Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

First Anniversary of Toronto Geek Girls Dinner

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The one-year anniversary edition of the Toronto Girl Geeks Dinner is tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 25) --- see their site for details. It's a great event for networking (or so I'm told); I'll try to do a better job next time about getting the word out...

Take the Survey, Win Prizes!

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Tony and Dan are running a survey at compsci.ca --- 11 questions, mostly multiple choice, and you could win some bits.

Three Weeks and Change

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Everyone's making good progress: Ming and Bing have posted their second demo --- next step is to do some serious design of the final product. After correcting an earlier post of mine, Xuan has blogged a fuller description of what she and Edward are building. Zeev Lieber posted a brief summary of what ...

Damian Conway Speaking on July 16

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Damian Conway, Perl hacker extraordinaire, will be speaking at the University of Toronto on Wednesday, July 16.  The title of his talk is "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy"; the venue is Room 1160 of the Bahen Centre for Information Technology (40 ...

Another Cool Conference I Probably Won’t Go To

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

The Association of Science-Technology Centers, "...an organization of science centers and museums dedicated to furthering the public understanding of science...", is having its triennial conference in Toronto in June. I'd love to wander around the ...

Open Source Community Choice Awards

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

SourceForge has announced that nominations are open for this year's Community Choice Awards. This time around, any project can be nominated, not just SF-hosted ones. So please, nominate your favorite open source project Awards will be handed out at OSCON 2008.

Computational Biology Student Symposium

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

"The Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) invites you to attend the 4th ISCB Student Council Symposium. This student-organized event will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto on July 18th. It will bring together bioinformatics and computational biology students for scientific exchange, ...

CAST Registration Open

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Registration is now open---it looks like it'll be a good hands-on content-ful show.

UbiGraph Is Out

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Todd Veldhuizen's UbiGraph dynamic graph visualization software is now available. The demos are very cool (though they could use a soundtrack); you should give it a try.

Science Rendezvous

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Science Rendezvous is being held this Saturday, at the University of Toronto and many other sites around the city.  Come one, come all!