CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Appointments for course enrollment began on Monday 26 March and open enrollment begins on Wednesday 28 March. For students trying to add CS courses, we encourage you to review the  course selection  page. COURSE ENROLLMENT In Computer Science,  we drop the enrolment caps by  approximately 15% of the total enrolment number for the course to give  advisors room to handle special cases. We will return the enrolment caps to their actual size in the second week of classes after we have had time to deal with the special cases. This will occur on  Friday, May 4, 2018 , (we don't know the precise time) and remaining space will be available on a first-come-first-served basis only if the section isn't already at its enrolment total. WHAT IS A SPECIAL CASE? 1. Students who selected courses but something went wrong because of: enrollment capacity in a course  ** a time conflict  ** an academic enrolment block was applied after course selection dropping or failing a course a

Finastra is hiring two positions for summer (May-August). Developer Job Summary The Developer will be responsible for designing and implementing code in both client and server sides. Your primary focus will be two-fold: 1) implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on performance; 2) implement services to support back-end data exchanges and business validation. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. Job Accountabilities Deliver complete features in both front and back-end application layers Ensure high performance on mobile and desktop Write unit tested, coding standards compliant, and minimally documented Coordinate the workflow between the UI/UX, Angular and RESTful Services Communicate with external web services that may have both SOAP and REST flavors Part of an Agile team Preferred skills & knowledge Knowledge of object-oriented codi

WHAT DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. The students are assisted by roving consultants who are graduate students, faculty, and industry professionals. After two days of intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation design, each team is allowed a few minutes and no more than two slides to impress a panel of judges. Prizes are given for: > Best in show > Best visualisation  > Best use of external data Each individual in the winning teams will receive $500. WHEN Friday, May 4 – 3:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 6 – 5 p.m. WHERE M3 1006 REGISTER by April 10, 2018 Please note: all members of your team need to register. The competition has a limited Availability of 100 students and the teams will be selected on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, visit: uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/asa-datafes

The Summer 2018 REU SITE of Florida International University Research Experience for Undergraduates in Advanced Secured Sensor Enabling Technologies spans ten weeks, May 29- August 4, 2018, offers research and professional development opportunities for 10 undergraduate students. Available research projects share the theme of advanced secured sensor enabling technologies and span several exciting areas such as   * Trajectory Privacy Preservation in Mobile Sensor Networks,   * Privacy & Secure Social Sensor Networks,   * Mobile Video Authenticity Verifications   * Search Rank Validation for Social Media   * A Software Library for Visualizing Large Scale Sensor Network Applications,   * Trajectory Sensor Stream Cleaning,   * Resource Management for Security & Surveillance over a Sensor Network,   * Self-configuring, non-cooperative Mobile Sensors and many others Details about REU-ASSET including an online application, can be found at  http://it2.fiu.edu/it2_REU.php . The appli

The second annual  Waterloo Datathon  is on May 12, 2018  from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in M3 1006. HIGHLIGHTS $25,000 in cash prizes The chance to showcase your skills tackling a meaningful, real-world problem The opportunity to participate in The Data Open and win $100,000 in cash prizes Possible interviews with Citadel & Citadel Securities For more information and details about registration, go to the Event page .