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McGill's Computer Science Undergraduate Society, CSUS, is a team of executive members that work together in representing all undergraduate constituents. They are elected every year and host events, workshops, information sessions and are also available to answer student questions and bring up any concerns that they may have.
Mathematics was taught at McGill as early as 1848 when it was a discipline of Natural Philosophy. [1]Mathematics at McGill was initially divided into two largely independent departments, one under the Faculty of Arts and Science and another under the Faculty of Engineering; the two departments merged in 1924 under the chairmanship of Daniel Murray.
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, [12] the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, [13] whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College. In 1885, the name was officially changed ...
McGill’s principal from 1855 to 1893, William Dawson, unified fragmented colleges into a complete education and research complex, with an emphasis on science education. With donations from scientists, chairs in multiple scientific disciplines were established at the beginning of the 1870s.
William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression [1] and local regression. [2] He is remembered as one of the developers of the S programming language. [3]
Jarry joined McGill University's Office for Science and Society in 2017, where he is Science Communicator as of 2023. [6] [7] Since 2021, the Canadian news magazine L'actualité publishes some of his texts written for OSS. [8]
Luc P. Devroye is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician and a James McGill Professor in the School of Computer Science of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
Gregory L. Dudek is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in robotics, computer vision, and intelligent systems.He is a chaired professor at McGill University where he has led the Mobile Robotics Lab since the 1990s (a role now shared with Prof. Dave Meger).