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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Via Adam Goucher: the Third Annual Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) will be held in Toronto on July 14-16, 2008. The keynote speaker is Gerry Weinberg; the theme is "Beyond the Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Software Testing". Coming as it does on the heels of the announcement ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Adam Goucher has reminded me that Agile 2008 will be in Toronto (August 4-8). I'm hoping I'll be able to attend --- it looks like it'll be a good show.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Every year, Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council provides hundreds of scholarships to give undergraduates a chance to spend a summer working with a professor on a research project. My first programming job was a USRA for Prof. Selim Akl at Queen's in 1982, and many other faculty and ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Robert Kahn (co-inventor of TCP/IP, among other things) is speaking at U of T on Tuesday, December 11. His talk is titled "Managing Digital Objects on the Net" --- it's open to the public, and I hope to see a lot of you there.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Posted on behalf of Prof. Stefan Saroiu:
I would like to announce a brief session of presentations and demos for the Online Social Networking, a graduate course in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
The goal of the course was to familiarize the students with recent research in building large-scale systems ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Ex-49er Ben Vinegar's panel proposal for "Web Service APIs Your Mom Will Love" was one of the first 30 accepted for SXSW Interactive 2008. I won't be able to attend (yet another mid-March'08 event), but I look forward to hearing from those of you who do.
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
IPSI Public Lecture Series Fall 2007
The Identity, Privacy, and Security Initiative (http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca) at the University of Toronto is launching public seminar series this fall.
Location: Galbraith Building, Room 120 (35 St. George)
Times: Mondays, noon-1PM.
Oct 1: Kostas Plataniotis (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UofT)
Biometrics & Authentication Technologies
Oct 15: Svetlana Yanushkevich (Dept ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
The Distinguished Lectures series in Computer Science at U of T has just been announced. It's quite a list:
Oct 30: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
Nov 27: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
Dec 11: Robert Kahn (CNRI)
Jan 8: Lydia Kavraki (Rice)
Jan 22: Carla Ellis (Duke)
Feb 5: Rick Rashid (Microsoft)
Feb 12: Luis Von Ahn (CMU)
Mar 4: Sebastian ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
4:00 on Saturday September 15th at the Rivoli (334 Queen Street West)
Free!
This month's topic is: Old Habits Die Hard: Can we change before the Climate does?
Think you've heard everything there is to know about climate change?
Here is a bit of a new spin on an old topic:
Can humans change ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
On October 10, Ontarians will be voting for a new government, and also for a new voting procedure: if enough people say 'yes', we will shift to a Mixed Member Proportional system. The details are on the web, but basically this gives everyone two votes: one for a (geographic) riding ...
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