Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Data Day 7.1 Explores AI and Everything Smart

Carleton University’s Faculty of Science and Institute for Data Science (CUIDS) hosted the seventh annual Data Day to celebrate the latest developments in data science and analytics... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

CCSS 2021 Election Results

The CCSS election period has come to a close, and the results are in! The 2021-2022 CCSS Board of Directors will be as follows:   President: Sarah Ali Vice-President: Erica Li Director of Finance: Victor Li Director of Academics: Matthew MacRae-Bovell Director of Social: Veronica Yung Director of Community: Zara Ali  ... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Celebrating Carleton Leaders on International Women’s Day

This year, the theme for International Women’s Day is #ChooseToChallenge. Carleton University is celebrating by sharing the stories of 17 leaders – students, staff and faculty members – who continue to challenge the status quo and push for better—a better community, a better Canada and a better... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Congratulations to Sonia Chiasson and Prosenjit Bose for their 2021 Research Achievement Awards

Congratulations to Sonia Chiasson and Prosenjit Bose for their 2021 Research Achievement... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Shaping the Future Through Giving: A Spotlight on David Hornsby

“Carleton is a special place. It’s an incredible university that really focuses on building community and creating opportunities for our students to learn in non-traditional ways.” As a Professor of International Affairs and Associate Vice-President of Teaching and Learning, David Hornsby believes in the power of the educational experience... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

NSERC Alliance Grants Support Research Strengths at Carleton University

Prof. Lianying Zhao in the School of Computer Science and his partner, Ericsson Canada Inc., received funding to investigate 5G-ready security and the probability of attacks. Entering the era of the 5G, telecom networks demonstrate certain new characteristics which may complicate the security of IT... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Carleton Computer Science teams sweep Ottawa-region Cybersecurity Challenge

The annual Ottawa-region Cybersecurity Challenge was held online on Jan 23, 2021.  Carleton university teams competed against other post-secondary institutions in the Ottawa region. This year Carleton university swept the top 3 spots. 2 teams from the School of Computer Science claimed first and third place and Carleton's BIT student team winning... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Yuhong Guo Named to CIFAR AI Chairs Program

Carleton University’s School of Computer Science Prof. Yuhong Guo has been named to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chairs... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Technolgap Ottawa’s Community for Womxn-in-Tech Call for Volunteers!

Technolgap is Ottawa's community for post-secondary womxn-in-tech, currently with 200+ community members around Ottawa in various programs such as computer science and engineering. 🚀   Through our slack workspace, Technolgap members share job postings and opportunities, give each other advice about resumes and courses, organize... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Industry and academia: An engaging partnership

In a field as deep and complex as supply chain management, it is crucial to foster collaboration between industry and academia. There is a natural symbiosis between the two: Researchers in the academic world are constantly looking for impactful and practical problems to solve while industry searches for new innovations to incorporate into their... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

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