2010 Jan 21
Ashraf Aboulnaga, an associate professor at the David Cheriton School of Computer Science, was recently elected as a senior member of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Read More ...
2010 Feb 05
Justin Wan, an Associate Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been appointed the next Director of the Centre for Computational Mathematics in Industry and Commerce (CCMIC). Read More ...
2010 Mar 08
Two researchers from the David Cheriton School of Computer Science, Donald Cowan and Tamer Özsu, were recently awarded research grants totaling $7,000,000 from the Ontario Research Fund (ORF). Read More ...
2010 Mar 18
Bin Ma, an associate professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, was recently awarded one of the three inaugural Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher prizes from the Canadian Association for Computer Science (CACS). Read More ...
2010 Mar 29
Terry Anderson, a MMath student supervised by Therese Biedl, has been awarded the 2010 Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. Read More ...
2010 Apr 09
The School of Computer Science's achievements reception will be held on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 4:00pm in the ICR Corporate Partner Lounge (DC 1301). This event is being sponsored by the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Computing Research Association (CRA). Read More ...
2010 Apr 14
Ming Li, a professor at the School of Computer Science, has been awarded the 2010 Killam Prize in Engineering. The award was announced and handed out in Toronto recently. Read More ...
2010 May 05
University of Waterloo undergraduate computer science students, Krista Odger, Shanti Mailvaganam, Michelle Den Hollander, Alice Hai, and Claire Andrews, win the 2010 Games4Girls competition. Read More ...
2010 May 11
Seven continuing graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in May 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 ...
2010 May 26
David Toman, an associate professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, won the Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize at the Twelfth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning held in Toronto this May. Read More ...
2010 Jun 07
Congratulations to Robin Cohen and Alex Lopez-Ortiz for being appointed Cheriton Faculty Fellows. Both Robin and Alex’s three-year terms as fellows began on May 1, 2010. They replaced Frank Tompa and Raouf Boutaba whose three-year terms as fellows ended on April 30, 2010.
2010 Jun 14
Congratulations to Jeff Shallit for being appointed Marsland Faculty Fellow. Jeff's three-year term as a fellow begins on November 1, 2010. Gord Cormack will remain the Marsland Fellow until November.
2010 Jun 21
Congratulations to Reza Dorrigiv for receiving Waterloo's Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies award for a PhD student. After several years of graduate studies under the supervision of Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Reza says it is “a good feeling to have [his] work recognized”. He also feels honoured to be one of the chosen few Waterloo graduates who received this award during the university's 100th Convocation last week. Learn what Reza has to say about CS grad studies at Waterloo! Read More ...
2010 Jul 04
Now the engineering site director of Google Waterloo, Steven Woods is the 2010 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation. An alumnus from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Steven Woods graduated with both a Ph.D. and a M.Math.
2010 Jul 06
As reported by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), a landmark paper co-authored by David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science/IQC faculty member John Watrous and doctoral student Sarvagy Upadhyay has earned the prestigious Best Paper Award at the Symposium on Theory of Computing. With twenty years in the making, this award celebrates John’s breakthrough research in the field of quantum computing. Congratulations to John, Sarvagya and their collaboration team!
2010 Aug 15
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is pleased to announce that a new graduate program, Master of Health Informatics (MHI), has been approved by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS). The first batch of students will start the MHI program this September. We now invite interested applicants to apply for Fall 2011. For more information about the MHI program, please see the MHI webpage.
2010 Aug 16
As reported in the Daily Bulletin, beginning last Saturday, more than 300 mathletes from 83 countries have arrived to take part in the 22nd International Olympiad in Informatics, one of the world's most prestigious computer science competitions for high school students. "It's about taking the best kids and showing them there are others like them in the world," says Troy Vasiga, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor, associate director of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, and chair of the 2010 IOI organizing committee. "The students participating really are amongst the next generation of geniuses."
2010 Aug 20
Hussein Hirjee's and Professor Dan Brown's paper, "Solving Misheard Lyric Search Queries Using a Probabilistic Model of Speech Sounds" has won the best student paper award at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands this year. Read More ...
