Tue, 27 Mar 2012

On Friday, March 30th Ohio Task Force 1 will host a research group from the Network-Centric Applied Research Team Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada).
For more information, please visit: Document

Mon, 26 Mar 2012

The paper "Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Centers Using M/G/m/m+r Queuing Systems" by Mr. Hamzeh Khazaei, a PhD student, and his co-supervisors and Computer Science professors Dr. Vojislav Misic and Dr. Jelena Misic has been featured as the spotlight paper in the May 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
For more information, please visit: Article

Tue, 06 Mar 2012

On the 4th of March 2012, members of the N-CART lab of the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University were asked to participate in an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) exercise conducted by the USAR and CBRNe Response Team (UCRT) of the Ontario Provincial Police. N-CART was assigned a command post (CP) vehicle that was co-located with the CP of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as we were both supporting the exercise with related technology.

The exercise was conducted on the ground of the OPP UCRT in Bolton, ON and ran from 0800 Mar 4, 2012 to 1200 Mar 5, 2012. N-CART was tasked to provide support from 1400 to 0000.

The exercise scenario consisted of a dirty bomb exploding on a bus at the transport building of the Square One shopping mall in Mississauga. A secondary explosive device was detected and neutralized by the UCRT in a nearby car. The bus bomb caused a partial collapse of several structures with consequent people trapped inside. There were many dead and injured people in the vicinity of the blast.

Ryerson participants were: (from comp. sci.) Prof. Alex Ferworn, Jimmy Tran, Alex Ufkes, Ryan McDonald and Scott Herman. They were accompanied by EyeOpener reporter, Jeff Lagerquist.

two videos are presented.

The first is a night flight of our UAV supporting the search effort. LINK A night flight was requested to determine the extent of the damage around the breach area.

The second video shows two models of scenes that were collected to support the forensic investigation occurring at the scene. LINK

Mon, 30 Jan 2012

Computer Science professor Vojislav Misic received the 400th Engage Grant in Ontario as part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's $10-million milestone celebration.
For more information, please visit: NSERC Article

Thu, 19 Jan 2012

Snake Robot Rides a Dog to the Rescue
For more information, please visit: NCART Article

Wed, 18 Jan 2012

Statistics show the number of high school students applying to Ryerson is steadily climbing.
For more information, please visit: Article

Tue, 17 Jan 2012

An article in IEEE.org - Search and Rescue Dog Deploys Robot Snake via Bark Control
For more information, please visit: NCART Article

Thu, 12 Jan 2012

Human Robot Interaction (CPS813) is the continuation of the Autonomous Mobile Robotics (CPS607) course where students will explore physical robotic systems designed to extend human presence to remote locations. Topics may include Presence, Situational Awareness, Telerobotics and Agency. The course is designed to provide students with a practical introduction that will involve the design and construction of working robotic systems designed to interact with remote environments.
Anyone who's interested in the course please contact Jimmy Tran at q2tran@scs.ryerson.ca as soon as possible since positions and time to register is limited.

Tue, 22 Nov 2011

XPToronto/Agile Users Group - Understanding Culture and Temperament in Agile Adoption -
Location: ENG 205
For more information, please visit: XPToronto

Fri, 04 Nov 2011

N-CART Research Team is featured in Macleans.ca - How Microsoft's affordable Kinect Video game system is changing the world of advanced robotics.
For more information, please visit: Macleans

