a Public Ivy League university with 26 Nobel Prize winners. Its 17 colleges offer more than 300 majors, making it one of the most comprehensive universities in the United States. The College of Science and Engineering was established in 1935 and has 13 departments. Among them, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has strong academic strength. In 2020, Guide2Research ranked the department as 26th in the United States and 40th in the world. About the advisor Chang Ge received his Ph.D from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in June 2022. He is joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities as an Assistant Professor in the Fall semester of 2022. He is broa...

BDO Canada   invites current university students and upcoming grads looking for technology consulting co-op and full-time opportunities in 2023 to meet us at our new Oakville office to  #GetToKnowBDO  on  Tuesday, August 30th from 5:00pm – 7:30pm EST.  Learn more about our technology services, including but not limited to Cyber, Cloud, Development, Data & Analytics, CRM, and more.  Experience our culture first hand while networking with staff (from recent graduates to partners!). Light refreshments will be served.   Registration Link:   https://www.boomset.com/apps/eventpage/120062

The Centre for Society, Technology & Values is offering STV 306: Biotechnology & Society this fall. This is a fun course with a lot of relevant emerging issues that would have a strong impact on society as wwhole.  

Please be aware that department consent has been removed for CS343 and CS348 for Fall 2022 as per the information on the  course enrollment page . If the class is full, then you will need to wait for students to drop the course before you could add the course. Please note that the deadline to add courses is Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 11:59 PM (EST).

Please be aware that department consent has been removed for CS349 for Fall 2022 as per the information on the  course enrollment page . If the class is full, then you will need to wait for students to drop the course before you could add the course. Please note that the deadline to add courses is Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 11:59 PM (EST). 

Even though summer is here, there are still some great hackathon opportunities to keep your skills sharp!    These challenges provide some excellent learning opportunities and a chance to win amazing prizes, collaborate, and more! Polygon BUIDL IT : Summer 2022 by Polygon PRIZES: $500,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Aug 1, 2022 @ 5:00pm EDT THEMES: Blockchain, Gaming, Web JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/buildit22u   DocuSign Good Code Hackathon by DocuSign PRIZES: $50,000 in prizes  DEADLINE: August 12 at 2:00pm PDT THEMES: Mobile, Open Ended, Social Good JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/goodcodeu   Wix DevCon Hackathon 2022 by Wix PRIZES: $30,688 in prizes  DEADLINE: August 15 at 5:00pm EDT THEMES: Gaming, Web JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/devcon22u   Chirp Developer Challenge by Twitter PRIZES: $520,600 in prizes  DEADLINE: Aug 19, 2022 @ 5:00pm EDT THEMES:...

We invite you to join our NL4Opt competition that will be part of NeurIPS2022. We have a novel never-before-seen NLP dataset in hopes of making optimization solvers more accessible and usable. The competition aims to allow non-experts to use optimization tools in their decision-making. This competition is split into two main tasks: NER and generation. We have provided baselines for each to kick-start your implementation. We will award a total of $22,000 USD evenly across the two tasks. We will also be hosting a workshop at the end of the competition and will be inviting experts and winners as podium speakers. Additionally, we plan to host poster sessions for participants to share their solution. The competition is tentatively from July 1 st to October 15 th with the submission portal opening on July 15 th . We look forward to your participation – you can register ( https://nl4opt.github.io/participate/ ) and our organizers will be in touch with you shortly. For more informatio...

Interested in research in Math or CS? Then consider applying for the MURA: Open to both domestic and international students Full-time opportunity (35/hrs week, 16 weeks) that can be used towards co-op Students must be in their 2A term with a cumulative average of 80% Award Value $6,000 The deadline for Fall 2022 applications is Monday, July 25, 2022 Find more information here: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/research-opportunities/mathematics-undergraduate-research-awards-mura

  Several positions are available at CYNORIX Inc. in the general area of software development for Internet, cellular, IOT and Wi-Fi security applications Positions may be of particular interest to international students who intend to work in Canada to become eligible for immigration CYNORIX Inc. has developed several state-of-the art products in the area security (please refer to various videos at www.cynorix.com ). These products are based on ground-breaking theoretical findings, implemented in software/firmware, offering distinct advantages with respect to competing products available in the market. CYNORIX Inc. is ready to introduce these products to the marketplace and is seeking to expand its engineering team. Team members will be exposed to various aspects of Internet security, including novel methods in encryption (quantum-safe key generation/sharing), authentication, fast distribution/sharing of encryption keys, etc. Team members will have every opportunity to contribu...

