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  • Reading Week Game Jam

    Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | By

    Computer Science Club will host its annual reading week Game Jam from February 19th onwards.

    Time

    Competition time: February 19th 12:00 am to February 25th 11:59 pm

    Judging time: February 25th till February 27th 11:59 pm

    Results will be announced the week following the reading week.

    Prizes

    The winners of the awards mentioned above will be gifted a prize: a $10 Digital Steam gift card.

    On top of that, you have a bragging right to winning the Brock CSC Game Jam 2023-2024.

    Restrictions

    The basic restrictions are only a team of up to 5 people can participate in the Game Jam, and we are limiting it to one submission per team.

    Other information

    The themes will be announced when the competition starts, but in the meantime, you can sign up for the competition using this form.

    We highly encourage you to join our Discord server to keep updated with announcements about the theme, which will be posted once the jam begins, and for further questions.

  • COSC Research Featuring on AI Debiasing Methods

    Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | By

    COSC Researchers led by Dr. Ali Emami have advanced the field of Natural Language Processing with a protocol to mitigate bias, allowing language models to provide more appropriate results. The full article was featured in Brock News at this link.

  • COSC Students and Professors Innovating NOTL Museum

    Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | By

    Assistant Professor Naser Ezzati-Jivan coordinated an engaging hands-on project with COSC undergrad students on a practical project with the Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL) Museum.

    Supported through the Brock-Niagara Validation, Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute (VPMI) grant, the project allowed students to design and develop an interactive experiential system for the museum.

    More details on this are featured in the Brock University news article.

  • Machine Learning teaching: Canada Games themed projects

    Sunday, July 24, 2022 | By

    Computer Science Assistant Professor Yifeng Li teaches his Reinforcement Learning course using sports-related video games. This interesting application is an excellent example of Canada Games-related course, where computer agents are trained to take optimal actions. The initiative helps students to learn essential concepts, such as dynamic programming, Monte Carlo methods, temporal-difference algorithms, and neural network-based RL methods.

    More details are in this link.

  • Three new faculty members at COSC

    Friday, September 10, 2021 | By

    The Department of Computer Science is happy to share great news at the beginning of this Fall 2021 term!

    The recent hiring processes were very successful. Three outstanding researchers will join the department as new faculty members this Fall 2021, Prof. Dividino and Prof. Emami, and the following Winter 2022, Prof. Carvalho!

    Prof. Renata Dividino

    Provenance, Web Science, Semantic Web Foundations, Querying & Reasoning, Web Data, Knowledge Graphs, Information Integration

     

     

    Prof. Ali Emami

    Natural language processing, Machine Learning, Common Sense Reasoning, AI & Ethics, Interpretability, Fairness and Bias, Language Understanding & Generation, Causality

     

     

    Prof. Glaucio Carvalho

    Computer and Network Security, Ethical Hacking and Network Defense, Computer Networks and Network Engineering, Operating Systems & System Programming

     

     

    Welcome to COSC and Brock!

  • COSC students awarded NSERC undergraduate research grants

    Monday, May 17, 2021 | By

    COSC students have been awarded NSERC Undergraduate research grants (USRA).

    Their project proposals have been selected from a pool of applications across Brock University.

    You can access the full article at this link.

  • Poling Bork: guiding students in their career path

    Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | By

    Dr. Poling Bork, a COSC Senior Laboratory Instructor and Mentor, develops an essential function in the department, guiding students to find themselves in a successful career path.

    She explains the importance of mentorship to students while sharing relatable life events during her long-term experience at Brock.

    You can access the full article at this link.

  • COSC Students doing great in the International Collegiate Programming Contest

    Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | By

    Several students from Brock Computer Science recently took part in the East-Central North America Regionals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (https://icpc.global/), competing against teams from Ontario, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Congratulations to all of our teams for their strong showing in this competition: Brock Badgers (Joel Gritter, Kindeep Kargil, and Aditya Rajyaguru), Golden Badgers (Quinn Flavel, Rikveet Hayer and Joel Liju Jacob), and Honey Badgers (Muttaz Fattal, Sam Langdon, and Brandon Wanji Wanmeni).

    COSC would like to proudly recognize the students’ time and efforts to prepare for the contest, representing Brock University and the Department of Computer Science.

    Due to their high placement, the Golden Badgers have advanced to the North America Division Championships to be held on April 22nd, where they will compete against other high-placing teams from other regions of North America. This is a huge achievement for this team. Best of luck!

  • Faculty Focus: Prof. Ombuki-Berman

    Tuesday, February 09, 2021 | By

    Prof. Beatrice Ombuki-Berman featured on Brock’s Faculty Focus.

    She shared interesting events in her life that truly exemplified how encouraging words helped her break barriers throughout her studies and career.

    You can access the Faculty Focus article at this link.