Yannick Gingras will talk about how he got involved with the local Python community, how they run their group, and the kind of opportunities that this brought him.

During this talk, Martin Provencher will walk with you through software architectural designs needed to build a simple Web application to an empire with million of users. He will design an application displaying all your social media information like tweets and Facebook wall posts. You’ll be able to understand how to create an empire over a web application project.

We consider the problem of locating a black hole in a synchronous anonymous unoriented torus network using mobile agents – small programs that hop from one computer of the network to the next. A black-hole is a harmful computer in the network that destroys any agent visiting it without leaving any trace. The objective is to locate the black hole with as little agents as possible, furthermore, using agents that are as simple as possible. [...]

While technological innovations are being adopted by the masses at a rapid pace, it remains to be seen which ones will dominate. This talk will feature some impressive technologies that are just beginning to take hold but have the potential to make a huge impact on our lives. Engineering, IT, and computer science enthusiasts as well as casual observers will not want to miss this peek into the future. Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 from [...]

Malware and phishing are two major threats for users seeking to perform security-sensitive tasks using computers today. To mitigate these threats, we introduce Unicorn, which combines the phishing protection of standard security tokens and malware protection of trusted computing hardware. The Unicorn security token holds user authentication credentials, but only releases them if it can verify an attestation that the user’s computer is free of malware. In this way, the user is released from having [...]

A known problem of cheap communication devices is that of swamping, where nodes may only successfully communicate with other nodes that are far enough from them. Nodes in fact disrupt communication processes of all nodes within distance r (the maximum range) from them, but communicate only with those nodes at a distance greater than s (the swamping range) and within r. We present an algorithm to broadcast under this communication model, in networks of nodes [...]

Data Warehousing an Empire – Wal-Mart has built a globalized empire that sees among the worlds largest profit returns. How does Wal-Mart stay ahead of the game? A large part of their continuing success lies in their vast Data Warehousing and Decision Support Systems. Come sit in on this TechnoTalk to find out more! Speaker: Haritos Kavallos, Vanier Computer Science grad Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 from 12:30 pm – 12:55 pm Videos Watch Data [...]

What does an engineer do? Most people in society do not know much about the engineering profession. Even science students who apply to university to study engineering have little idea what an engineering career entails. In essence, an engineer is a problem solver within the realm of science. The range of tools available to engineers in order to solve these problems effectively grows continuously. FEM software, for example, solves thousands of equations of physics in [...]