CS @ uWaterloo announcements

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 .