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Friday, June 26, 2020 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Robot Social Engineering

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Brittany Postnikoff, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

This thesis establishes the new field of Robot Social Engineering. We define Robot Social Engineering as the use of social abilities and techniques by robots to manipulate others in order to achieve a goal. We build the field of Robot Social Engineering on the foundations of Human-Robot Interaction research on social robots as well as information security research on social engineering.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Unconscious Bias: How to Recognize and Interrupt It

Please join Women in Computer Science for this free, virtual event with Kathleen Nalty, an expert in strategies to create cultures of inclusion to retain and advance diverse talent.

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Monday, June 22, 2020 9:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Toward an Interoperable and Centralized Consent Centric Access Control Model for Healthcare Resources: Model and Implementation

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Hassan Mousaid, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

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Friday, May 29, 2020

WiCS receives $90,000 from NSERC to develop technology entrepreneurship programs for girls and young women

Women in Computer Science has received $90,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s PromoScience Program to establish Girls Mean Business. This new WiCS outreach program will encourage girls and young women in grades 6 to 12 to explore technology and to develop their entrepreneurial skills.

Professor Ali Abedi, Gunesh Pinar, Ku Young Shin and Xiaoyu Wu
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Calculating the future of COVID-19

A group of computer science students are applying big data practices to predicting the end of COVID-19 cases in Canada. Their findings? October 15, 2020.

Faced with this unprecedented situation of pivoting to online learning, many of Waterloo’s instructors wanted to get their students involved in research around COVID-19.

One such instructor is Cheriton School of Computer Science’s Ali Abedi, who teaches two big data courses — Data Intensive Distributed Computing (CS451) and Data Intensive Distributed Analytics (CS431).

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Friday, June 5, 2020 8:30 am - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Alumni Day & Virtual Celebration of the Math Class of 2020

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This time last year we saw our 40,000th alumnus cross the stage and we celebrated every graduating student in the Faculty of Mathematics. We can’t do that for the Class of 2020 because of COVID-19. This year’s event will be virtual as we celebrate the 1,200 mathies who deserve a memorable finale for their years of hard work and diligent study. We hope to hold an in-person ceremony as soon as we are able.