Events

What is Hack the North?

Hack the North is Canada’s largest international hackathon, running 36 hours straight and involving over 1000 hackers.

It’s organized entirely by students and hosted at Waterloo. It’s open to all undergraduates from all schools—even if you live outside Canada.

Meet our Big CSters

Come out to this term's first Big CSters Social!

Meet other female Computer Science students and chat about courses, university life, or just whatever. Food and drink will be provided.

Let us know you're coming by filling out the RSVP form!

About Big CSters

The Big CSters Mentorship Program helps introduce first-year female Computer Science students to university life by matching them with a Big CSter to speak once a week.

What is National Learn to Code Day?

Want to make your own website, but don't know where to start? Bring your laptop and come out to National Learn to Code Day on November 8!

Ladies Learning Code will be organizing workshops in the community to  introduce beginners to HTML and CSS. By the end of the workshop, you’ll own your very first website!

What are we? By what processes and patterns did we originate and how do these patterns compare to the processes of the world around us, digital and biological, societal and fictional?

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the inaugural Wes Graham Research Symposium & Computer Science Awards reception. The symposium takes its name from James Wesley (Wes) Graham, a humble visionary known as the father of computing at the University of Waterloo and an academic who devoted his career to making the magic of computers available to everyone. 

Three-day programing workshop

Chelsea Komlo, HashiCorp

​Privacy Enhancing Technology communities rely on the research community for help designing and validating protocols, finding potential attack vectors, and applying new technological innovations to existing protocols. However, while the research community has made significant progress studying projects such as Tor, the number of research outcomes that have actually been incorporated into privacy enhancing technologies such as The Tor Project is lower than the number of feasible and useful research outcomes. 

Matthew Finkel, The Tor Project

There are hundreds of millions of new "smart" mobile device users every year, but the mobile ecosystem and infrastructure are designed and built for optimizing convenience, not protecting the privacy of the user. From a design flaw in the Internet Protocol to an abundence of physical sensors, a mobile device may tell a third-party more information than the user intended or wanted. 

Vitalik Buterin
Creator of Ethereum, Cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine

Mariana Alves-Pereira
Lusófona University