DLS: Susan Dumais - Personalized Search: Potential and Pitfalls
Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft and Deputy Managing Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond
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:
Refreshments will be provided.
Visit campus, talk to students and professors, learn more about admissions and programs — all that available in one day!
Register today to attend Fall Open House 2015.
We hope to see you there!
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:
Refreshments will be provided
One slide, three minutes outstanding ideas!
Computer Science and Math graduate students can register now to compete in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for a chance to win up to $1,000.
Competitors have one static slide and three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their graduate research to a non-specialist audience.
Computer Science and Math student competitors will face off in this faculty heat to determine a winner and represent the faculty at the University of Waterloo 3MT competition finals.
The application deadline to compete is January 13, 2017.
All are welcome to attend!
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/