News archive - January 2020

Friday, January 31, 2020

Jason Hu and Ondrej Lhoták receive a Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020

Recent MMath graduate Jason Hu and Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Ondřej Lhoták have received a Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020, the 47thACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers use FLAIR to increase the speed of data retrieval

Ahmed Alquraan, Samer Al-Kiswany and Ibrahim Kettaneh in server room

Computer scientists at Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have found a novel approach that significantly improves the storage efficiency and output speed of computer systems. 

Current data storage systems use only one storage server to process information, making them slow to retrieve information to display for the user. A backup server only becomes active if the main storage server fails. 

Friday, January 24, 2020

Amine Mhedhbi awarded coveted 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

photo of Amine Mhedhbi in the Davis Centre

PhD candidate Amine Mhedhbi is one of 10 recipients across North America and the only recipient from Canada to receive a 2020 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Steven Feng and Shannon Veitch selected for honourable mention in CRA’s 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards

photo of Shannon Veitch and Steven Feng

Undergraduate students Steven Feng and Shannon Veitch have each received a prestigious honorable mention for their research from the Computing Research Association. The annual CRA awards program recognizes undergraduate students from universities across North America who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing science.

Friday, January 3, 2020

Master’s student Alex Parmentier develops novel method to detect anti-social behaviour online

photo of Alex Parmentier

Researchers in artificial intelligence have developed an innovative way to identify a range of anti-social behaviour online. The new technique, led by Alex Parmentier, a master’s student at Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, detects anti-social behaviour by examining the reaction to a post among members of an online forum rather than examining features of the original post itself.

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