Posts with Tag: Science

Experiences as a Computer Science Graduate Teaching Assistant

It’s almost the end of my second term of being a teaching assistant at the University of Guelph. Thi...

Coast-to-Coast Seminars

Today I found out about some cross-Canada computer / math seminars that are sponsored by a consortiu...

Top 10 Reasons to Study Computer Science in 2009

The trend in blogs, the internet and news sites lately is to write articles about the economy. Inste...

CIS Career Night @ University of Guelph

On January 28th, the Computer Science department at the University of Guelph is having their annual ...

Tips for Getting into Grad School and Receiving Funding

Occasionally, I get asked questions on how to get into grad school, what can be done to improve the ...

Computer Science, A Science? Still debated…

As an update to my previous post on this subject “Computer Science, A Science?” more debate has take...

Ubiquitous Computing vs Virtual Reality

Early this week, during a lecture at Guelph by Dr. Denko, I was introduced to the idea of ubiquitous...

Computer Science: A Science?

Computer Science is a broad term used to describe many areas in the field of computing. Wikipedia de...

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Building SAIR: A Self-Hosted Android Test Runner That Actually Shares Devices

I run instrumented Android tests on real hardware for my personal projects — things like BLE, WiFi Direct, hardware-specific APIs that don't work reliably in emulators. Firebase Test Lab works, but at $5/device-hour it adds up fast. Self-hosting seemed obvious: I already had phones sitting on my des...