News archive - May 2024

Friday, May 17, 2024

CS student ‘turns up the heat’ in latest data science hackathon

Photo of winning team

Last week, students at the University of Waterloo were invited to participate in the GOODHack24 challenge. This event was held at Communitech in downtown Kitchener and was co-hosted by the City of Kitchener, Go Open Data (GOOD) and GreenHouse, a social incubator at United College.

This hackathon challenge offered a space for students to brainstorm, explore and develop innovative solutions at the intersection of open data, technology and local sustainable resources to support affected communities experiencing heat inequity.  

Friday, May 10, 2024

Marian Forster: UWaterloo Math’s ‘Hidden Figure’

a black and white photo of 4 people: 3 men. but the women's silhoutte is in pink. theyre surrounded by computers

“I decided to do mathematics out of defiance,” Marian Forster says, chuckling and leaning forward in her chair. “I pretty much got a message from society, my school, and my family that I was not very smart, and that I should take typing in Grade 10 and become a typist like my mother. And then that would be it.”

Friday, May 10, 2024

Jason Amri explores ‘Economic & Sustainable Futures’ in latest UWaterloo podcast

Black background with various shapes (circles, squares) in blue or purple. Black and white icon of Dominic Barton and Jason Amri

Jason Amri, a fourth-year Computer Science student, was featured in two episodes of the Global Futures podcast.

Thursday, May 9, 2024

The Art of Computing

Student playing a revised verison of snake: standing in front of a screen holding a controller. back is facing the camera

If Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh lived in the 2020s how different would their art be? Would they use any computer science principles just like students taking CS 383: Computational Digital Art Studio?

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

CS-founded startups earn millions in seed funding

Photo of the winners in front of the y combinator sign. The background is an orange gradient colour

Eight current and former David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science students received $2.5M in funding from one of the world's biggest and most prestigious startup accelerators, the Y Combinator (YC).

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