CSGS McGill

04/11/2020

Hi CS graduate students,
We hope that you are doing well and staying safe.

We would like to introduce to you a Slack channel to let your voice be heard and socialize with your other fellow students. To join the channel just visit https://join.slack.com/t/csgs-group/signup and sign up with your .mcgill.ca, .ca or .mcgill.ca email.

We are looking forward to seeing you there and always remember that it will be alright 🌈🌈

Don't have an .mcgill.ca, .ca, or .mcgill.ca email address? Contact your Workspace Administrator for an invitation.

09/04/2019

Come join us to be inspired about entrepreneurship on 16th September 2019 at 6 PM at Thomson House.

PGSS is hosting its first ever Innovation event where we have two veteran entrepreneurs (René-Sylvain Bédard and Jonathan Ginter) with years of professional experience in technology industry joining us in this eventful evening. The speakers will provide motivation in transforming their ideas into viable products/solutions and will share their own experiences about what works towards creating a successful company.

Following this there will be a networking event among the attendees as well as with the speakers. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Register here asap ! https://pgss.mcgill.ca/en/event/850

Contact us at [email protected] for any queries.

05/02/2019

*Fifty years of Computer Science at McGill 1971-2021*

The School of Computer Science will be celebrating 50 years since classes started in September 1971. Activities are being planned for the Friday of McGill's Open House, October 2021.

We have set up a webform - https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/forms/alumni/

Please use it to tell us what would attract you to return to Montreal and come and join us. The School of Computer Science also has a page (https://www.facebook.com/McGillCS/) which will keep you up to date.

And you can email the 50th anniversary committee at - [email protected]

Finally, if you are in touch with other McGill CS current students, or grads, please forward this message to them, and ask them also to fill out the questionnaire.

We look forward to seeing you in October 2001.

- Tim for the CS50McGill reunion committee:
Luc Devroye, Greg Dudek, Emma Goun'e, Bettina Kemme, Paul Kry, Tim Merrett, Monty Newborn, Derek Ruths, Koustuv Sinha.

03/27/2019

Check out this new research grant!

Do you need funding for your research? Is your research multidisciplinary?

Applications for CSCDS multidisciplinary seed grants are now OPEN until April 7th, 2019.

Application: forms.gle/meBAUhJqgQ8Vrrbq8

03/23/2019

Check out this interesting talk this Monday!

MONDAY LUNCH: come eat timbits and learn about cutting-edge research on hate speech at our March Speaker Series event, presented by Haji Saleem & Jana Kurrek!

Monday, March 25th from 12:30-1:30pm
Research Commons of Redpath Library Complex

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"Hate Speech: exploring the derogatory and non derogatory nature of slurs"

The use of slurs - derogatory expressions, understood to convey contempt and hatred towards their target - is a common practice on a wide variety of online social media platforms. While slurs have an inherent derogatory force, they can be deployed in both derogatory and non-derogatory fashion. We wish to disentangle the two usages in an attempt to understand the linguistic patterns of hate. Being the atomic form of hate speech, a better understanding of linguistic phenomenon of slurs can provide valuable insight towards understanding hate speech as a whole and could bring us a step closer to building a generalized model of hate speech.