Fri, 10 May 2013


A ray of hope - a seamstress survived 17 days in the rubble of the ruined garment factory in Bangladesh. Video

Fri, 10 May 2013


Jimmy Tran, a second year Computer Science PhD student is the recipient of the Ontario Scientist and Engineers in Business (SEB) Commercialization Fellowship. The fellowship provides the entrepreneur with $54,000 in funding to develop prototype products, source first customers, and pay salaries. Jimmy has created a start-up company, Disaster And Related Emergencies (DARE) Technologies to develop the patented Canine Remote Deployment System (CRDS) into a commercial product. The CRDS is intended to be used in Urban Search and Rescue operations. The system allows search dogs to deliver emergency supplies and surveillance equipment to help trapped victims in collapsed structures. The CRDS was originally developed by Dr. Alexander Ferworn and the Network-Centric Applied Research Team in partner with the Ontario Provincial Police.

Fri, 10 May 2013

Science Rendezvous @ Ryerson press conference: see the kinds of projects and activities that will be happening on May 11,2013 at Science Rendezvous @ Ryerson in Toronto.
Please visit: Video

Tue, 07 May 2013

Signal Processing Guest Lecture Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Friday May 10, 2013 2pm-3pm ENG 101

"3D ILLS: Can Signal Processing Help?"

Janusz Konrad
ECE Department
Boston University
http://iss.bu.edu/jkonrad

The unprecedented proliferation of 3D hardware in consumer market and the involvement of Hollywood in 3D content production are two bright spots in the recent 3D wave. However, such waves in the past have come and gone. Is the current wave any different? 3D quality has improved, 3D hardware has entered homes and 3D content is better than ever, and yet obstacles remain.
In this talk, I will focus on two obstacles that, if not overcome, can threaten to derail 3D in the near future. First, I will focus on the "holy grail" of 3D visualization - automultiscopic displays that require no glasses. Such displays support motion parallax by means of spatial view multiplexing that involves sub-sampling and therefore requires anti-alias pre-filtering. However, since the sub-sampling is irregular the design of suitable pre-filters is non-trivial. I will present our approach based on lattice theory and will show some experimental results. The second obstacle I will tackle is 3D content that, despite current efforts by Hollywood, lags behind hardware. An alternative to waiting for Hollywood is to convert 2D movies to 3D. While human-supervised conversion is time-consuming and costly, the current fully-automatic methods are inferior in terms of conversion quality. I will describe a radically different approach to 2D-to-3D conversion that leverages on-line 3D content for learning depth of 2D images and will show examples. While signal processing can push some of the boundaries of flat-screen 3D, will this be enough to sustain the 3D wave? The concluding remarks may surprise you.
For more information please visit the Visual Information Processing Lab page at http://vip.bu.edu

BIO:

Janusz Konrad earned the M.Eng. degree from the Technical University of Szczecin, Poland, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. From 1989 to 2000 he was with INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, and since 2000 with Boston University. He has been on Editorial Boards of various IEEE and EURASIP journals related to signal, image and video processing. He was a Technical Program Co-Chair of ICIP-2000 and AVSS-2010, and Tutorials Co-Chair of ICASSP-2004. He is currently the General Chair of AVSS-2013 to be held in Krakow, Poland. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 Signal Processing Magazine Award, the 2004-05 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award, the AVSS-2010 Best Paper Award and a co-winner of the Semantic Description of Human Activities Contest at ICPR-2010. His research interests include image and video processing, stereoscopic and 3D displays, human-computer interfaces and visual sensor networks.

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.

Thu, 9 May 2013


Requirements:
- Computer Science graduate,
- Experience (Coop experience is acceptable):
- Java
- JEE
- Database System
Interested candidates that fullfill the requirements should email their resume to Dinesh.Kataria@ontario.ca

Mon, 1 Apr 2013


Software Developer
Magentrix Corporation
Come and grow with us. We are a growing software company looking for a recently graduated software developer. If you have a passion for PaaS and SaaS application, send us your resume.

Responsibilities:
- Full development lifecycle including design, analysis, development, testing, documentation and support
- Complete tasts on time
- Provide status reports on timely basis
The ideal candidate must have:
- Good communication skills
- Think outside the box
- Self-motivated
- Strong problem solving skills
- Familiar with Database
- Be comfortable with Microsoft and .Net Technology
- Familiar with CSS/HTML
- Degree in Computer Science

Interested candidates should email their resume to careers@magentrix.com

Wed, 12 Dec 2012

Network Analyst
Peytec Inc.
http://www.peytec.com/careers/network-analyst

The Network Design Engineer will be responsible to develop software in Linux Operating System to perform real time processing. It is mandatory that the candidate has deep understanding of physical layer and data link layer. The candidate must be familiar with wireless protocols such as 802.11n and 802.11g. This is a local wireless network design project and requires the candidate to have a experience in mesh design and solid knowledge in designing Graphic User Interface layouts.

Duration: ASAP to Aug 31, 2013

Industry: Healthcare and Wireless Engineering

To apply, please send a resume to careers@peytec.com

Tue, 30 Oct 2012

Software Developer
SMART Lab, Ryerson University
http://www.ryerson.ca/smart/

The SMART Lab at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) is searching for a full-time software developer. The developer would join a collaborative research and development project that seeks to create cognitively based tools for music generation and music information retrieval. The selected candidate will work together with the SMART lab and waveDNA, an Ontario-based music software development company. http://www.wavedna.com/

The initial contract will be for one year starting as early as January, 2013, with the possibility of a six-month extension. Applications will be considered as they are received, and will continue until the position is filled. Salary for this position is in the 39-43K range, commesurate with experience.

Applicants must have experience with JAVA. Experience/training in cognitive science, MATLAB, and/or music is preferred but not essential.

To apply, please send a CV with statement of interest and contact information for two references, preferably by email to:

Frank A. Russo, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Ryerson University
Toronto, M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel:416-979-5000 ext. 2647
Fax:416-979-5273
Email: russo@ryerson.ca
http://www.ryerson.ca/smart