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  • DEWCOM 2018: The 3rd International Workshop on Dew Computing

    Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa, Meeting Room Elm 1., 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, Canada L6G 1A5

    Dew computing is a new computing model appeared after the wide acceptance of cloud computing. While cloud computing uses centralized servers to provide various services, dew computing uses on-premises computers to provide decentralized, cloud-friendly, and collaborative micro services to end-users. Dew computing is an on-premises computer software-hardware organization paradigm in the cloud computing environment, which is complementary to cloud computing. The key features of dew computing are that on-premises computers provide functionality independent of cloud services and they also collaborate with cloud services. This year, DEWCOM 2018 will be held at the same venue with the 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2018). One of the goals of this arrangement is for Dew Computing researchers to exchange ideas with industry partners. Welcome researchers, professionals, and students currently working in any areas to participate this event and to be pioneers of this new research area. Day & Time: October 29th – 30th, 2018 Organizers: IEEE Computer Society Dew Computing Special Technical Community (DewCom STC), IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa, Meeting Room Elm 1. 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, Canada L6G 1A5 Parking voucher is available upon request. Register: http://www.dewcomputing.org/index.php/dewcom-2018/ Contact: dewcom2018@easychair.org Schedule: Session 1 (Tutorial/Presentations): Oct. 29, 3:15 – 5:15pm. Session 2 (Presentations): Oct. 30, 8:30 – 10:00am Nutrition Break: 10:00 – 10:15am. Session 3 (Presentations): Oct. 30, 10:15am. – 12:00pm Lunch: 12:00 -1:00pm. Session 4 (Presentations/DewCom STC Committee Meeting): Oct.30, 1:00 – 3:00pm. Nutrition Break: 3:00 – 3:15pm. Session 5 (DewCom STC Committee Meeting): 3:15 – 5:15pm.

  • App-a-thon

    Room ENG 303 - George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre Ryerson University Toronto, ON M5B 1Z4

    Saturday November 10th, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. the “App-a-thon” is starting – a competition in which students are challenged to create a Mobile Application within a span of 24-hours. This is an open-ended hackathon where creativity and technical skills are encouraged to develop a unique App. Day & Time: 10:00 a.m. Saturday November 10th – 10:00 a.m. Sunday November 11th, 2018 Organizers: IEEE Ryerson Student Branch, IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Room ENG 303 George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre Ryerson University Toronto, ON M5B 1Z4 Register: https://goo.gl/qEKyU4 Contact: ieee.ryersonu@gmail.com For regular updates checkout, the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/203391940542115/

  • IEEE Humber Programming Session #3 Fall 2018 Series

    Humber College North Campus, Room F321

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Over the 6 weeks we will be practicing logic questions while learning new coding techniques from sorting to data structures. The sessions will also be open to questions and student ideas. Day & Time: Friday November 16th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F321 Contact: IEEE Humber Abstract: We will be having our 3rd programming session! The session will be held in F312, in one of the hive rooms. As usual donuts will be served! This week we will be practicing what we learned in the first couple of sessions. So if you haven’t attended the first 2 sessions, this is your chance to catch up! Andrew Rudder and Robert Lengyel will be there to assist us when needed, but this will be more about the group helping each other. The first 2 weeks we covered pointers, structs, link lists, and practiced some logic problems with loops and functions. This Google drive link has all of the documents and coding files we utilized during the sessions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWns0X22mWdXAyJdGHH_pc0kRNG0pM12 And here is a good video on structs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5pA7RvvQDg

  • IEEE Humber Programming Session #4 Fall 2018 Series

    Humber College North Campus, Room F312

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Over the 6 weeks we will be practicing logic questions while learning new coding techniques from sorting to data structures. The sessions will also be open to questions and student ideas. Day & Time: Friday November 23rd, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F312 Contact: IEEE Humber Abstract: This Friday, November 23 at 5pm, we will be having our 4th programming session. The session will be held in F312, in one of the hive rooms. Please let us know if you can attend. Due to the popularity and interest in these sessions, we will be extending these sessions to 3 hours from now on. Last week we practiced with Link Lists but asked everyone to try and finish a complete link list with these functions by this Friday: createNode addFront printList AddLast deleteFront deleteLast I attached a sample of a link list with only the first three functions. At the beginning of the next session we will answer any lingering link lists questions, and Andrew Rudder will go over the advantages and disadvantages of using a link list. Also, Robert Lengyel will be talking about vectors and strings. With our remaining time we will be continuing to explore steganography. This Google drive link has all of the documents and coding files we utilized during the first 2 sessions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWns0X22mWdXAyJdGHH_pc0kRNG0pM12

  • IEEE Humber Programming Session #5 Fall 2018 Series

    Humber College North Campus, Room F312

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Over the 6 weeks we will be practicing logic questions while learning new coding techniques from sorting to data structures. The sessions will also be open to questions and student ideas. Day & Time: Friday November 30th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F312 Contact: IEEE Humber Abstract: Our next programming session is Friday November 30th, from 5pm – 8pm in room F312. Snacks will be served! Last week we reviewed Link lists and the key differences & uses between Link-Lists and Arrays. We then covered vectors in depth. And then, we went further with stenography with a demonstration of an LSB bitmap encoder. Sample code for this encoder is located in week 4 of this google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWns0X22mWdXAyJdGHH_pc0kRNG0pM12 This week we will continue exploring stenography, practice with vectors, and take a deeper look into strings.

  • IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop: Distributed Machine Learning, The Future of Programming in The Present

    Room A3-17, Centennial College, Progress Campus 941 Progress Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M1G 3T8

    Saturday Dec 1, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. Reza Dibaj, Chair of Magnetics Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section, will be presenting an IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop: “Distributed Machine Learning, The Future of Programming in The Present”. Day & Time: Saturday December 1st, 2018 5:30 p.m. ‐ 6:30 p.m. Speaker: Reza Dibaj Chair of Magnetics Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section Organizers: Magnetics Chapter, IEEE Toronto Centennial College Chapter, WIE IEEE Toronto Location: Room A3-17 Centennial College, Progress Campus 941 Progress Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M1G 3T8 Contact: Reza Dibaj Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) and statistical techniques have provided a new era that enables us to convert the data to information and transform the information into actionable knowledge. Moreover, distributed computing ecosystems provide the ability to break down the computation burdens among commodity hardware, thanks to cloud environments. Among all the attempts in this road, SciKit and TensorFlow are two states of the art libraries that can be used in Python and this seminar will open the gate to know their bases.

  • Smart Connected Buildings Form the Foundation of Smart City: Today’s Possibility, Tomorrow’s Necessity

    Room 288, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3

    Monday December 10th, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Amir Shabani, Ph.D., P.Eng., Canada Industrial Research Chair (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings, will be presenting “Smart Connected Buildings Form the Foundation of Smart City: Today’s Possibility, Tomorrow’s Necessity”. Day & Time: Monday December 10th, 2018 1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Amir Shabani, Ph.D., P.Eng. Canada Industrial Research Chair (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings Organizers: Magnetics Chapter, WIE IEEE Toronto Location: Ryerson University, Department of Computer Science, Room 288 George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 Contact: Reza Dibaj Abstract: Have you ever been or worked in a space/classroom that the air was not fresh enough, too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer? Have you ever wondered why even a brand new LEED-certified building is not smart enough and does not let the occupants control their environment, in terms of temperature, lighting et cetera. This presentation aims to provide some insights on the challenges the current industry of building automation is facing and the opportunities that the new advancement such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Adaptive Machine Learning (AML) could bring to this industry to make buildings smarter and sociable. In the context of smart city, rather than buildings being primarily treated as loads, intelligent buildings play a significant role in saving energy and improving the comfort and productivity of the occupants; emphasizing the needs for buildings to be social: interact with occupants, share data with each other, learn from each other, and help each other. Biography: Dr. Amir Shabani is the NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings. He is the director of Intelligent Building Automation Systems (IBAS) lab at George Brown College, Toronto, where his research team is closely collaborating with industry leaders on deployment, assessment, and development of new technologies that make homes and buildings smarter and social.

  • Rethink Cities – A FIDIC/EFCA White Paper on Sustainable Urban Development

    Ryerson University, Victoria Building (VIC) 285 Victoria St., 7th Floor, Room 736 (conference room) Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W1

    Friday December 14th, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Laleh Farhadi, MSc Urban and Regional Planning, will be presenting “Rethink Cities – A FIDIC/EFCA White Paper on Sustainable Urban Development”. Day & Time: Friday December 14th, 2018 1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Laleh Farhadi, MSc Urban and Regional Planning Organizers: Magnetics Chapter, WIE IEEE Toronto Location: Ryerson University, Victoria Building (VIC) 285 Victoria St., 7th Floor, Room 736 (conference room) Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W1 Contact: Reza Dibaj Abstract: Today, over half of the world’s population lives in cities covering 2- 3 % of the Earth’s land area, using 75 % of all energy and emitting 80% of all carbon dioxide. Infrastructure investments in many countries and cities are not at a desirable level or they are steered in the wrong direction while many cities are growing faster geographically than population-wise. Society has to rethink cities. The FIDIC White Paper addresses the need of evolving resource efficiency in cities with increased focus on planning and making socially and economically attractive areas, well-functioning spatial structures and energy efficient systems. To meet the increasingly complex challenges of cities, holistic and integrated approach is needed and rightly applied regarding emissions, climate, resilience, climate risks, flooding, biodiversity, energy and material use, improved quality of life and social responsibility. Biography: Laleh Farhadi is an Urban Planner, internationally experienced in both private and public sectors on different types of plans and projects related to the city and its ongoing challenges. During a project in Consulting Engineering Firm, while reviewing and providing feedback for a FIDIC White Paper called “Rethink Cities”, she faced the fact that the total built environment (not just the individual buildings) requires sustainable overall solutions that form synergies in solutions for society, buildings, infrastructure, and technical systems. This presentation based on FIDIC/ EFCA White Paper is a step forward to this knowledge and responsibility sharing with the hope of professional cooperation among various effecting fields in the city.

  • IEEE Humber Winter Coding Sessions #1

    Humber College North Campus, Room F310

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Please join us for hot chocolate, donuts, and the sharing of coding knowledge. Day & Time: Friday January 11th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber

  • Line Following Robot Project #1

    We will be starting to assemble our line following robot from the parts we ordered in the fall, everyone is welcome. Day & Time: Monday January 14th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber

  • Line Following Robot Project #2

    We will be continuing to assemble our line following robot, Everyone is welcome. Day & Time: Monday January 21st, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber

  • Line Following Robot Project #3

    We will be continuing to assemble our line following robot. Anyone is welcome. Day & Time: Monday February 4th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber