CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Halton Techstars Startup Weekend is hosting a entrepreneur networking event in Halton from June 14-16, 2019. Students living in GTA during the summer are welcome to participate in our event to meet up with professionals and industry leaders! Their team is looking for energetic university students who are interested in starting up a company or have an idea about smart cities development with a background in computer science, technology, business, engineering to join their Techstars Startup Weekend Event in Halton. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where developers, designers and business development folks come together to pitch an idea and launch a business, all in one weekend. It is great opportunity to test startup ideas, and meet potential co-founders.  We provide support during and after the event to help the ideas become a reality! More information below:  http://communities.techstars.com/canada/oakville-on-canada/startup-weekend/14359 .  Anyone inte...

Please be aware that department consent has been removed for CS449 for Spring 2019 as per the information on the course selection page:  https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/majors/cs-course-selection.  If the class is full, then you will need to wait for students to drop the course before you could add the course for Spring 2019. Please note that the deadline to add courses is Friday, May 17, 2019 at 11:59 PM (EST).

Have you worked on an interesting research project? Are you interested in learning more about research? Do you want to connect with other undergraduates from institutions across southern Ontario and Quebec? Meet leaders in the mathematical, computer and statistical sciences at the Waterloo Mathematics Undergraduate Research Conference September 27-29. This two-day, free conference is hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. It’s your chance to:          Gain experience showcasing your research          Get feedback from your peers and faculty in your area of interest          Attend workshops, panels and talks by leading researchers          Hear about research and graduate studies from current students We’ll kick off the event with a dinner and panel hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics HeForShe initiative. Throughout Saturday and Sunday morning ...

2019 Developer Student Club Applications Open! TL;DR:   Applications are now open for 2019 Developer Student Club leads. Share this opportunity with potential students or your entire developer community. Did you know, Developer Student Clubs is a Google Developers community program that launched in 2017 and has already... ·         Trained over 80,000 students ·         Worked with over 75 local businesses ·         Developed nearly 500 app prototypes What’s the benefit of being a Developer Student Club lead? ·         Grow developer knowledge ·         Gain further leadership experience ·         Impact other students by training them on developer technologies ·         Build prototypes and solut...

Please be aware that department consent has been removed for CS480 for Spring 2019 as per the information on the course selection page:  https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/majors/cs-course-selection.  If the class is full, then you will need to wait for students to drop the course before you could add the course for Spring 2019. Please note that the deadline to add courses is Friday, May 17, 2019 at 11:59 PM (EST).

Please be aware that department consent has been removed for CS370 for Spring 2019 as per the information on the course selection page:  https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/majors/cs-course-selection.  If the class is full, then you will need to wait for students to drop the course before you could add the course for Spring 2019. Please note that the deadline to add courses is Friday, May 17, 2019 at 11:59 PM (EST).

Professor Chrystopher L. Nehaniv ( Departments of Systems Design Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering, UWaterloo)  has two coop positions available for suitable candidates who are eligible to receive NSERC USRA funding.  You need to be in 2A or above, have a 80% GPA or greater, be a Canadian citizen/permanent resident of Canada, etc.  Please see project descriptions below and respond directly to Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv ( chrystopher.nehaniv@uwaterloo.ca)  ASAP if interested:  Title: Computational Algebraic Intelligence in STEM Description: Development and application of computer algebraic tools for automatically creating coordinate systems in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) application area in a finite discrete-event system models. Artificial algebraic intelligence provides novel methods for AI systems to understand and hierarchically manipulate (e.g. autonomously generating strategies fo...

The Horizons Fellowship supports 200 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become multidisciplinary leaders using technology. Our fully-funded program provides real-world technology courses geared towards high-achieving college students. Horizons students have gone on to work at a variety of amazing companies – Google, Facebook, Visa, The Stanford Research Institute, Slack, Yelp, Amazon, McKinsey, Bloomberg, J.P. Morgan, EA Games , and more. Past Horizonites have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Students have hailed from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Babson, Wellesley, Colgate, Brown, Michigan, great state schools, community colleges and more. We've had computer science majors, math majors, economics/business majors, biology majors, english majors, and art majors all take our program. The Horizons Fellowship supports outstanding undergradute and graduate students (of any year) in their pursuit to combine technol...

The AI For Good Summer Lab applications are now open! Leverage your creativity, leadership, and technical skills to generate AI solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems. The AI For Good Summer Lab takes place over 7 weeks (May 8 to June 21 2019) and brings together a cohort of up to 30 women from across Canada. The program consists of a mashup of lectures, workshops, a hackathon, and self-directed team projects. Instructors and mentors include university researchers, graduate students, and practitioners from startups, corporates, inter-governmental organizations and city government. What should you expect from the Lab? Receive intensive technical training and mentorship in AI. Expand your network with the Canadian AI ecosystem Work in teams on an AI for social good project and pitch it at a demo night Who qualifies? This program is open to women who are registered with a post-secondary institution at the undergraduate level (or have graduated within the ...