Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Summer School on Mining Software Repositories
http://msrcanada.org/school/
June 9-12, 2010.
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Sponsored by MITACS.
The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems and projects. It has gained popularity since 2004 with the first instance of the ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
I am very excited to announce that I am going to work full-time on revising the Software Carpentry course from May 2010 to May 2011. Please see the full announcement for details.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Titus Brown and I are running a course May 31-June 11 in Michigan --- for details, please see the course web site or my Software Carpentry post.
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
It might feel like winter is over, but a lot of people still need your help. Over on Streetknit, there's word of another knitup called Wise Daughters, which will take place on the last Tuesday of every month. Yarn is provided if you don’t have a project on the go, ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
I am pleased to announce that in September 2010, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto is launching a new graduate program: a Master of Science in Applied Computing. The aim of the program is to teach the next generation of technical leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Charles Thacker has won the 2009 Turing Award for his work on the Alto, the first modern personal computer. Congratulations!
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Canpages has launched an API contest today that gives students a chance to show what they can do with 1.3 million Canadian business listings, photos, videos, recommendations, and lat/longs. This video and this press release explain what it's all about, and you can check out the API itself at ...
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The second annual HFOSS is taking place March 10 in Milwaukee (along with SIGCSE 2010). F&OS communities helped save a lot of lives after the Haiti disaster, and many of the social and technical tools developed for it (and earlier, Katrina) are being used right now to help Chile; hope ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Google Summer of Code 2010 is now up and running. Mentoring organizations can apply March 8-12, and students can apply March 29-April 9 (but should start working on their applications as soon as the list of organizations is announced). The University of Toronto has always been a strong presence in ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 0.6 of Basie, a lightweight software project portal built on Django and jQuery. Basie is designed to replace Trac and DrProject; its main features are:
Multiple projects per forge
Role-based access control
Pluggable user account management
Per-project wiki with standard WikiCreole syntax
Subversion repository browser
Per-project mailing ...
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