November 8th 2011, Tuesday. UCLL Room 107.  11:00-12:30 Abstract: Dr. Marcelo Mortensen Wanderley will discuss the achievements of the long-term project “McGill Digital Orchestra”- a 3-year project aimed at developing new digital musical instruments  and use them in real concert situations, allowing designers, performers and composers to work with and improve these instruments during extended [...]

Students registering for COGS 300 are also required to register for one of the lab sections. Please note however that COGS 300 L06 (Friday 15:00-17:00) may be amalgamated into one of the other two sections if registration remains low. Students who are currently registered in L06 for term 2 should be prepared to change to [...]

Come join the CSS for the 2nd annual Robot Party: RoboRave! Party is on November 18th in the Ladha Science Student Centre. Robot costume building fun begins at 6:30 and from 8:00 – midnight, the blacklight robot rave party begins. Free entry before 8pm, $2 after 8, all drinks are $2! Don’t miss out on [...]

Student Visual Analytics Contest 2011: Visualizing Risks We would like to invite you to help us on two data analysis challenges, and learn about Visual Analytics while you are at it! The best solution to each challenge will be awarded a special certificate and an honourarium of $500.00. The contest runs from October 15th – [...]

In today’s digitized world our ability to collect vast amounts of data on just about anything is only increasing.  But in order to be able to gain any useful insights into these vast datasets new techniques of analysis must be developed.  Visual Analytics (VA) is one of these techniques where analytic tools combine information visualization, [...]