Events

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.

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/

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.

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