UAlberta Comp Sci

Applications open for our High School Internship Program (HIP) running July 5 - Aug 12, 2022. All students in Grades 10, 11, & 12 across Alberta invited to apply. Submit your application today! ualberta.ca/computing-scie…

Dr. Alona Fyshe, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science, weighs in on AI: singularityhub.com/2021/11/23/how…

Dr. Frederick West (Acting Dean, Faculty of Science) and Dr. David Marchant (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) part of team developing a nasal spray to prevent covid-19 infection. idrc.ca/en/news/develo…

Celebrating Staff: Britta Nielsen ualberta.ca/science/news/2…

Hear from Carrie Demmans Epp on the interconnected nature of computing science. ualberta.ca/science/news/2…

New Assistant Professor Xiaoqi Tan joins the University of Alberta and shares his research and thoughts on the importance of teaching. ualberta.ca/science/news/2…

ualberta.ca/folio/2021/11/… UofA Comp Sci professors David Wishart & Russ Greiner part of an international team of researchers using artificial intelligence to predict new illegal drugs before they hit the streets — which could help save lives and fight crime.

The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) is hosting this year’s Advances in Computer Games Conference 2021 online from November 23-25. Attendance is free! For more info: icga.org/?page_id=3328

Computing Science is NOW ACCEPTING applications for our 6-week paid summer internship program. Open to students across Alberta in grades 10, 11, & 12. uab.ca/cship

Congrats to our departmental graduate award winners! Mrunal J. - Early Achievement (MSc) Kristen Y. - Early Achievement (PhD) Ryan D. - Outstanding MSc Thesis Award Haozhou P. - Outstanding MSc Thesis Award Camilla F.C. - Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

Congrats to our first year computing science student Sandra Taskovic for receiving the Schulich Leader Scholarship! ualberta.ca/folio/2021/09/… schulichleaders.com

Applications are now open to our 2nd virtual SET conference! All female and gender diverse high school students in Alberta can register. Conference will take place on Nov 20. More info: ualberta.ca/women-in-schol… #SET2021 #WISESTUAlberta #cndsci #YEG #womeninSTEM #STEMPower

Don't miss this workshop if you are developing control algorithms for buildings. In addition to the talks, there will be a live demo of 3 control platforms + SenSys/BuildSys registration is free for online participants!

Meet Eleni Stroulia, acting vice dean in the U of A’s Faculty of Science, professor in the Department of Computing Science and the director of AI4Society, one of the University of Alberta’s signature areas. Get to know Stroulia and her research: bit.ly/3D8mfLd

Yangchen Pan discuss his research on Learning Natural Sparse Representations by Fuzzy Tiling Activation in our latest AI Seminar video. Have a watch: hubs.la/H0YMn9J0 #AI #ML #ABTech

@ICPCNews Congratulations to our programming team - consisting of three of our UofA Comp Sci undergraduate students: Jason C., Ian D., & Grayden P., and their coach Prof. Zac Friggstad, who competed this weekend in the North America Championship and advanced to the ICPC World Finals!

Congratulations to all #ICPCNAC teams for their spectacular performance! The top 19 teams of the 2021 ICPC North America Championship, including the four Division Champions of the 2021 ICPC NADC will advance to the 45th Annual ICPC World Finals. bit.ly/3sfBJsu

Join us Friday, July 23 from 12-1pm MDT for Amii's weekly virtual Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seminar! "Policy and Heuristic-Guided Tree Search Algorithms", will be presented by Levi Lelis, University of Alberta. Abstract, presenter bio, and Zoom link: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/ai…

Our well-deserving Prof. Rich Sutton was awarded IJCAI-21's Award for Research Excellence for his fundamental contributions to the foundation of reinforcement learning. ijcai.org/awards