Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

CAST’08 in Toronto

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 ...

Agile 2008

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.

NSERC USRA for 2008

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 ...

Robert Kahn Speaking at U of T Tomorrow (Tue Dec 11)

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.

Online Social Networking Demos at U of T

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 ...

Ben’s Panel

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.

Identity, Privacy, and Security Lectures at U of T

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 ...

Distinguished Lectures at U of T

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 ...

Cafe Scientifique

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 ...

Ontario Votes on Voting

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 ...