Mon, 30 Jan 2012

Computer Science professor Vojislav Misic received the 400th Engage Grant in Ontario as part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's $10-million milestone celebration.
For more information, please visit: NSERC Article

Thu, 19 Jan 2012

Snake Robot Rides a Dog to the Rescue
For more information, please visit: NCART Article

Wed, 18 Jan 2012

Statistics show the number of high school students applying to Ryerson is steadily climbing.
For more information, please visit: Article

Tue, 17 Jan 2012

An article in IEEE.org - Search and Rescue Dog Deploys Robot Snake via Bark Control
For more information, please visit: NCART Article

Wed, 04 Feb 2009

On Wednesday February 4th, Dr. Reza Moridi (MPP, Richmond Hill) the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities visited Ryerson's Department of Computer Science and gave a seminar to the students of our highly successful Masters program concerning the future of post-graduate education in Ontario. He also provided many fascinating and informative anecdotes from his life and career.
During his, visit, he had the opportunity to speak with many of our graduate students who told him of their experiences within our program and their desire to continue their studies in a suitable doctoral program. Dr. Moridi reiterated the Liberal government"s support for expanding graduate education within Ontario and was very interested in our strategy for launching a doctoral program in Computer Science in support of Ryerson"s graduate program expansion.

Tue, 19 Jul 2011

We're looking to add an outstanding software developer intern to our team.

One of the best things you can do early in your career is to gain as much hands-on experience as possible working with a successful, collaborative team. That's what you'll get at realSociable!

If you are a smart, technically savvy college graduate or a young professional seeking an opportunity to be a part of a team that's building sophisticated, Web-based software, we want to hear from you. You will be a key contributor working with our development team in maintaining our current releases, building new features and products, and ensuring the success of our customers.

Job Description:
This is an unpaid internship. This role has the potential to blossom into a full-time career at realSociable! by proving yourself and delivering results. The more you contribute the more responsibility we'll hand you.

The sky is the limit. It's up to you on how far you can grow.

Responsibilities:
- Contribute to code development and design
- Work with support teams to troubleshoot and fix issues, and provide maintenance
- Build tests to ensure product quality, including JUnit, JavaScript, and Selenium tests
- Assist the team in supporting the application in QA and production environments
Who we're looking for:
- Skilled and ambitious problem-solver and loves a challenge and pushes boundaries
- Quick and avid learner and you need to be able to think on you feet, and be comfortable working with a wide range of technologies, including new ones we don't know about yet
- Prideful programmer and enjoys writing "good code"
- Excellent communication skills and our team thribes on collaboration
- Team-oriented and cultivates relationships with the team and company, shares ideas, takes direction and criticism well

What you should know:
- Java
- PHP experience
- Working knowledge of Social API's
- GraphDatabase and MySQL
- Object-oriented design patterns and principles
- You'll also need to love start-ups and be comfortable with limited resources, crazy hours and doing whatever it takes to get things done. This comes with significat responsibility which we all thrive on.

Sound like a job for you? Think you have what it takes?

Send your resume (and portfolio if available) to: jobs@realSociable.com

Fri, 15 Jul 2011

The Hazel Burns Hospice, a community based organization that provides services to those living with a life-threatening illness, requires a volunteer to update their website.
For more information, please contact: Becky MacDonald at Rebecca.M@hbhospice.com

Fri, 15 Jul 2011

Job Role: Junior Software Developer
Position: Full time
Experience: 0 - 1 years
Start Date: Immediate
Travel required: Yes (Europe and Dubai)

Qualification and Required Skill Set:
- Post Secondary Education in Computer Science or a related field
- PHP (4.x and 5.x)
- Zend Framework (Not mandatory but preferred)
- RDBMS (MySQL or Postgres)
- XHTML and CSS
- JavaScript / jQuery / AJAX
- Basic Unix / Linux Skills (Bash, VI, cron, SVN)
- Object Oriented Design
- Knowledge of W3C Standards
- Passion for Technology and the Web
- Exceptional Analytical and Communication Skills
- Forward thinker, creative problem solver, team player

Please reply back with your resume and with references if possible to careers@ods2.com . This position is to be filled ASAP, so please indicate your availability.

Mon, 12 Jul 2011

Cdling Capital Services Inc. is hiring immediately a Lead Developer to join a team to create a movile and web application that will measure risks for investors and star-ups.
Technical requirements:
- experience with at leat one modern web development framework (Djangom Rails, Grails)
- experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle)
- experience with Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Prototype, etc)
- understanding of RESTful APIs
- familiar with automated testing methodologies

Nice to have:
- HTML5
- exerience developing for at least one mobile platform
- experience wth svn, git or hg
- familiar with Facebook and Twitter APIs
- working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments as a user and administrator

The successful candidate will being work immediately on a three month, full time contract. Salary to be commensurate with skills and experience.
Location: 13 Browning Ave., Toronto (Broadview Station). Office hours are flexible and working from home is permitted.
Applications are being accepted immediately.

For more details, please visit: http://www.cdling.com