Call for Nominations and Applications for the Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship
The Scholarship will be awarded biennially (i.e. every other year) to a student enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Computer [...]
Introducing NSERC Alliance grants: Canada’s Research Partnerships Program
Alliance grants encourage researchers to collaborate with private, public or not-for-profit partner organizations with funding of $20,000 to $1 million [...]
Launch of a rapid research response to contribute to global efforts to contain the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
The Government of Canada would like to inform the research community of a pending launch of a rapid research response [...]
UBC CS Professor and his team win INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award
The 2018 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences for outstanding examples of operations [...]
Computer scientists awarded three of six E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships for 2018.
Up to six E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships are awarded annually to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising [...]
University of Waterloo program aims to reverse women’s flight from computer science
When Joanne Atlee was an undergraduate student in computer science, more than a third of her class was made up [...]
UBC researcher Mark Schmidt and co-authors receive Lagrange Prize
UBC Computer Science Assistant Professor Mark Schmidt, together with co-authors Nicolas Le Roux and Francis Bach, received the prestigious Lagrange [...]
CS-Can/Info-Can releases results of survey of computer science’s use of NSERC programs
Most of the survey questions required participants to rank the listed programs on a scale 0 to 5 whereN/A – [...]
NSERC solicits feedback on proposed Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy
The three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of [...]
Supporting a new generation of research partnerships
NSERC is pleased to announce an update to its On-line System that will simplify how information is collected from the [...]
Government of Canada launches national consultation on $275-million Tri-Council Research Fund
On Thursday, June 26, the Government of Canada announced a new Tri-Council funding program. A public consultation is now underway [...]
Liquid animations so realistic you can almost taste them
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a method of animating high-viscosity liquids. Achieving [...]
Dalhousie doctoral student Ehsan Sherkat wins inaugural Nick Cercone scholarship
In a Canada-wide career, Nick Cercone made significant contributions to several fields in computer science. He was an inspiring mentor [...]
Update on NSERC’s New Research Partnerships Program
During the autumn of 2018, NSERC undertook a series of briefing sessions with our community to solicit and discuss feedback [...]
CANARIE Awards up to $3.2M in Funding to 9 Research Teams to Develop Research Data Management Software Tools
CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today announced nine successful recipients of its [...]
Canada Tri-Council releases report on how to strengthen science
The Government of Canada has released its summary report on a recent Tri-Council initiative to strengthen science in Canada. The [...]
Announcing the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients
We are delighted to announce Selim G. Akl (Queen’s University), Pierre L’Ecuyer, (Université de Montréal), Tamer Özsu, (University of Waterloo) [...]
New draft charter and grants will help increase diversity and inclusion at Canadian academic institutions
The Government of Canada announced the creation of a new $10M fund to foster equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in [...]
University of Toronto researcher Toniann Pitassi named ACM Fellow
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 56 members ACM Fellows for significant contributions in areas including computer architecture, [...]
Announcing the 2018 Outstanding Young Researcher Award recipients
We are delighted to announce Andrea Bunt (University of Manitoba), Chanchal Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Daniel Vogel (University of Waterloo) [...]
Julie Nutini (UBC) inaugural awardee of 2018 Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award
The Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes excellence in research and writing by a computer science doctoral student completing [...]
VP of CS-Can / Info-Can Kate Larson appointed University Research Chair
Professor Kate Larson has been appointed a University Research Chair in recognition of her outstanding research contributions to the field [...]
Dr. Max Birk receives 2018 Buxton Award from CHCCS for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Sasakatchewan.
The Bill Buxton Dissertation Award is given annually for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the [...]
Dr. Olivier Mercier receives 2018 Fournier Award from CHCCS for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Montreal
The “Alain Fournier Memorial Fund” rewards an exceptional computer graphics Ph.D. dissertation defended in a Canadian University over the previous [...]
Canadian researcher Yoshua Bengio co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award
McGill graduate Bengio shares the prize with Geoffrey Hinton, an emeritus distinguished professor of computer science at the University of [...]
CS-Can/Info-Can releases results of survey of computer science’s use of NSERC programs
Analysis of Survey Results on NSERC Programs usefulness for Computer Science faculty. Survey period: April 22 – May 21, 2018 [...]
Announcing the 2018 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award Recipients
Graphics Interface (GI) 2018, the 44th annual conference, will be held at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from May [...]
Federal Government launches program to improve diversity and inclusion in academic research
The Government of Canada launched a pilot program to increase equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and help drive deeper cultural [...]
Government of Canada invests in IT to improve accessibility
The Government of Canada announced that it will invest over $2.7 million in AccessNow, an online platform that crowdsources information [...]
Sponsorship opportunity at CAN-CWIC 2019
The ACM Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWIC) 2019 event will be taking place at the International Center in Mississauga [...]
Ensuring a responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence
The economic potential of artificial intelligence (AI) has been like a siren song for many governments, and Canada is no [...]