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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Beyond Tradition – A documentary about Waterloo and its early days in computer science research and application

Screen grab of Wes Graham, Waterloo's father of computing

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ken McLaughlin has spent his career uncovering and shaping the stories of our local communities into urban portraits that breathe with the life of great biographies.

Monday, February 17, 2020

AI should not leave structured data behind

The following is an article written by Professor Ihab Ilyas, a faculty member of the Cheriton School of Computer Science’s Data Systems Group and the Thomson Reuters Research Chair in Data

Friday, January 31, 2020

Jason Hu and Ondrej Lhoták receive a Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020

Recent MMath graduate Jason Hu and Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Ondřej Lhoták have received a Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020, the 47^thACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers use FLAIR to increase the speed of data retrieval

Ahmed Alquraan, Samer Al-Kiswany and Ibrahim Kettaneh in server room

Computer scientists at Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have found a novel approach that significantly improves the storage efficiency and output speed of computer systems.

Current data storage systems use only one storage server to process information, making them slow to retrieve information to display for the user. A backup server only becomes active if the main storage server fails.

Friday, January 24, 2020

Amine Mhedhbi awarded coveted 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

photo of Amine Mhedhbi in the Davis Centre

PhD candidate Amine Mhedhbi is one of 10 recipients across North America and the only recipient from Canada to receive a 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Steven Feng and Shannon Veitch selected for honorable mention in CRA’s 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards

Undergraduate students Steven Feng and Shannon Veitch have each received a prestigious honorable mention for their research from the Computing Research Association. The annual CRA awards program recognizes undergraduate students from universities across North America who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing science.

Friday, January 3, 2020

Master’s student Alex Parmentier develops novel method to detect anti-social behaviour online

Researchers in artificial intelligence have developed an innovative way to identify a range of anti-social behaviour online. The new technique, led by Alex Parmentier, a master’s student at Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, detects anti-social behaviour by examining the reaction to a post among members of an online forum rather than examining features of the original post itself.

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers find that people are too trusting of virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri

photoof Anastasia Kuzminykh, Jenny Sun, Niv Govindaraju, Jeff Avery, Ed Lank

Attributing lifelike qualities to conversational assistants could cause people to reveal more personal information to the companies that develop the assistants than they otherwise would.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Maura R. Grossman recognized as a National and a Global eDiscovery Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2020

Research Professor Maura Grossman has been named both a National Leader in Canada among eDiscovery Practitioners and a Global Leader among eDiscovery Lawyers by Who’s Who Legal 2020.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Shai Ben-David and Yaoliang Yu named to top Canadian chair program in AI

photo of Professors Shai Ben-David and Yaoliang Yu

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Shai Ben-David and Yaoliang Yu have been named Canada CIFAR AI Chairs. They are among the 34 leading researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning across Canada who form the third cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs announced today.