Computer Science Undergrad News
February 2, 2007

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HEADLINES

Help Centre Correction
CSC Bulletin Boards Start Up
Francois Pitt Wins Award
Google Pizza
Mentorships For Women And Minorities
Dean's Student Initiatives Fund
Bioinformatics Talk
CSSU Graphics Challenge
JUG Meeting
Jobs: Micron, Bloomberg, Infosys

Phew! What a lot of items! My apologies for the size of this newsletter.

Help Centre Correction

The CSC HELP CENTRE is open Monday to Thursday, 4 to 6, in BA 3234. The help-centre TAs provide assistance and advice with first-year courses every day, and programming and theory on alternate days.

*** In last week's newsletter, I gave the wrong times for the Help Centre! My apologies: it's really open 4 to 6, not 2 to 4.

CSC Bulletin Boards Start Up

We've started a set of bulletin boards for discussions of various kinds among undergraduate students in Computer Science and those interested in undergraduate Computer Science. Please give it a look:

https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/

You can log in with your CDF account; you're using SSL, so it should be safe. You can also read (but not post) without logging in.

The goal over the next term or two is to replace newsgroups on CDF with these bulletin boards. Right now, in the middle of the term, we're not pushing course instructors to replace course newsgroups, but I plan to begin immediately shortening the items in this newsletter, with longer versions on the bulletin boards.

See you there ....


Francois Pitt Wins Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award

Quoting our department chair, Prof. Craig Boutilier:

"I'm delighted to announce that Francois Pitt has been awarded one of five Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2005-06. This is a significant award, and richly deserved recognition of the Francois' terrific performance inside and outside the classroom. Please join me in congratulating Francois."


Google Pizza on Thursday

The CSSU wants you to know that it's offering Google-sponsored pizza in the CSSU lounge on the second floor of Bahen.


Mentorship Programs for Women and Minorities

The Canadian distributed mentorship program was mentioned in the Jan. 16 newsletter. Here's the American one:

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/uga/20071/070203dmp.txt


The Dean's Student Initiatives Fund

Money for community-building:

https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/bb/YaBB.pl?num=1170536607

and also:

http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/undergraduate

(and select "Scholarships").


Bioinformatics: Faculty Presentation for Undergrads

Find out more about the research interests of Professor Michael Brudno. He studies the "development of efficient algorithms for analyzing biological data, especially comparison of genomic and protein sequences and assembly of genomes". Pizza and refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, February 7th, 3-4pm in BA1230


CSSU Graphics Challenge

The CSSU is organizing a "Graphics Challenge":

Participants are to come up with either a 2D/3D animation, game or tech demo based on a stylistic theme in hopes to win the prestigious first prize trophy (not to mention a Nintendo Wii or 30 GB iPod!). Best of all, it's FREE to enter! Visit the site at:

http://graphicschallenge.cssu.ca


Toronto JUG Meeting

The Toronto Java Users Group meets this week:

Tuesday, February 6, 7 p.m. at the Rogers Communications Centre

For details, including address and room number:

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/uga/20071/070203jug.txt


JOBS

Job-posting disclaimer: I don't post obviously inappropriate jobs, but I also do not vet postings in the same way as you would expect from the Career Centre. View these postings as roughly equivalent to what you would see in a computing trade magazine's advertisements.

That disclaimer is standard, and not especially related to the jobs in this particular newsletter.

Micron Technology:

These jobs are mostly engineering-related, but the internship mentioned might be of interest to computer science students. There's an event on Monday:

BA 1210, Monday, February 5, 5 to 7 p.m.

Read many details here:

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/uga/20071/070203jobmicron.txt


Bloomberg:

For a very promotional discussion:

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/uga/20071/070203jobbloomberg.txt

There's an event at the Career Centre:

Monday, February 5

There are also on-campus interviews. Sign up here:

http://www.careers.utoronto.ca


Infosys:

Guoyu Wang, who was an undergraduate here and is now a graduate student, wants me to tell you that his experience as a three-month intern for Infosys in India (in Bangalore, I think) was very good. You can find out more about these internships here:

http://www.infosys.com/InStepWeb/default.htm

There's an event on Thursday:

BA 2145, Thursday, February 8, 6:00 p.m.


   
           
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