Hello all,

Firstly, it has been recently brought to my attention that a large number of people, primarily first year students, were recently added to the CSSS mailing list, which is the reason you are receiving this email. If this is the first email you are receiving from me, welcome to the Computing Science Student Society's mailing list. The CSSS hosts a selection of regularly programmed events, such as board game nights and movie nights that occur on Friday nights. In addition, we sometimes hold collaborative events with other DSU's; all of the aforementioned will be advertised over email and the CSSS Discord server prior to the event. Feel free to attend any of our other events!

On Friday, June 18th starting at 8pm, join the CSSS along with all other Departmental Student Unions in FAS for a fun-filled night of online board games, socializing and more! This event is a great chance to meet fellow peers in your community as well as those from different programs within the faculty. We will be playing various different party games such as Jackbox, skribbl.io, Among Us, Codenames and more all while having a great time!

If there are any questions, comments, concerns or queries, feel free to DM justhelizard#1765 on Discord or email jya184@sfu.ca.

Hi All,

ProjectX is a five month long machine learning research competition for undergrads hosted by University of Toronto Artificial Intelligence Group ( https://www.uoft.ai/ ). Over those five months, participants will be working on their topic and writing a paper about their findings.

As long as you an Undergraduate student graduating after April 2022 you are eligible to participate.

Topics: (focused on health)

Epidemiology

Clinical Practice

Genetics

Prize:

Fly participants to Toronto in February for their annual UofT AI Conference and $25, 000.

Timeline of Project:

September 1st 2021- January 31st 2022

Team Size:

1 team from SFU of 3-6 undergraduates

Link to last year's site:

https://www.projectx2020.com/

Winning submissions last year:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1awA-uJmN4oL4iMGLXBr6lfTEaQQU9jq9

If you are interested please write an email to

csss-exec-current@sfu.ca

detailing why you are interested, past project experience in machine learning or artificial intelligence, planned work/course load for Fall 2021 and your resume. Also include when you are expected to graduate and if you will be able to dedicate time to the long commitment. This is a big project so if you plan to take a heavy course load in Fall this may not the best competition to participate in. If you are interested please submit your application by June 13th 23:59 PST.

If you have people you would ideally like to work with please include their names in your email. We may match people up to form the team.

Best,

Mitchell Gale

SFU Computing Science Student Society President

https://sfucsss.org/