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Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference 2005
Hisham Al-Shurafa writes "The 6th Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC 2005) is all about linking university students with top notch tech leaders and expanding education beyond the confines of the classroom. Held in downtown Toronto on Jan 20-22, this con will have seminars, workshops, interviews, and more on everything tech-related, from biotech to quantum computing. Speaker lineup looks amazing and includes Alan Ganek (VP Autonomic Computing, IBM), Joel Spolsky (joelonsoftware.com), and Allan Vermeulen (VP Web Services, Amazon). This student run event has won the favour of many universities across Canada, offering to cover as much as 100% of registration, travel and hotel costs for their students to attend this 3-day event."
Myself and a small contigent from Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia attended this conference. I must say that between the great social aspect, the networking with big-wigs from large companies, and amazingly interesting talks on new and innovative topics make for three of the best days of your year.
I was supposed to go this year, and had been registered (and probabally still am) until I recieved my current co-op position at RIM.
The attendees range from hardcore computer programmers and engineers, to buisness students working on an e-commerce degree. I totally reccomend this conference, but you may have to wait till next year to attend. I hear this one filled up extra quick. I will be attending next year if all goes well.
The lecutre of Quantum Cryptography last year was amazing. I still remember the whole thing... especially when he had one of his laptops break into the other laptop using different techniques and operating systems. None were sacred... He managed to crack all versions of windows and a couple UNIX boxes. Just to proove a point: Quantum Cryptography is the way to go.
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