News archive - 2015

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

In the News: [The Record] RSVP Technologies Inc. receives grant from the federal government

The startup RSVP Technologies Inc. will receive up to $950,000 from the federal government to build cutting-edge software that hears questions and provides answers in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

RSVP Technologies Inc. was co-founded in 2013 by CEO and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Ming Li, and postdoctoral fellow Anqi Cui, vice-president engineering.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Student Portal collaborates with student developers

A message from the Student Portal team. This article originally appeared in the Daily Bulletin on July 6, 2015.

The Student Portal has recently reached an exciting milestone: adding a portal feature created by a student web developer.

Our first student-developed feature is the Open Classrooms widget, which allows students to view nearly real-time classroom availability (in Registrar’s Office managed rooms) which they can use as study space.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

CS researchers on verge of a breakthrough chosen for NSERC funding boost

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professors Therese Beidl and Lap Chi Lau have been selected to receive a funding boost to further their transformational and potentially groundbreaking research from The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Friday, June 12, 2015

Trevor Grove named Honorary Member of the University

Trevor Grove

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science member Trevor Grove, has been named an Honorary Member of the University and will be presented during this afternoon's convocation ceremony. Grove retired from the University of Waterloo in November 2014 after being involved at the University in one capacity or another since he started his Bachelor of Mathematics in computer science in 1974.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Researchers awarded 2015 SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award

Congratulations to Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu and Vincent Oria who were awarded the 2015 SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management Of Data Conference this week, for their 2005 SIGMOD paper "Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories."

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