Chris Eliasmith, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
Department of Systems Design Engineering
Mirela Ben-Chen, Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing
Computer Science Department, Technion
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Professor Florian Kerschbaum a Distinguished Member. He joins 62 individuals globally who have received this prestigious recognition in 2019 for outstanding scientific contributions.
Janusz (John) A. Brzozowski, a pioneer of Canadian computing and a Professor of Computer Science at the University Waterloo for more than five decades, passed away peacefully on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at Lisaard House after a long battle with cancer. He was 84.
Crispin Cowan, Leviathan Security Group
Privacy, especially anonymity, is tricky, because you don’t want to trust anyone, lest your identity leak, but you must trust someone, or else you cannot communicate. Threat modeling is rarely used in privacy, instead most used for prioritizing security hardening efforts.
Bundit Laekhanukit, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Yuhao Dong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Vic DiCiccio has been designated an Honorary Member of the University of Waterloo at the 2019 Fall Convocation for his outstanding service to the University.