Congratulations and thank you to our new CS student representatives.  Student reps play an important role in the administration of the School and sit on various committees, as well as attend regular School Council meetings.  Your School representatives for 2012/13 are:

Undergraduate Reps

• Matthew Clifford
• Austin Hogan
• Matthew Renaud
• William Roeder

Masters Representatives

• Sajib Kumer Sinha
• Saurabh Singh

PhD Representative

• Numanual  Subhani

The School of Computer Science intends to offer the following courses during Winter 2013 which might not be staffed by full-time faculty members as part of their normal teaching load.

In accordance with section 54-07 of the 2008-2011.  Collective Agreement, the School invites applications from qualified individuals interested in teaching them.  This listing is subject to change.

03-60-104-01  Computer Concepts for End-Users
03-60-104-30  Computer Concepts for End-Users
03-60-104-91  Computer Concepts for End-Users Distance course
03-60-106-01  Programming in C for Beginners
03-60-140-01  Introduction to Algorithms & Programming I
03-60-141-30  Introduction to Algorithms & Programming II
03-60-205-01  Introduction to the Internet
03-60-205-30  Introduction to the Internet
03-60-205-91  Introduction to the Internet-Distance course
03-60-207-01  Problem Solving and Information on the Internet
03-60-256-01  System Programming
03-60-266-01  Computer Architecture II: Micro. Program
03-60-270-30  Advanced Website Design
03-60-275-30  Selected Topics 1 (C++)
03-60-305-91  Cyber Ethics Distance course
03-60-321-30  Advanced Software Techniques
03-60-334-30  World Wide Web Information System Development
03-60-340-01  Advance Object Oriented System Design Using C++
03-60-368-01  Network Practicum
03-60-371-01  Artificial Intelligence Concepts
03-60-420-01  Mobile Application Development
03-60-425-01  Oracle Database Design and Admin.

*Applicants should submit a resume along with a cover letter detailing teaching experience and skills relevant to the specific course(s) for which they are applying.

*Note:  It’s likely that not all of the above courses will be offered.  Therefore, applicants should indicate more than one course if they are qualified.

For additional information, please contact the School’s Office at 253-3000 (ext. 2990 /3714).

PLEASE SEND APPLICATION TO THE HEAD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012.

The University of Windsor is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the visible minorities.  Applications from women are particularly encouraged.

Subject to provisions of the Collective Agreement, preference will be given to qualified applicants who are full-time faculty members.  Applications from those who have not taught previously for the School should forward a C.V. with three letters of reference to the School’s office.  Only those successful will be contacted.

THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO FINAL BUDGETARY APPROVAL

*Graduation with Distinction

This past Friday on October 19, 2012, twenty two competitors descended on the Computer Science Commons lounge to participate in the local leg of the ACM Programming Contest.  For the third year in a row, eight teams of dedicated students from the School of Computer Science competed to be one of the top three winning teams that would move on to represent the University of Windsor at the ICPC-ECNA ACM Regional Programming Competition. The Regional Competition is sponsored by IBM and will be held at the University of Windsor Campus on November 2 and 3.

This year’s local competition saw a large turnout of twenty two competitors divided up into teams of two or three.  They were given three hours to solve five independent problems, which could be solved in any order through programming. Teams are provided with only one computer work station, and are forbidden from the use of any other electronic device, but are able to bring in any books, textbooks, or notes for their own referencing. Additionally, team members may only communicate with their team or with contest officials and no one else for the duration of the contest. At any point in the competition teams are able to check their ranks in the standings.

After three hours of hard work and competition the results were in:

In 1st place solving all five of the problems in just under the allotted three hours was the pair of Chris Drouillard and Alex Velazque! In 2nd place solving three out of the five problems was the team of Adam Heinermann, Dillon Friesen and Nemanja Petrovic. And in 3rd place solving one problem in 52 minutes were Efron Silvan Berlian, Chance Chase, and Minghan Zhang. Honourable mentions go out to Scott Nguyen, Joe Nguyen and Matt Renaud who were the 4th place team who successfully solved 1 problem in 91 minutes.

