Virsa, a Delta-based non-profit organization that focuses on youth programming, is looking for someone to help them with maintaining the homepage of their WordPress website. It would be 1–2 simple monthly updates. Please contact Mandy Khara at [mkhara at virsa dot ca] if interested.

Visual attention is needed for the conscious perception of the world around us; without it, we may look but we won't see. What, then, are the mechanisms that characterize attentional and non-attentional visual processes, and how can we dissociate them?

You will be compensated $10/hour. To participate, please sign up for an appointment at ubcviscog.com.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Ronald Rensink
UBC ethics approval number: H10-01207

Modernistic Enterprises Inc., a Vancouver technology startup, is looking for a Web developer with experience in developing websites using Adobe CS3, CSS, HTML (including HTML5), Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Photoshop. The position is full-time for a duration of six months. Applications are due August 22; send résumés and cover letters to modernistic.jobs@gmail.com. For more details, see the full writeup.

Modernistic Enterprises Inc., a Vancouver technology startup, is looking for a mobile application developer with experience in creating applications for platforms such as iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. The position is full-time for a duration of six months. Applications are due August 22; send résumés and cover letters to modernistic.jobs@gmail.com. For more details, see the full writeup.

Are you a UBC student or a recent alumni with a company you would like to present to a panel of VC’s and UBC alumni at the Plug and Play Tech Centre in California? entrepreneurship@UBC is looking to send you there.

entrepreneurship@UBC is looking to identify six UBC entrepreneur-founded companies: three founded by students currently enrolled at UBC and three founded by recent (past three years) UBC alumni, who are interested in profiling their business venture in front of a panel of venture capitalists and distinguished UBC alumni at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California on August 31, 2010.

Application Deadline: July 31

entrepreneurship@UBC will cover travel and accommodation costs for up to two people per company (up to $680, based on flights out of Vancouver)

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MITACS Inc. is looking for embeddable, interactive programs that include interesting math content that appeals to high school students. All material will be appropriately credited to its creator and, to recognize the best student contributions to Year of Science, MITACS will offer a number of honorariums and other prizes for the best submissions. The timeline for this project is quite short—submissions must be received by Friday, August 27th to be guaranteed consideration.

If interested, please contact MITACS Outreach Assistant Kamara Gupta.

Who We Are

Sokanu is a social learning platform aimed at helping people find their passion in
life. We believe that people have talents and are passionate about many things, but often
don’t know how to translate that passion into a career they love. Sokanu will combine a
social networking platform with an adaptive learning engine to provide a unique
experience to each user.

What We're Looking For

We are seeking a versatile and experienced software engineer to finish our alpha product
with code that is clean, functional, and easy to maintain. You'll be extending Sokanu’s
content platforms in new directions, as well as streamlining and re-factoring our existing
systems. We plan on growing by leaps and bounds, so candidates should thrive in
dynamic environments where development is fast and the only constant is change. You
should also believe in open platforms and want the development community at large to
build off your successes via open standards and API’s.

You should have in-depth knowledge of

• CMS best practices
• The in’s and out’s of popular open source CMS and blog platforms
• Collecting community-crafted content and how to integrate it with internal CMS workflows
• Video platforms such as YouTube, Blip.tv, and others
• Mass distribution email systems
• Preferable knowledge in .NET, C# and SQL
• Database scaling at the application level and caching approaches, from object caching to CDNs
• RESTful web services APIs for developers, both building & using them
• Performance tuning web applications from the frontend to the backend
• Scale and what it takes to be successful at a community-driven web site where the word “millions” is used frequently and in many contexts

Bonus experience

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript and associated frameworks (jQuery, prototype, YUI)
• Artificial Intelligence knowledge, experience with Self-Organizing Maps/Kohonen Networks, Neural Networks, Adaptive Decision-Engines, etc.…
• Social networking applications and associated design patterns
• Abuse and anti-spam approaches and technologies
• Ideally, you hold a B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, or have equivalent self-directed study and experience.

Also important

• Shipping: you can point to products on the web today that you built and shipped
• Love of the web and a sense of fascination with the endless possibilities it creates
• Love creating products that are extremely easy to use and applying psychology to UX/UI
• A sense of humour
• Excellent communication skills

Next Steps

If you’re interested in joining the team at Sokanu, please send a cover letter along with
your résumé to jobs@sokanu.com telling us what inspires you about Sokanu and why you think you are a perfect fit. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or practice another craft besides software, that means something to us, and we would love to hear about it!

Apps 4 Climate Action challenges Canadian software developers to raise awareness of climate change and inspire action by using B.C. data in new applications for the web and mobile devices. Aside from over $40,000 in cash and prizes, the contest is an opportunity for talented programmers to get considerable exposure across the country.

To help get the creative juices flowing, SAP is hosting a Hackathon for programmers in the Vancouver area. This is an opportunity for developers to meet, get advice from SAP engineers on data visualization and web services access, see new sustainability solutions from SAP, find collaborators for projects, and start CODING your app for the contest!

Full details and registration details for this free event can be found here.

Look forward to seeing UBC's talent there!

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Eclipse DemoCamp is a free informal event for Eclipse enthusiasts to meet up and demo what they are doing with Eclipse (such as: research projects, Eclipse open source projects, applications based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse, etc.). There will be presentations about cutting-edge JVM languages, custom Eclipse distributions, integrating agile processes into Eclipse, and of course some great research from UBC students. Free snacks and great networking guaranteed.

Those interested in attending should add their name to the list of attendees or e-mail one of the organizers listed on that page.

Some of the presenters are your fellow Computer Science students!

The Office of the Chair for Women in Science and Engineering—Ontario is looking for senior level graduating computer science majors to take part in a 10 minute survey on career intentions. The password for the survey is career.