Thu, 12 May 2011

Telecoms and disability authors win $15,000 prize money. Three authors of papers on telecommunications and disability have been awarded a total of $15,000 in prize money in the 2011 Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Prize for telecommunications and disability.
The Prize is awarded for the best original paper or papers submitted to the Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) which "demonstrate the tangible benefits that an innovative use of telecommunications technology can deliver in assisting people with disability."
The prize commemorates work of the late Reverend Dr Christopher Newell in the telecommunications industry from 1990 to 2008 representing the needs of people with disability.
The first prize was shared by Melissa McCarthy from the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children NSW for her paper "Using technology to support children with sensory disability in remote areas: The RIDBC Teleschool model" and by Robert Morsillo from the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University and Telstra Consumer Affairs Melbourne for his paper "One down, two to go: Public policy in service of an available, affordable and accessible National Broadband Network for people with disability."
The second prize went to Quoc Vu Vy and Deborah Ingrid Fels from the Centre for Learning Technologies at Ryerson University, Canada, for their paper "Enhanced Captioning. Speaker Identification: Text vs Images."
These papers have been published in the May 2011 issue of TJA (a subscription only publication), together with those of the other two finalists and have been made publicly available with the support of the sponsor, Telstra http://tinyurl.com/tjanwl
At the awards ceremony, hosted by Telstra in Melbourne, Phill Sporton, executive director, Telstra Service Delivery, announced that Telstra would sponsor the Christopher Newell Prize again in 2012 in collaboration with TJA. The competition is worldwide. Entries are due by 15 January 2012. See http://tinyurl.com/nwlruls For more information, please visit: TWire Pty Ltd. (2011 May 11). ExchangeDaily.

Fri, 15 Apr 2011

Adamsky and Yakobovich creates Fersh, a company in Ryerson's Digital Media Zone. Sudoku3D, an app for Windows Phone 7, is played on a cube with all vertical and horizontal faces containing numbers from one to 16; levels vary from easy to extremely difficult.
For more information, please visit: Grad students solve startup puzzle with help of university's Digital Media Zone

Wed, 30 Mar 2011


For more information, please visit: Security and Communication Networks Journal

Wed, 30 Mar 2011

The workshop is an annual international event dedicated to specific themes in the area of cryptographic system design and analysis, and it will be held at Ryerson University from August 11 to August 12.
For more information, please see: SAC 2011

Fri, 04 Mar 2011

Outstanding scholarly, research and creative (SRC) activity was honoured Feb. 15 at the Faculty SRC Awards. Congratulations to Dr. Ali Miri!!!
Link: Faculty SRC Awards recognize contributions to research

Fri, 04 Mar 2011

The Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Dr. Cavoukian to give a talk: A World Without Privacy is a World Without Freedom: Privacy by Design Delivers on Both: next Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 11 am to 12 noon. Located at Eric Palin Hall, Room EPH 204.
Link: A World Without Privacy is a World Without Freedom: Privacy by Design Delivers on Both

Wed, 12 Jan 2011

Congratulations!! The Certificate of Appreciation is presented to Dr. Jelena Misic as Top Associate Editor for outstanding contributions to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Fri, 3 Dec 2010

The paper 'Performance of G-Limited Scheduling in a Cognitive MAC with Transmission Tax,' jointly authored by Vojislav B. Misic and Jelena Misic; was voted Best Paper award at the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, held in Caen, France, in June 2010
Link: Best Paper Award

Tue, 26 Oct 2010

We are building a Computer Science tradition. In 2007 Ryerson received permission to offer the Master of Science program in Computer Science. At the same time, the Department of Computer Science established a tradition of excellence involving a tool borrowed from the military called a "pace stick" -- or simply "the stick".
Link: http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/site_public_dir/CS_Good_News_Pace_Stick_Full.pdf

Mon, 04 Oct 2010

Do you enjoy:
Circute Bending - Hardware Hacking
Micro-controllers - Autonomous Robots
Arduino - Mechatronics - Speaker Building
Electronic Art - DIY Musical Instruments
Chip Amplifiers - Rapid Prototyping
Taking Things Apart!
Then This May Be The Group for YOU!

