The Computer Science department is holding an industry panel, and all undergraduate students are welcome! Come out, learn about potential employers, and don’t miss the “speed-mentoring” networking session with the panelists and mentors from the tri-mentoring program at 6:30 in Reboot Café.

The theme for this year’s industry panel is How To Prepare Yourselves to be Future Leaders in the IT Field. The CS department is very fortunate to have recruited a number of senior industry leaders to share their experience with you, including the VP of SAP (former Business Objects), the CTO of Radical, the VP of Translink, and senior managers from IBM and Accenture.

Food and beverages will be provided!

Poster

When:

Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 17:30 to 19:30

Where:

DMP110

Tags:

Career

This term the CSSS is offering a brand new service for all CS undergrads: free hosting of Subversion version control repositories for student projects.

Ever try to hack and hack at a function only to realize your original attempt was pretty close, but you can’t get it back because you’ve spent the last three hours rewriting it? Ever work on a group project and get tired of sending e-mail back and forth with your code attached in zip files? Version control solves all of these problems by providing an Internet-accessible repository which stores not only the code you are currently working on, accessible to all group members, but also the entire history of your files so you can grab older versions if needed.

Head over to http://svn.thecube.ca/ and create an account. You get to create up to 5 repositories, each of which can grow up to 50MB. You can share access with as many other people as you wish, for group projects.

The UBC Thunderbots have an opening for a senior AI lead. We also have room for both AI and IR team members.

The UBC Thunderbots is a student team dedicated in creating autonomous soccer playing robots to compete internationally at the Robocup competition and conference, held this year in Austria.

Taking on the position would give an opportunity to work with advanced AI and possibly IR. Our prototypes would be ready by January, there would be a chance to directly apply the programming to the robot. There is also a chance for a cheap (or possibly free) chance to go to Austria in the summer.

Our AI team currently is rather small and slightly inexperienced (compared to our over-large ElectroMech teams) and we are looking to recruit heavily this second term. Most likely we feel that we would get more younger students, so we’re looking for someone with good leadership ability with some good understanding of AI to organize everybody second term.

The time commitment is varried on how well the person can delegate tasks and how good the person is with programming AI. There are meetings every Saturday, but there are options for the software teams (AI and IR) to meet on seperately.

If you’re interested, please contact Amanda Li at <[email protected]>.

For 2nd–4th year students in Computer, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering, and all Computer Science/IT Programs.

When:

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 17:30 to 19:30

Where:

Wesbrook 100

Tags:

Career

The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University offers a one-week, all-expenses-paid undergraduate summer school on the topic of vision science. This year’s program will be held from May 31 to June 6, 2009.

The program includes talks by CVR faculty members on current research topics in vision science, as well as hands-on projects in CVR laboratories. The curriculum reflects the wide range of research areas at CVR, which includes basic research on vision in humans and animals, covering both neuroscience and behaviour, as well as applied topics such as computer vision, virtual reality, visual perception in low-gravity environments, and vision in clinical populations. For an idea of the topics to be covered, see last year’s schedule at http://yorku.ca/cvrss/schedule2008.pdf.

For full details, see the poster and the main website.