Since the winning team was a team of two rather than the allotted team of three, Chris and Alex invited Matt Renaud, whose team placed 4^th, to fill out their team in order to improve their chances of succeeding in the regional competition. The duo has competed in both the local competition as well as the regional competition for the last two years.

When asked if their sweep of this year’s local competition made them more confident about their chances at the upcoming regional competition the pair was at odds with one another. Chris was adamantly tight lipped, while Alex simply offered a shrug.

“We’ll see,” he said with a small smile.

Congratulations to our winners and a big thank you to all of our competitors!

Eager, young programmers descended on the University of Windsor Campus this weekend for the annual International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC)- East Central North America Regional Programming(ECNA) Regional Competition held on November 2 & 3. The contest is an international event sponsored by IBM that draws students from colleges and universities throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and eastern Ontario.

The School of Computer Science was host to many potential Computer Science students for the coming Fall.  Thousands of students with parents passed through the Ambassador Auditorium investigating the programs of their choice.  Those students interested in computer science programs were invited back to the School in the afternoon for detailed information sessions where they had the opportunity to meet with faculty and staff of the School and take a tour of the facilities. 

Congratulations to Anthony Thachuk who was the lucky winner of the incredible  Xbox 360 Halo 4 Special Edition that was generously donated by local game development company, Thotlab Games.  We look forward to seeing many new faces next September!

The School of Computer Science hosted the 9th Annual Windsor Regional Secondary School Computer Programming Competition on Friday, December 7, 2012.

This year 5 teachers, and 11 teams to a total of 31 students from four schools,filled our lab space to capacity.

Many thanks to the teachers: Dinh Bui, Linda Nicodemo, Joe Kuhn and Ron McKenzie for coaching their students and coming to this important event. 

The contest had 5 questions that needed to be solved in 3 hours. Students had to read the problem, design a solid solution, code it in any language from C/C++/Java/Python and keep debugging it until it gets accepted by the judge.

The top 5 teams received valuable prizes with the top 3 teams receiving a plaque for their school.

The School of Computer Science intends to offer the following courses during I/S 2013 which might not be staffed by full-time faculty members as part of their normal teaching load.  In accordance with section 54-07 of the 2011-2014 Collective Agreement, the School invites applications from qualified individuals interested in teaching them.  This listing is subject to change.

*Applicants should submit a resume along with a cover letter detailing teaching experience and skills relevant to the specific course(s) for which they are applying.

*Note:  It’s likely that not all of the above courses will be offered.  Therefore, applicants should indicate more than one course if they are qualified.      

For additional information, please contact the School’s Office at 519-253-3000 ext. 2990 / 3714.

PLEASE SEND APPLICATION TO THE HEAD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ON OR BEFORE MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013.

The University of Windsor is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the visible minorities.  Applications from women are particularly encouraged.

Notes: Subject to provisions of the Collective Agreement, preference will be given to qualified applicants who are full-time faculty members.  Applications from those who have not taught previously for the School should forward a C.V. with three letters of reference to the School’s office.  Only those successful will be contacted.

THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO FINAL BUDGETARY APPROVAL

Programming Competition enthusiast, Christopher Drouillard is the first University of Windsor Computer Science student to be offered a full time position from Google Inc. in Mountain View, California.

In an interview, Drouillard expressed his enthusiasm for the Computer Science program, in particular for a course titled, "Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms". He believes that "doing well in courses only means you can regurgitate material. To actually be good at Computer Science, you have to do a lot of work on your own time".

Putting his own words into practice, Drouillard is an active participant in competitive programming contests.  One such competition was the "Topcoder Algorithms" contest sponsored by Google Inc.  After participating in the competition, Drouillard found the opportunity to apply for positions at Google itself, resulting in a request for his resume and transcript. Several phone interviews later, he was flown out to California for four additional technical interviews.  To his delight, Drouillard was offered a full time New Grad Software Engineer position.  A few weeks later, Drouillard was flown to Seattle where he interviewed with Microsoft and was offered a full time SDET position on the XBOX Live team at the Seattle Campus, which he declined.  However, Chris did accept the offer from Google and is now officially a Noogler (new Googler)

Programming competitions are not Chris’s only interest.  As an undergraduate Outstanding Scholar, Drouillard is active in research and has written a published paper alongside Dr. Mukhopadhyay titled, "Guarding Simple Polygons with Semi-Open Edge Guards” and presented at the 22nd Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry at the University of Maryland.

