2008 Jan 14
Six PhD students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been named as recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in January, 2008. Read More ...
2008 Feb 06
Several beautiful examples of the kinship between art and science, the origami sculptures of UW SCS graduate
Erik Demaine and his father, Martin Demaine, will be on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, from February 24 to May 12, 2008. Their work will form part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibit.
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2008 Feb 16
Iman Elghandour, a doctoral student studying under the supervision of Prof. Ashraf Aboulnaga, has just been awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship. Elghandour’s research focuses on automatic physical design for XML databases, and asks the simple but essential question, “Of all the rich indexing and materialization options that are available for XML databases, which ones are most suitable for a given workload?” Read More ...
2008 Feb 21
Bill Gates, visionary software entrepreneur and philanthropist, returned to UW on Thursday, February 21, to speak with students and faculty. Hundreds turned out to hear him speak. He last visited the University in 2005. Read More ...
2008 Feb 24
Former UW student Rajat Suri recently spoke with Andy Barrie on CBC’s Metro Morning radio show. Suri, now at MIT, developed an ingenious carpooling application for Facebook that has already been used by over 300,000 people.
2008 Feb 27
Have you ever tried to buy tickets to a hot upcoming show, only to find it sold out in minutes? Recently, one of our PhD students, Allan Caine was interviewed on CBC’s “Marketplace” to help understand this phenomenon. Caine, a member of the AI group, studies security issues in e-commerce systems. It turns out that software bots used by ticket resellers are partly responsible. The piece aired Wednesday, Feb 27th at 7:30 and can be viewed on the show's web page.
2008 Mar 24
Do you know an outstanding educator? Nominations for the second annual Faculty of Mathematics Awards for Distinction in Teaching are now being accepted. Up to two awards per year are awarded to teachers who have shown outstanding skill and commitment to teaching. Teachers at all levels from first year through graduate studies are eligible. Winners will be honoured with a public citation and a cash prize. Read More ...
2008 Apr 15
Despite being a computer scientist,Richard Cleve has just won one of the highest honours in Canadian physics. He has been awarded the 2008 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics for his fundamental results in quantum information theory, including the structure of quantum algorithms and the foundations of quantum communication complexity. Read More ...
2008 Apr 23
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science held its Sixth School Achievements Reception last Friday, April 18th, 2008, to recognize some of the past year’s exceptional accomplishments. These included: Read More ...
2008 May 01
Professor Raouf Boutaba and his co-authors have been awarded the 2008 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award by the IEEE Communications Society for their paper entitled, “Resource and Service Discovery in Large-Scale Multi-Domain Networks,” which was published last year in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Read More ...
2008 May 01
PhD student Christina Boucher has just won an Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship from Google. Boucher will receive a $5,000 scholarship, and was recently invited to attend a Scholars' Retreat at Google’s engineering office in New York. Read More ...
2008 May 06
RapidMind, the company started by our own Michael McCool, has just won the 2008 Premier’s Catalyst Award for Start-up Company with the Best Innovation. The Premier’s Catalyst Awards, which come with a cash prize of $200,000, recognize companies that have championed new products or services based on breakthrough technology. Read More ...
2008 May 14
One of our PhD students, Robin Cohen and Srinivasan Keshav, has just been awarded a highly prestigious $200,000 Knight Prize for creating software that allows a computer to become a digital radio transmitter, significantly reducing the cost of setting up community news stations in India. Read More ...
2008 May 20
Professor Alan George has just been awarded the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society's annual research prize, which recognizes “innovative and exceptional research contributions in an emerging area of applied or industrial mathematics”. Read More ...
2008 May 20
Feeling paralyzed by the overwhelming environmental challenges before us? Well, there’s a Chinese proverb that states, “the journey of a thousand li begins with a single step,” and Professor Therese Biedl has taken this to heart. She and her husband, Jason Schattman, walk rather than ride. They do not own a car, despite having three young children, a lifestyle choice that recently got them profiled in the Waterloo Region Record. Read More ...
