The full announcement is up at StreetKnit: on Worldwide Knit in Public Day (Saturday, June 12), Toronto-area knitters are going to try to set a new world record. Please come out and help if you can!
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto is running a two-day symposium on “Trends in Computing” May 19-20, 2010. It’s free, but you must register by May 2.
The Software Carpentry blog has moved to http://software-carpentry.org/blog/ — please remove the old softwarecarpentry.wordpress.com entry from your blog reader and follow our progress at the new address. Full-time work starts May 1!
Congratulations to Jason Montojo and Jon Pipitone, who have just completed their Master’s degrees in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Jon was one of my very first CSC49X students in September 2002, and Jason was in the second batch in January 2003. I’m proud to have worked with them, and wish them all the best.
And in other school news, Alecia Fowler is still looking for people to participate in her web-based study of how people understand maps. If you have a few minutes, and would like to help her help the visually disadvantaged, please send her an email at accessiblemapping@gmail.com.
(And in other school news, I handed in my final set of marks two days ago. Yee hah!)
Summer School on Mining Software Repositories
http://msrcanada.org/school/
June 9-12, 2010.
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Sponsored by MITACS.
The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems and projects. It has gained popularity since 2004 with the first instance of the MSR workshop (now conference) and continues to be one of the fastest growing fields in the area of software engineering.
This summer school will provide students with opportunities to learn the background needed to excel in this emerging and important field. For researchers, the summer school offers a platform to discuss and collaborate on the future of the MSR field. The summer school is also an opportunity for industry to learn how to adopt MSR ideas in practice. The speakers are leading experts on MSR from academia and industry.
Lecturers
For topics and a schedule visit the school’s web-page at http://msrcanada.org/school/.
I am very excited to announce that I am going to work full-time on revising the Software Carpentry course from May 2010 to May 2011. Please see the full announcement for details.
Titus Brown and I are running a course May 31-June 11 in Michigan — for details, please see the course web site or my Software Carpentry post.
It might feel like winter is over, but a lot of people still need your help. Over on Streetknit, there’s word of another knitup called Wise Daughters, which will take place on the last Tuesday of every month. Yarn is provided if you don’t have a project on the go, but bring your own needles if possible.
I am pleased to announce that in September 2010, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto is launching a new graduate program: a Master of Science in Applied Computing. The aim of the program is to teach the next generation of technical leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs how to turn novel research into practical applications. Students will spend the first eight months taking courses with some of Canada’s leading Computer Science researchers, and another eight months in an industrial internship, where they will apply what they have learned to real-world problems. For more details, please see the program description, or head on over to the application page.
Charles Thacker has won the 2009 Turing Award for his work on the Alto, the first modern personal computer. Congratulations!
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