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Scheduled file server downtime 04 March 2024 0900-1100
March 4, 2024 Announcement
Alumnus Jade Raymond makes major donation to McGill
Feb. 22, 2024 Announcement
Prof Martin Robillard wins SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award 2024
Jan. 18, 2024 Award
Fighting disinformation in Quebec
Dec. 14, 2023 Announcement
Prof. Waldispühl au Salon du Livre de Montréal
Nov. 21, 2023 Announcement
Bot Wars: Prof. Ruths unleashes Citizen Science to fight disinformation-spreading AI
Nov. 15, 2023 Announcement
Prof. Waldispühl presents at EVE FanFest 2023
Nov. 14, 2023 Announcement
Profs. Siddiqi and Blanchette awarded FRQS dual chairs in AI&Health
Oct. 7, 2023 Award
Best paper award at CSCW for Prof. Jin Guo and her students!
Oct. 5, 2023 Award
Prof. Louis Collins elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 19, 2023 Award
Prof. Joëlle Pineau elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 5, 2023 Award
Best paper award for Prof. Xue Liu!
June 30, 2023 Award
Prof. Claude Crépeau wins the EW Dijkstra Prize for 2023
June 1, 2023 Award
Congratulations to M.Sc. student Xavier Morin Duchesne for winning the 2023 Itek Award
March 24, 2023 Award
Prof. Doina Precup elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 8, 2022 Award
Professor Prakash Panangaden wins LICS Test-of-Time Award for 2022
July 5, 2022 Award
Professor Prakash Panangaden wins Outstanding Teaching Award for 2022
July 5, 2022 Award
Congratulations to Sandeep Manjanna on winning the 2022 CIPPRS John Barron Doctoral Dissertation Award!
June 13, 2022 Award
Scholarships for Quebec Students
March 11, 2022 Announcement
Professor Lin is among eight McGill Professors to be awarded CFI JELF funding
March 9, 2022 Award
Maintenance upgrade for CS storage server
March 3, 2022 Announcement
Fall 2021 TA Awards
Feb. 15, 2022 Announcement
Borderlands et le microbiome - Jérôme Waldispuhl, Professeur agrégré , école d'informatique
Feb. 1, 2022 Announcement
Dudek, Liu, and students win best paper award at Globecom 2021
Dec. 20, 2021 Award
Reddy and Ponti win 2021 EMNLP best paper award!
Dec. 16, 2021 Award
Precup and Bellemare win NeurIPS outstanding paper awards!
Dec. 1, 2021 Award
Prof. Oana Balmau receives SIGOPS distinction
Oct. 29, 2021 Award
File server issues due to hardware failure
Oct. 10, 2021 Announcement
Virtual Yearbook
July 21, 2021 Announcement
Assistant Professor David Rolnick Named a 2021 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35
July 5, 2021 Award
Prof. Claude Crepeau wins STOC 30 year Test of Time Award
June 23, 2021 Award
Congratulations to Our 2021 Graduates
June 9, 2021 Announcement
CS Undergraduate Orientation 2022
Aug. 24, 2022 Announcement
Power Outage for McConnell Engineering (from 8am to 4pm)
Aug. 20, 2022 Announcement
All services DOWN from 4am to 4pm Saturday 19 March - Emergency Power Outage
March 19, 2022 Announcement
Scheduled Fileserver Downtime Thursday Feb 17th from 8:30 - 9:00am
Feb. 17, 2022 Announcement
Power restored
July 2, 2021 Announcement
Prof. Jérôme Waldispühl Recognized for Public Outreach Work
April 29, 2021 Award
Prof. Prakash Panangaden Elected as 2020 ACM Fellow
Jan. 13, 2021 Award
Prof. Xue (Steve) Liu Selected as an ACM Distinguished Member
Dec. 18, 2020 Award
Three SOCS professors are awarded large grants to use AI to understand cancer
Nov. 5, 2020 Award
Assistant Professor Oana Balmau wins CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award
Oct. 27, 2020 Award
Virtual Open House 2020 | Portes ouvertes virtuelle 2020
Oct. 25, 2020 Announcement
Concerns related to COVID-19
Oct. 5, 2020 Announcement
Three Faculty Members Join the School of Computer Science
Sept. 1, 2020 Announcement
Prof. Siva Reddy won the VentureBeat AI Innovation Award 2020
Aug. 3, 2020 Award
Prof. Pineau Reappointed as William Dawson Scholar
July 16, 2020 Award
Winter 2020 TA Award Winners Announced
June 22, 2020 Award
Congratulations to Our 2020 Graduates
June 19, 2020 Announcement
Information for Incoming Undergraduate Students
June 18, 2020 Announcement
COVID-19 resources
June 1, 2020 Announcement
Update on Remote Course Delivery in Computer Science
May 19, 2020 Announcement
What will hands-on learning look like at McGill this fall?
