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2011 Dec 08
The 2011 Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship has been awarded to Jakub Truszkowski, a student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science since 2008. Jakub designs fast algorithms for building evolutionary trees from DNA sequences. This problem is one of the oldest computational biology problems, as evolution is the core of modern biology. The two methods that Jakub has developed with his advisor, Professor Dan Brown, focus on speed and on algorithmic simplicity. They are designed to build trees from input data sets with thousands or even hundreds of thousands of input sequences, and are much faster than competing approaches, while still giving nearly comparable results. The Scholarship honours Professor Derick Wood, who taught at Waterloo from 1982 to 1992, and wrote two textbooks, "Theory of Computation" and "Data Structures, Algorithms, and Performance."
2011 Dec 07
Professor Raouf Boutaba has been named a Fellow of the IEEE, "for contributions to automated network and service management methodologies and applications." IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious designation.
2011 Nov 15
Staff who have worked at the University of Waterloo for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 or more years will be recognized at a reception this November. The School congratulates: Daniel Allen, Philippe Beldowski, Caroline Kierstead, Jessica Miranda, Debbie Mustin, Omar Nafees, Suzana Pinto, Wendy Rush, Ian Turner and Michelle Wagler for reaching an anniversary milestone. Collectively, they have worked 150 years at Waterloo.
2011 Nov 10
Fields Institute Workshop on Hybrid Methodologies for Symbolic-Numeric Computation will be held at University of Waterloo on November 16-19 in DC1302. With more than 25 speakers from the numeric and symbolic research communities, this Fields Institute Workshop will focus on the synthesis of symbolic and numeric techniques for algebraic problems and their applications to control theory, industrial modelling, dynamical systems, and other related topics. Registration is free so plan to attend any talk.
2011 Nov 08
Professor Ian Goldberg of the Cheriton School of Computer Science will be awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, at a ceremony in San Francisco this month. His research in the area of encryption has led to improvements, which help to ensure that cell phone conversations and WiFi networks are kept private. Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov, a Waterloo Computer Science alumnus, invented the widely used Off-The-Record (OTR) Messaging protocol, which provides strong encryption for instant messaging. For those not familiar with the award, EFF established the Pioneer Awards in 1992 to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology.
2011 Nov 03
The Waterloo Black team composed of Tyson Andre (2A software engineering), Benoit Maurin (mathematics), and Anton Raichuk (Cheriton PhD student) won the ACM East Central North America Regional section of the ACM International Collegiate Programming competition this October. They solved all nine problems of the five-hour contest in just over four hours. Runners-up, the University of Toronto and Carnegie Mellon University, solved eight problems. The Waterloo Gold team placed 5th and Waterloo Red team was 17th. Ondrej Lhotak, Hanson Wang, Tor Myklebust, and Gordon Cormack coached the three teams. With this win, Waterloo Black advances to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals to be held next May in Poland.
2011 Oct 22
Kamran Tirdad and Pedram Ghodsnia, in collaboration with Cheriton professors, J. Ian Munro and Alejandro López-Ortiz won the Best Student Paper Award for their paper COCA Filters: Co-Occurrence Aware Bloom Filters at the 18th edition of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. Read more about the symposium, co-organized by the Institute for the Science and Technologies of Information of the Italian National Council of Research (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, and by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.
2011 Oct 20
A paper entitled, "An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Communicated Information about the Execution of Large Software Systems," by Weiyi (Ian) Shang, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Michael W. Godfrey, Mohamed Nasser, Parminder Flora, won best paper at the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering held in Limerick, Ireland this October. "While there are several authors, all but one of them, Adams, have strong Waterloo ties," said Cheriton Professor Michael Godfrey. The paper was spun out of a project in Godfrey's graduate course by student Ian Shang, an MSc student at Queens, who took the course while doing a research term at Research in Motion (RIM). Ahmed Hassan, Ian's supervisor, who holds an NSERC Industrial Research Chair at RIM, did his PhD at Waterloo under Professor Ric Holt. Jack Jiang did his MMath with Ric Holt and is now a PhD student under Hassan. Nasser and Flor are RIM employees, and the study was done on data from RIM. To read the full paper click here.
2011 Oct 06
Jeremy Clark of the Cheriton School of Computer Science will be in attendance at fall convocation to receive the Doctoral Alumni Gold medal for outstanding academic achievement. "Jeremy's research record, which is both diverse and of very high quality, is astonishing for someone just completing a Ph.D," wrote the School's Director, David Taylor. Professor Urs Hengartner, who supervised Jeremy's work, described him as an enthusiastic researcher with a broad set of interests, covering such diverse topics as cryptography, usability, computational finance, and game theory. Jeremy's work in the area of verifiable voting systems, noted Professor Hengartner, is "highly technical and mathematically sophisticated, but always keeps deployability and the human user in mind. His survey of the related work will likely become a must-read for researchers who want to familiarize themselves with the area."
2011 Sep 21
Friday, September 23, the annual Cheriton Symposium will begin with research seminars by Professors Therese Biedl and Robin Cohen. Professor Biedl, recently named the Ross and Muriel Cheriton Fellow will discuss the technical complexities required to create various styles of cartograms. Professor Robin Cohen, a Cheriton faculty fellow, will speak about issues of trust and incentives to honesty in intelligent agent environments. Read More ...
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