2006 Oct 04
Fady Samuel has been selected for an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition. The award, sponsored this year by Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. A full list of awardees can be found here. The announcement will also appear in the January 2008 issue of Computing Research News. Read More ...
2007 Jan 17
Fourteen current graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been named the first recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships. The scholarships come from David Cheriton's donation of $25 million to the School of Computer Science and are reserved for the School’s very top graduate students. Each student had to demonstrate strong research ability in an application that outlined the student's current research, academic record, and curriculum vitae and was endorsed by their supervisor. The award provides $10,000 each year and most of the awards are for two years. Read More ...
2007 Jan 20
SCS Professor Michael McCool’s RapidMind software development platform has been named a “Tech Winner” in the January, 2007 issue of the IEEE Spectrum magazine. McCool’s company, RapidMind, is the commercial outgrowth of Sh, the metaprogramming language Professor McCool conceived as part of his research at our very own Computer Graphics Lab. The just-released RapidMind Development Platform 2.0 is the first software tool that helps programmers write code for multicore microprocessor chips like IBM’s Cell as well as for graphics processors from ATI Technologies, Nvidia Corporation, and other companies.
2007 Jan 28
Strangely enough for an academic, Professor John Watrous envisions a world in which we know less about one another, not more. His research into the theory of zero-knowledge quantum cryptographic protocols holds the tantalizing promise of keeping two parties in perfect ignorance about one another, otherwise known as privacy. Read more in his newly-posted faculty profile.
2007 Mar 02
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science was featured in a recent piece that aired on CBC’s The National on January 19. The School’s Director, Tamer Özsu, was interviewed about Google’s decision to establish an office in Waterloo by buying out the company Reqwireless, headed by former University of Waterloo Computer Science student, Roger Skubowius. The piece can now be viewed on-line.
2007 Mar 13
Computer Science graduate student Amr El-Helw has been awarded a prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2007. Read More ...
2007 Mar 20
The Institute for Quantitative Finance and Insurance, headed by SCS Professor Peter Forsyth, was the subject of a recent article in The Record on March 15, 2007.
2007 Mar 27
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Webpage Banner Contest, whose entry graces every page of the SCS web site, is Ray Kuo. Ray is a 4B student in Computer Science with Digital Hardware Option at the University of Waterloo. His entry was selected as the best in an open competition. Read More ...
2007 Mar 29
Celine Latulipe, who recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Craig Kaplan and Charles Clarke, has been named this year’s winner of the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Thesis Award. She will be presented with the award at this year’s Graphics Interface Conference in Montreal. Read More ...
2007 Apr 03
SCS student Stefan Buettcher has won the Exceptional Teaching by a Student Award. The award, given annually, is the University's highest honour for excellence in teaching by its students. Read More ...
2007 Apr 03
Claude-Guy Quimper, who completed his PhD last year under the supervision of Professor Alex Lopez-Ortiz, has just been awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. These are extremely competitive awards—last year only two were awarded in Computer Science across the entire country. Quimper currently holds an NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowship at Omega Optimisation. With his NSERC Postdoctoral fellowship, he plans to move to the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal to work on developing new algorithms to solve combinatorial problems using constraint programming. Read More ...
2007 Apr 12
Professor Ken Salem has won the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007 Influential Paper Award. This award is given annually by the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering to any paper that has appeared in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering at least 10 years ago and has been influential in the community. Ken and his co-author Hector Garcia-Molina won this year's award for their paper "Disk Striping," which appeared in the1986 ICDE Conference Proceedings. The award citation noted that "this early paper on disk striping significantly influenced subsequent work on RAID storage." Read More ...
2007 Apr 24
SCS Professor, biblical commentator, and literary scholar Daniel M. Berry has just published “A Theory About the True Origins of William Shakespeare and Hamlet” in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. In the paper’s abstract, Berry asserts, “The Introduction of the Klingon Hamlet suggests a massive, fraudulent rewriting of history as the reason that Terrans believe that a human named William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet from his imagination in the 1600s in place of the truth that the Klingon Wil'yam Shex'pir wrote Khamlet and that the English version is but a translation of the original Klingon. This history rewriting theory is challenged, and an alternative theory involving time travel is offered, in which Wil'yam Shex'pir travels back in time to become William Shakespeare and to translate his own works into English. This alternative theory is supported by references to Star Trek canon and other writings.” Please contact Professor Berry for reprints of the full paper. Read More ...
2007 May 07
Nine current PhD students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in May 2007. The scholarships come from David Cheriton's donation of $25 million to the School of Computer Science and are reserved for the School’s very top graduate students. Each student had to demonstrate strong research ability in an application that outlined the student's current research, academic record, and curriculum vitae and was endorsed by their supervisor. The award provides $10,000 each year and most of the awards are for two years. Read More ...
2007 May 23
Waterloo has been named the world's top "intelligent community" exemplifying the development of a prosperous economy based on broadband and information technology. The award, presented by the independent think tank Intelligent Community Forum underlined the key role that the University has played in nurturing the research and entrepreneurial talent that has resulted in local companies such as Research In Motion Inc., Open Text Corp. and DALSA Corp. Read More ...
