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| @DCS E-Update Winter 2008 |
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This e-newsletter is sent out on a quarterly basis, highlighting some of the latest news and events, and sharing profiles of people and research at DCS.
NEWS
DCS In the Media
The newest addition to the DCS website is a page listing recent media hits highlighting the people, research and teaching here at the department. See the DCS in the Media page here.
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Prof. Allan Borodin, CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize |
Awards
Faculty member Allan Borodin is the recipient of the 2008 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize in recognition of his outstanding achievement and fundamental contributions to many areas, including algebraic computations, resource tradeoffs, routing in interconnection networks, parallel algorithms, online algorithms, and adversarial queuing theory. Established in 1994, this award recognizes exceptional research in the mathematical sciences, and is given by the Centre de recherches mathematiques (CRM), the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). For further information on this prestigious award and others, visit our Awards webpage.
Prospective Student Open House
This year's departmental Open House will take place on Saturday, March 15. High School students looking at computer science are invited to see all the department has to offer. See our Open House webpage here.
Gr8 Designs for Gr8 Girls
For the second year in a row, the department is hosting an activity day for Grade 8 girls who would like to learn more about computer science. Hosted by DCS, the Faculty of Arts & Science and Google, participants develop computer science skills and work on creative projects. This year's Gr8 Designs for Gr8 Girls day will be on Thursday, May 8. Click here for more information.
DCS Alumni Spring Reunion
Mark your calendars! The department is hosting its sixth annual spring reunion reception on the evening of Thursday, May 29. The event will take place at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology. More details will be available soon; the University of Toronto Spring Reunion website is found here. Honoured years are those ending in '3 and '8, but all DCS alumni are welcome to attend our reception!
PROFILES
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Shirin Sohrabi Araghi |
People:
Graduate Student Shirin Sohrabi Araghi
M.Sc. candidate Shirin grew up in Toronto, living in a neighborhood very close to UofT's St. George campus... To read her profile and others, click here.
Research:
Video-based People Tracking
Future computers will be able to detect, track and recognize people from digital video... one key task is to estimate the three-dimensional pose of a person from a
sequence of images... For this research profile and others, click here.