Inaugural Meeting:
Introduction
Maker Faire NY Report
Future Meeting Topics

Wednesday, Oct. 6th, 2010
5 to 6pm
Eric Palin Hall EPH-314

Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Name: Helia Mohammadi
Thesis title: iFAST - An Intelligent Fire-threat Assessment and Size-up Technology for First Responders
Date: Tue. Aug. 31, 2010
Time: 2-4 pm
Location: ENG-288

Chair: Dr. Hamelin
Committee: Dr. Santos, Dr. Woungnag, Dr. Sadeghian

Tue, 17 Aug 2010

For the most upto date information about schedules please visit this link
Link: http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/computerscience/OralExaminations/ScheduledExaminations.html

Tue, 3 Aug 2010

Dr. Ali Miri is the general co-chair of the upcoming conference being held at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on August 17-19, 2010.
Link: http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/pst2010/

Tue, 3 Aug 2010

Dr. Ali Miri is the general co-chair of the upcoming conference being held at Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada, on October 11-13, 2010.
Link: http://conferences.computer.org/wimob2010/

Mon, 19 Apr 2010

On behalf of the Department, I would like to congratulate Dr. Cherie Ding, Dr. Alex Ferworn, Dr. Jelena Misic and Dr. Voja Misic who have successfully won NSERC research grants in the 2009-2010 Discovery Grant competition.

Alireza Sadeghian,
Chair

Thu, 15 Apr 2010

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIZuZsvKRo

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

You are invited to experience world leading science and technology, right in your own backyard!
For more details check out: http://www.sciencerendezvous.ca/

Tue, 05 Jan 2010

Where the Jobs Are..
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released a 10-year forecast of job growth that projects "professional and related" occupations will increase by 16.8 percent between 2008 and 2018. The professional and related category, which includes computer science jobs, is expected to be the fastest growing category of the 10 major BLS occupational groups. All occupations are projected to grow an average of 10.1 percent. The professional and related category is comprised of eight occupational clusters, including computer and mathematical jobs. The government forecasts a 22.2 percent increase in computer and mathematical jobs by 2018. Moreover, computer science occupations are projected to account for nearly 60 percent of all job growth among all fields of science and engineering over the next eight years. About 13.4 percent of job growth in science and engineering fields is likely to be in engineering positions.
For more details check out: http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/04/where-the-jobs-are/

Wed, 16 Dec 2009

Elmira Ghoulbeigi, has been awarded an ACM-W scholarship to attend ACM-SAC.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009

On behalf of the Department Award Committee, I am pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008-09 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence. The award winners are: - Vahab Akbarzadeh - Helia Mohammadi Recognition of the recipients of the awards will be done on Fri Nov. 13th, 2009 during the Annual Science Award Ceremony. On behalf of the Department, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to the award winners.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009

Elmira Ghoulbeigi's paper "Probabilistic Developmental Program Evolution" has been accepted as a full paper at the EC track of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, to be held at Sierre, Switzerland. With only an acceptance rate of 26.5%, it is a reflection of her dedication and hard work. On behalf of the EvolBic (Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Computing) group, Dr. Marcus Vinicius dos Santos would like to express his sincere congratulations to Elmira for her achievements.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009

For more details check out: Department of Physics Colloquium

Wed, 14 Oct 2009

For more details check out: Msn.com

Fri, 09 Oct 2009

While only a few years old, the Master of Science program in Computer Science is producing a steady stream of high-quality graduates. We would like to share their names with our community. We would also like to thank those that participate in our students' education. For the list of graduates and more details check out: Graduate List

Mon, 21 Sept 2009

The Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) has chosen Dr. Alex Ferworn to receive its prestigious Community IT Hero award. For more details check out: ITAC Community Hero Award

Thu, 07 May 2009

The Toronto Star has an article featuring some exciting projects from the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University. www.thestar.com/article/630394 For a detailed list check out: www.sciencerendezvous.ca

Fri, 03 Apr 2009

A one year $24,999 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Research Tools and Instrument (RTI) grant has been awarded to Professor Mark Fiala.

