Friday, July 26, 2019

Md Faizul Bari, Michael Cormier and Michael Mior win Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Awards

photo of Md Faizul Bari

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural David R. Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. Established in 2019, this award was created to recognize excellence in computer science doctoral research and writing. 

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Charles Clarke, Gordon Cormack, Olga Vechtomova and colleagues win 2019 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award

photo of Professors Charles Clarke, Gordon Cormack and Olga Vechtomova

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Charlie Clarke and Gordon Cormack, Management Sciences Professor Olga Vechtomova, along with their former graduate students Maheedhar KollaAzin AshkanStefan Büt

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

IEEE elevates Professor Samer Al-Kiswany to grade of Senior Member

photo of Professor Samer Al-Kiswany

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Samer Al-Kiswany has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an honour bestowed to IEEE members who have made significant contributions to their profession.

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Technovation team String Theorists develop award-winning disaster relief app

photo of Ellen Brisley and Leya Oommen

The following excerpt is from “Waterloo students develop award-winning disaster relief app,” an article by Namish Modi published on July 10, 2019 in WaterlooChronicle.ca, the city of Waterloo community website of Metroland West Media.

Thursday, July 18, 2019

A strong negative result provides insight to improve RFID sensing systems

photo of Srinivasan Keshav, Liqiong Chang, Ju Wang and Omid Abari

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, those ribbons of metal with a tiny chip, are found in countless objects. From key fobs and payment cards to library books and inventory in a factory, these embedded inexpensive tags provide a way to uniquely and wirelessly identify objects.

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