Tue, 27 Mar 2012

On Friday, March 30th Ohio Task Force 1 will host a research group from the Network-Centric Applied Research Team Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada).
For more information, please visit: Document

Mon, 26 Mar 2012

The paper "Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Centers Using M/G/m/m+r Queuing Systems" by Mr. Hamzeh Khazaei, a PhD student, and his co-supervisors and Computer Science professors Dr. Vojislav Misic and Dr. Jelena Misic has been featured as the spotlight paper in the May 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
For more information, please visit: Article

Tue, 06 Mar 2012

On the 4th of March 2012, members of the N-CART lab of the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University were asked to participate in an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) exercise conducted by the USAR and CBRNe Response Team (UCRT) of the Ontario Provincial Police. N-CART was assigned a command post (CP) vehicle that was co-located with the CP of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as we were both supporting the exercise with related technology.

The exercise was conducted on the ground of the OPP UCRT in Bolton, ON and ran from 0800 Mar 4, 2012 to 1200 Mar 5, 2012. N-CART was tasked to provide support from 1400 to 0000.

The exercise scenario consisted of a dirty bomb exploding on a bus at the transport building of the Square One shopping mall in Mississauga. A secondary explosive device was detected and neutralized by the UCRT in a nearby car. The bus bomb caused a partial collapse of several structures with consequent people trapped inside. There were many dead and injured people in the vicinity of the blast.

Ryerson participants were: (from comp. sci.) Prof. Alex Ferworn, Jimmy Tran, Alex Ufkes, Ryan McDonald and Scott Herman. They were accompanied by EyeOpener reporter, Jeff Lagerquist.

two videos are presented.

The first is a night flight of our UAV supporting the search effort. LINK A night flight was requested to determine the extent of the damage around the breach area.

The second video shows two models of scenes that were collected to support the forensic investigation occurring at the scene. LINK

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

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.

Mon, 26 Mar 2012

xiB/OSS client looking for new / recent Computer Science Graduates
Key Areas of Responsibility/Activity:
- Ability to develop, review code, debug, performance tune code, and make documentation updates.
- Resolve assigned trouble tickets and optimize algorithms
- Supports System Testing, Solution Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and provides timely resolutions to problems encountered
- Participates in code reviews, design reviews, or other forms of team quality procedures
- Assists in Release Management, Configuration Management, Build Management, Stream Management and Ticket Management, as required
- Contributes to functional specification and detailed design documents with the support of Architects
- Ability to complete low level and high level designs with the support of Architects
- Communicates with Project Managers, Architects and customers to obtain straight forward information or answer inquiries

Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or Business (with major in Computing)
- Minimum 1 to 2 years I.T. experience (summer job or co-op program)
- Experience with using Unix or Linux
- Experience with Oracle with working knowledge of SQL
- Experience with Perl (or equivalent language experience - i.e. Java/C/C++)
- Experience with Tuxedo will be an added advantage

For more details, please contact: Peter Daly - pdaly@xiboss.com

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.