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Friday, July 10, 2020

Grad Stories 2020: Carleton Post-doc Educates Children about Cybersecurity

Carleton postdoctoral researcher Sana Maqsood has spent years studying how to keep students safe, most recently by leading a Carleton collaboration with MediaSmarts that upgraded a popular educational video... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

The School of Computer Science is proud to welcome three new faculty members!

The School of Computer Science is proud to welcome three new faculty members. Dr. Alina Shaikhet, appointed as an Instructor, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University. She is an expert in algorithms, computational geometry and visualization. In the upcoming academic year, she will be teaching computational thinking, discrete... More

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Grad Stories 2020: Lifelong Learning: York Prof Returns to the Classroom at Carleton

Although York University Prof. Sandra Gabriele has practiced and taught design for almost 40 years, she still loves to be a... More

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Computer Science alum launch RideBuddie app to serve long-distance ride share market

As COVID-19 dominated headlines and monopolized public consciousness, a significant shift in Canada’s transportation network went mostly... More

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Congratulations class of 2020!

Congratulations, you made it!  It’s time to celebrate all the hard work that led to this joyful occasion.... More

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

SCS Introduces Laptop Requirement

The School of Computer Science has introduced a laptop requirement for all first year Computer Science students and everyone enrolled in a 1st year COMP course. This will be in effect once students are physically back on campus.  The School is asking that all students plan ahead, and prepare for this requirement by reviewing the recommended... More

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Carleton Researcher Develops COVID-19 App

Wei Shi, an associate professor in Carleton’s School of Information Technology, has developed an app that informs users if they could have been exposed to known COVID-19 cases – without ever collecting their personal... More

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

TA Award Winners and Nominees for 2019-20

Congratulations to all TA Award Winners and Nominees for 2019-20 academic year!   Manuel Lebron Flores - School of Computer Science TA Excellence Award Winner (Undergraduate) Francois-Xavier Chaplain Corriveau - School of Computer Science TA Excellence Award Winner (Graduate) Kevin Hua - EDC’s Outstanding TA Awards Winner Nominees: Joyce... More

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Khadija Baig Provost Scholar Award Recipients

Khadija Baig is a computer science student with a minor in psychology who has extensive research experience and was selected to represent Carleton at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in Montana in... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Carleton Computer Science Students Complete First-in-Canada Shopify Dev Degree

Dev Degree is a first-in-Canada four-year, work-integrated learning program that combines hands-on developer experience at Shopify with an accredited computer science... More

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Audrey Girouard Earns Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award

Girouard’s research pioneers novel interaction techniques with emerging computer interfaces, and it earned her a 2019 CS-CAN/Info-CAN Outstanding Young Computer Science Research... More

Thursday, April 9, 2020

New Internet Security textbook from Computer Science faculty member

The School of Computer Science is proud to announce the availability of a new book Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels (Springer Nature, 2020) by Carleton University faculty member Paul Van Oorschot, an internationally renowned scholar in computer security and applied cryptography. Already in use in our courses at Carleton and... More

Friday, April 3, 2020

Carleton Receives NSERC Grants to Support Innovative Industry Partnerships

Prosenjit Bose, professor in the School of Computer Science is one of seven Carleton University researchers that have received Engage Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of... More

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Cancelled – Annual Computer Science End of Year BBQ – Cancelled

The School of Computer Science (SCS) and Carleton Computer Science Society (CCSS) welcomes ALL computer science, HCI and Data Science students, faculty, staff and CS alumni to our annual end of year BBQ on Friday, March 27th at 5:30 pm. For more event details and to purchase a ticket, please click... More

Friday, November 29, 2019

Carleton Crew at Canopy Growth is Shaping the Future of Canada’s Cannabis Industry

Third year computer science student David Nguyen, who recently completed a total of 12 months with Canopy Growth’s software development group, was part of the team responsible for developing the company’s mobile companion app, which will enable smart features on select devices. He believes the transparency offered by the app can help educate... More

Friday, October 4, 2019

Maclean’s Latest Rankings Confirm Carleton’s Momentum

Among all universities in Canada (49 were ranked), Carleton’s programs in computer science, engineering and mathematics were ranked in the top... More

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Navigating the Job Market: Hala Assal, PhD in Computer Science (2018)

For graduate students engaging in career planning, recent Master’s and PhD alumni can be valuable sources of information. Read Hala's story about the post-graduation job search, some of the challenges she encountered and her advice for new... More

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Rebel Computer Grad Rocks Music World

Nicholas Osborne is a bit of a black sheep. Despite growing up in a liberal arts family — his father John Osborne was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton, while his mother, Colette Osborne, was an adjunct professor in the Department of French — Nicholas decided to study computers and math... More

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Developer Student Clubs

Developer Student Clubs (DSC) help thousands of student developers learn together and work with their communities to solve real-life problems. University students who lead a DSC, gain access to Google technology, events, and mentorship while training their local community through fun meetups, project building activities and global competitions.... More

Monday, April 8, 2019

Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award Winner

Congratulations Dr. Robert Biddle for winning the 2018-19 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award!  ... More

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Big Ideas About Big Data

Frank Dehne, the institute’s founding director and Carleton Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, reported that enrollment in its interdisciplinary program was growing quickly (from 80 students to 120 in one year) and that a 15th program, Physics, was joining the list. The institute moved into its own dedicated lab space last summer, and... More

Monday, March 11, 2019

Celebrating Women in Science

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Monday, March 11, 2019

SCS Memoriam to Sylvain Pitre

It is with deep sadness that we inform the Carleton community of the death of Sylvain Pitre, Manager, Research Computing Services, who passed away on Feb. 23, 2019, after a brief illness. Dr. Pitre has been associated with the School of Computer Science since 2001 where he completed his Master’s in Computer Science (M.C.S),... More

Monday, February 11, 2019

Desk Nibbles Startup success has Carleton roots

Alongside his brother Emil, a Carleton Computer Science graduate and Desk Nibble's chief technology officer, Aite delivered a Lead to Win lecture at Carleton on Feb. 4, 2019, one of six Lead to Win lectures scheduled for the winter... More

Monday, February 11, 2019

Computer Science Instructors win Teaching Awards

Congratulations to Milica Stojmenovic and Robert Collier for winning the CI Teaching Innovation Grant and winning a professional achievement awards respectively! Thank you for your outstanding contributions to Carleton and the impressive work you do in the school of Computer Science.   2019 Achievement Award Recipients... More

Monday, November 26, 2018

cuHacking 2019

We would like to inform you that the applications for cuHacking 2019 are now open! cuHacking is an hackathon held at Carleton over the weekend of February 16-17th. A hackathon is an event where students work in teams to build coding projects. Event sponsors have challenges you can build your projects around and teams... More

Monday, November 12, 2018

Fall Convocation: Hala Assal’s Journey to a PhD in Computer Science

Graduation may have been the destination, but when asked to reflect on her doctoral studies at Carleton, Hala Assal says she’s most proud of the... More

Friday, April 13, 2018

Shopify Springboard for Students

Carleton undergrads are enthusiastic participants in Carleton’s unique Dev Degree internship partnership with Shopify, where students split their time between campus and the company’s downtown headquarters, getting tuition covered and earning a salary through their four-year... More

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Departmental TA Awards

Departmental TA Awards 2017/2018 Nominate a School of Computer Science TA for an award. Any faculty, contract instructor and student are welcome to nominate their TA. Detailed info (Computer Science): SCS-TA-Award-2017-2018 TA Awards nomination... More

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Carleton Hosts and Wins Cybersecurity Challenge

Four Carleton University undergraduate students won this year’s CyberSCI-Ottawa Cyber Security Mayor’s Challenge... More

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Prestigious NSERC research grants for School Faculty

Sonia Chiasson, Audrey Girouard and Yuhong Guo’s research projects are so impressive that they have received an additional boost in funds from the government.... More

Monday, June 12, 2017

Grad Research: Educating Children About Cybersecurity

In our increasingly connected and online world, navigating spam, identity theft, frauds and other cybersecurity issues has become more and more important, especially for children. Luckily, researchers like Sana Maqsood are developing methods to educate children about cyber security... More

Monday, May 1, 2017

Contract Instructor (CI) Opportunities for Winter 2018 Term and Multi-Term Agreement Opportunity 2017-2019

The School of Computer Science invites applications from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach courses that will be offered during the winter 2018 term or during the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 academic years within the multi-term agreement.  Specific courses requiring CIs are listed below and course... More

Monday, April 17, 2017

Grad Research: A Day in the Life of the Jo’s

In our increasingly connected and online world, navigating spam, identity theft, frauds and other cybersecurity issues has become more and more important, especially for children.   Luckily, researchers like Sana Maqsood are developing methods to educate children about cybersecurity topics.   Maqsood is a PhD student in Computer Science here... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

CodeGuru 2017 Results

The 7th annual CodeGuru Programming Competition was held on Saturday, 1st April. CodeGuru is an ACM-style competition where students solve programming problems that test their understanding of algorithms and programming techniques. This year 90% of the competition participants solved one or more problems — a new record. The two winners of the... More

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