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Hey girls,

Focus on Women in Computer Science is hosting its second women’s undergraduate brown bag lunch. Bring your lunch and meet other fellow undergrads. This is also a great opportunity to meet and get to know our faculty guest, Joanna McGrenere.

Lunch will be held on Tuesday, March 6th at 12:30PM in ICICS in room 206. Look forward to seeing you all there!

Liza & Jelena

P.S. Please feel free to forward this to your friends!

When:

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - 12:30 to 13:30

Where:

ICICS Room 206

UBC’s new ACM chapter invites you to our first event: a presentation by Mik Kersten on Task Focused Programming with Mylar.

Mylar is a task focused UI for Eclipse that makes working with very large workspaces as easy as working with small ones. It supports task management and monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand. (source: http://kerstens.org/mik)

Speaker: Mik Kersten, leader of the open source Mylar project, UBC Ph.D. student
Date: Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: DMP 110
Who: You! This talk is recommended to all students interested not only in Java development, but also in software engineering practices (and problems associated with them) and user interfaces in general.

Join us to find out more about Mylar, Mik, and ACM!

Pizza and Pop will be served.

Further information:
Software developers are inundated with information: the systems on which developers work often comprise hundreds of thousands of lines or more of source code, developers’ email inboxes are clogged with notifications of new bugs reported and so on. Many of the tools developers use have been engineered to present and deliver this information as fast as possible. Mik’s research aims to reverse this trend by presenting just the information a developer needs when they need it by exploiting structure and patterns in the ways developers work. This talk presents the results of the Mylar project (http://www.eclipse.org/mylar ) that is changing the way developers work by focusing the UI of the Eclipse IDE to show only the information relevant to the task-at-hand.

When:

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 17:00 to 18:00

Where:

DMP 110

Do you want $20 American Express Gift Card or an all expense paid trip to Toronto? Well keep reading…

Coming up is an Imagine Cup event to get you started on the Software Development Invitational. If you’ve signed up and haven’t gotten time to start on your entry, this is a last call before the deadline on March 4th.

Your friendly neighbourhood Microsoft Student Partners will be around to guide you through the process of signing up, getting started with .NET, and coding your way to the semi-finals in Toronto. Bring your laptop preferably or just come and watch. The lab will be held in X350 from 2 to 5pm for the rest of this week (Feb 28 - March 2)

For those of you who aren’t sure whether to join or not - considering only 60 of the 125 Canadian spots have been filled at this point, ANY amount of points will automatically put you on the leaderboard and a likely candidate and if Toronto isn’t your thing, completing the first challenge will earn you the $20 gift card (did I mention we are showing you how to do this question?)

No RSVP necessary, just show up and knock on the door. If you have any questions, they can be sent to [email protected]. You can find out more about the Imagine Cup at http://www.imaginecup.ca. Register with code “UBC” to be counted!

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When:

Friday, March 2, 2007 - 14:00 to 17:00

Where:

ICICS X350

The Faculty of Science is hosting a series of talks called “The Science Salon”. Various professors from faculties such as Earth & Oceans, Botany, Microbiology, Immunology, Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Zoology and Chemistry will be holding 1 hour talks on topics, respective to their departments. These talks will be held every day from March 5th-9th at Noon to 1PM at the Lahda Centre. For more information, please take a look at the attachment to this post!

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s cryptologic agency, provides foreign intelligence to the Government of Canada and protects communications related to our country’s national interests. If you have a techical background and/or an understanding of foreign languages, cultures and politics, come find out about the challenging careers at CSE. CSE representatives will be on campus to present the following information session:

Additional information about CSE job postings is available at campus.workopolis.com ( http://campusdb.workopolis.com/jobshome/db/campusen.featured_joblist?pi_employer=450822)

When:

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 13:30 to 15:00

Where:

Dempster 301