��ɫTV News - School of Computer Science

��ɫTVl names winners of the 2025 President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media

webfull — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:45:04 +0000

Congratulations to Jérôme Waldispühl and Attila Szantner (Computer Science), The Eclipse Task Force (Physics), and Andrew Gonzalez (Biology), who are among this year's winners of the President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media!

In announcing the winners and runners-up, President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini noted that they were among a strong field of applicants spanning all 12 Faculties.

“This is further evidence that the sharing of knowledge and a love of learning are core ��ɫTVl values,” he said.

Published: 2 April 2025

��ɫTVl’s Computer Science Camp inspires next generation of coders

webfull — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:33:26 +0000

After a hiatus of about a decade, the ��ɫTVl Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer. The camp was a group effort organized by students, staff and faculty across the computer science community. Students participated in four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions, to learn about computer science.

Published: 9 September 2024

��ɫTVl’s Computer Science Camp inspires next generation of coders

webfull — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:11:19 +0000

After a hiatus of about a decade, the ��ɫTVl Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer.

The four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions were all intended to strengthen students’ interests in coding and coding competitions, and to contribute to the development of computer science talent in Quebec.

Published: 12 August 2024

AI and Sustainability: Balancing Innovation with Planetary and Social Well-being

webfull — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:01:48 +0000

Date: October 10th, 2024 | Time: 6:00 PM | Location: The ��ɫTVl Faculty Club | Free Event

Published: 17 July 2024

Gregory Dudek receives the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award

webfull — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:42:32 +0000

Professor Gregory Dudek of the School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.

Awarded annually by Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-Can/Info-Can), this award recognizes current or former faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the field of computer science in Canada.

Published: 29 May 2024

Sustainable Data Science Training Program awarded $1.65 M from NSERC CREATE

webfull — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:05:26 +0000

Today, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced more than $26 million in funding for 16 new training initiatives through its Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program.

Published: 16 May 2024

A push for more women in computer science

webfull — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:26:28 +0000

When Jade Raymond, BSc’98, studied at ��ɫTVl’s School of Computer Science, she was one of few women in the program and “I think the only woman I knew in my year who went and got a job as a programmer in computer science after graduating.”

Raymond became a trailblazer in the video game industry, helping create the huge hit Assassin’s Creed, and building studios from the ground up for Ubisoft and Electronic Arts.

Published: 18 March 2024

Fighting disinformation in Quebec

webfull — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:50:10 +0000

Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces.

Published: 15 December 2023

Seeing inside the heart at an unprecedented scale

webfull — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:18:50 +0000

A team of researchers in Canada and India has developed a novel method to image the whole mouse heart wall at a spatial resolution that is three orders of magnitude finer than that seen till now, revealing entirely new, previously unknown cardiac fiber systems within it.

Published: 4 October 2023

Matt Dobbs, Galen Halverson, Joelle Pineau, and Simon Caron-Huot honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

webfull — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:28:29 +0000

Congratulations to ��ɫTVl Science's new Royal Society of Canada inductees, the Fellows Matt Dobbs, Galen Halverson, Joelle Pineau, and College Member Simon Caron-Huot! The four professors join 15 other scholars in ��ɫTVl's 2023 cohort.

Published: 6 September 2023