Monthly Archives: October 2011

Re: Teaching students how to do research

Posted on October 26, 2011 by pan

good idea! do you have an all-area panel now? i can offer another biasedcoin as well. it will be great to see if we can round-robin labs/profs togive talks on what’s cooking in their lab/research area. cheers

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UVic Students at IEEExtreme competition

Posted on October 22, 2011 by pan

11 UVic Engineering PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s students in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering just finished their first IEEExtreme online programming competition lasting 24 hours. The Top UVic team, IslandVikingCoders, completed 10 problems and ranked 3rd in Canada. … Continue reading →

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proctoring ieee student competition teams

Posted on October 17, 2011 by pan

Dear Colleagues: if you are an ieee member, please read on… ieee is sponsoring an online worldwide programming competition, from utc00:00:00 oct 22 (which is this friday 5pm in victoria), for 24 hours! the local ieee section and the uvic … Continue reading →

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Re: TOEFL score minimums

Posted on October 9, 2011 by pan

thanks a lot for bringing up the topic from my observation, the section minimums are more problematic. studentsmay have passed the overall minimum, but having one section one or twopoints short of the section minimum, and according to the current … Continue reading →

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Re: SFU Qualifier this Saturday

Posted on October 4, 2011 by pan

there’s nothing personal, private or confidential. budget issuesare department matters, as we were even asked to do more with less. moretransparency always makes things better, e.g., www.budget.gc.ca ps: don’t worry, 95+% of the internet email were spams already 😉

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Re: SFU Qualifier this Saturday

Posted on October 3, 2011 by pan

did you promise $500 for the team this year? see the message waybelow. last year, the overrun was not because the team spent more, butbecause the dept cut the budget from $1,000 to $500, even though the univbudget cut promised … Continue reading →

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