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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Upper Year Course Information Session

Students are invited to attend an information session relating to choosing their upper year courses, hosted by Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Charlie Clarke. 

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. 

Monday, January 18, 2016 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Upper year information session

Students are invited to attend an information session relating to choosing their upper year courses, hosted by Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Charlie Clarke.

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

Friday, January 27, 2017 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Research Talks - Detecting and Resolving Software Errors

Jo Atlee
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.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WICS presents: Monica Beckwith - Hotspot Virtual Machine's Execution Engine

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.

Saturday, June 24, 2017 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Local ACM-style programming contest

The next Waterloo-local Association for Computing Machinery style programming contest will be held on Saturday, June 24 in MC 3003. All members of the 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: http://acm.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/