Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
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The UBC Computer Science department at the University of British Columbia was established in May 1968 and is among the top computer science departments in the world. UBC CS is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Research activities
The department's research activities are organized around a number of collaborative research groups:
- Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab (ß-Lab)
- Data Management and Mining Lab (DMM)
- Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI (Imager)
- Integrated System Design (ISD)
- Laboratory for Computational Intelligence and Robotics (LCI)
- Networks, Systems and Security Lab (NSSL)
- Scientific Computing Laboratory (SCL)
- Software Practices Lab (SPL)
History
UBC Computer Science was established in May 1968.
Faculty
- David Lowe: is the inventor of the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT)which has profoundly impacted object recognition, robotic mapping and navigation, image stitching, 3D modeling, gesture recognition, video tracking, and match moving.