2010 Aug 25
Nine continuing graduate students and five incoming students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in September 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 ...
2010 Aug 25
Ian Goldberg and Ondrej Lhotak join six other Waterloo recipients who have received a 2010 Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Given to the province’s “best and brightest research talent”, 80 in total, these awards will provide significant support for their already established very strong research programs, as noted by the ministry.
2010 Sep 20
Richard Cleve, a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). "Election to the Royal Society is a great honour, only awarded to academics who have made significant contributions to their area of research. This year only 11 academics were inducted into the RSC in the area of Mathematics and Physical Sciences across Canada," explains George Labahn, associate dean of graduate studies and research in mathematics. Ian Goulden, dean of mathematics, was also newly inducted into the RSC. Congratulations!
2010 Oct 12
This year, NSERC awarded several David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science students with scholarships. These scholarship programs financially support the research of top-ranked applicants at both the masters or doctoral level. Here's this year's scholarship winners: Read More ...
2010 Oct 23
The Waterloo Black team of Tyson Andre (1A SE), Brian Bi (1A CS), and Hanson Wang (2A CS) finished first out of 112 teams from 56 universities and colleges competing in the ACM East Central North America Regional Programming Contest on October 23. Winning this contest earns the team a spot at the 2011 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals to be held in early March in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Waterloo Black finished ahead of runners up Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Waterloo's other two teams, Gold (Minghao Dai, John Liu, and Aurick Qiao) and Red (Felix Fung, Justin Simpson, Robert Xiao), finished 8th and 16th, respectively. The next best Canadian teams were Brock University in 10th place, York University in 12th place, and the University of Toronto in 17th place. The complete results can be found on the ACM international collegiate programming contest website.
2010 Oct 24
Thanks to $10.5 million in funding from Automotive Partnership Canada, and $6.1 million from industry partners General Motors of Canada Ltd, IBM Canada, and Malina Software Corp, CS professor Jo Atlee and her newly announced national research network can now begin their five-year mission to tackle the technological challenges related to the growing complexity of automotive software systems. Read More ...
2010 Dec 01
December 5-11 marks the first Computer Science Education Week held in Canada. The Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo hosted CS4U Day on Tuesday, December 7th in conjunction with the week’s activities. CS4U day is a day for grade 8-11 students to come to campus, hear from engaging speakers, and participate in hands-on activities about how the field of computer science is changing our world. No computer science background is required. Participants who wished to attend but were unable to travel to campus participated via a live webcast.
2010 Dec 07
Each year uWaterloo honours staff who reach the next five-year anniversary of service to the university. Celebrating their 10-year anniversaries in 2010 are: Gordon Boerke, Stephen Nickerson, Simone Paull, and Guoxiang Shen. Joining the 25-year club are: Mike Gore and Fraser Gunn. Congratulations!
2010 Dec 08
Tamer Ozsu, a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and the school's director from 2007-2010, has been named a new Fellow of the IEEE "for his contributions to distributed data management and multimedia database systems". The school congratulates him for such a significant achievement. Ozsu is currently on sabbatical at the National University of Singapore.
2010 Dec 10
Frank Tompa, a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science since 1974, has been named a new Fellow of the ACM "for his contributions to to text-dominated and semi-structured data management". Tompa is one of the 41 inductees from the world's leading universities, corporations, and research labs who have achieved accomplishments that are driving the innovations necessary to sustain competitiveness in the digital age, says ACM's online announcement. The school congratulates him for such an extraordinary achievement.
2010 Dec 16
Don Cowan, one of uWaterloo's CS pioneers, a distinguished professor emeritus, and an adjunct professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery. Cowan is one of the 47 members "from leading international universities and industries" who received this rare distinction, says ACM's online announcement. "The new Distinguished Members are recognized for significant advances in computing technology that have dramatically influenced progress in science, engineering, business, and many other areas of human endeavor." The school congratulates Cowan for such a significant achievement.
2010 Dec 23
Four continuing graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of prestigious Cheriton Scholarships beginning in January 2011. The scholarships come from David Cheriton's donation of $25 million to the Cheriton School of Computer Science and are reserved for the school’s very top graduate students. Read More ...
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