December 6, 1989 marks the day an armed man walked into an engineering class at I'école Polytechnique de Montréal and killed 14 women and injured 10 more. This act of violent misogyny led Parliament to designate December 6 as The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. As a Faculty, Applied Science honors […]
Dr. Guy E. Blelloch (U.A. and Hellen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University) will be presenting in our distinguished lecture series on Nov. 20th. The talks are free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Location: Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title: Parallel Algorithms: A Retrospective and Current […]
Dr. Kimberly Keeton (Principal Software Engineer, Google) will be presenting next in our distinguished lecture series on Nov. 6th. The talks are free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Location: Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title: Not Your Grandparents’ Memory System Abstract: Virtual memory, invented in the 1960s, has been […]
Place and Memory - Donna Seto Join us for a talk by Donna Seto, the author of Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History. Donna's talk explores the resilience of communities that inhabit cultural sites like Vancouver’s Chinatown and helps us understand how our connection to place, the past and the future preserve these communities. Mapping Communities of […]
Dr. John Stamper (Associate Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU) will be presenting on Oct. 9th in our distinguished lecture series. The talks are free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Location: Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title: What is the role of Data Science in the era […]
Kickstart Your Career with Qualcomm! Join us for an exciting UBC event where you can learn about Qualcomm’s early career opportunities and hear directly from current Qualcomm employees about their experiences. This is a fantastic chance to meet current interns and engineers, discover why Qualcomm is a leader in technology innovation, and see why it’s […]
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