2007 Jun 18
One of our just-graduated students, Matei Zaharia, placed first in the 2007 Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Student Research Competition. STOC is the top conference in theoretical computer science, and the student research competition is an open international competition that highlights undergraduate research. Zaharia's paper,“Fast and Optimal Scheduling over Multiple Network Interfaces”, written under the supervision of Professor Keshav, was selected for a poster presentation at STOC. The final round of judging consisted of a ten minute talk given by student authors, followed by five minutes of questions. The top three finishers received prizes of $500, $300, and $200 (USD) respectively. In addition, the top three finishers of the STOC will advance to the yearly ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals, judged in an online competition, whose winners will be honored at the ACM Awards Banquet. Congratulations Matei! Read More ...
2007 Jul 10
Professors Ric Holt, Mike Godfrey and Research Associate Ian Davis will share in a one million dollar research grant awarded by CA , one of the world's largest IT management software providers, to five Canadian universities. News of the awards was recently featured on ITWorld Canada.com, an online information resource for IT professionals. The grant will be shared by the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Carleton University, and the University of Waterloo. Read More ...
2007 Sep 07
After 38 years of service Arnie Dyck retired on September 1, 2007. Read More ...
2007 Sep 09
Fourteen graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been named as recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in September 2007. Nine of the students are incoming graduate students beginning their studies in September, 2007, and the remaining five students are continuing PhD students. Read More ...
2007 Sep 12
The 2007 Cheriton Research Symposium will take place on September 28 in DC1302 between 1:00-5:30. This year's event features eight talks by graduate students, each holders of Cheriton Graduate Scholarships. As was the case in 2006, David Cheriton will also be present to give a talk at the symposium. Read More ...
2007 Sep 17
NSERC has awarded an Industry Research Chair, co-funded by Scotiabank, to Computer Science’sDan Berry and Krzysztof Czarnecki of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Berry is the senior chairholder, and Prof. Czarnecki is the associate chairholder. Read More ...
2007 Sep 18
Though people are not always thrilled to be turning 40, we consider it a genuine accomplishment. We’re celebrating 40 success-filled years of computer science at the University of Waterloo in style! We’ve grown from a tiny handful of students to the largest computer science unit in the world, with internationally renowned researchers and many famous spin-off companies to our credit. On Saturday, September 29, 2007, we’ll be celebrating our accomplishments, telling stories about the old days, and looking to the future with a great lineup of events you won’t want to miss. According to School Director Tamer Özsu, “This is a chance to reflect on our pioneering accomplishments, to hear talks from illustrious alumni, to meet with old friends, and generally to celebrate this incredibly dynamic place.” Go to 40th celebrations to learn more!
2007 Sep 18
The Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) Computer Science Accreditation Council, an organization that works with academic institutions to ensure that educational programs effectively prepare students for computing professions, has granted full five year reaccreditation status for several computer science programs at the University of Waterloo. The reaccredited programs include the B. Math Honours Computer Science, B. Math Honours Computer Science/Business Option, B. Math Honours Computer Science/Digital Hardware Option, Honours Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Honours BCS/Business Option, Honours BCS/Digital Hardware Option and the Honours BCS/Software Engineering Option. Read More ...
2007 Oct 10
Computer Science Masters student Reid Kerr is this year's recipient of the Alumni Gold Medal. The Medal honours the top Masters student at the University of Waterloo. Reid completed his thesis, entitled "Toward Secure Trust and Reputation Systems for Electronic Marketplaces" under the supervision of Robin Cohen. Reacting to her student’s award, Prof. Cohen remarked, "Reid achieved outstanding academic performance. He has shown great talent in developing an original approach to the challenge of promoting trust in electronic marketplaces.” Contrasting with existing models that attempt to learn about untrustworthy behaviour, Reid's thesis established a framework wherein rational sellers are best off acting honestly, due to the risk of losing "trust units" required for transactions. Read More ...
2007 Oct 15
Recent Computer Science PhD graduate Stefan Buettcher has the "Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies" award for the Faculty of Mathematics. Stefan completed his PhD under Charlie Clarke's supervision this August and is now working for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also one of the recipients of 2007 exceptional teaching by a student award. Congratulations Stefan and Charlie!
2007 Oct 15
One of the world's most eminent scholars in theoretical computer science, Turing award winner Richard Karp, will be giving a talk at UW this Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 10 a.m. in MC 5158. His talk, titled “Streaming Algorithms for Selection and Approximate Sorting” will consider streaming algorithms for basic information processing tasks within huge data repositories such as those maintained by Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. Read More ...
2007 Nov 12
Who’s on the cover of Linux Journal’s November 2007 issue? Why, our very own Michael McCool, founder of RapidMind, a multi-core software development company. In an issue devoted to high-performance computing, the journal highlights RapidMind's "cutting-edge platform for leveraging multicore processors and accelerators." Read More ...
2007 Nov 13
There will be a very brief network outage on Thursday morning December 13 at 7 a.m. to move certain network switches to a different power supply. Downtime should be about five minutes. The outage will affect all CS networks.
2007 Nov 30
Prof. Raouf Boutaba has just been awarded IEEE Communications Society's Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences. The award is given annually for exemplary service to IEEE Communications Society meetings and conferences over a sustained period of time. Boutaba has been active within ComSoc in many capacities, and is the founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Network & Service Management. He was cited “For envisioning and implementing a converged strategy for the Society's network operations and management events that significantly increased their value to the industry and academic community in this field." You can read more about the award here. Read More ...
2007 Dec 17
Two papers by SCS graduate students have just won Best Paper awards in prestigious international conferences. Read More ...
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