Friday, May 20, 2011

Google focused research award for four Cheriton School of Computer Science faculty members announced

Professors Charles Clarke, Gordon Cormack, Michael Terry and Urs Hengartner, have received $900,000 over 3 years from Google to support research in context-aware mobile social networking. The funding will support two graduate students to work with each researcher on this project in collaboration with Google.

Friday, May 20, 2011

CS students among the winners of Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships

Cheriton School of Computer Science (CS) undergraduate student, Jacqueline Mok and PhD candidate, Carol Fung, won two of five Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships available to students enrolled at Canadian universities. "Both of these students have made outstanding contributions to the work of women in CS and the School in general," notes Professor Nancy Day, Chair of the Cheriton School's Women in CS committee.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Seven CS professors and one grad student win outstanding achievement awards

Seven professors and one graduate student of the Cheriton School of Computer Science were recognized with outstanding achievement awards at a reception held at the Davis Centre during the afternoon of May 4th. The honourees include Ming Li, recipient of the Killam Prize, Richard Cleve, who was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Reza Dorrigiv, who was honoured for outstanding achievement in graduate studies.

Friday, April 1, 2011

CS grad student awarded for exceptional teaching

John Champaign, a graduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. This is one of four awards for 2011. John also holds a Cheriton Scholarship for academic excellence in the area of artificial intelligence under the supervision of Professor Robin Cohen. The winners' names were announced at a recent Waterloo senate meeting by Sue Horton, the associate provost (graduate studies).

Friday, February 11, 2011

CS professor named Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher

Ian Goldberg, a Cheriton School of Computer Science Assistant Professor, has been named an Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Ian's research focuses on privacy enhancing technologies: tools and systems that help you maintain the privacy of your Internet transactions and communications.

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