Chair of the Department of Computing Science Mario Nascimento shares a greeting with alumni to kick off Alumni Week(end) 2020. Photo supplied.
To the Department of Computing Science alumni family,
Welcome to Alumni Week(end) 2020: Campus to Couch Edition. This is an atypical year in many accounts and I do wish you and yours are all well. I am glad to have this opportunity to meet you all virtually this year and I am pleased to showcase some of the many remarkable things that our department has to offer.
Over the next week I encourage you to learn more about the 海角社区’s newest signature area, led by Professor in the Department of Computing Science. AI4Society, is hosting two webinars on September 25: and .
I also welcome you to join me in congratulating , who received the 2020 Killam Accelerator Research Award earlier this month. This prestigious award will support her cutting-edge research on machine learning.
Next, hear from your fellow alumnus Jack Newton on how his experience studying computing science at the 海角社区 helped to pave the way to founding , a cloud-based legal technology company that has grown to be one of Canada’s most successful companies.
Thank you, and I look forward to connecting with you again soon.
Mario
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Mario Nascimento
Professor and Chair, Department of Computing Science