
Computer science professor Julita Vassileva was awarded $416,000 to investigate how to use Internet-based communities and rewards to encourage positive change in peoples’ lives. Her software development focuses on building personalized incentives into online media to encourage real world healthy lifestyles, volunteerism and learning.
Professor Vassileva's work was recently featured in the July 18, 2011 issue of Saskatoon Express Using social media to spark change.

Enjoy solving problems, eating pizza and getting prizes? Then come out for the Spring Programming Contest! It's a fun, local and free contest that is open to all students. Come out and claim the title of best problem solver. Novice and Intermediate levels are offered. You can register as a team or solo. When: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013The Spring Programming Contest is back!
The Department of Computer Science Professional Internship Program allows undergraduate students to obtain 12 or 16 months of practical "on-the-job" experience with a sponsoring company prior to completing the final year of their undergraduate degree program. The existence of a formally recognized internship program offers significant benefits to the students, to the industrial sponsors, to the department, and to the university as a whole. These benefits include: practical training and work experience for the students; technology transfer, productive work contribution, and prospective employee evaluation for the employer; and increased university-industry interaction for the department and the university. We are now accepting applications from companies and students interested in partcipating in the program. Interns will be placed in May/Sept 2013.