Well done Chris and good luck!

The School of Computer Science intends to offer the following course during I/S 2013 which might not be staffed by full-time faculty members as part of their normal teaching load.  In accordance with section 54-07 of the 2011-2014 Collective Agreement, the School invites applications from qualified individuals interested in teaching them.  This listing is subject to change.

0360-334-01      Summer 6/wk     World Wide Web Information Systems Development

*Applicants should submit a resume along with a cover letter detailing teaching experience and skills relevant to the course.

For additional information, please contact the School’s Office at 519-253-3000 ext. 2990 / 3714.

PLEASE SEND APPLICATION TO THE HEAD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ON OR BEFORE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013.

The University of Windsor is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the visible minorities.  Applications from women are particularly encouraged.

Notes: Subject to provisions of the Collective Agreement, preference will be given to qualified applicants who are full-time faculty members.  Applications from those who have not taught previously for the School should forward a C.V. with three letters of reference to the School’s office.  Only those successful will be contacted.

THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO FINAL BUDGETARY APPROVAL

On Friday, April 5, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in ER 3123. the School of Computer Science celebrated the successes of not only those students who have achieved a cumulative GPA over 10.0 with a major GPA over 10.5, but also those undergraduate students who have made an impact in research, industry and in their undergraduate community.

In addition to honouring our hard working students for their outstanding academic achievements, we were also delighted to have Irek Kusmierczyk address the students as the Keynote Speaker.  Irek received his PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University (U.S), his M.Sc. in Government from the London School of Economics (U.K), an MA from the Jagiellonian University (Poland) and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University.  He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland as an Atlantic Council of Canada Fellow, was invited to take part in the Foreign Correspondents' Program by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and received a Rotary Academic Ambassadorial Fellowship.  He now works for a Regional Innovation Centre called WEtech Alliance as Project Manager develop programs that direct more young people into the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  His education and good sense has evidently failed him, as he remains a die-hard Leafs fan to this very day.

Awards were also given for the Highest GPA in General or Honours degree programs.  Matthew Robert Renaud – 3rd year Honours student, was recognized for his academic excellence, the Director’s Honour Roll, Outstanding Scholar Award and the NSERC-USRA award.   Vladislav Nestorov recently earned his B.Sc.(General)-B.Ed. Concurrent and has received the Highest GPA award for the BCS (General) for University Graduates program. 

The following awards were presented at the event.

DIRECTOR’S HONOUR ROLL – FALL 2012-13

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

4th Year

Internship/Co-op Award
Nicholas Isaac Chittle - Google Kitchener-Waterloo

OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS PROGRAM

4th Year

Christopher Drouillard
Jonathan Donais
Shubnit Singh

NSERC-USRA AWARDS

Matthew Renaud
Chance Chase
Matthew Clifford

HIGHEST GPA
Regular Honours Program
Matthew Renaud

HIGHEST GPA
BCS for University Grads
Vladislav Nestorov

SCHOOL INVOLVEMENT

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION

Nicholas Angeli
Ryan Badour
Joshua Chittle
Jeffrey Drake
Andrew Hlynka
Omar Shahid
Kevin Yavno

Congratulations to all the students for their hard work and dedication to academics!

The School of Computer Science was host to many potential Computer Science students for the coming Fall.  Thousands of students with parents passed through the Ambassador Auditorium investigating the programs of their choice.  Those students interested in computer science programs were invited back to the School in the afternoon for detailed information sessions where they had the opportunity to meet with faculty and staff of the School and take a tour of the facilities. 

Congratulations to Anthony Thachuk who was the lucky winner of the incredible  Xbox 360 Halo 4 Special Edition that was generously donated by local game development company, Thotlab Games.  We look forward to seeing many new faces next September!

The School of Computer Science hosted the 9th Annual Windsor Regional Secondary School Computer Programming Competition on Friday, December 7, 2012.

