Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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, November 12, 2024

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

SCS Grad Leans on University Smarts to Win on Jeopardy

Carleton University graduate Grant McSheffrey racked up nearly US$70,000 (about C$93,000) as a three-time Jeopardy champion from March 14 to... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Carleton Ravens score well at the Regional ACM Programming Contest

The Carleton Ravens achieved their best ever standing in the annual ACM Programming Regional Contest on the 29th October, ranking 17th of 127 teams. The team of Matt Diener, Alan Wu and Olivia Perryman solved 5 problems — the highest ever by a Carleton team. The ECNA region is a highly competitive region with... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Carleton Students Take on Shopify Internships

Shopify internships will see students split their time between the Carleton campus and Shopify’s downtown headquarters throughout their four-year Bachelor of Computer Science program. They’ll learn both in the classroom and by doing hands-on work, with Shopify paying a salary and covering their tuition as... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Human-computer Interaction Research

As human-computer interaction researchers, we frequently conduct research involving potential users of computer systems. This typically involves trying out prototype software/hardware and giving feedback. Often, a small honorarium is paid for your time. We've created a Facebook page to let people know of upcoming Carleton research studies where we... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Carleton University Partners with Shopify to Introduce First-in-Canada Multi-Year Student Internships

Carleton University and Shopify, the leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small- and medium-sized businesses, are introducing a new model of learning that embeds students in an industrial... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

TA Awards Nomination Now Open!

The nomination form for the 2016-2017 “Outstanding TA Awards” is now open!  ... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Shopify Scoops up Carleton Grads

More than five dozen Carleton alumni work at Shopify, and despite their range of roles within the booming Ottawa-based e-commerce business... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Computer Science Graduate applies to become Astronaut

The Canadian Space Agency is accepting applications for two astronaut positions until Aug. 15, 2016. Jacob Brown a Bachelor of Computer Science graduate from Carleton University has applied to become an Astronaut. "I've always wanted to fly. Originally, my goal as child was to be pilot. As I got older and learned more about... More

Thursday, October 31, 2024

International opportunity for undergraduates

Mitacs is offering an international research opportunity in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The RISE-Globalink Research Internship (RISE-GRI) offers undergraduate students at Canadian universities the chance to undertake summer research at eligible German institutions.   Successful candidates participate in... More

Friday, September 6, 2024

Fall 2024 Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training Courses for Computer Science Students

The Unified Support Centre is holding an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) course on the weekends of September 28th & 29th, 2024 and October 26th & 27th, 2024. Registration for both dates are currently open! Courses are being offered at a reduced rate of $160 (tax included). ASIST is a comprehensive, two day... More

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