Fri, 27 Mar 2009

The robot club, reconstituted and run by Prof. Mark Fiala, entered three very capable robots into the OCAD Sumo Robot Challenge: A 100 lb cube of steel called Cassandra; a light-weight robot called Pointless; and finally, to round out the field, the wooden wedge robot "splinter". Members of the team took turns driving, performing cable management and acting as pit crew. The team did very well making it into the semi-finals in several categories.

Fri, 13 Mar 2009

In February, Computer Science took delivery of an Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) response robot called Matilda. The robot was donated by Mesa Robotics after speaking with several graduate students who were participating in NIST's annual Response Robot Evaluation Exercises in Texas A&M University's test facility. (http://ncart.scs.ryerson.ca)

Tue, 06 Mar 2009

On March 1, members of the Computer Science department participated in a press event for the Ontario Government's new animal welfare act which has special provisions for the protection of service animals used by law enforcement agencies.
To emphasize the importance of these animals for the safety of Ontarians Ryerson was invited to demonstrate the Ryerson-invented Canine Remote Deployment System (CRDS) for delivering supplies to victims trapped in rubble.

Mon, 07 May 2012

His Royal Highness will tour Digital Media Zone May 22 as part of Canadian tour... more

Mon, 07 May 2012

Yonge-Dundas Square comes alive with science-themed music, dance performances and exhibits... more

Fri, 04 May 2012

Ryerson provost will be next president of Concordia University... more

Wed, 02 May 2012

Rainbow Cinemas and Tactile Audio Displays Inc. -based in the Digital Media Zone - invite moviegoers to try out a revolutionary tactile audio display system ... more

Mon, 30 Apr 2012

Ryerson Image Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario partner to launch retrospective exhibition on Berenice Abbott ... more

Fri, 27 Apr 2012

Collaborative project with Toronto Hydro, Hydro One, Temporal Power could change energy storage in Canada... more

Wed, 25 Apr 2012

International student sees what life is like overseas as a student and new city dweller... more

Mon, 23 Apr 2012

BRIC outreach creates research partnerships, educational opportunities for students, faculty... more

Fri, 20 Apr 2012

Dennis Mock Award winner stays young and vibrant studying at Chang School... more

Wed, 18 Apr 2012

International students face challenges studying abroad to earn global education... more

Wed, 04 Feb 2009

On Wednesday February 4th, Dr. Reza Moridi (MPP, Richmond Hill) the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities visited Ryerson's Department of Computer Science and gave a seminar to the students of our highly successful Masters program concerning the future of post-graduate education in Ontario. He also provided many fascinating and informative anecdotes from his life and career.
During his, visit, he had the opportunity to speak with many of our graduate students who told him of their experiences within our program and their desire to continue their studies in a suitable doctoral program. Dr. Moridi reiterated the Liberal government"s support for expanding graduate education within Ontario and was very interested in our strategy for launching a doctoral program in Computer Science in support of Ryerson"s graduate program expansion.

Mon, 26 Mar 2012

xiB/OSS client looking for new / recent Computer Science Graduates
Key Areas of Responsibility/Activity:
- Ability to develop, review code, debug, performance tune code, and make documentation updates.
- Resolve assigned trouble tickets and optimize algorithms
- Supports System Testing, Solution Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and provides timely resolutions to problems encountered
- Participates in code reviews, design reviews, or other forms of team quality procedures
- Assists in Release Management, Configuration Management, Build Management, Stream Management and Ticket Management, as required
- Contributes to functional specification and detailed design documents with the support of Architects
- Ability to complete low level and high level designs with the support of Architects
- Communicates with Project Managers, Architects and customers to obtain straight forward information or answer inquiries

Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or Business (with major in Computing)
- Minimum 1 to 2 years I.T. experience (summer job or co-op program)
- Experience with using Unix or Linux
- Experience with Oracle with working knowledge of SQL
- Experience with Perl (or equivalent language experience - i.e. Java/C/C++)
- Experience with Tuxedo will be an added advantage

For more details, please contact: Peter Daly - pdaly@xiboss.com

Tue, 19 Jul 2011

We're looking to add an outstanding software developer intern to our team.

