University Of Manitoba

Former C.S. student creates app for transit-users.  Read more in the Manitoban

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Microsoft is looking for a student in Computer Science or Computer Engineering to be the U of M's Microsoft Student Ambassador.  More information can be found here. The correct contact person is Susan Ibach (susan.ibach@microsoft.com)

Average salaries rise for 2011 graduates, US survey finds:According to a survey by the US-based National Association of Colleges and Employers, the overall average salary for Class of 2011 graduates is up to $41,701, which is 2.3% higher than the Class of 2010 average of $40,766. Graduates in the fields of business, communications, computer science, education, engineering, health sciences, humanities and social sciences, and math and sciences each saw increases in average salaries of at least 1.1%.Computer science majors saw the biggest increase in their average salaries, rising 4.1% to $60,594.Engineering graduates have the highest average salary at $61,872, up 3.8% from $60,971 in 2010. NACE Salary Survey |

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced funding today for two projects led by Pourang Irani, founder of the internationally recognized Human-Computer Interaction laboratory.  More

The Discovery Channel's show The Daily Planet, filmed a segment about the Autonomous Agents Laboratory  hockey playing robot, Jennifer.  Watch the show

Wondering what to do this summer? Consider working on a research project with a professor

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Jim Young received the best paper award at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012) for his paper Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots

Dr. Pourang Irani and his students have developed a new piece of software aimed at letting several people work together on a project.  The software is called "See You, See Me".  Read more

The paper "Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Centers Using M/G/m/m+r Queuing Systems" by Hamzeh Khazaei (PhD student) and Dr. J. Misic and Dr. V. Misic has been chosen as the spotlight paper for the May 2012 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

The paper can be read here: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tpds.

Andrea Bunt received a best papers award at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012) for her paper entitled "Improving Command Selection with CommandMaps"

See the presentation Live on May 2.