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Student activity adds zest to learning

Our school supports a wide range of extracurricular activities to challenge you while having fun.  Announcements on how to get involved in activities such as those below are posted here throughout the year. Programming competitions The school has a long history of competing in competitions such as the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition, Cyber Security […]

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INCUBATE: Creating Student-led Startups!

Computer Science recently hosted an ‘incubation’ program at the University, during which entrepreneurial students were supported to develop their business ideas over the three month period from January to March. The incubation program involves selecting the top founders from across the campus and nurturing them by teaching them about calculated risk-taking, lean-startup methods and best […]

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Learning the Hows and Whys – Our 2014 Google Interns

Five of our undergraduate students spent the summer at Google (Sydney) on a range of different internship programs. These programs involve a 12 week development project that gives interns an opportunity to enhance their coding skills and get exposed to new tools and programming languages, while working with Google software engineers on live Google projects. In […]

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Ian Reid awarded Laureate Fellowship

Professor Ian Reid (Australian Centre for Visual Technologies) has been awarded a prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship. The Australian Laureate Fellowship Scheme, run under the auspices of the Australian Research Council, provides generous project funding in addition to salary support to outstanding researchers and research leaders of international repute. The aim of the scheme is to […]

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Matthew Michalewicz’s book Life in Half a Second

Matthew Michalewicz, a visiting Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science with over 20 years of hands-on experience in entrepreneurship, innovation, and success psychology publishes his third book “Life in Half a Second“. “Life in Half a Second is the first ‘fact–based’ formula for achieving success in life and business. Proven through thousands of […]

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School joins INCUBATE program

Have an idea? Thought about putting it in practice? Then INCUBATE is for you! We are very excited to announce that the School of Computer Science has joined the INCUBATE program, a startup incubator initiative supported by Google for Entrepreneurs and founded by the University of Sydney Union. The program runs over the summer and […]

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