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This Thursday, March 26th, the School of Computer Science welcomed Susan Ibach, Developer Evangelist from Microsoft Canada to the University of Guelph.

Susan currently works as a Developer Evangelist, who shares her technical knowledge and helps developers, university students and faculty keep up with and adopt current Microsoft technologies, tools and opportunities.

Susan chatted with about 60 students about Cloud Computing and the Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform and service.

PhD candidate Sajid Marhon will defend his thesis "A New, Model-Independent, Spectrum-Based Gene Prediction Technique" on April 10, 2015, at 9:00pm in Reynolds 219.

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A New, Model-Independent, Spectrum-Based Gene Prediction Technique

PhD candidate Dennis Wong will defend his thesis "Novel Universal Cycle Constructions for a Variety of Combinatorial Objects" on April 13, 2015, at 9:00pm in Reynolds 219.

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Novel Universal Cycle Constructions for a Variety of Combinatorial Objects

The School of Computer Science is proud to host the Net Zero Hackathon this coming weekend - March 28th and 29th.

The event, organized by the SOCIS and the ES@UofG, will bring together undergraduate and graduate students (including recent grads) from the College of Physical and Engineering Sciences and the College of Business and Economics to build tools to encourage homeowners and residents to reduce their energy consumption.

Join us Thursday, March 26th as we welcome Susan Ibach - Developer Evangelist from Microsoft - to the School of Computer Science. Susan will be chatting with 60 students about Cloud Computing in Richards room 3504. Enrolment is limited, so register quickly. Registration details can be found here. 

The School of Computer Science is proud to announce that three SoCS students and their community partners were awarded the University of Guelph's Student Life's Be The Change award, and the Emilie Hayes Community Partnership award.

This weekend 50+ students from across campus gathered to develop solutions to support positive mental health at the Guelph Hacks for Mental Health Hackathon. Working in teams of 2 to 4 students, participants developed tools to improve communication of existing on-campus services, built apps to encourage coping strategies with peers, or implemented tools to assist in the delivery of mental health services.

The School of Computer Science, Guelph Tech and Design, Innopshere, and Sandbox Software are hosting the fourth Guelph Technology Showcase in the Science Complex Atrium on Wednesday March 11th from 5 to 7pm. The event is a celebration of the local information technology community, and features a variety of local computer-based businesses and large organizations with IT departments. Students and visitors welcome!

Are you interested in learning more about the Graduate Programs offered by the School of Computer Science? Join us Thursday March 19th, 2015 from 5:30pm-7:30pm to learn more. The event will be held in Reynolds 114. Meet with faculty and current grad students to learn about the programs in SoCS.

Please RSVP YES in the subject line of an email to gradevents@socs.uoguelph.ca. Food and beverages will be provided.

During the weekend of February 21st, the University of Guelph hosted the 10th Annual Universities Fighting World Hunger Conference. As part of the weekend, students were challenged to pitch ideas that could change the world.

School of Computer Science students Aftab Ahmad, Nic Durish, and Justin Gruber, joined forces with Food Science student Lauren Jans to pitch their winning idea - the Smartbin. For their efforts they were awarded top prize and $2000.