This year 5 teachers, and 11 teams to a total of 31 students from four schools,filled our lab space to capacity.

Many thanks to the teachers: Dinh Bui, Linda Nicodemo, Joe Kuhn and Ron McKenzie for coaching their students and coming to this important event. 

The contest had 5 questions that needed to be solved in 3 hours. Students had to read the problem, design a solid solution, code it in any language from C/C++/Java/Python and keep debugging it until it gets accepted by the judge.

The top 5 teams received valuable prizes with the top 3 teams receiving a plaque for their school.

The School of Computer Science intends to offer the following courses during I/S 2013 which might not be staffed by full-time faculty members as part of their normal teaching load.  In accordance with section 54-07 of the 2011-2014 Collective Agreement, the School invites applications from qualified individuals interested in teaching them.  This listing is subject to change.

*Applicants should submit a resume along with a cover letter detailing teaching experience and skills relevant to the specific course(s) for which they are applying.

*Note:  It’s likely that not all of the above courses will be offered.  Therefore, applicants should indicate more than one course if they are qualified.      

For additional information, please contact the School’s Office at 519-253-3000 ext. 2990 / 3714.

PLEASE SEND APPLICATION TO THE HEAD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ON OR BEFORE MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013.

The University of Windsor is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the visible minorities.  Applications from women are particularly encouraged.

Notes: Subject to provisions of the Collective Agreement, preference will be given to qualified applicants who are full-time faculty members.  Applications from those who have not taught previously for the School should forward a C.V. with three letters of reference to the School’s office.  Only those successful will be contacted.

THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO FINAL BUDGETARY APPROVAL

Programming Competition enthusiast, Christopher Drouillard is the first University of Windsor Computer Science student to be offered a full time position from Google Inc. in Mountain View, California.

In an interview, Drouillard expressed his enthusiasm for the Computer Science program, in particular for a course titled, "Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms". He believes that "doing well in courses only means you can regurgitate material. To actually be good at Computer Science, you have to do a lot of work on your own time".

Putting his own words into practice, Drouillard is an active participant in competitive programming contests.  One such competition was the "Topcoder Algorithms" contest sponsored by Google Inc.  After participating in the competition, Drouillard found the opportunity to apply for positions at Google itself, resulting in a request for his resume and transcript. Several phone interviews later, he was flown out to California for four additional technical interviews.  To his delight, Drouillard was offered a full time New Grad Software Engineer position.  A few weeks later, Drouillard was flown to Seattle where he interviewed with Microsoft and was offered a full time SDET position on the XBOX Live team at the Seattle Campus, which he declined.  However, Chris did accept the offer from Google and is now officially a Noogler (new Googler)

Programming competitions are not Chris’s only interest.  As an undergraduate Outstanding Scholar, Drouillard is active in research and has written a published paper alongside Dr. Mukhopadhyay titled, "Guarding Simple Polygons with Semi-Open Edge Guards” and presented at the 22nd Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry at the University of Maryland.

Well done Chris and good luck!

The School of Computer Science intends to offer the following course during I/S 2013 which might not be staffed by full-time faculty members as part of their normal teaching load.  In accordance with section 54-07 of the 2011-2014 Collective Agreement, the School invites applications from qualified individuals interested in teaching them.  This listing is subject to change.

0360-334-01      Summer 6/wk     World Wide Web Information Systems Development

*Applicants should submit a resume along with a cover letter detailing teaching experience and skills relevant to the course.

For additional information, please contact the School’s Office at 519-253-3000 ext. 2990 / 3714.

PLEASE SEND APPLICATION TO THE HEAD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ON OR BEFORE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013.

The University of Windsor is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the visible minorities.  Applications from women are particularly encouraged.

Notes: Subject to provisions of the Collective Agreement, preference will be given to qualified applicants who are full-time faculty members.  Applications from those who have not taught previously for the School should forward a C.V. with three letters of reference to the School’s office.  Only those successful will be contacted.

THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO FINAL BUDGETARY APPROVAL

On Friday, April 5, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in ER 3123. the School of Computer Science celebrated the successes of not only those students who have achieved a cumulative GPA over 10.0 with a major GPA over 10.5, but also those undergraduate students who have made an impact in research, industry and in their undergraduate community.

In addition to honouring our hard working students for their outstanding academic achievements, we were also delighted to have Irek Kusmierczyk address the students as the Keynote Speaker.  Irek received his PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University (U.S), his M.Sc. in Government from the London School of Economics (U.K), an MA from the Jagiellonian University (Poland) and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University.  He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland as an Atlantic Council of Canada Fellow, was invited to take part in the Foreign Correspondents' Program by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and received a Rotary Academic Ambassadorial Fellowship.  He now works for a Regional Innovation Centre called WEtech Alliance as Project Manager develop programs that direct more young people into the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  His education and good sense has evidently failed him, as he remains a die-hard Leafs fan to this very day.

Awards were also given for the Highest GPA in General or Honours degree programs.  Matthew Robert Renaud – 3rd year Honours student, was recognized for his academic excellence, the Director’s Honour Roll, Outstanding Scholar Award and the NSERC-USRA award.   Vladislav Nestorov recently earned his B.Sc.(General)-B.Ed. Concurrent and has received the Highest GPA award for the BCS (General) for University Graduates program. 

The following awards were presented at the event.

DIRECTOR’S HONOUR ROLL – FALL 2012-13

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

4th Year

Internship/Co-op Award
Nicholas Isaac Chittle - Google Kitchener-Waterloo

OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS PROGRAM

4th Year

Christopher Drouillard
Jonathan Donais
Shubnit Singh

NSERC-USRA AWARDS

Matthew Renaud
Chance Chase
Matthew Clifford

HIGHEST GPA
Regular Honours Program
Matthew Renaud

HIGHEST GPA
BCS for University Grads
Vladislav Nestorov

SCHOOL INVOLVEMENT

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION

Nicholas Angeli
Ryan Badour
Joshua Chittle
Jeffrey Drake
Andrew Hlynka
Omar Shahid
Kevin Yavno

Congratulations to all the students for their hard work and dedication to academics!

On Wednesday, June 5th, the University of Windsor unveiled a new logo, and refreshed the design of all authoritative Web pages on campus.

Unfortunately, the new row of links to new Computer Science resources was removed.  For your convenience, here are the links:

• MYWEB
• OWNCLOUD
• HELP
• SOCIAL
• LIBRARY
• CS EMAIL

Congratulations to Jonathan Donais on his CGSM Canada Graduate Scholarship award.  This Master’s level scholarship $17,500 while Jon works on his Master’s degree. 

Jon recently graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science Honours degree, Jon will be working with Dr Richard Frost’s SpeechWeb research group to investigate the development of a SpeechWeb voice browser that works on multiple platforms including Android, Windows and IOS devices.  Jon has already built a grammar-based prototype SpeechWeb browser using Carnegie Mellon’s PocketSphinx speech recognition library.  Jon’s Master’s thesis work will include investigating the integration of statistical-based and grammar-based speech recognition engines to create a publically-available large vocabulary speech recognition framework which executes on local devices, offering an alternative to server based recognition systems such as Google’s.

On Friday October 18, 35 students making up 12 teams took part in the 2013 Local ACM Programming Competition in the School of Computer Science, battling for a chance to move on to the 2013 ACM-ICPC ECNA Regional Programming Competition. 

View the photo album at do.cs.uwindsor.ca

There were five problems to solve with three hours to do so.  We were thrilled with the high level of accomplishment with the top team solving all five problems, and the second place team completing four of them.  The top three teams will now move on to compete against 120 other universities at the ACM-ICPC ECNA Regional Programming Competition.  The School of Computer Science will welcome teams from accross the province and the US Midwest as one of four hosting institutions for this region on November 8 & 9.

Congratulations to the top teams:

1. Alex Velazquez, Adam Heinermann and Matt Renaud
2. Will Roeder, Matt Clifford and Justin Toth
3. Adrien Gagnon, Josh Hompoth and Andrew Hlynka

Special thanks to volunteer Jeffrey Drake and our technical and administrative staff for their outstanding assistance.