The Canadian University Software Engineering Conference (or CUSEC) is a three-day event that brings together undergraduate and post-graduate students for learning, networking, and sharing their passion for software. CUSEC 2012 will happen from January 19-21, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec.
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Alexis Ohanian Talks About Social Activism

Alexis Ohanian Talks About Social Activism

After graduating from UVA in 2005, he started reddit.com with Steve Huffman. Founded Breadpig, which creates geeky things, sells them, and gives away all the profits — $190,000 so far. Publisher of xkcd: volume 0. Bottler of AwesomeSauce. Maker of LOLMagnetz. Said WTFCNN?! one too many times. Bassist in a...
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Alan Turing is widely regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence because of his role in formalizing the concepts of “algorithm” and “computation” with the Turing machine, a theoretical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape. During World War 2, Turing worked for Britain’s code...
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Alex Daskalov Talks Concurrency and Functional Programming

Alex Daskalov enjoys exploring different programming languages and paradigms. These days he spends his time developing educational software.   Alex Daskalov – The Case for Lockless Concurrency from CUSEC on Vimeo.

Susan Ibach Introduces Windows Phone Development

Susan Ibach is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Canada, that means she loves to talk about Windows Phone, HTML5 and the cloud. An energetic and passionate presenter, there is nothing she enjoys more than sharing her knowledge and passion with others. She worked as a consultant doing programming, testing, data conversions and roll-outs. She also...

Gayle L McDowell Gives Advice and Strategies for Software Engineering Interviews

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup.com, a site offering thousands of programming interview questions as well as interview videos, resume review, and mock interviews. Gayle’s first book, Cracking the Coding Interview, is the #1 book for preparing for software engineering interviews. Her second book, The Google Resume, is the leading book...

Dr. Wanderley with Joseph Malloch Talk Music

                        Marcelo Mortensen Wanderley holds a Ph.D. degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, on acoustics, signal processing, and computer science applied to music. His main research interests include gestural control of sound synthesis, input device design and evaluation, and...
First Video Posted: Bret Victor

First Video Posted: Bret Victor

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s our gift to you: Bret Victor’s video from CUSEC 2012 Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.
Now Open: Morgan Stanley Coding Competition

Now Open: Morgan Stanley Coding Competition

What is this all about? Morgan Stanley has come up with a little problem to keep you occupied during this year’s conference Why should I participate? Sweet prizes! Something to do between (or during) talks! You’ll be hearing people talk about software engineering; now you can do some! Prizes Choice of gift certificates, Future Shop...
Speaker Announcement: Bret Victor

Speaker Announcement: Bret Victor

Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.
Speaker Announcement: Jeremy Ashkenas

Speaker Announcement: Jeremy Ashkenas

Jeremy Ashkenas is part of the Interactive News team at The New York Times, as well as the lead developer of DocumentCloud, helping news organizations analyze and publish the primary source documents behind the news. He created the CoffeeScript programming language, and works on Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Docco, Jammit, and Ruby-Processing, among other open-source projects.
Speaker Announcement: Alexis Ohanian

Speaker Announcement: Alexis Ohanian

After graduating from UVA in 2005, he started reddit.com with Steve Huffman. Founded Breadpig, which creates geeky things, sells them, and gives away all the profits — $190,000 so far. Publisher of xkcd: volume 0. Bottler of AwesomeSauce. Maker of LOLMagnetz. Said WTFCNN?! one too many times. Bassist in a Rock Band™. Ambassador to the...
DemoCamp and Call for Proposals

DemoCamp and Call for Proposals

DemoCamp Working on a project you think will be ready to present in January? You should apply for CUSEC’s DemoCamp! DemoCamp rules fairly simple: you have 10 minutes to present your work, no slides, only working code. You’ll then have a couple of minutes to answer questions from the audience. This year there will be...
Speaker Announcement: Manveer Heir

Speaker Announcement: Manveer Heir

  Manveer Heir is a senior designer working at BioWare Montréal on Mass Effect 3. Previously he worked at Raven Software in a variety of roles including gameplay programmer, game designer, and lead designer for multiple games including 2009′s first-person shooter Wolfenstein. Manveer graduated from Virginia Tech in 2004 where he received a Bachelor’s of...
Speaker Announcement: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Speaker Announcement: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman is an author and Linux kernel developer best known for being a maintainer for the stable branch. He is also a maintainer of the staging branch, serial driver, driver core, kobjects, debugfs, sysfs, TTY layer, USB, USB serial and user space IO. Greg is the author of Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition and...