Students respond to Data Journalism Challenge
April 5th, 2023
All students were invited to participate in a Data Journalism Challenge March 25-26. The objective was to introduce students to the broad field of聽Data Journalism, wherein large datasets from various sources are compiled into a visual aid at the centre of a story meant to inform the general public. 聽Inspired by the work of聽聽students were provided publicly available C02聽emissions data for Canada and ideas for exploring other climate-themed data sets to create their own data journalism project.
The attendance was better than expected with about 80 students attending a Saturday morning workshop session run by Sameer Bhatnagar and Vanessa Gordon and 45 students completed the challenge during the weekend. Mentors and judges volunteered their time to support this event and expressed excitement about doing it again.
Google Brain team lead was keynote at DawsCon 2023
April 5th, 2023
DawsCon was a one-day conference March 24 on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence hosted by Dawson AI and the Computer Science Department at Dawson. Dawson鈥檚 reception room in 5B.16 was packed with students for keynote speaker Hugo Larochelle, Montreal Team Lead at Google Brain. Hugo is also a member of Yoshua Bengio's Mila and an Adjunct Professor at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al. His talk about the Deep Learning revolution in AI gave the audience an overview of the development of AI from the early 2000s to today, including some of the major developments that occurred in Canada.
ChatGPT and student intern talks featured at DawsCon
April 5th, 2023
Students were given the opportunity to push ChatGPT to its limits in an AI jailbreak competition on March 24 and ChatGPT was also the focus of a popular workshop led by Robert Stephens Notably, DawsCon was designed to be a truly student-centered event with more than 30 students presenting work in progress on projects related to a wide range of AI topics in conjunction with internships being undertaken with the Applied AI Institute. Next year, organizers DawsonAI and the Computer Science Department plan even more student presentations for what is hoped will be an annual event.
Don’t miss any fun Dawson events- add them to your calendar!
April 5th, 2023
There are so many events happening at Dawson- art vernissages and exhibits, theatre shows, themed weeks, community activities, lectures and more. Attending them is a way to encourage students and colleagues and feel like you are part of the Dawson community.
You can check out the events for the day, the week or the month in
When you open a particular event in the calendar, you get all the relevant details and you can choose to add it to your Outlook calendar by clicking on the button called +Ical Export. You can also customize the reminder alert to be 15 minutes, two hours or other times. This will work best when using the Outlook desktop app not the web version.聽
This month: Earth Week is April 17-28, there is a new exhibit at the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery and more. Check out the events and add them to your Outlook calendar. Visit the Dawson Events Calendar by visiting the link below.
April 5th, 2023
At the opening of DawsCon on March 24, Dawson AI lead Joel Trudeau gave some updates about the last three years of the Dawson AI initiative: 鈥淲e are grateful to put on an event like this with our colleagues in Computer Science spearheaded by Victor Ponce and are especially pleased to have students actively contributing…
C鈥檈st la Francof锚te 脿 Dawson le 27-30 mars
March 22nd, 2023
Le comit茅 est heureux de vous d茅voiler la programmation de cette 茅dition 2023 qui se d茅roulera durant la derni猫re semaine de mars聽: lundi 27, mardi 28, mercredi 29 et jeudi 30 mars.
Certaines activit茅s (conf茅rences, visionnements et rencontres, po茅sie) auront lieu durant la journ茅e, tandis que nous avons choisi de mettre nos 茅v茅nements 芦聽t锚te d鈥檃ffiche聽禄 le soir afin de favoriser la venue du plus grand nombre de classes possibles. Nous sommes 茅galement tr猫s heureux de pouvoir collaborer avec les programmes de travail social et de sciences de l鈥檈nvironnement du coll猫ge Dawson pour deux de nos 茅v茅nements.
Pour r茅server une s茅ance聽: envoyez un message 脿 尝补毛迟颈迟颈补.
Pour consulter le programme聽: /french/evenements/francofete-2023/
March 22nd, 2023
On Friday, March 24, 星空传媒视频 will be hosting a free conference for educators and industry, and a subsequent weekend聽Data Journalism Challenge聽(March 25-26) aimed at students聽of any background. Attendees will be exposed to a wide range of AI topics from challenges of ChatGPT in education to ethics and bias to data manipulation and machine learning,…
Literary duo Arizona and Heather O鈥橬eill share thoughts on Dawson experience
March 22nd, 2023
Ahead of their guest appearance at a Dawson Reads event on March 22, Arizona O鈥橬eill (Fine Arts, 2013) and Heather O鈥橬eill (Social Science, 1992) shared some thoughts on their Dawson experiences, the creative process and writing. Thanks to organizer and English teacher Sarah Gilbert for interviewing the mother-daughter duo.
For the short Q & A with the O'Neills, visit the link below.
Professional Theatre presents Watching Shadows March 22-25
March 22nd, 2023
The disappearance of Rakel, a young Norwegian girl, while on an exchange trip to Italy sends her friends and family into a whirlwind of emotions. As the days pass and the tension rises, they are faced with unknown emotions and grief, all reacting in different ways while confronting the harsh reality of the world they live in. Watching Shadows is performed by the second-year students and directed by Stefanie Buxton.
The play runs from Wednesday, March 22 鈥� Saturday, March 25 at 8 p.m. at Dawson's Theatre.
Tickets are free and are available through the link below.
VIB Tour stops at Dawson March 29
March 22nd, 2023
A fun and free event promoting well-being for all and physical fitness is coming to Dawson Wednesday, March 29 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:50 p.m. in 3C.1.
Students are invited to for . The program includes Pound (鈥渞ocking out鈥�) fitness sessions, glow-in-the-dark yoga, free snacks and fun. If there is space, staff are also welcome to attend.
鈥淭he VIB tour only makes a few campus stops every year so I think Dawson students are lucky to have this opportunity,鈥� said Julie Gosselin of Student Health Services, Dawson鈥檚 VIB coordinator. The event is sponsored by the RSEQ, Sports Experts and the Quebec Government.
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