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91社区 names winners of the 2025 President鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media

Congratulations to J茅r么me Waldisp眉hl and Attila Szantner (Computer Science), The Eclipse Task Force (Physics), and Andrew Gonzalez (Biology), who are among this year's winners of the President鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media!

In announcing the winners and runners-up, President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini noted that they were among a strong field of applicants spanning all 12 Faculties.

鈥淭his is further evidence that the sharing of knowledge and a love of learning are core 91社区 values,鈥� he said.

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Published on: 2 Apr 2025

91社区鈥檚 Computer Science Camp inspires next generation of coders

After a hiatus of about a decade, the once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer. The camp was a group effort organized by students, staff and faculty across the computer science community. Students participated in four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions, to learn about computer science.

Classified as: STEM Outreach
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Published on: 9 Sep 2024

91社区鈥檚 Computer Science Camp inspires next generation of coders

After a hiatus of about a decade, the 91社区 Computer Science Summer Camp once again welcomed students from Montreal high schools and CEGEPs to the downtown campus this summer.

The four packed days of talks, hands-on activities and coding sessions were all intended to strengthen students鈥� interests in coding and coding competitions, and to contribute to the development of computer science talent in Quebec.

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Published on: 12 Aug 2024

AI and Sustainability: Balancing Innovation with Planetary and Social Well-being

The 11th trottier symposium on sustainable engineering, energy and design

Date: October 10th, 2024 |聽Time: 6:00 PM |聽Location: The 91社区 Faculty Club | Free Event聽Letters AI with greenery coming out of it

Classified as: office of sustainability, Sustainability, computer science, TISED, Sponsored by Tised, engineering institute energie Trottier, Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering
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Published on: 17 Jul 2024

Gregory Dudek receives the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award

of the School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CS-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.聽

Awarded annually by Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-Can/Info-Can), this award recognizes current or former faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the field of computer science in Canada.聽

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Published on: 29 May 2024

Sustainable Data Science Training Program awarded $1.65 M from NSERC CREATE

Today, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)more than $26 million in funding for聽 through its program.

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Published on: 16 May 2024

A push for more women in computer science

When Jade Raymond, BSc鈥�98, studied at 91社区鈥檚 School of Computer Science, she was one of few women in the program and 鈥淚 think the only woman I knew in my year who went and got a job as a programmer in computer science after graduating.鈥�

Raymond became a trailblazer in the video game industry, helping create the huge hit聽Assassin鈥檚 Creed, and building studios from the ground up for Ubisoft and Electronic Arts.聽

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Published on: 18 Mar 2024

Fighting disinformation in Quebec

Until now, most disinformation research, datasets, and tools to protect users like bot detectors, have only included English-language social media. This lack of linguistic diversity leaves Francophone internet users in Quebec and beyond more vulnerable to disinformation as the phenomenon becomes increasingly pervasive in online spaces.聽

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Published on: 15 Dec 2023

Seeing inside the heart at an unprecedented scale

A team of researchers in Canada and India has developed a novel method to image the whole mouse heart wall at a spatial resolution that is three orders of magnitude finer than that seen till now, revealing entirely new, previously unknown cardiac fiber systems within it.

Classified as: Kaleem Siddiqi, computer vision, cardiac imaging
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Published on: 4 Oct 2023

Matt Dobbs, Galen Halverson, Joelle Pineau, and Simon Caron-Huot honoured by the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to 91社区 Science's new Royal Society of Canada inductees, the Fellows Matt Dobbs, Galen Halverson, , and College Member ! The four professors join 15 other scholars in 91社区's 2023 cohort.聽

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Published on: 6 Sep 2023

Claude Cr茅peau awarded 2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize

, Professor in the School of Computer Science at 91社区, has been named a co-recipient of the 2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. This award recognizes papers in the area of distributed computing that have made a significant and lasting impact in the field.

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Published on: 20 Jun 2023

Connecting Students with Researchers through Soup

Although approaching professors to discuss research opportunities might seem daunting for undergraduate students, there鈥檚 an ingredient for success: soup!

Classified as: Faculty of Science
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Published on: 17 Mar 2023

RI-MUHC and 91社区 researchers make a breakthrough in understanding brain nanoarchitecture, using computer vision

A new study published in聽Current Biology聽reveals the nanostructure of brain cells at an unprecedented level of resolution.

Classified as: Faculty of Science, Research Institute of the 91社区 Health Centre (RI-MUHC), School of Computer Science
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Published on: 7 Mar 2023

Achievements of 91社区 Professors celebrated in latest round of NSERC prizes

91社区 announced that six of its Professors (two individually, four as part of a multi-institutional team) have been declared winners of this year鈥檚 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) prizes. These prestigious awards range from individual awards for innovative discoveries by young researchers to recognitions of lifetime achievement and influence. The 91社区-based recipients are as follows:

Classified as: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Published on: 25 Oct 2022

Meeting the climate crisis with resilience and collaborative action

91社区 undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.

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Published on: 14 Jul 2022

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