Daniel Alan Spielman
Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics
Yale University
Abstract
Student competitors from each faculty on campus will compete for up to $1,000 and the chance to represent the University of Waterloo in the Ontario Provincial 3MT Finals.
All are invited to attend to cheer on their faculty favourites.
Monica Beckwith has worked with the Java Virtual Machine for more than a decade not just optimizing the JVM heuristics,but also improving the Just-in-time (JIT) code quality for various processor architectures as well as working with the garbage collectors and improving garbage collection for server systems.
During this talk, Monica will cover a few JIT and Runtime optimizations and she will dive into the HotSpot garbage collection and provide an overview of the various garbage collectors available in HotSpot.
This talk is open to all members of the community.
The next Waterloo-local ACM-style programming contest will be held
on Saturday, March 4, in MC 3003. All members of the University of Waterloo community are invited to try their programming skill in Scheme, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python, or Scala.
For full details and online registration, please see:
The Future Female Techmakers Conference (FFTC) hopes to teach women how to be effective mentors, provide female role models to young women interested in the tech industry, and create lasting meaningful connections that will support all participants in their journey towards becoming female techmakers. FFTC will be accepting approximately fifty Grade 9 high school students and fifty undergraduate students.
Computer Science and Math student competitors will face off in this faculty heat to determine a winner and represent the faculty at the University of Waterloo 3MT competition finals.
The application deadline to compete is January 13, 2017.
All are welcome to attend!
Eric Horvitz
Technical Fellow and Managing Director, Microsoft Research—Redmond Lab
Abstract:
Eric Horvitz
Technical Fellow and Managing Director, Microsoft Research—Redmond Lab
Abstract:
Students are invited to attend an information session relating to choosing their upper year courses, hosted by Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Dan Brown.
Students will hear:
- Information on all fourth-year and optional third-year courses.
- Differences among courses
- Advice on preparation for upper-year specialization (e.g. what courses to choose to prepare for graphics, AI)
Refreshments will be provided
Software controls many everyday electronics, like computers and smart phones, and is increasingly embedded in safety-critical systems like medical devices, transportation systems, and autonomous vehicles. Although difficult to detect, software errors can lead to loss of property, or even life.
One slide, three minutes outstanding ideas!
Computer Science and Math graduate students can register now to compete in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for a chance to win up to $1,000.
Competitors have one static slide and three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their graduate research to a non-specialist audience.