Undergraduate team solved algorithm challenges in international programming competition, placing eighth in North America and 44 th worldwide UBC Computer…
UBC Computer Science team makes history at hacking convention DEF CON 2025 This August, UBC’s student hacking club, Maple Bacon , led by UBC Computer Science…
Dr. Dinesh Pai, a professor in UBC Computer Science and graduate student, Megha Shastry, have won a competition for their research on AI within the fashion…
Being ranked the tenth best Capture the Flag (CTF) team in the world (at time of writing) is a pretty astounding accomplishment. UBC’s Maple Bacon CTF team…
ADDENDUM: The 2020 UBC team finished an impressive 25/119 at the ICPC World Finals in Moscow on October 5, 2021, and they were the only Canadian team competing…
This year was his final chance to win. Alan Yan was entering the annual Apple Swift Student Challenge this past June, for the third and final time. “I had…
What better name than “Maple Bacon” for a Canadian team? That’s what the students call themselves, who belong to the UBC Computer Science CTF (Capture the Flag)…
Computer Science Professor Robert Xiao is not getting chocolate surprises daily as he plays in the ‘Advent of Code’ programming contest, running from December 1…
It was 3 AM Monday when UBC computer science undergrad Xingyu Zhou finally hit ‘submit.' He had finally cracked the most difficult problem of the third annual…
There were no Mai Tais poolside. No fragrant leis. And no evening luaus. This year’s ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , the premier…