May 1, 2020 Announcement
The School of Computer Science Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Jan. 29, 2020 Announcement
Prof. Liu Becomes IEEE Fellow
Jan. 15, 2020 Award
Flight PS752 Crash
Jan. 10, 2020 Announcement
Announcement of New Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Dec. 9, 2019 Award
Prof. Xue Liu Wins Best Paper Award at the IEEE MASS 2019 Conference
Dec. 4, 2019 Award
Prof. Xue Liu Elevated to IEEE Fellow for Class 2020
Dec. 4, 2019 Announcement
Computer Science Teaching Assistant Awards
Nov. 13, 2019 Announcement
Maxime Descoteaux won the prix du Québec 2019 for the top researcher under 40
Oct. 22, 2019 Award
Introduction to New SOCS Professors
Sept. 2, 2019 Announcement
Prof. Precup receives 2019 Classic AIJ Paper Award for seminal work in reinforcement learning
Aug. 1, 2019 Award
Genome Canada grant led by Profs. Waldispühl and Blanchette on crowdsourcing for microbiome research
Aug. 1, 2019 Announcement
The Passing of Prof. Godfried Toussaint
July 23, 2019 Announcement
The passing of Prof. Laurie Hendren
May 27, 2019 Announcement
Governor General's Innovation Award for Prof. Joelle Pineau
May 13, 2019 Award
Prof. Laurie Hendren announced as winner of the 2019 AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize
April 28, 2019 Award
First Place Prize at Dobson Cup Startup Competition
April 12, 2019 Award
Two New Canada-CIFAR AI Chairs for Profs. Hamilton and Gordon
April 9, 2019 Award
Yoshua Bengio receives Turing award
March 27, 2019 Award
PhD students Andre Cianflone and Scott Fujimoto win inaugural Borealis AI Graduate Fellowships
Feb. 25, 2019 Award
Profs. Mathieu Blanchette and Jérome Waldispühl to lead new project in computational genomics
Feb. 14, 2019 Announcement
SOCS welcomes Profs. Yue Li and Will Hamilton
Jan. 7, 2019 Announcement
Six SOCS Professors Receive Canada CIFAR Chair in AI
Dec. 6, 2018 Award
Congratulations to Isaac Gibbs for being awarded 2nd Prize in the Computational & Mathematical Sciences category
Oct. 8, 2018 Award
Professor Pientka wins Test of Time Award
Sept. 19, 2018 Award
Professor Ruths wins the 2018 Principal's Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher
June 1, 2018 Award
Maria Klawe awarded honory doctor of science
June 1, 2018 Award
Professor Kry wins Graduate Supervision and Teaching Award
June 1, 2018 Award
Joëlle Pineau awarded NSERC’s Steacie Memorial Fellowship
May 1, 2018 Award
Negar Ghourchian and Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera part of MITACS' "150 for 150"
Dec. 18, 2017 Announcement
Clare Lyle awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Nov. 23, 2017 Award
Professor Vetta receives Fellowship from the Trottier Institute of Science and Public Policy.
