Past Events

Title: Identifying Households for Historical Censuses to Generate Longitudinal Data Chair: Dr. Stacey Scott Advisor: Dr. Luiza Antonie Committee Member: Dr. Kris Inwood Non-Advisory Committee Member: Dr. David Calvert Abstract:

Title: Developing an Automatic Method for Coding Occupation Titles to Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Advisor: Dr. Gary Grewal Committee Member: Dr. Andrew Hamilton-Wright Abstract:

Join us May 10, 2017 at 1:00 pm for a special guest lecture by Dr. Hye-Chung Kum, Assocaite Professor, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University.

The NASA Space Apps Challenge is an intense 48-hour international hackathon hosted simultaneously in over 100 cities around the world. This is the second year the Waterloo hackathon will be held at Communitech. This event is aimed at solving some of NASA’s most complex challenges. They enable participants to solve these challenges by making their enormous amounts of data open and available through the openNASA initiative.

Title: Convolutional Neural Networks for Morphological Feature Identification in Pre-Harvest Crops   Abstract:

Title: BHive: Behaviour-Driven Development Meets B-Method Abstract:

Guest Speaker: William M. Farmer, Professor, McMaster University

Title: Towards a Comprehensive Web Service Recommendation Framework Abstract:

Title: Selection of Appropriate Techniques for the Personalization of Software Systems Based on Characteristics of Available Data Abstract:

Title Novel Statistical Approaches to Estimating Intraspecific Sample Sizes for Animal DNA Barcoding Abstract