Tue, 05 Jan 2010

Where the Jobs Are..
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released a 10-year forecast of job growth that projects "professional and related" occupations will increase by 16.8 percent between 2008 and 2018. The professional and related category, which includes computer science jobs, is expected to be the fastest growing category of the 10 major BLS occupational groups. All occupations are projected to grow an average of 10.1 percent. The professional and related category is comprised of eight occupational clusters, including computer and mathematical jobs. The government forecasts a 22.2 percent increase in computer and mathematical jobs by 2018. Moreover, computer science occupations are projected to account for nearly 60 percent of all job growth among all fields of science and engineering over the next eight years. About 13.4 percent of job growth in science and engineering fields is likely to be in engineering positions.
For more details check out: http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/04/where-the-jobs-are/

Wed, 16 Dec 2009

Elmira Ghoulbeigi, has been awarded an ACM-W scholarship to attend ACM-SAC.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009

On behalf of the Department Award Committee, I am pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008-09 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence. The award winners are: - Vahab Akbarzadeh - Helia Mohammadi Recognition of the recipients of the awards will be done on Fri Nov. 13th, 2009 during the Annual Science Award Ceremony. On behalf of the Department, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to the award winners.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009

Elmira Ghoulbeigi's paper "Probabilistic Developmental Program Evolution" has been accepted as a full paper at the EC track of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, to be held at Sierre, Switzerland. With only an acceptance rate of 26.5%, it is a reflection of her dedication and hard work. On behalf of the EvolBic (Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Computing) group, Dr. Marcus Vinicius dos Santos would like to express his sincere congratulations to Elmira for her achievements.

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.