Events

The next Waterloo-local ACM-style programming contest will be held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 in MC 3003.

All members of the UW community are invited to try their programming skill in Racket, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python or Scala!

The results of this local contest will be used to select the UW teams for the international ACM competition. We will send three or more teams of three students each to the East Central North America Regional in Windsor on October 27–28, 2017.

James Demmel
University of California, Berkeley
 

Jeff Ullman
​Stanford University

Please note the room and time change. The talk will be given in QNC 0101 at 10:30 a.m., not DC 1304 at 3:30 p.m. as previously advertised.

Thinking of going to graduate school? The Faculty of Mathematics invites 2nd, 3rd and 4th year undergrads to a graduate information session. You will have the chance to speak with department representatives and ask questions. 

Refreshments served. 

Computer Science is hosting a URA Appreciation for all Fall term Undergraduate Research Assistants as well as their supervisors and any supporting graduate students. The event will allow students to discuss the work they have done over the last few months, meet other URA's, chat with faculty, and discover future opportunities. 

Cory Doctorow

Dead canary in the coalmine: We just lost the web in the war on general purpose computing

Trevor Brown, Postdoctoral fellow
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Ruoyu (Fish) Wang, PhD candidate
SecLab, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lesley Istead, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

In this talk, we present a method for producing stylized stereoscopic 3D (S3D) line drawings or sketches from S3D photos.

Our method renders contours and silhouettes found in the disparity map and addresses some of the issues that arise when working with 8-bit disparity. Finally, we add shading to our stylized S3D line drawings to improve the perception of depth and surface shape.