/channels/news_feeds/all/term/computer_sci_sch/rss en /channels/channels/news/mcgills-computer-science-camp-inspires-next-generation-coders-359448 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After a hiatus of about a decade, the <a href="https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~summcamp/english/Home.html">海角社区 Computer Science Summer Camp</a> once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer. The camp was a group effort organized by students, staff and faculty across the computer science community. Students participated in four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions, to learn about computer science.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/cs_camp.jpeg?itok=hGluVXIM" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:33:26 +0000 webfull 202412 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgills-computer-science-camp-inspires-next-generation-coders-358306 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After a hiatus of about a decade, the 海角社区 Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer.</p> <p>The four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions were all intended to strengthen students鈥� interests in coding and coding competitions, and to contribute to the development of computer science talent in Quebec.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/screenshot_2024-08-12_at_9.02.35_am.png?itok=BLp8LT6T" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">12 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:11:19 +0000 webfull 201177 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ai-and-sustainability-balancing-innovation-planetary-and-social-well-being-357969 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2><img alt="The 11th trottier symposium on sustainable engineering, energy and design" src="/tised/files/tised/11th_symposium_logo.png" style="height:105px; width:700px" /></h2> <h3>Date: October 10th, 2024 |聽Time: 6:00 PM |聽Location: The 海角社区 Faculty Club | Free Event聽<img alt="Letters AI with greenery coming out of it" src="/tised/files/tised/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/ai_image.jpg?itok=VRa4KRf9" style="float:right; height:250px; width:333px" /></h3> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">17 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:01:48 +0000 webfull 200807 at /channels /channels/channels/news/gregory-dudek-receives-2024-cs-can-lifetime-achievement-award-357485 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/">Professor Gregory Dudek</a> of the School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.聽</p> <p>Awarded annually by Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-Can/Info-Can), this award recognizes current or former faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the field of computer science in Canada.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/1516271770608.jpeg?itok=x2PtzLcc" width="160" height="160" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">29 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 29 May 2024 19:42:32 +0000 webfull 200227 at /channels /channels/channels/news/sustainable-data-science-training-program-awarded-165-m-nserc-create-357364 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Today, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)<a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsDetail-DetailNouvelles_eng.asp?ID=1461"> announced </a>more than $26 million in funding for聽<a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATEResults-ResultatsFONCER_eng.asp?Year=2024">16 new training initiatives</a> through its <a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATE-FONCER_eng.asp">Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)</a> program.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/big-data-nserc-announcement-getty.jpg?itok=HgE4romg" width="160" height="90" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">16 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 16 May 2024 15:05:26 +0000 webfull 200090 at /channels /channels/channels/news/push-more-women-computer-science-356190 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>When Jade Raymond, BSc鈥�98, studied at 海角社区鈥檚 School of Computer Science, she was one of few women in the program and 鈥淚 think the only woman I knew in my year who went and got a job as a programmer in computer science after graduating.鈥�</p> <p>Raymond became a trailblazer in the video game industry, helping create the huge hit聽<em>Assassin鈥檚 Creed</em>, and building studios from the ground up for Ubisoft and Electronic Arts.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/jadescreenshot.png?itok=dGh5h0zn" width="160" height="110" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">18 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:26:28 +0000 webfull 198665 at /channels /channels/channels/news/fighting-disinformation-quebec-353623 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/camilo-jimenez-qzeno_gq7qa-unsplash.jpg?itok=NYvItsb6" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">15 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:50:10 +0000 webfull 195740 at /channels /channels/channels/news/seeing-inside-heart-unprecedented-scale-351620 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A team of researchers in Canada and India has developed a novel method to image the whole mouse heart wall at a spatial resolution that is three orders of magnitude finer than that seen till now, revealing entirely new, previously unknown cardiac fiber systems within it.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/bpod-heart_cell_line-up_4.10.23.jpg?itok=kpadM38Z" width="160" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">4 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:18:50 +0000 webfull 193529 at /channels /channels/channels/news/matt-dobbs-galen-halverson-joelle-pineau-and-simon-caron-huot-honoured-royal-society-canada-350506 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Congratulations to 海角社区 Science's new Royal Society of Canada inductees, the Fellows <a href="/researchhonours/matt-dobbs">Matt Dobbs</a>, <a href="/eps/galen-pippa-halverson">Galen Halverson</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/">Joelle Pineau</a>, and College Member <a href="https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~schuot/">Simon Caron-Huot</a>! The four professors join 15 other scholars in 海角社区's 2023 cohort.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">6 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:28:29 +0000 webfull 192187 at /channels /channels/channels/news/claude-crepeau-awarded-2023-edsger-w-dijkstra-prize-348782 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/index_en.html">Claude Cr茅peau</a>, Professor in the School of Computer Science at 海角社区, has been named a co-recipient of the 2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. This award recognizes papers in the area of distributed computing that have made a significant and lasting impact in the field.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:10:39 +0000 webfull 190186 at /channels