The School of Computer Science is proud to announce that Dr. Gary Grewal and his team of students have received a top 5 ranking in the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design 2016 FPGA Placement Contest.
Dr. Grewal is part of an interdisciplinary team from the SoCS and from the School of Engineering, including former SoCS student Ryan Pattison, as well as Ziad Abuowaimer (SoE), Dr. Shawki Areibi (SoE), and Dr. Anthony Vannelli (SoE, Dean of CPES).
Last night the University of Guelph held its annual Student Life Awards Banquet. Held in the Engineering Atrium, the event honoured and celebrated students and staff from the University of Guelph, as well as community partners, for their outstanding contributions to the community and life on campus.
You’ve heard about the cloud, but what can you actually do with it? This is your chance to learn how to predict the future. Machine Learning is a strategy used to analyze data to try and predict future results.
Date: Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Richards 3504, University of Guelph
Register: www.recruitguelph.ca
Join us Wednesday February 24th, from 5:30pm-7:30pm in the Science Complex Atrium for the Guelph Technology Showcase.
The event is an annual celebration of the information technology community in Guelph and surrounding areas. This year there are 33 local tech companies registered for the event. Students and visitors welcome!
MSc candidate Daniel Stantic will defend his thesis "A Unified Probabilistic Model for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis" on March 9, 2016, at 2:30pm in Reynolds 219.
A Unified Probabilistic Model for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis
MSc candidate Yiting Jin will defend their thesis "Multiplicative Factorization of Multi-Valued NIN-AND Tree Causal Models" on February 29, 2016, at 2:30pm in Reynolds 219.
Multiplicative Factorization of Multi-Valued NIN-AND Tree Causal Models
The DG@Guelph group, with support from the College of Physical and Engineering Sciences, and the School of Computer Science, are happy to announce the following events related to the Digital Humanities.
DigiCafé II: Living Large: Biographical Data, Life Writing, and Computing with Jason Boyd (Ryerson), February 23, 3-4:30, 246 McLaughlin Library (Whitelaw Room)
Last week, with the help of 3rd year student Daniel Gabric, SoCS and Freshbooks ran an ACM-style programming contest in Reynolds 114.
The event drew 23 students from both the SoCS and the School of Engineering. Due to the success of the event:
The School of Computer Science and FreshBooks is sponsoring the 2016 Guelph Programming Competition. The event, which is open to all students, will take place January 28, from 6:00pm-8:30pm in REYN114. Registration begins at 5:30.
Dr. Gary Grewal of the School of Computer Science has a single National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) for the summer 2016 semester.
The long-term purpose of these prestigious awards is to encourage students to undertake graduate-level studies by providing students with an opportunity to participate in a single semester research project while still an undergraduate student.