Thursday, November 23, 2023

Carleton students place first and third in regional cybersecurity challenge

Teams from the School of Computer Science placed first and third in the 2023 CyberSci Regionals: https://cybersecuritychallenge.ca/en/ The event took place at Carleton University on November 18, 2023, with teams participating from Algonquin College, University of Ottawa, and Carleton's own SCS and BIT. Congratulations to the teams!First place,... More

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

New TA Center Opens at SCS 

The School of Computer Science opened its newly renovated Teaching Assistant (TA) laboratory during their Open House on Tuesday September 19, 2023. The university has invested in upgrading the undergraduate Computer Science labs and resources. The changes include a renovated TA center and BCS laboratories as well as further investment in the SCS... More

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Computer Science and History Prof’s Collaborate to Create Machine Learning Method to Study Antiquities Trafficking

Carleton digital archaeologist Shawn Graham and his team have designed a groundbreaking methodology that lets researchers re-examine this complex web of illegal activities with a fresh pair of AI... More

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Summer 2023 I-CUREUS & Students as Partners Program (SaPP) applications are now open!

Help provide students with the opportunity to participate in undergraduate research or to partner on course design! Applications for Teaching and Learning Services’ I-CUREUS, and Students as Partners Program (SaPP) are now open for the summer term! I-CUREUS: Provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to conduct paid research, access... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Carleton University’s 3MT Winner Georgia Loewen to Compete in Ontario 3MT!

Attention, everyone! We have some exciting news to share with you. Carleton University's very own Georgia Loewen, the winner of the esteemed Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, will compete in the upcoming Ontario 3MT event. On Wednesday, May 17, at the picturesque Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, located in Queen's University,... More

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Distinguished Service Award

Professor Jorg-Rudiger Sack has received an award for Distinguished Service! This award recognizes outstanding service to CS-Can|Info-Can and the Canadian computer science community at large (selected by the CS-Can|Info-Can Board of Directors).   Congratulations Professor Sack!   Annoucement of the 2022 CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Award Winners... More

Monday, May 8, 2023

Women In STEM Graduate Volunteer Opportunity

Girls SySTEM Mentorship is a non-profit organization based in Canada that provides a space for encouragement and aims to increase diversity in the STEM workforce by pairing self-identifying young women in grades 7-12 (ages 12-18) with professional mentors from a diverse range of STEM fields. In doing so, mentees can gain first-hand knowledge of... More

Friday, April 28, 2023

Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Future Learning Innovation Fellowship

Teaching and Learning Services is excited to announce this year’s Future Learning Innovation Fellowship recipients. This program supports faculty members and instructors in the exploration and implementation of new and innovative teaching and learning... More

Friday, April 28, 2023

MA student nets data studies award

MA student Eren Egitman, nets data studies award in the “Critical Data Studies” category at the Data Day 9.0  ... More

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Applications are now open for the 2023 Google Lime Scholarship

Available to undergraduate university students with disabilities pursuing Computer Science/Computer Engineering degrees.  Recipients of the 2023 Google Lime Scholarship will each receive a scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Scholars will also be invited to attend a Google Lime Scholars gathering in Fall 2023 and be considered for... More

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Computer scientist scores Oscar wins for animation

Dr. Theodore Kim and his team won an Oscar this year at the Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony for Fizt2, an animation simulator for modeling the physical characteristics of soft material like fabric as it... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

SciSoc February 2023 Blog

The Carleton Science Society February 2023 Blog highlighting an interview with SCS faculty member Dr. Christine Laurendeau as well as Computer Science students: Darren Bell, Jacob Bonner and Forest... More

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Dr. Yuhong Guo has been renewed as Canada Research Chair in machine learning

Adegboyega Ojo is the new Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Carleton University. Carleton’s Yuhong Guo and Hongyu Sun have also been renewed as Canada Research Chairs in machine learning and developmental neuroscience,... More

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Carleton students place second in regional cybersecurity challenge

A team of 5 SCS students placed second in the 2022 CyberSci Regionals (https://cybersecuritychallenge.ca/). The event took place at Carleton University on November 5, 2022, with teams participating from Algonquin College, University of Ottawa, La Cité, Queen's, and Carleton's own SCS and TIM. Congratulations to the team!Team SHA SHA... More

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Are video games good for you or bad for you?

