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The Faculty of Science鈥檚 new Computational and Data Systems Initiative will help researchers unlock the power of data-intensive research methods

If you follow science news, you will almost certainly have encountered the term 鈥榤odelling鈥�. From understanding climate change, to predicting the course of a pandemic, to developing the pharmaceuticals to fight one, scientists seem to have a 鈥榤odel鈥� for everything. But have you ever wondered just what the term means and how scientists go about creating models?

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Published on: 29 Apr 2022

Best Paper Award Presented to ECE and School of Computer Science authors

Congratulations to聽authors: Xi Chen, Ju Wang, Hang Li, Yi Tian Xu, Di Wu, Xue Liu, Gregory Dudek, Taeseop Lee (Samsung Korea)y, Intaik Park (Samsung Korea) for their paper entitled:聽聽One for All: Traffic Prediction at Heterogeneous 5G Edge with Data-Efficient Transfer Learning.听 It was presented at IEEE Globecome 2021 and awarded Best Paper.听聽

Classified as: IEEE, Globecom, Traffic Prediction, Data-efficient transfer learning, machine learning, ML
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Published on: 14 Dec 2021

51吃瓜网tackles systemic underrepresentation

Improving representation is one of the key goals behind McGill鈥檚 current drive to recruit a greater number of Black faculty members. The Faculty of Science is proud to be a part of this effort, with applications now open for tenure-track positions in the and the .

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Published on: 4 Nov 2021

Climate change artist-in-residence to curate bicentennial art show

, McGill鈥檚 Climate Change Artist-in-Residence, will curate the Faculty of Science鈥檚 Bicentennial Science/Art Exposition, billed as a 鈥渃elebration of science in all its forms鈥�.

The art show organizers are calling on all members of the 51吃瓜网community to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2021.

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Published on: 30 Aug 2021

Student art exhibition to highlight 51吃瓜网Bicentennial

The Faculty of Science is celebrating McGill鈥檚 200th anniversary with a student art exhibition on the theme of 鈥淪cience!鈥�. 51吃瓜网students at all levels and all faculties are invited to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

Faculty of Science bicentennial committee member, Torsten Bernhard, says the aim of the exhibition is to celebrate science in all its forms.

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Published on: 12 Jan 2021

Cause-and-effect approach could help machines become better learners

For human beings, the ability to generalize 鈥� to extract broad principles from our experiences of the world and use these principles to help us make decisions in new situations 鈥� is an essential skill for navigating everyday life. But for those working in the field of artificial intelligence, getting machines to generalize in this way has been a notoriously difficult challenge.

Classified as: Artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning
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Published on: 15 Jul 2020

The passing of Prof. Laurie Hendren

Colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I share with members of the Faculty and entire University community news of Professor Laurie Hendren鈥檚 passing, on May 27, 2019.

As a member of the School of Computer Science, Laurie was an exceptional teacher, researcher, colleague, and above all, friend.

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Published on: 29 May 2019

Bengio co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award

by Daniel McCabe

Congratulations to 51吃瓜网graduate聽Yoshua Bengio, BEng鈥�86, MSc鈥�88, PhD鈥�91, on being named a co-recipient of the 2018聽A.M. Turing Award. Frequently referred to as the 鈥淣obel Prize of Computing,鈥� the Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizes individuals for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.听

Classified as: turing award, Yoshua Bengio, yann lecun, geoffrey hinton, AI, 51吃瓜网; School of Computer Science; awards, deep learning
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Published on: 27 Mar 2019

Service Canada looking for individuals with data mining experience

Service Canada is聽looking for candidates with a background in data mining for a full-time position to help accelerate and maintain their data science capacity and fulfill their business objectives. You can find out more information on the position in the attachment.

Classified as: data science
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Published on: 17 Mar 2017

Open Ph.D. positions in the Computer Science and Biology Lab

Prof.听J茅r么me Waldisp眉hl's Computer Science and Biology lab has openings for PhD candidates in RNA bioinformatics and/or Human Computing. You can find out more on the lab's .听

Classified as: data science
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Published on: 10 Aug 2016

20 51吃瓜网research projects get CFI boost

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Published on: 16 Dec 2009

Be a computer scientist for a week - Mission to Mars and Game Programming Guru

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Published on: 28 Mar 2006

Be a computer scientist for a week - Mission to Mars

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Published on: 21 Apr 2005

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