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) and Jacob Slonim, (Dalhousie University) as the 2018 recipients of the CS-Can / Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.
15 FEB 2019
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 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.
11 FEB 2019 (NSERC/CRSNG)
Call for nominations for the 2019 IEEE Canadian Foundation Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science
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.
22 JAN 2019 CSCan/Info-Can
University of Toronto researcher Toniann Pitassi named ACM Fellow
2018 Fellows recognized for accomplishments that underpin the technologies that define the digital age.
6 DEC 2018 (ACM)
Update on NSERC’s New Research Partnerships Program
Update on NSERC’s New Research Partnerships Program
30 NOV 2018 (NSERC/CRSNG)
CANARIE Awards up to $3.2M in Funding to 9 Research Teams to Develop Research Data Management Software Tools
Funded software tools aim to strengthen Canada’s capacity to manage research data.
29 NOV 2018 (CANARIE)
Canada Tri-Council releases report on how to strengthen science
Report based on consultation with scientists, scholars and students on priorities of new funding for international interdisciplinary research, diversity and inclusion in research and support for early career researchers.
9 NOV 2018 (Government of Canada)
Supporting a new generation of research partnerships
The new NSERC Research Partnership program encourages greater collaboration in Canada’s R&D system through increased support for projects that include both generators and users of research results and knowledge.
28 SEP 2018 (NSERC/CRSNG)
Government of Canada launches national consultation on $275-million Tri-Council Research Fund
The Government of Canada is inviting input from stakeholders, researchers, and community leaders on key priorities of new fund focused on international, interdisciplinary and high-risk research.
31 JUL 2018 (Government of Canada)
Liquid animations so realistic you can almost taste them
UWaterloo researchers have developed a method of animating high-viscosity liquids based on the understanding that the pressure and viscosity forces that act on liquids need to be solved together for the computer animation to be physically accurate and visually stunning.
18 JUL 2018 (Cheriton School of CS, University of Waterloo)
Dalhousie doctoral student Ehsan Sherkat wins inaugural Nick Cercone scholarship
Award given to Canadian PhD students researching in areas of artificial intelligence, data mining, knowledge representation, or computational linguistics.
10 JUL 2018 (Nick Cicerone Graduate Scholarship)
Computer science researchers help answer an age-old medical science question
UWaterloo researchers used computer models that simulate organic structures to define how light interacts with the cellular and subcellular parts of the skin and blood to clarify how veins containing red blood get their bluish appearance.
10 JUL 2018 (Cheriton School of CS, University of Waterloo)
Motivating gamers with personalized game design
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have identified three basic video game player traits that can help make game design more personalized, and motivate gamers in both entertainment and work applications.
9 JUL 2018 Cheriton School of Computer Science (University of Waterloo)
UBC researcher Mark Schmidt and co-authors receive Lagrange Prize
Prize awarded every three years by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and SIAM for an outstanding contribution in the area of continuous optimization.
6 JUL 2018 (UBC CS)
CS-Can/Info-Can releases results of survey of computer science’s use of NSERC programs
PDF Download: Analysis of Survey Results on NSERC Programs usefulness for Computer Science faculty. [860kB] (June 19, 2018)
19 JUN 2018 Info-Can/CS-Can
NSERC solicits feedback on proposed Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy
Tri-agency invites institutions, associations, organizations and individuals to comment on the draft policy before August 31, 2018.
5 JUN 2018 (Government of Canada)
UBC CS Professor and his team win INFORMS Franz Edelman Achievement Award
Award won by a 19-member US Federal Communications Commission team that included UBC researcher Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown and two of his doctoral students, Alexandre Fréchette and Neil Newman.
8 MAY 2018 (INFORMS)
UBC students top list of Canadian teams at 2018 ACM programming contest
The UBC ACM Programming Team competed in the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Beijing, China on April 19, 2018.
4 MAY 2018 UBC CS (UBC CS)
Computer scientists awarded three of six E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships for 2018.
Computer science researchers Regan Mandryk (USask), Joelle Pineau (McGill) and Ahmed Hassan (Queen's) among E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship recipients.
1 MAY 2018 UA/AU (NSERC/CRSNG)
University of Waterloo program aims to reverse women’s flight from computer science
Focusing on the problems tech can solve rather than coding is likely to draw more women into the discipline and to build their confidence.
16 APR 2018 Simona Chiose (The Globe and Mail)
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 8-11, 2018.
16 MAR 2018 CHCCS/SCDHM (CHCCS/SCDHM)
CS-Can/Info-Can Awards Dinner
The 2017 Awards will be presented at the annual CS-Can/Info-Can Awards Dinner that will be held at York University in Toronto on May 7, 2018.
2 FEB 2018 (CS-Can/INFO-Can)
