News archive - February 2019

Monday, February 11, 2019

Building the next generation of tech leaders in Africa

Nadayar Enegesi (BCS ’13) computer science alumnus and Andela co-founder, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (BA ’12), legal studies alumnus and

Alumni startup Andela receives $180 million investment

Back in 2016, on a sticky late-August day, a guy named Mark walked through the streets of Yaba, a historic neighbourhood in Lagos, Nigeria. He was keeping it low key. Just a few handlers and security guards sweating buckets in the heat as they all made the two-kilometre journey on foot.

Friday, February 8, 2019

Making homes smart could become easier

photo of Ali Abedi, Tim Brecht, Omid Abari and Farzan Dehbashi

Making your house “smart” could soon become cheaper and easier, thanks to new technology developed by researchers at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Their recent study describes an approach that can be used to deploy, for the first time, battery-free sensors in a home using existing WiFi networks. Previous attempts to use battery-free sensors ran into some obstacles, making the efforts impractical. These hurdles include the need to modify existing WiFi access points, challenges with security protocols, and the need to use energy-hungry components.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Maura Grossman named Director of Women in Computer Science

photo of Maura Grossman

Maura R. Grossman is a Research Professor and Director of Women in Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, as well as an eDiscovery attorney and consultant in Buffalo, New York. 

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Two CS students among winning team of Waterloo students at CBC/Radio-Canada’s 2019 Hackathon

photo of Team Dysonsphere

A team of five students from the University of Waterloo has won the CBC Digital Products Award at CBC/Radio-Canada’s Hackathon 2019, the public broadcaster’s first-ever national bilingual hackathon held simultaneously at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto and at Maison de Radio-Canada in Montreal.

Monday, February 4, 2019

Professor Bin Ma receives $463k grant from Genome Canada to improve precision medicine

Photo of Professor Bin Ma

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Bin Ma has received $462,998 in research support from Genome Canada for an ambitious three-year project titled “Software for peptide identification and quantification from large mass spectrometry data using data independent acquisition.” 

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