The University of California at Irvine is one of the fastest growing UC campuses. It has some of the most renowned names in Computer Science on its faculty list. The machine learning group at the university has some of the most renowned names on its list. People like Pierre Baldi have been instrumental in UC Irvine’s rise as a top notch CS department. But now, another big wig in the world of computer science joins UC Irvine as faculty. Mike Carey, a National Academy of Engineering member, is acknowledged as one of the 50 most influential computer scientists in the world by a UCLA-maintained Web site that tracks research citations. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery …

So we have been talking a whole lot about universities in the US. But there are some really nice universities in Canada where people find good education at cheap rates and its good value for money. Many times its easier to find scholarships at Canadian univs. We spoke to Amod Gupta, who is a Masters student in computer science at University of Waterloo. We asked him why he chose to go to this university, how he was funding himself and what avenues he saw after his masters. He also talks about what the university values in the applications it receives from students. Here is Amod himself telling his story..

The Department of Computer Science at Stanford released data about the salary statistics for the out going batch of 2007-2008 - and this also included survey of students from Electrical Engineering Dept. We have managed to get our hands on it and here we present for our readers, what the data looks like. The salaries are segmented based on 3 types of degrees, bachelors, masters and PhD.

I just received an email from Connie Chan (if you are stanford CS - u her know all too well!) - who is part of the Stanford Computer Forum - basically our career maker - who interacts and setups up company info sessions. And what surprised me was the company which was holding info sessions is Infosys! Its amazing that an Indian company is hiring right from the intellectual heartland of the US of A. And well TCS does some hiring from Stanford CS as well, but thats mostly from the North America office. But Infosys is much more aggressive and recruits directly for its Bangalore office.
Some of the benefits mentioned are as follows:
“Benefits: Comprehensive compensation package that includes return …