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.
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News
- Dec. 3, 2018Professor Shai Ben-David and colleagues win best paper award at NeurIPS 2018
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Shai Ben-David, his former PhD student Hassan Ashtiani, now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, along with colleagues Christopher Liaw, Abbas Mehrabian and Yaniv Plan, have received a best paper award at NeurIPS 2018, the 32ndAnnual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
- Nov. 30, 2018Professor Shai Ben-David and colleagues prove that some problems in statistical machine learning cannot be resolved
One of the most important results in logic is Kurt Gödel’s work from 1931 that proved that some questions in mathematics cannot be resolved — that mathematics has limits.
- Nov. 29, 2018Using different hand grips to expand the versatility of a digital pen
Anyone who’s used a pen with a tablet appreciates how precisely the instrument allows them to write, draw, and manipulate objects. A pen is natural input device, one that’s much more nuanced than a mouse or touchpad. Despite its precision and ease of use, many tablet applications still need menus, buttons, and widgets for a user to switch between tools, to set their attributes, and to issue commands.
Events
- Dec. 10, 2018Data Systems Group Seminar Series • Algorithms and Optimizations for Incremental Window-Based Aggregations
Panos K. Chrysanthis
Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh - Dec. 12, 2018PhD Seminar • Data Systems — GAL: Graph-Aware Layout for Disk-Resident Graph Databases
Zeynep Korkmaz, PhD seminar
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceAnalysis on graphs have powerful impact on solving many social and scientific problems, and applications often perform expensive traversals on large scale graphs. Caching approaches on top of persistent storage are among the classical solutions to handle high request throughput. However, graph processing applications have poor access locality, and caching algorithms do not improve disk I/O sufficiently.
- Dec. 12, 2018Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity — Counting, Adding, and Regular Languages
Thomas Lidbetter, Master candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceIn this talk we consider two mostly disjoint topics in formal language theory that both involve the study and use of regular languages. The first topic lies in the intersection of automata theory and additive number theory.