2008 Jun 02
Margareta Ackerman, who completed her MMath degree under Shai Ben-David's supervision, has received the "Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies" designation for her master's work. This honour is given to just one graduate student per Faculty each year. Margareta has now embarked on her PhD under Ben-David’s supervision, and is working on developing a mathematical theory of clustering. Read More ...
2008 Jun 24
Every one of us knows what a difference a great teacher makes. This year, we salute our very own Robin Cohen, who has made the difference for many computer science students. Cohen and David McKinnon, of Pure Math, are this year’s winners of the Faculty of Mathematics Awards for Distinction in Teaching. The awards were inaugurated in 2007 to recognize the excellent teachers who work among us, and to demonstrate to students and colleagues that effective and dedicated teachers are very important to our Faculty. Professors Cohen and McKinnon will be formally recognized at the Faculty Banquet in September.
2008 Sep 04
One of our former graduate students, Stefanus Du Toit, has been named one of the top Young Innovators Under 35 by MIT's Technology Review Magazine. Read More ...
2008 Sep 04
Former SCS PhD student Claude-Guy Quimper has been awarded the first Association for Constraint Programming Doctoral Research Award. Quimper was supervised by Alex Lopez-Ortiz and graduated in 2006 with a thesis titled, "Efficient Propagators for Global Constraints". He is now completing an NSERC posdoctoral fellowship at the Université de Montreal with Gilles Pesant. Read More ...
2008 Sep 04
Professors Ihab Ilyas and Pascal Poupart have won Early Researcher Awards.The awards provide up to $100,000 from the Ontario government and $50,000 from the University to help researchers recruit graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates. Read More ...
2008 Sep 05
Eighteen graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been named as the recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships, beginning in September 2008. The scholarships are given to the school’s top graduate students, each of whom has demonstrated strong research ability and an outstanding academic record. The award provides $10,000 per year, and most of the awards are for two years. Read More ...
2008 Oct 10
Professor Jeff Shallit has just been named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist for 2008. The award "recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field." Further information on the nomination process can be found here. Read More ...
2008 Oct 24
Professor Ric Holt’s 1998 paper on manipulating software architecture has been awarded the Most Influential Paper Award by the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2008). The paper, “Structural Manipulations of Software Architecture Using Tarski Relational Algebra,” developed an algebraic method as well as a language called Grok that allows software engineers to navigate through huge graph structures representing software systems such as Linux and MySQL. The paper has led to extensive follow-on work by other researchers in algebraic approaches to detecting patterns in software architecture. Holt also presented an invited retrospective talk at WCRE 2008 entitled ‘Grokking Software Architecture’. Read More ...
2008 Nov 04
This just in! Waterloo’s three participating programming teams have done very well in the East Central North America regional round of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The Waterloo Black team, consisting of Andy Kong, Konstantin Lopyrev, and Malcolm Sharpe, finished in third place out of 124 teams, edged out by two teams from Carnegie Mellon University. Our Red Team, consisting of Chris Chu, Bo Hong Deng, and Yin Zhao came fifth, followed by our Gold Team of Michael Druker, Guru Guruganesh, and Darin Tay in sixth place. Complete results can be found at the contest scoreboard Read More ...
2008 Nov 18
SCS faculty member Ashraf Aboulnaga and his PhD student Iman Elghandour have just won a pair of awards--it’s always nice to have company! Read More ...
2008 Dec 01
It is said that an outstanding graduate supervisor is “a mentor, an advisor, a role model, a humanist and a strategist.” Professor Robin Cohen is known as an exemplar of this crucial role, and she has just been recognized with this year’s Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision. The award, established jointly by the Graduate Studies Office and the Graduate Students’ Association, is given to just three faculty members university-wide each year. Earlier this year, Cohen also won the Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching. Read More ...
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