Letters From Feridun
Our university president Feridun Hamdullahpur seems to send a lot of emails. But does he really send that much? That was a question that came to my mind one day as I was taking the bus home from work.…
Continuous Integration and Solar Cars
At the University of Waterloo, the Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team makes use of Travis CI to test our embedded software that powers our open source solar vehicle. Writing code for embedded systems is…
Jobmined, Part II (ish) [2]
This is a continuation of my previous post. Let's take a look at the posting breakdowns by faculty. There were 94 unique disciplines represented during the first weekend of JobMine postings. This all goes…
Jobmined, Part II (ish)
The first round of JobMine postings closed last night at 11:59 EST, and although this isn't exactly Jobmined data, it still is tangentially related to JobMine. If you haven't read Lisa Zhang's post yet,…
Jobmined, Part I
Note: The first draft of this post was written way back in October, and was in part inspired by the work of Stephen Holiday and Lisa Zhang. Six years have passed since then, so it's interesting to see…