UVic Engineering Students Awarded at BCNET/CANARIE Conference

Posted on May 13, 2010 by pan

Five UVic Electrical and Computer Engineering students, Bo Li, Yi Dong, Xudong Liu, Yangke Xiao and Zhicheng Huang, are the third-place winners of the 2010 BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge competition, for their project “Software Defined Radio: Extend Communication Range of Walkie-Talkie” from the ELEC 499 Design Project course.

The team was invited to attend the 2010 BCNET/CANARIE Conference in Vancouver last week and give an award presentation on May 5, 2010. In addition to the presentation, which was broadcast over the Internet, the team also received a trophy and a $1,000 cash award.

The annual Broadband Innovation Challenge competition, organized by BCNET and sponsored by industry, looks for student projects from BC universities that utilize the broadband Internet. The projects are judged based on their innovation and novelty, technical difficulty, bandwidth efficiency, the potential to encourage collaboration and for commercial or community use, and the project presentation.

Other three UVic students, Robert Kelly, Aidin Faghfouri and Ryan Hamilton from Computer Science, are the finalists of this year’s competition and each of them received $500 honorable mentions.

For more info, see http://bc.net/media-release/2010-05-BBIC.html

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For their projects, see

Software Defined Radio – Extend Communication Range of Walkie-talkie
Yi Dong, Zhicheng Huang, Bo Li, Xudong Liu & Yangke Xiao, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UVic
http://web.uvic.ca/~yangkex/ELEC499/Home.html
http://web.uvic.ca/~yangkex/Design/Project_Design.html

Stepping Out: Virtual Walking Tours
Robert Kelly, Computer Science, UVic
http://tour.robkelly.me/

uFriend : A content based music retrieval system based on P2P concepts
Aidin Faghfouri, Computer Science, UVic
http://grp.pan.uvic.ca/~aidin/uFriend.html

TOP (Traffic Obfuscation Project)
Ryan Hamilton, Computer Science, UVic
http://rhamilton.ca/top/

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BCNET 2010 Broadband Innovation Challenge

Posted on February 25, 2010 by pan

BCNET is again hosting their annual broadband innovation challenge contest. all bc university students, undergrad and grad, are eligible to attend with any applications running on the broadband networks

please encourage the students in your class/group to participate. the deadline to submit a simple “intent to apply” is monday, march 1, 2010. for more info and previous winners, check http://tinyurl.com/bcnetbic

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WebPhone Service in production

Posted on January 23, 2010 by pan

if you want your colleagues, collaborators or students call your office phone (or leave a vmail) for free, uvic has just released webphone (internet->pstn), and you can opt in/out. thanks

ps: good for student recruitment and alumni connection as well

http://www.uvic.ca/systems/internettelephone/webphone/

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Re: for your amusement

Posted on January 22, 2010 by pan

so there is another fake doctor

http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=2411623

“A well-known Victoria man who operated a counselling clinic in Saanich and taught courses at the University of Victoria has been charged with fraud, accused of falsely claiming to hold two doctoral degrees. … He was ordered to remove all display notices, advertising or Internet sites that refer to him by the title of doctor or make any reference to him possessing a doctorate of any kind from any educational institution by Jan. 10. …” while our “dr kube” still calls himself a doctor 😉

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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE: BCNET Student Poster Competition

Posted on January 17, 2010 by pan

please circulate this info among your students and encourage to participate. it’s about network applications, not networking research, and nowadays almost all applications utilize networks. thanks

flyer is available at http://panlab.cs.uvic.ca/webb/download.php?id=6185

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winter programming contest

Posted on January 17, 2010 by pan

the top team (john and dan) from uvic (coached by sean) ranked the second in the bc winter programming contest held this past weekend, just behind the top team from sfu (and the guests from stanford and the ubc coach)

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/events/ACM/scoreboard/

we also had more uvic students in the competition (but we still need more)

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Re: competition announcements

Posted on January 15, 2010 by pan

please remind students in your class that:

bc winter programming contest (c, c++ or java, bring a friend for a team) this saturday, jan 16, ecs242

11:45am–12:45pm practice
1–4pm contest
after 4pm pizza&discussion

thanks

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competition announcements

Posted on January 3, 2010 by pan

there are a few student competitions in the spring term and maybe of interest to the students in your classes. could you please show the slide (ppt or pdf) before or after your lecture this week and pass the information? thanks a lot for your help and happy teaching in the spring (i have two myself as well)

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Re: Next Week is Appreciation Week

Posted on December 2, 2009 by pan

in the week of appreciation, let’s also thank the students who have made us be proud of them by their various achievements and community services. please stop by the wall of appreciation (outside ecs514), and everyone can recognize some names from their classes or group (sorry, i did not have to the time to put their photos there). add more student names if you know and sign if you wish. thanks

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Heather Croft wrote:
> It’s time to reflect and give thanks to the people that make the
> Department of Computer Science work. Please take the time to say thank you
> to faculty, staff, instructors or students who have made a difference
> during Appreciation Week, November 30th to December 4th, 2009. Ways you
> may participate include sending a note or e-card, baking a treat for a
> colleague, or stopping by ECS 514 to sign the Wall of Appreciation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Heather Croft, MSc
>
> Administrative Officer
> Department of Computer Science<http://www.csc.uvic.ca/>
> Faculty of Engineering
> University of Victoria
> office: ECS 514
> phone: 250-472-5854
> fax: 250-472-5708
>

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Re: UVic students at ACM ICPC regional competition

Posted on November 29, 2009 by pan

uvic vikes white team did not get the wild card spot to the world finals early next year, because this year they did not give any wild card spot to this region, after all regional contests finished!!!

they always gave 25 to 26 spots to north america in the last few years, and this region has been receiving 3 spots (2 regular, 1 wild card) in the last few years as well. but this year, they only give 22 spots to north america, and this region only gets 2 spots (there is only one region in north america receives a wild card spot, with more than 100 teams competed and there is a tiny gap between the top teams). probably due to the upcoming world finals in china, more final spots have gone to the teams in asia and pacific regions (probably more teams competed there as well)

however, our two teams are still very much motivated: they keep practicing every wednesday night and participating in online practice contests in the weekend, in order to do well again in the regional contest next year. they are also confident that next time they don’t need to wait for a wild card spot to go to the world finals. we will also need to recruit more teams

we still should cheer for them, in the week/spirit of appreciation (this year, they have already beaten teams from uc berkeley, univ of washington, etc, which have much larger cs programs than us). thanks

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