Welcome to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1978, and made a transformational gift to the school in 2005. It has become the largest academic concentration of Computer Science researchers in Canada.
Discover our latest achievements by following our news and events.
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News
- Oct. 16, 2017Corey Sinnamon and Professor John Brzozowski win best paper award at CIAA 2017
Corey Sinnamon and Professor John Brzozowski received the Sheng Yu Award for best paper at the 22nd International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2017) for their paper titled Complexity of proper prefix-convex regular languages.
- Oct. 12, 2017Computer scientists receive nearly $250k for state-of-the-art infrastructure
Two researchers in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have received John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) awards from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The funding will provide them with infrastructure support to expand their research programs. The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, made the funding announcement in Sudbury today.
Maura Grossman • Apparatus for High-Recall Information Retrieval
- Oct. 2, 2017Results of Waterloo-local ACM-style programming contest
A Waterloo-local Association for Computing Machinery-style programming contest took place today on Saturday, September 30, 2017 with an unprecedented turnout — 154 registered contestants participated and 81 contestants solved at least one problem successfully.
Congratulations to the top three winners!
Events
- Oct. 30, 2017DLS • Jeff Ullman • Data Science: Is it Real?
Jeff Ullman
Stanford UniversityPlease note the room and time change. The talk will be given in QNC 0101 at 10:30 a.m., not DC 1304 at 3:30 p.m. as previously advertised.
- Nov. 17 to 19, 2017Programming workshop for beginners
Three-day programing workshop
Dates Times Friday, November 17 5: - Jan. 6 to 7, 2018StarCon
What is StarCon?
StarCon is a two-day software engineering conference held in Waterloo, Ontario. Join us for two days of lightning talks about technology, computer science, programming, and the joy of learning about them!
StarCon 2018 Call for Proposals
StarCon has issued a call for proposals! We’re looking for folks who have a passion for technology, learning and sharing to submit talks about their favourite piece(s) of technology.
