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Canadian researcher Yoshua Bengio co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award
Yoshua Bengio 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 their degree at a Canadian institution. READ THE FULL ARTICLE [...]
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) as the 2018 recipients of the CS-Can / Info-Can Outstanding Young Researcher Award. READ [...]
Dalhousie doctoral student Ehsan Sherkat wins inaugural Nick Cercone scholarship
Ehsan Sherkat In a Canada-wide career, Nick Cercone made significant contributions to several fields in computer science. He was an inspiring mentor to numerous post-docs and graduate students, and had a deep [...]
UBC researcher Mark Schmidt and co-authors receive Lagrange Prize
Mark Schmidt UBC Computer Science Assistant Professor Mark Schmidt, together with co-authors Nicolas Le Roux and Francis Bach, received the prestigious Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization, for their paper "Minimizing finite sums [...]
Announcing the 2018 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award Recipients
2018 recipient Alla Sheffer Graphics Interface (GI) 2018, the 44th annual conference, will be held at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from May 8-11, 2018. The Canadian Human Computer Communications Society [...]
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 research, management science and advanced analytics in practice was won by a 19-member [...]
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