CS @ uWaterloo announcements

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...