Forbes Burkowski
519-888-4567, ext. 34445
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Jonathan Buss

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986)
  • B.Sc., California Institute of Technology (1982)

Research interests

  • Computational complexity and models of feasible computation

Publications

Jonathan Buss on DBPL
 

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus
Edward Chan
519-888-4567, ext. 34439
Location: 
DC 2338
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus
Gordon Cormack
519-888-4567, ext. 34450
Location: 
DC 2502

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Manitoba (1981)
  • M.Sc., University of Manitoba (1978)
  • B.Sc., University of Manitoba (1977)

Research interests

  • High Recall Information Retrieval
  • Legal and medical applications of Information Retrieval

Publications

Gordon Cormack on Google Scholar

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Don Cowan
519-888-4690 or 519-888-4567, ext. 84690
Location: 
DC 2555C
Degrees
  • D.Sc. (honoris causa), University of Guelph (2011)
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1965)
  • M.Sc., University of Waterloo (1961)
  • B.A.Sc., University of Toronto (1960)
Research interests
  • Software engineering methods for constructing and verifying advanced software systems and applications
  • Development of advanced software systems and applications incorporating novel database systems and artificial intelligence components
Publications

Donald Cowan Publications

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
William Cowan
519-888-4567, ext. 34527
Location: 
DC 2111
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus
Chrysanne DiMarco
Location: 
DC 1308
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Professor Peter Forsyth
519-888-4567, ext. 34415
Location: 
DC 3622
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Western Ontario (1979)
  • M.Sc., Australian National University, Australia (1977)
  • B.Sc., University of Western Ontario (1975)
Research interests
  • Computational finance
  • Machine learning methods for optimal stochastic control in finance
Publications

Peter Forsyth on Google Scholar

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
519-888-4567, ext. 34668
Location: 
DC 3627
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus
J. Alan George
Degrees
  • Ph.D., Stanford University (1971)
  • M.Sc., University of Alberta (1966)
  • B.Sc., University of Alberta (1964)
Research interests
  • My primary focus is the (numerous and varied) problems associated with solving very large sparse systems of equations
  • Some examples include analysis of the complexity of certain algorithms, numerical stability issues, design of efficient data structures, design of software packages with good user interfaces, and automatic identification of exploitable parallelism in sparse matrix computations
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus
Anna Lubiw
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Toronto (1986)
  • M.Math., University of Waterloo (1982)
  • B.Sc., University of Toronto (1979)
Research interests
  • Algorithms, specifically computation geometry, graph algorithms and graph drawing
  • Current topics include reconfiguration, triangulations of planar point sets, shortest path algorithms, and folding and unfolding problems
Publications

Anna Lubiw on Google Scholar

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Ian McKillop
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors; Sessional Lecturers
photo of University Professor J. Ian Munro
519-888-4567, ext. 34433
Location: 
DC 2343

Feature article

University Professor Ian Munro’s Golden Jubilee — 50 years at the University of Waterloo

Degrees

  • PhD, Computer Science, University of Toronto (1971)
  • MSc, University of British Columbia
  • BA, University of New Brunswick

Research interests

  • Data structures, particularly fast and space-efficient structures
  • Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms
  • Database systems and data warehousing, particularly efficiency issues

Publications

Ian Munro on Google Scholar

Ian Munro on DBPL

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Ken Salem
519-888-4567, ext. 33485
Location: 
DC 3512

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Princeton University, United States (1989)
  • B.Sc., Carnegie-Mellon University, United States (1983)

Research interests

  • Data systems, especially synchronization, transactions, fault tolerance
  • Distributed systems and cloud computing

Publications

Ken Salem on DBLP

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Doug Stinson
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1981)
  • M.Sc., Ohio State University, United States (1980)
  • B.Math., University of Waterloo (1978)
Research interests
  • Cryptography and security: unconditionally secure cryptographic protocols, including secret sharing and authentication
  • Combinatorics: construction and analysis of combinatorial designs, error correcting codes, orthogonal arrays
  • Algorithms: algorithms to construct and analyze combinatorial structures
Publications

Doug Stinson on Google Scholar

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
David Taylor
519-888-4567, ext. 34432
Location: 
DC 3511
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1977)
  • M.Math., University of Waterloo (1974)
  • B.Sc., University of Saskatchewan (1972)
Research interests
  • Distributed computer systems, focusing on the debugging and monitoring of distributed applications by viewing their execution histories as being fundamentally a partially ordered set of events
  • Software fault tolerance, especially robust implementations of data structures
Publications

David Taylor on DBLP

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus
Professor Frank Tompa
519-888-4567, ext. 34675
Location: 
DC 1313
Degrees
  • LL.D., Dalhousie University (2013)
  • Ph.D., University of Toronto (1974)
  • M.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
  • B.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
Research interests
  • Database dependency theory, storage structure selection, query processing, materialized view maintenance, database integration, data retention, and access control
  • Text management systems, text matching, XML processing, information retrieval, structured text conversion, and text classification
  • Mathematics (text and formula) information retrieval
Publications

Frank Tompa on DBLP

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Professor van Beek
519-888-4567, ext. 35344
Location: 
DC 3354
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1990)
  • M.Math., University of Waterloo (1986)
  • B.Sc., University of British Columbia (1984)
Research interests
  • Artificial intelligence with a focus on representation and reasoning, constraint programming, constraint satisfaction, backtracking algorithms, planning, scheduling, combinatorial optimization, applied machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and applications of artificial intelligence
  • A recent additional interest is algorithms and techniques in computational photography
Publications

Peter van Beek Publications

Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Johnny Wong
519-888-4567, ext. 34431
Location: 
DC 3502
Group(s): 
Faculty→Emeritus