2009 Jan 20
Eight graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been named as the recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships, beginning in January 2009. 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 ...
2009 Mar 31
Dr. J. Ian Munro, a faculty member in Computer Science since 1971, has been named ACM Fellow for contributions to algorithms and data structures, and in particular for his research on space efficient data structures. Dr. Munro joins Ming Li and Tamer Özsu as ACM Fellows from the Cheriton School of Computer Science. Read More ...
2009 Apr 01
Ming Li, joins a distinguished group of faculty who hold the title of University Professor by the University of Waterloo. Dr. Ming Li and Dr. Ian Munro, Professors of the Cheriton School of Computer Science, hold two of fourteen such designations not including retirees. Read More ...
2009 Apr 17
UW Professor Emeritus, Dr. Alan George, has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SIAM has created the fellowship program this year to recognize its members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by SIAM. Alan is in the initial class of fellows and will receive his award at the Annual SIAM Conference on May 1, 2009. Read More ...
2009 Jun 10
Four graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships, beginning in May 2009. 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 his or her supervisor. The award provides $10,000 each year and most of the awards are for two years. Read More ...
2009 Jun 16
Professor Ming Li, who holds a Canadian Research Chair in Bioinformatics, has won the Ontario Premier’s Discovery Award for Innovation and Leadership for his scholarship in this field. Read More ...
2009 Jun 16
Dr. Bin Ma, an Associate Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has won the Premier’s Catalyst Award as Best Young Innovator. Read More ...
2009 Jun 19
This year, Professor Keshav of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science presented The J. W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation to former UW graduate of 1989, Craig Eisler. Eisler, who is corporate vice-president for entertainment client software at Microsoft Corporation, has been involved in leading teams that develop innovative software solutions for almost twenty years. Read More ...
2009 Jun 19
Dr. Troy Vasiga, of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named one of this year’s recipients for the Faculty of Mathematics Awards for Distinction in Teaching. Each year the Faculty recognizes up to two teachers within the Faculty of Mathematics who have consistently demonstrated outstanding skills and commitment to teaching. Known among his peers and students for his commitment to teaching excellence, Troy has indeed improved the education of many computer science students. Read More ...
2009 Jun 29
Congratulations go out to Professor Shai Ben-David, from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, who has been elected the new President of the Association for Computational Learning. The organization, which puts on the annual conference of Computational Learning Theory, aims to promote and study adaptive algorithms based on The Learning Theory. Read More ...
2009 Aug 04
This year, several Computer Science students were awarded with NSERC Scholarship awards. These scholarship programs financially support the research of top-ranked applicants at both the masters or doctoral level. Here are the scholarship winners: Read More ...
2009 Aug 19
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is a major component of Waterloo’s thrust in the field of quantum computing. Through the coordination of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo is involved in several aspects of the subject, ranging from developing the mathematical theory of quantum computing to physical implementations of quantum computing devices. Recently, two SCS researchers, Sarvagya Upadhyay and John Watrous, in collaboration with Rahul Jain (a former member of SCS, now at the National University of Singapore) and Zhengfeng Ji (of the Perimeter Institute) have resolved a decade-old problem in the theory of quantum computing by proving the equivalence of two collections of computational problems called QIP and PSPACE. Read More ...
2009 Aug 24
The school would like to announce that Prabhakar Ragde and Naomi Nishimura, of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been selected to serve as council members on the Teaching Excellence Council. Both Prabhakar and Naomi have a long history of teaching at the University, and possess a strong committment and dedication to teaching excellence. Read More ...
2009 Aug 28
The afternoon of July 30th, 2009 meant goodbye to a friendly face of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. It marked the final week for long-time Secretary to the Director, Ursula Thoene. Ursula has become somewhat synonymous with the school and was a constant source of help and knowledge through numerous periods of change and through several School Directors. Ursula was honoured by her colleagues and family members at a reception to recognize the 24 years of dedication she gave to the School. Read More ...
2009 Aug 31
Seventeen graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in September 2009. Read More ...
2009 Sep 18
CS Associate Professor, Craig Kaplan joins a distinguished list of speakers including Peter Shor and Stewart Brand, at the Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C). The festival will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. Read More ...
2009 Sep 30
Waterloo Alumni, Dr. Hassan will become the new Industrial Research Chair in Software of Ultra Large Scale Systems at Queen’s University. His work will be funded by a $5-million investment from Research In Motion (RIM) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Read More ...
2009 Oct 14
Gord Cormack, a professor in Information Retreival has won the 2009 INFORMS Data Mining Contest. The contest focused on "predictive problems for health care quality. The two tasks for this year's contest are: 1) modeling of a patient transfer guideline for patients with a severe medical condition from a community hospital setting to tertiary hospital provider and 2) assessment of the severity/risk of death of a patient's condition." Gord came in first at predicting death, and 4th best at predicting transfer to another facility. Read More ...
2009 Oct 23
Carol J. Fung, Jie Zhang, Issam Aib, and Raouf Boutaba's paper, "Robust and Scalable Trust Management for Collaborative Intrusion Detection", has won the best paper award at the latest on Integrated Network Management (IM’09) in June. Read More ...
2009 Oct 28
Some people are concerned that personal information given on Internet sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr may be too accessible. Read More ...
2009 Nov 03
At the recent convocation, Jie Zhang, a graduate of the PhD program in Computer Science won the Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance. Read More ...
2009 Nov 05
University of Waterloo researchers (Sarah Nadi, Ric Holt, Ian Davis), collaborating with CA Canada Ltd, have developed techniques to help professionals manage large IT systems. Their paper on root cause analysis in IT systems won the Best Paper in the "CASCON-2009 conference". Read More ...
2009 Nov 17
The Big E and Special K Contests were written on Saturday, November 7. These contests challenge our University of Waterloo math students. The Special K is for first year students and the Big E is for upper year students. Read More ...
2009 Nov 24
Judges for thus year's Mobicom conference, one of the premier proceedings for computer networking, have selected a paper by Keshav and his Ph.D. student Nabeel Ahmed, in association with several other authors from UW Madison and Intel Research, as the best of all submissions. The paper entitled, "CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs trhough a Hybrid Data Path" was presented by Vivek Shrivastava at the conference in Beijing, P.R. of China. Read More ...
2009 Nov 24
Anna Lubiw has been elected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist this year. This member grade recognizes up to 10% of the top ACM members, with at least 15 years of professional experience that had significant accomplishments or impact in the computing field. Read More ...
2009 Nov 25
Congratulations to Don Cowan who was given the "Waterloo Award" at the City Council meeting last night. Read More ...
2009 Dec 08
Elyot Grant is a senior at University of Waterloo majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science. Read More ...
2009 Dec 18
Raouf Boutaba of UW’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has received the 2009 IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award. Read More ...
2009 Dec 22
Seven current (continuing) PhD students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in January 2010. 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. Read More ...
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