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2012 May 17
Congratulations to the Waterloo ACM team - students Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, and Anton Raichuk with coach Prof. Ondrej Lhotak - on their bronze medal at the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals!
2012 Apr 17
The Waterloo Black team (Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, Anton Raichuk) finished first in the University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest. The contest brought together all 22 Canadian and U.S. teams that have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held May 14 to 18 in Warsaw, Poland. Waterloo solved 9 problems, beating runners-up Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. Alberta finished 8th, UBC 10th and Toronto 13th. Click to see the full scoreboard. Congratulations to the team!
2012 Apr 09
Congratulations to the following five professors from the Cheriton School of Computer Science for their accomplishments in 2011. They will be recognized along with several outstanding students at the annual Achievements Awards reception held in the Davis Centre this April, 2012. Read More ...
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.
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