News archive - 2019

Friday, November 15, 2019

Dan Brown to be next FAUW president

The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo — FAUW — is pleased to announce that Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Dan Brown will be the next FAUW president, starting a two-year term on July 1, 2020.

Congratulations, Dan!

A message from Dan Brown, FAUW president-elect

Friday, November 8, 2019

Johnny Wong and colleagues receive most influential paper award for work presented 10 years ago at CASCON 2009

photo of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Johnny Wong

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Johnny Wong, his former master’s student Ye Hu, and colleagues Marin Litoiu from York University and Gabriel Iszlai have received the most influential paper award for research they presented 10 years ago at CASCON 2009, the 19^thannual IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Designing IoT devices to benefit society

photo of David Radke, Amelia Holcomb, Omid Abari and Farzan Dehbashi

A device that detects if someone is drowning in a pool to help relieve a parent’s worry. A wireless gadget to more quickly identify fires, so everyone gets to safety. A system to track and assist people with Alzheimer’s to help calm a family’s fears when they’re not present. These are just a few examples of projects designed for social good by students in the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics graduate course, IoT and Intelligent Connectivity.

Friday, November 1, 2019

Team of systems and networking researchers wins best paper award at CNSM 2019

photo of Raouf Boutaba, Mubeen Zulfiqar, Sepehr Taeb, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury and Nashid Shahriar

Nashid Shahriar, Sepehr Taeb, Shihabur R. Chowdhury, Mubeen Zulfiqar, Massimo Tornatore, Raouf Boutaba, Jeebak Mitra and Mahdi Hemmati have received the best paper award at CNSM 2019, the 15^thInternational Conference on Network and Service Management.