Are video games good for you or bad for you? Kim Helleman's interviews Carleton Universities Jim Davies about the psychology of video games in this month's episode of Minding the Brain... More

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Sonia Chiasson from the School of Computer Science is the recipient of an Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship

A pair of highly accomplished Carleton researchers have received major awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).  Lenore Fahrig, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Biology, has won the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science Engineering which is considered the country’s top science... More

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Carleton Opens Groundbreaking Ericsson-Carleton Mobile Wireless Lab

On Sept. 28, more than 75 Carleton University community members, government officials and industry representatives gathered to mark the official opening of the Ericsson-Carleton Mobile Wireless Lab in Carleton’s ARISE building. The lab is a part of the existing Ericsson partnership created to expand experiential learning and research in... More

Monday, September 12, 2022

Experiment Built by a Carleton Computer Science Student Set to be Part of Blue Origin Rocket

Carleton student Shreya Voore was on a 10-member team of high school students that won a challenge during a Shad Canada program in the summer of 2020. They develop a research experiment that will be conducted in microgravity aboard New Shepard, one of Blue Origin’s reusable rockets. Full Story: Canada’s first ever spaceflight experiment... More

Monday, July 11, 2022

New Frontiers Funding for Research Using AI to Provide Better Supports for Students with Disabilities

School of Computer Science professor, Majid Komeili, is working to explore whether artificial intelligence (AI) can support the work of disability service professionals in assessing student support needs to benefit both the service providers and the students with disabilities. Their research will develop a machine learning prototype that will be... More

Monday, June 20, 2022

Carleton convocation a triple treat this year with multiple grad years celebrating

Elisa Kazan said it was slightly surreal to take time off from her job in Vancouver and fly back to her hometown of Ottawa to receive the computer science degree she earned from Carleton University two years... More

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Congrats GRADflix contest winner Saman Karim!

Congratulations to the 2022 GRADflix contest People's choice award winner Saman Karim video: Exploring Accessibility and Companionship in Board Games via Alexa. to the... More

Monday, June 13, 2022

Convocation for class of 2020, 2021 and 2022!

Carleton Universities largest convocation ceremony in history will be held on June 13-17, 2022 for graduating years 2020 and 2021. Convocation for the Class of 2022 will be held June 20-24,... More

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should

Read Carleton Universities Dr. Jim Davies story: "We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should", at Scientific... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

Impactful Student Opportunity – apply by May 19th!

Launch: Ideas is one of the most inspiring, hands-on, and developmental programs we offer our students. In this program, we gather interdisciplinary and diverse teams of students to build a real-time solution with social impact for a local organization or small business. While we know it’s early for registration for fall courses – we need... More

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Student-Designed Digital Platform Aims to Inspire Girls to Enter STEM

What do a graduate computer science student and an undergraduate economics student have in common? The desire to close the gender gap in... More

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Carleton Team places first in regional cyber security challenge

Congratulations to Adam Nimour, Anoushka Singhal, Robert Babaev and Elias Hawa members of team 'null root' who came first in the Ottawa region cyber security challenge! Team 'null root' will compete in the CyberSci National Finals on June 24-25, 2022.  And the top (qualifying) students from there will go on to represent Canada at... More

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Health & Counselling Services – New group counselling programs for students

Please be advised that HCS is extending the intake deadline to Monday, January 24 at 4:30 PM for Asian Student Narrative Therapy Group("Fighting Anti-Asian Racism and Healing Racial Trauma"). We currently have a few students registered for the group, however we require min. 5-6 students in order to confirm and run the group this term. Students... More

Monday, January 10, 2022

CCSS Announcements – January 2022

Upcoming Events CCSS Mentorship Program Reminders CCSS Announcements - January Newsletter 2022 Hello everyone and welcome to the Winter 2022 term! The CCSS team has been hard at work over the break preparing a wide variety of exciting events, services, and new ways to get involved in your student community.   Upcoming Events First Year... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Data Science Student wins Senate Medal

The Communication and Media Studies program congratulates Donald Leone who was awarded a Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Fall 2021 convocation ceremony, held virtually on Saturday, November 13th. Leone graduated with his MA in Communication with a specialization in Data Science.   Focusing on colonial... More

Friday, October 22, 2021

Computer Security and the Internet textbook released by professor Paul Van Oorschot

Carleton University's School of Computer Science is delighted to announce the release of the textbook Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin (Springer International, October 2021).  The author is the School's professor Paul Van Oorschot, an internationally renowned scholar in computer security and... More

Friday, August 20, 2021

Carleton Takes Second at National CyberSCI Cyber Security Challenge

In January 2021, Carleton swept the podium in the regional competition before the winning team, Team Rocket, went on to place second in the online national competition in July 2021. It was the first time that any of Ottawa’s post-secondary institutions had achieved the feat during the regional... More

Friday, June 11, 2021

Carleton University App Makes Learning Anatomy Fun with Gaming Challenge

Skyler Bruggink a  fourth year computer science student created a popular cross-platform anatomy app for third-year biology students learning the parts of living... More

Thursday, April 29, 2021

BlackBerry QNX and Carleton University Join Forces in $21 Million USD Partnership to Train Next Generation of Software Engineers

BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) and Carleton University today announced a $21-million USD, five year strategic partnership agreement that will provide software engineers and researchers access to BlackBerry® QNX® technology for use in a wide range of industries, including automotive, robotics, transportation, Internet of things (IoT),... More

Friday, April 23, 2021

Carleton Students Launch Mobile App Fostering Volunteer Opportunities

A group of Carleton students has developed an app that is now available for download in the IOS and Android app stores called iContribute, which connects students with volunteer... More

Friday, April 16, 2021

Carleton and IBM Partner in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for a Future-Ready Workforce

Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging digital careers such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data... More

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