/channels/news_feeds/all/term/computer_sci_sch/rss en /channels/channels/news/mcgill-names-winners-2025-presidents-prize-public-engagement-through-media-364673 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Congratulations to J茅r么me Waldisp眉hl and Attila Szantner (Computer Science), The Eclipse Task Force (Physics), and Andrew Gonzalez (Biology), who are among this year's winners of the President鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media!</p> <p>In announcing the winners and runners-up, President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini noted that they were among a strong field of applicants spanning all 12 Faculties.</p> <p>鈥淭his is further evidence that the sharing of knowledge and a love of learning are core 51吃瓜网values,鈥� he said.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/1743532325034.jpg?itok=4vqtQg7V" width="160" height="120" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">2 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:45:04 +0000 webfull 208464 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgills-computer-science-camp-inspires-next-generation-coders-359448 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After a hiatus of about a decade, the <a href="https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~summcamp/english/Home.html">51吃瓜网Computer Science Summer Camp</a> once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer. The camp was a group effort organized by students, staff and faculty across the computer science community. Students participated in four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions, to learn about computer science.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/cs_camp.jpeg?itok=hGluVXIM" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:33:26 +0000 webfull 202412 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgills-computer-science-camp-inspires-next-generation-coders-358306 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After a hiatus of about a decade, the 51吃瓜网Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer.</p> <p>The four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions were all intended to strengthen students鈥� interests in coding and coding competitions, and to contribute to the development of computer science talent in Quebec.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/screenshot_2024-08-12_at_9.02.35_am.png?itok=BLp8LT6T" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">12 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:11:19 +0000 webfull 201177 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ai-and-sustainability-balancing-innovation-planetary-and-social-well-being-357969 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2><img alt="The 11th trottier symposium on sustainable engineering, energy and design" src="/tised/files/tised/11th_symposium_logo.png" style="height:105px; width:700px" /></h2> <h3>Date: October 10th, 2024 |聽Time: 6:00 PM |聽Location: The 51吃瓜网Faculty Club | Free Event聽<img alt="Letters AI with greenery coming out of it" src="/tised/files/tised/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/ai_image.jpg?itok=VRa4KRf9" style="float:right; height:250px; width:333px" /></h3> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">17 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:01:48 +0000 webfull 200807 at /channels /channels/channels/news/gregory-dudek-receives-2024-cs-can-lifetime-achievement-award-357485 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/">Professor Gregory Dudek</a> of the School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.聽</p> <p>Awarded annually by Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-Can/Info-Can), this award recognizes current or former faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the field of computer science in Canada.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/1516271770608.jpeg?itok=x2PtzLcc" width="160" height="160" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">29 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 29 May 2024 19:42:32 +0000 webfull 200227 at /channels /channels/channels/news/sustainable-data-science-training-program-awarded-165-m-nserc-create-357364 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Today, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)<a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsDetail-DetailNouvelles_eng.asp?ID=1461"> announced </a>more than $26 million in funding for聽<a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATEResults-ResultatsFONCER_eng.asp?Year=2024">16 new training initiatives</a> through its <a href="https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATE-FONCER_eng.asp">Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)</a> program.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/big-data-nserc-announcement-getty.jpg?itok=HgE4romg" width="160" height="90" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">16 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 16 May 2024 15:05:26 +0000 webfull 200090 at /channels /channels/channels/news/push-more-women-computer-science-356190 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>When Jade Raymond, BSc鈥�98, studied at McGill鈥檚 School of Computer Science, she was one of few women in the program and 鈥淚 think the only woman I knew in my year who went and got a job as a programmer in computer science after graduating.鈥�</p> <p>Raymond became a trailblazer in the video game industry, helping create the huge hit聽<em>Assassin鈥檚 Creed</em>, and building studios from the ground up for Ubisoft and Electronic Arts.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/jadescreenshot.png?itok=dGh5h0zn" width="160" height="110" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">18 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:26:28 +0000 webfull 198665 at /channels /channels/channels/news/fighting-disinformation-quebec-353623 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/camilo-jimenez-qzeno_gq7qa-unsplash.jpg?itok=NYvItsb6" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">15 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:50:10 +0000 webfull 195740 at /channels /channels/channels/news/seeing-inside-heart-unprecedented-scale-351620 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A team of researchers in Canada and India has developed a novel method to image the whole mouse heart wall at a spatial resolution that is three orders of magnitude finer than that seen till now, revealing entirely new, previously unknown cardiac fiber systems within it.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/bpod-heart_cell_line-up_4.10.23.jpg?itok=kpadM38Z" width="160" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">4 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:18:50 +0000 webfull 193529 at /channels /channels/channels/news/matt-dobbs-galen-halverson-joelle-pineau-and-simon-caron-huot-honoured-royal-society-canada-350506 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Congratulations to 51吃瓜网Science's new Royal Society of Canada inductees, the Fellows <a href="/researchhonours/matt-dobbs">Matt Dobbs</a>, <a href="/eps/galen-pippa-halverson">Galen Halverson</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/">Joelle Pineau</a>, and College Member <a href="https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~schuot/">Simon Caron-Huot</a>! The four professors join 15 other scholars in McGill's 2023 cohort.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">6 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:28:29 +0000 webfull 192187 at /channels