Nov. 22, 2017 Award
Professor Liu receives Mitacs award for Outstanding Leadership
Nov. 22, 2017 Award
Professor Cheung to be academic advisor for Borealis AI
Nov. 21, 2017 Announcement
Prof. Dudek receives Gold Medal Award from IEEE Montreal
Nov. 10, 2017 Award
Andrei Lupu wins 1st prize in the Mathematical & Computational Sciences category at the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC)
Oct. 27, 2017 Award
Professor Precup honoured by the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab
Oct. 26, 2017 Announcement
McGill Programming Teams Win IEEE and ACM Programming Competitions
Oct. 25, 2017 Announcement
Professor Precup on Quirks & Quarks
Oct. 21, 2017 Announcement
The McGill Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science launch
Oct. 20, 2017 Announcement
Professor Precup appointed head of DeepMind Montreal
Oct. 6, 2017 Announcement
SOCS Alumnus Alan Emtage Inducted into Internet Hall of Fame
Sept. 18, 2017 Announcement
Professor Pineau to head Facebook's AI lab
Sept. 15, 2017 Announcement
Former student Anqi Xu awarded the CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016.
March 29, 2017 Award
Professor Prakash Panangaden and his former student Josée Desharnais awarded the Test of Time Award
March 28, 2017 Award
SÉRIE : QUE SONT DEVENUES LES DÉCOUVERTES DE JADIS? "La téléportation quantique" par Gilles Brassard et Claude Crépeau (1993)
March 6, 2017 Announcement
SOCS researchers granted INRIA associated team status.
Feb. 10, 2017 Announcement
Statement about the White House executive order restricting travels to the U.S.
Feb. 7, 2017 Announcement
Pierre-Luc Bacon, Jean Harb, and Doina Precup are awarded the prestigious AAAI 2017 Outstanding Student Paper Award
Jan. 3, 2017 Award
McGill teams win programming contests
Nov. 8, 2016 Award
Two finalist nominations for best paper awards at IROS 2016
Nov. 8, 2016 Award
Prakash Panangaden awarded Principal's Prize for Teaching in the Full Professor Category
Nov. 2, 2016 Award
Laurie Hendren awarded Prix Cancérologie by the Direction Générale de Cancérologie du Québec.
Oct. 31, 2016 Award
Joelle Pineau elected to College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada
Sept. 30, 2016 Announcement
Prof. Paul Kry elected to ACM SIGGRAPH EC as a director at large
Aug. 24, 2016 Announcement
Jimmy Li is awarded the Clark Science Executive Fund
Aug. 15, 2016 Announcement
Dot-drawing with drones
Aug. 3, 2016 Announcement
Congratulations to Prof. Doina Precup who has been appointed to a Canada Research Chair
May 11, 2016 Award
Damien Goblet wins first prize for his poster “Cartan frames for characterizing fiber geometry in pig hearts from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)”
April 1, 2016 Announcement
Prof. Brigitte Pientka has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
March 9, 2016 Award
Congratulations to Emmanuel Piuze on his CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2015 Honourable Mention
March 1, 2016 Announcement
Prof. M. Blanchette elected Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.
Oct. 12, 2015 Award
Research group at CS uncovers flaws with Facebook's Like mechanism
April 13, 2015 Announcement
Emeritus Professor Chris Paige is named a SIAM Fellow
April 7, 2015 Award
Prof. Joelle Pineau named a William Dawson Scholar at McGill
April 7, 2015 Award
CS student Pascale Gourdeau wins Anita Borg Fellowship
April 7, 2015 Award
Annie T.T. Ying and Professor Martin Robillard, Distinguished Paper Award
Dec. 4, 2014 Award
Mingyuan Xia awarded IBM Ph.D. fellowship
April 2, 2014 Award
Prof. P. Panangaden named Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Nov. 8, 2013 Award
Dr. Hervé Lombaert wins the Francois Erbsmann Prize for the best paper
July 22, 2013 Award
PhD student Malika Meghjani wins Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
April 26, 2013 Award
Kanishka funding awarded to Prof. D. Ruths
April 26, 2013 Award
Prof. G. Dudek to lead NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network
April 26, 2013 Announcement
Claude Crépeau named 2013 International Association for Cryptologic Research Fellow
April 10, 2013 Award
Prof. B. Reed wins CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize
Nov. 29, 2012 Award
IEEEXtreme Programming Challenge dominated by McGill students
Oct. 31, 2012 Announcement
Prof. L. Hendren named Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Oct. 30, 2012 Award
Study provides new insights into structure of heart muscle fibres
May 30, 2012 Announcement
Prof. C. Paige awarded 2012 SIAG/LA Prize
April 23, 2012 Award
CS students make the Canadian final of Imagine Cup
April 13, 2012 Announcement