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MSc Graduate Nominated for the Prestigious D.F. Forster Medal

Congratulations to Corey Alexander who was selected as the College of Physical & Engineering Science nominee for the D.F. Forster Medal. Corey recently completed his Master's in Computer Science, focusing on the gamification of online surveys for public health data collection.

MSc Defence – Andrew D’Angelo

MSc candidate Andrew D'Angelo will defend his thesis “Analyzing the Gender Wage-Gap in Ontario's Public Sector” on April 20, 2016, at 1:30pm in Reynolds 219.

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Analyzing the Gender Wage-Gap in Ontario's Public Sector

The Big Bang Theory, Chess, And Computer Science

The Director and students of the School of Computer Science are featured on the University of Guelph website for bringing a pop culture twist to a class in artificial intelligence.

The full article can be found here.

Ph.D. Defence – Abdelwahab Elnaka

PhD candidate Abdelwahab Elnaka will defend their thesis “A Quality of Service Provisioning Framework for Heterogeneous Sessions with Diverse Traffic Flows in Future Networks and Applications” on May 3, 2016, at 9:30am in Reynolds 219.

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A Quality of Service Provisioning Framework for Heterogeneous Sessions with Diverse Traffic Flows in Future Networks and Applications

Roboticon 2016 Winners

Over the weekend of March 19th and 20th, Roboticon, our robot-building and programming challenge, entered its 15th year at the University of Guelph.

SoCS Team Achieves Top 5 Ranking

The School of Computer Science is proud to announce that Dr. Gary Grewal and his team of students have received a top 5 ranking in the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design 2016 FPGA Placement Contest.

Dr. Grewal is part of an interdisciplinary team from the SoCS and from the School of Engineering, including former SoCS student Ryan Pattison, as well as Ziad Abuowaimer (SoE), Dr. Shawki Areibi (SoE), and Dr. Anthony Vannelli (SoE, Dean of CPES).

Jonathon MacPherson and Patrick Houlding, awarded the Gordon Nixon Leadership Award at the UofG Student Life Awards banquet

Gordon Nixon Leadership Award

Last night the University of Guelph held its annual Student Life Awards Banquet. Held in the Engineering Atrium, the event honoured and celebrated students and staff from the University of Guelph, as well as community partners, for their outstanding contributions to the community and life on campus.

Microsoft Machine Learning Challenge

You’ve heard about the cloud, but what can you actually do with it? This is your chance to learn how to predict the future. Machine Learning is a strategy used to analyze data to try and predict future results.

Date: Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Richards 3504, University of Guelph
Register: www.recruitguelph.ca

The Guelph Technology Showcase Returns This Week

Join us Wednesday February 24th, from 5:30pm-7:30pm in the Science Complex Atrium for the Guelph Technology Showcase.

The event is an annual celebration of the information technology community in Guelph and surrounding areas. This year there are 33 local tech companies registered for the event. Students and visitors welcome!

 

MSc Defence – Daniel Stantic

MSc candidate Daniel Stantic will defend his thesis "A Unified Probabilistic Model for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis" on March 9, 2016, at 2:30pm in Reynolds 219.

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A Unified Probabilistic Model for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis