This year we are offering a free sponsorship opportunity for all schools that support 10 or more students to attend the conference.

CS-Can/Info-Can is proud to sponsor the fourth annual CAN-CWiC, the premiere Canadian computing conference for Women in Technology.

Many Canadian researchers are coming together in different organizational structures to study issues surrounding AI ethics and governance.

Fifteen post-secondary institutions will receive part of $5.3 million worth of grant money from the federal government to make academic research more inclusive.

University of Waterloo professor Kate Larson has been appointed a University Research Chair in recognition of her outstanding research contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

The Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation 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.