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Monday, December 5, 2016 (all day)

Computer Science Education Week

Computer Science Education Week is taking place between December 5 and December 11 around the world in celebration of computer science pioneer Grace Hopper's birthday (December 9, 1906).

Celebrate with your students, classmates, friends, family and more by learning or teaching others to code. You can choose from a variety of programs and activities to get you going. It's easy!

Jo Atlee
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.
Monday, February 6, 2017 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Upper year information session - winter 2017

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

Future Female Techmakers Conference flyer
Saturday, March 4, 2017 (all day)

Future Female Techmakers Conference

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.

Saturday, March 4, 2017 10:30 am - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Local ACM-style programming contest

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:

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.