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Matt Medland (one of the panelists from last Thursday's class) is hosting a series of industry guest speakers in his CSC444 lectures over the next few weeks. He's inviting you to come join them, if you're interested in meeting some interesting people. For more information about this, check out the speaker website at: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~matt/csc444/pls.html
Also, Neil Schneider (also one of the panelists last week) is running an immersive technology conference in a couple of weeks, and has offered you discounted admission, with the code 'UofTimmersed'. Go check it out at http://www.getimmersed.com.
IBM recently announced a series of job opportunities for their Watson group, and are encouraging all of you to apply. One reason why the IBM Watson people are very excited about this course in the first place is because of the hiring opportunity. By the time the course is over, you'll all be familiar with the Watson technology, which makes you quite valuable to their recruiters. So unless you know what you'll be doing this summer already, all of you should take a look at this, and consider dropping a resume in to see where it leads.
Andrew Dorsey (adorsey at us.ibm.com) is our main recruiting contact in the Watson Group. He has said that:
"Students are welcome to apply directly to the Watson jobs site. Our 'hot' entry level jobs are on the main, front-page of the Watson jobs site: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/careers.html".
He also provided a breakdown of their entry-level opportunities, shown below. If you see a job title that you're interested in, use the job ID on the left to submit your application through.
Graduate Technical Opportunities: SWG-0686656 Watson Cognitive Software Engineer SWG-0686658 Watson DevOps Engineer SWG-0686645 Watson Software Engineer - Cloud Developer SWG-0686893 Watson Performance Engineer SWG-0686901 Watson Tools Developer SWG-0686927 Watson User Experience Designer SWG-0686932 Watson Ingestion Engineer SWG-0686937 Watson Search Engine Developer SWG-0686940 Watson Speech / Dialogue Research Engineer / researcher SWG-0686889 Watson Java Developer SWG-0686898 Watson Quality Engineer --------------------------- Undergraduate Technical Opportunities: SWG-0695081 Solution Engineer/Technical Lead SWG-0695341 Watson Virtual Assistant Designer SWG-0679440 Watson Software Engineer - Cloud Developer SWG-0679445 Watson Java Developer SWG-0686966 Watson DevOps Engineer SWG-0686969 Watson Ingestion Engineer SWG-0686982 Watson Performance Engineer SWG-0686985 Watson Quality Engineer SWG-0686986 Watson Tools Developer SWG-0686988 Watson User Experience Designer ------------------------------ SWG-0689479 Blue Spark Development Program ------------------------------ PHD Opportunities: SWG-0686618 Watson Machine Learning Lead Visualization Researcher RES-0677032 Watson Cognitive Research Staff Member
Diane Horton is organizing an interview skills seminar this afternoon, and you should go if you have time. Interviewing (and other on-the-spot interactions) are things that most people don't have much opportunity to practice, and you'll need it for the future. Here's the information about it, if you're interested in checking it out:
See you all Thursday!
At the end of the semester, we're hosting a Watson demo showcase event at the Bahen Centre, to show your work to representatives from the university, IBM and the media. Here are the dates and times for the event:
* Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 * Showcase & VC demos : 3pm - 5pm * Showcase & Reception : 5pm - 7pm
We also have a Facebook event page set up for the event, so add yourself to it, and pass it on to anybody you'd like to see there!
* https://www.facebook.com/events/1480718555535328
Mark this in your calendar, and tell your friends about it!
We've put together a tentative list of the groups for the term, as shown here:
| Name | Group | |
|---|---|---|
| Jiang (Jackson) Hong | jiang.hong at mail.utoronto.ca | 1 |
| Eric Jimenez | eric.jimenezchung at mail.utoronto.ca | 1 |
| Kevin (Kaho) Yuen | Kaho.Yuen at mail.utoronto.ca | 1 |
| Essam El Sawi | e.elsahwi at mail.utoronto.ca | 1 |
| Yana Davis | yana.davis at mail.utoronto.ca | 2 |
| Alex Biggs | alex.biggs at utoronto.ca | 2 |
| Leila Chan Currie | l.chancurrie at utoronto.ca | 2 |
| Daniil Kouznetsov | daniil.kouznetsov at mail.utoronto.ca | 2 |
| Akash Venkat | akash.venkat at mail.utoronto.ca | 3 |
| Pargles Wenz Dall'Oglio | pargles1 at gmail.com | 3 |
| Jimoh Ovbiagale | jimoh.ovbiagele at mail.utoronto.ca | 3 |
| Shuai Wang | shuai.wang at mail.utoronto.ca | 3 |
| Amy Jie Jin Sha | amy.sha at mail.utoronto.ca | 4 |
| Cody Wong | cody.wong at mail.utoronto.ca | 4 |
| Lucy Wu | lqy.wu at mail.utoronto.ca | 4 |
| Eugene Cheung | ey.cheung at mail.utoronto.ca | 5 |
| Jonathan Webb | jonathan.webb at mail.utoronto.ca | 5 |
| Vicky Bukta | vickybukta37 at gmail.com | 5 |
| Spencer Elliott | spencer.elliott at mail.utoronto.ca | 5 |
If there are any questions or concerns with these group assignments, please let us know. Again, no guarantees that we can change anything, but it's better to know sooner rather than later.
Saturday's Watson Hackathon session went well, so thanks to everybody who came out. For those who didn't come out, you'll need to demonstrate to me that you're able to get the question-answering working on your computer, so check out my schedule and let me know when you'd like to come by.
We've finalized a room for the law info session on Thursday evening:
* BA7231, 6pm - 8pm
We shouldn't need the full two hours, but I always book extra, just in case.
You'll have an hour to grab something to eat, or talk a little to the IBM guests from our afternoon session before the law session starts. During the law session, we'll be going over what law actually is, and what areas are in high demand in law these days.
Our IBM guests are Rick Power and Angus McIntyre, who will show you the potential that Watson has from a business and technical perspective. They're both really respected people, so look them up on Linkedin before class, to get a sense of what their backgrounds are.
See you Thursday!