Alliance grants encourage researchers to collaborate with private, public or not-for-profit partner organizations with funding of $20,000 to $1 million per year. Visit the Alliance website for details.

The “Alain Fournier Memorial Fund” rewards an exceptional computer graphics Ph.D. dissertation defended in a Canadian University over the previous year.

The Bill Buxton Dissertation Award is given annually for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction.

McGill graduate Bengio shares the prize with Geoffrey Hinton, an emeritus distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, and Yann LeCun, the director of AI research for Facebook for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.

All Canadian lead applicants and collaborators are invited to submit an expression of interest application by 15th April 2019 at the latest.

We are delighted to announce Andrea Bunt (University of Manitoba), Chanchal Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Daniel Vogel (University of Waterloo) as the 2018 recipients of the CS-Can / Info-Can Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

Award recognizes excellence in research and writing by a computer science doctoral student completing their degree at a Canadian institution.

We are delighted to announce Selim G. Akl (Queen’s University), Pierre L’Ecuyer, (Université de Montréal), Tamer Özsu, (University of Waterloo) and Jacob Slonim, (Dalhousie University) as the 2018 recipients of the CS-Can / Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Government of Canada announced the creation of a new $10M fund to foster equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in research and unveiled its draft Made-in-Canada Athena SWAN Charte to reflect Canada’s diverse reality and help further Canada’s goals of addressing EDI in its laboratories and classrooms.

Recognizes a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at a Canadian university who shows exceptional promise in research that will have real-world applications and who has been active in helping others.

Update on NSERC’s New Research Partnerships Program