UBC CS News & Awards

2010

• February 5: UBC Canada's Best at International 'Battle of the Brains' Software Competition
• January 11: Google Founding Investor Gives $2 Million for Nobel Laureate-led Education Transformation at UBC

2010

• February 3: Ron Rensink's Change Blindness Test Featured in NPR
• January 12: Google Mentor Donates $2 Million to UBC

2009

• December 8: Computer Science 344: HCI Design Competition
• November 7: UBC Computer Science Reclaim Regional Title at International Programming Competition, Prepare for Worlds
• September 23: David Kirkpatrick and Alan Mackworth Elected to Royal Society of Canada
• September 21: Sunjeet Singh won first prize at USENIX Security Grant Challenge
• August 10: Robert Bridson's start-up Company unveiled at SIGGRAPH 2009
• June 12: UBC Teams take top two non-MIT places in MIT's BattleCode Competition
• May 20: Holger Hoos inaugurates CAIAC/Precarn Intelligent Systems Challenge
• March 23 : UBC Department of Computer Science won Alfred Scow Award
• January 27: Worio: A search engine founded by UBC students
• January 23: Inkheart Monster powered by UBC animation research

2009

• Dec 7: Joseph Luk's Ikamobile Movie Funder Featured in Vancouver Sun
• Dec 1: The Government of Canada Makes Substantial Investment in S&T with the Launch of Three New Research Centres
• Dec 1: UBC to Host New National Research Networks Valued at $42 M
• Dec 1: UBC to Host National New Media and Animation Research Network
• November 17: LCI spinoff harnesses the power of social networks and machine learning to build a web discovery engine
• November 6: Don Acton receives BCNET Faculty Recognition Award
• October 8: UBC ranks 17 in Engineering and IT according to Times Higher Education
• October 1: Laks V.S. Lakshmanan's Social Scope project featured in French magazine L'Atelier.
• September 23: Two UBC computer scientists elected to Royal Society of Canada
• September 8: Computer Science 110: Breaking Stereotypes and New Ground
• August 10: Robert Bridson interviewed by FXGuideTV at SIGGRAPH
• May 20: Holger Hoos elected president of Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
• May 6: Robert Bridson helps research at Weta on next generaion visual effects in films
• March 30: CS, Stats lauded for improving student experience
• March 26: Georgia Straight interviewed Nando de Freitas on Semantic Web
• March 4: Tamara Munzner quoted on visualizing the evolutionary Tree of Life in NY Times
• February 25: UBC CS Department has the highest impact in Computer Science in Canada

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