Law Society of BC | LawCast BC: AI and the practice of law June 6, 2024
Law's Jon Festinger and Robert Diab discuss the ways that AI has been used to help practice law, the risks in using AI tools and…
Tag: computing science
Alumni, Faculty of Science, Featured, Giving
Engineering competition connects students and alumni April 29, 2024
An innovative idea, effective work distribution and engaging presentation skills were the keys to victory for team five at the 2024 Acres Industry Innovation Competition…
Newsweek | Opinion: Is AI about to replace all human writing? Not so fast April 25, 2024
"AI will never be able to generate text that offers the insight or perspective that draws you to sites where you can find an informed…
Castanet | Kamloops Innovation, TRU students start program to help businesses apply AI tech April 9, 2024
Kamloops Innovation's newest program aims to help local businesses adopt AI technology with the assistance of computer science and engineering students. "Businesses will have the…
Alumni, Featured, Giving, Open Learning
Open Learning awards fuel student success February 14, 2024
Calgary’s Amanda Speers and Mark Garlough of Tsawwassen arrived at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) from different places for different reasons, but their stories share a…
CFJC Today | The good, the bad and the unknown: how Kamloops schools are approaching AI in classrooms October 18, 2023
Dr. Brenna Clarke Gray, co-ordinator of educational technologies on the Learning Technology and Innovation team at TRU, says faculty are teaching students to recognize the benefits and…
The Globe and Mail | Only a quarter of Canadians trust government to regulate artificial intelligence – no surprise May 26, 2023
Although many Canadians harbour concerns about the rise of AI, few believe the government is up to the task of regulating it. The Faculty of…
Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Research and Graduate Studies
TRU research studies brain development in infants May 9, 2023
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers use a high-risk, high-reward innovative approach to assess spontaneous change in infant brain functionality. The traditional approach requires infants to…
Alumni, Featured, WolfPack
Into the unknown: A coach’s journey from Istanbul to Kamloops February 28, 2023
Nearly 18 years ago, a young man sat outside of McGill Residence on a predawn September morning — exhausted and bewildered, but unafraid. He’d learned…
Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
TRU researcher develops climate-resilient crops March 14, 2022
[caption id="attachment_2970352" align="alignright" width="378"] Dr. Yan Yan[/caption] TRU faculty member Dr. Yan Yan, from the Department of Computing Science, received a Discovery Grant in 2021…
Faculty of Science, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
New website crawls with facts about BC creatures February 2, 2022
Want to learn more about the diverse reptiles and amphibians of BC, the struggles they face and how you can help protect them? Thanks to…
News releases
TRU science students take experiment to gravity-free heights August 20, 2021
KAMLOOPS–A team of Thompson Rivers University Physics, Math, Software Engineering and Computing Science students were flying in microgravity last week, with an experiment they designed…
Featured, Research and Graduate Studies
Discovery Grants support innovative TRU researchers June 15, 2021
Six Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers received $675,000 through the federal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced today by the…
News releases
Province partners with Interior universities on COVID-19 research February 18, 2021
KAMLOOPS — The BC Ministry of Health is investing in BC Interior research universities to understand the harmful effects of COVID-19 and mitigate its impact…
InfoNews Kamloops | TRU prof offering video lesson on how to better understand COVID-19 data April 23, 2020
TRU Assistant Professor of statistics and data sciences, Mateen Shaikh, has launched a video explaining some numbers around the COVID-19 pandemic. He has worked with…
Kamloops This Week | Thompson Rivers University to launch new master of science in data science program April 3, 2020
Students in TRU's two-year Master of Science in Data Science program will dig deep into interdisciplinary solutions, using mathematical, computational, statistical and algorithmic techniques to…
News releases
TRU launches new Master of Science in Data Science program April 3, 2020
KAMLOOPS—A new Master of Science in Data Science program kicks off at Thompson Rivers University in September to meet the growing demand for data scientists.…
Faculty and staff, Faculty of Science, Featured,
TRU launches Master of Science in Data Science April 3, 2020
Our lives are a mass of data: every purchase, every phone call, every Google search – they’re all collected, compiled and turned into big data.…
Faculty of Science, Featured
A life-long love of (machine) learning June 4, 2019
https://youtu.be/hwC1rLAed8s Marco Lussetti is the 2019 TRU Faculty of Science valedictorian, graduating with his newly minted Bachelor of Computing Science degree. Originally hailing from Italy,…
TRU researchers share $579,000 in federal awards May 23, 2019
KAMLOOPS – Five Thompson Rivers University researchers received $579,240 over five years through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants program, announced…
