Current students

Thursday, November 30, 2017 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Computer Science URA Appreciation

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. 

Saturday, September 30, 2017 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

ACM-style programming contest

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.

Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:45 pm - 4:45 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

2017 Computer Science Grad Student BBQ

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science invites its graduate students along with faculty and staff to the annual Computer Science BBQ, Thursday September 14, 2017.

Location change: Because of a concurrent Feds event, the Computer Science Graduate Student BBQ will take place at the DC Quad. Tables and chairs will be set up in the DC foyer.

The BBQ starts at 4:45 p.m. and will run until dark.

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/

A trio of computer science students from the University of Waterloo were among the top programmers from 128 universities across six continents invited to battle it out in Rapid City, South Dakota on May 24, 2017 at the 41st Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.

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.