One of the best things you can do early in your career is to gain as much hands-on experience as possible working with a successful, collaborative team. That's what you'll get at realSociable!

If you are a smart, technically savvy college graduate or a young professional seeking an opportunity to be a part of a team that's building sophisticated, Web-based software, we want to hear from you. You will be a key contributor working with our development team in maintaining our current releases, building new features and products, and ensuring the success of our customers.

Job Description:
This is an unpaid internship. This role has the potential to blossom into a full-time career at realSociable! by proving yourself and delivering results. The more you contribute the more responsibility we'll hand you.

The sky is the limit. It's up to you on how far you can grow.

Responsibilities:
- Contribute to code development and design
- Work with support teams to troubleshoot and fix issues, and provide maintenance
- Build tests to ensure product quality, including JUnit, JavaScript, and Selenium tests
- Assist the team in supporting the application in QA and production environments
Who we're looking for:
- Skilled and ambitious problem-solver and loves a challenge and pushes boundaries
- Quick and avid learner and you need to be able to think on you feet, and be comfortable working with a wide range of technologies, including new ones we don't know about yet
- Prideful programmer and enjoys writing "good code"
- Excellent communication skills and our team thribes on collaboration
- Team-oriented and cultivates relationships with the team and company, shares ideas, takes direction and criticism well

What you should know:
- Java
- PHP experience
- Working knowledge of Social API's
- GraphDatabase and MySQL
- Object-oriented design patterns and principles
- You'll also need to love start-ups and be comfortable with limited resources, crazy hours and doing whatever it takes to get things done. This comes with significat responsibility which we all thrive on.

Sound like a job for you? Think you have what it takes?

Send your resume (and portfolio if available) to: jobs@realSociable.com

Fri, 15 Jul 2011

The Hazel Burns Hospice, a community based organization that provides services to those living with a life-threatening illness, requires a volunteer to update their website.
For more information, please contact: Becky MacDonald at Rebecca.M@hbhospice.com

Fri, 15 Jul 2011

Job Role: Junior Software Developer
Position: Full time
Experience: 0 - 1 years
Start Date: Immediate
Travel required: Yes (Europe and Dubai)

Qualification and Required Skill Set:
- Post Secondary Education in Computer Science or a related field
- PHP (4.x and 5.x)
- Zend Framework (Not mandatory but preferred)
- RDBMS (MySQL or Postgres)
- XHTML and CSS
- JavaScript / jQuery / AJAX
- Basic Unix / Linux Skills (Bash, VI, cron, SVN)
- Object Oriented Design
- Knowledge of W3C Standards
- Passion for Technology and the Web
- Exceptional Analytical and Communication Skills
- Forward thinker, creative problem solver, team player

Please reply back with your resume and with references if possible to careers@ods2.com . This position is to be filled ASAP, so please indicate your availability.

Mon, 12 Jul 2011

Cdling Capital Services Inc. is hiring immediately a Lead Developer to join a team to create a movile and web application that will measure risks for investors and star-ups.
Technical requirements:
- experience with at leat one modern web development framework (Djangom Rails, Grails)
- experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle)
- experience with Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Prototype, etc)
- understanding of RESTful APIs
- familiar with automated testing methodologies

Nice to have:
- HTML5
- exerience developing for at least one mobile platform
- experience wth svn, git or hg
- familiar with Facebook and Twitter APIs
- working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments as a user and administrator

The successful candidate will being work immediately on a three month, full time contract. Salary to be commensurate with skills and experience.
Location: 13 Browning Ave., Toronto (Broadview Station). Office hours are flexible and working from home is permitted.
Applications are being accepted immediately.

For more details, please visit: http://www.cdling.com