Devpost has some really exciting hackathons to kick off the summer months!  This is a great opportunity to grow your skill set, network with talented developers, and get a shot at some really cool prizes!  Check them out below: Build the Galaxy's Best Checkout  by Rapyd Rapyd's Million Dollar – Greatest Fintech Developer Series PRIZES: $250,000 in prizes DEADLINE: May 26, 2022 @ 5:00pm EDT THEMES: E-commerce/Retail, Enterprise, Fintech JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/hackthegalaxyu   aelf Web3.0 Hackathon - Legend X  by Aelf Build a fully-functioning C# application on aelf to win over $500,000 in prizes! PRIZES: $525,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Jun 1, 2022 @ 10:00pm SGT THEMES: Blockchain, Web, Gaming JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/aelf33u   monday.com climate change app challenge  by Monday Build an app for a greener tomorrow PRIZES: $160,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Jun 27, 2022 @ 5:00pm EDT THEMES: Productivity, Social Goo...

This bootcamp is a unique opportunity for unemployed job seekers with a background in computer science, engineering, data science or business to acquire a comprehensive skill base of software development in the health science industry. Participants will learn about innovative software development practices from both technical and business perspectives, including AI, data mining, regulatory requirements, privacy and security, as well as project and product management. The bootcamp will prepare participants for roles in the health science industry and empower them to apply their skills and make an impact on the Canadian healthcare ecosystem. The bootcamp will run from May 30 th   to June 3 rd   and has limited enrolment   –   successful candidates will be selected on a rolling basis.   Candidates are invited to apply   HERE   to secure a spot.

The Zero Experience  is for students who want to make an impact and find their potential. It combines value-packed weekly workshops, fireside chats with diverse guests (like NASA’s Mission Commander for the Hawaii simulation), and an iterative problem-solving model with peers to build future leaders for the big problems we’re facing. Plus if students get busy, they can leave anytime! Applications are closing May 23rd. Zero Work  is for students who want clarity on their career and what they can do next.  In partnership with CCA, it draws from research done at Stanford, MIT, and Yale to produce a single-weekend event that teaches students how to craft resumes, network authentically, and discover what drives them. Basically, Zero Work acts as a ‘calm in the centre of the storm’ for students overwhelmed by job-hunting or career considerations. Applications are closing May 27th . Some student testimonials on The Zero Experience Winter 2022. “It's amazing the sheer amo...

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36 Hours Multiple Workshops $5000+ in prizes Sound interesting? Check out DeerHacks, UTM's largest hackathon! This year, it'll be hybrid, so no matter where you are or what you do, you can participate! This hackathon is open to all skill levels, so whether you're just learning to code, or you've been doing this for years, we have workshops and events for all of you! If you're interested, sign up and details here: https://deerhacks.mcss.club/

The Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst @ Ryerson University will be hosting a Capture The Flag (CTF) competition in June!  This is a great opportunity for women thinking about a career in cyber to get involved in a friendly online competition and try their hand at solving cybersecurity challenges.   What is Capture the Flag? CTF is a cybersecurity competition where contestants have to solve a variety of challenges  ranging from beginner level to advanced level challenges. The goal is  to "capture the flag"  in each challenge and move on to the next challenge! Who should participate? People who have never played a Capture the Flag event before Experienced CTF participants looking for new challenges People looking to pivot into a cybersecurity career Residents of Canada only who are 18 years of age or older The CTF will kick off Friday, June 24th at 6:00 PM EST.  Participants will have until  Sunday, June 26 at 6:00 PM EST to...