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The students, staff, and faculty of the School of Computer Science would like to say hello and welcome to the incoming 2014 computer science students.

To start your first semester off right, join us at the following events.

The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following PhD Seminar, Connection point Selection in HWNs to improve QoS/QoE, reduce cost and increase profits, presented by PhD Candidate Jason Ernst.

The seminar will take place September 10, 2014 in Reynolds 219 at 2:00 pm.

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Connection point Selection in HWNs to improve QoS/QoE, reduce cost and increase profits

The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following PhD Seminar, A QoS Provisioning Framework for Sessions with Multiple Heterogeneous Participants in NGN and UC Networks, presented by PhD Student Abdelwahab Elnaka. The seminar will take place August 26, 2014 in Reynolds 312 at 2:00 pm.

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A QoS Provisioning Framework for Sessions with Multiple Heterogeneous Participants in NGN and UC Networks

The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following MSc Defence, Leveraging Knowledge Through Ontology Design, presented by MSc Candidate Gabriela Henriques.

The defence will take place August 20, 2014 in Reynolds 219 at 1:30 pm.

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Leveraging Knowledge Through Ontology Design

The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following MSc Defence, Using Association Rules and Logical Learning for Clustering, presented by MSc Candidate Jia Liu.

The defence will take place August 21, 2014 in Reynolds 219 at 10:30 am.

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Using Association Rules and Logical Learning for Clustering

The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following MSc Defence, Ontology-Driven Generic Questionnaire Design, presented by MSc Candidate Maryam Alipour-Aghdam.

The defence will take place August 22, 2014 in Reynolds 219 at 1:30 pm.

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Ontology-Driven Generic Questionnaire Design

The School of Computer Science invites you to Ontology Repositories Make A World Of Difference by Dr. Michael Gruninger, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.

The talk will be held Monday August 25, 2014 at 11am in Reynolds 219.

The School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the following PhD Defence, Multidimensional Data-driven Ontology Evaluation, presented by PhD Candidate Hlomani Hlomani.

The defence will take place August 25, 2014 in Reynolds 219 at 1:30 pm.

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Multidimensional Data-driven Ontology Evaluation

Congratulations to Oliver Cook, Rick Knoop, Hugo Possani, and Peter (Frazer) Seymour - winners of the group poster presentation at this year's CPES Undergraduate Poster Session.

In early July, Montreal was host to the International Startup Festival - an event that brought together entrepreneurs from around the world, along with potential investors, experts, and a variety of speakers. The School of Computer Science and the School of Engineering are proud to announce that PhD Candidates Jason Ernst (SoCS), and Tom Hummel (SoE) pitched their startup RedTree Robotics at the event, and were awarded $100,000 as a result.