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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Carleton Science Launches New Initiatives to Advance Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The ACE EDI series is just one of the ways that the faculty is fostering discussions of these issues. Another is the upcoming annual Herzberg Lecture on Nov. 18. In that Zoom webinar, Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College, will be talking about increasing diversity in computer science at all... More

Monday, November 30, 2020

Using AI and Big Data to Identify a Potential COVID-19 Peptide Treatment

Using artificial intelligence and Canada’s most powerful supercomputer, Ashkan Golshani and Frank Dehne analyzed millions of possible protein... More

Friday, November 20, 2020

Discovery Challenges – now accepting proposals!

Are you a Carleton student looking for bite-sized, resumé-boosting experience? Then apply for a Discovery Challenge!   Hosted by the Discovery Centre, Discovery Challenges are short-term, virtual mini-projects (maximum 6-8 hours of work) that count toward your co-curricular record. Challenges are proposed by Carleton staff, faculty,... More

Friday, November 20, 2020

Make your voice heard! cuHacking Community Survey and Organizer Applications

As we're getting closer to cuHacking 2021, we wanted to take some time to get your opinions on online events, hackathons, and online hackathons in general. Below is a survey that shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes to fill out. By filling out the survey, you can gain a chance to win a $25 gift... More

Friday, November 13, 2020

CUSA COVID-19 Response for Computer Science Students

Sent to all BCS students on behalf of CUSA Foot Patrol Hi Computer Science students!   Do you or someone you know need assistance due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic? The Carleton University Students' Association has implemented a COVID-19 response framework consisting of several new services to better support you - it's members.  ... More

Monday, November 2, 2020

United Way Campaign 2020

The campaign runs from Oct. 27 to Nov. 27. The heart of this year’s campaign will be through your generous donations. Every amount helps! You may have traditionally supported the campaign by participating in the various events but since we won’t be able to host many this year, we ask you to consider making... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

New mental health and well-being initiative for parent-students

Health and Counselling Services (HCS) is delighted to announce a new mental health and well-being initiative to offer reserved weekly counselling sessions for students who are also parents or caregivers until the end of this current term.   https://carleton.ca/health/parent-students/   Parent-students often juggle between studying,... More

Monday, September 28, 2020

CU-WISE Virtual First year panel

My name is Anoushka and I am contacting you from CU-WISE’s Virtual Team this year. I hope you are doing well and had a great start to the semester. It’s a new school year, and first year students will especially be facing new ground with a virtual school year. To help first year Engineering, Computer... More

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Carleton Faculty Receive CFI Funding to Support Research Benefiting All Canadians

Carleton University researchers Mohammad Reza Kholghy, Roslyn Dakin and the teams of Banu Örmeci, Ravi Prakash and Jesse Vermaire, as well as Kumiko Murasugi, Erik Anonby and David Mould, have received approximately $1 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) for their work on... More

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Carleton Students Create Browser Extension to Help Remote Workers

Third-year computer science students Kashyap Achar and Tobias Schlagenhaufer first met at an Ontario-wide coding competition and have been looking for the perfect problem to solve ever... More

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

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