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Monday, December 18, 2023

All that jazz

photo of David Hao, Andrew Lee and Ray Kong

In an interview with Down Beat magazine, the jazz legend Thelonious Monk once said, “All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”

For the University of Waterloo Jazz Ensemble, that connection between music and math is explicit. This fall term, 16 students and one alum were in the Jazz Ensemble. Eight of those students were from the Faculty of Mathematics, with two from the Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Monday, December 11, 2023

Predictive rendering of bluish colourations that can be observed when light is transmitted through snow

image of a winter scene

A duo of Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers has digitized snow into a new model that can be applied to better understand the impact of climate change.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Maura Grossman among panellists in Waterloo's Antagonism and Intimidation in Academia series

photo of Lai-Tze Fan, Kelly Grindrod, Maura R. Grossman, Trevor C. Charles

Waterloo researchers are renowned for their work that improves societies, economies, technologies and health for humanity. But, like many scholars, they have also experienced aggressive responses to their research.

In an effort to address this hostility, the Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the Office of Research hosted a recent panel discussion as part of their “Antagonism and Intimidation in Academia” series. 

Friday, December 1, 2023

Cohere hackathon challenges students to use AI to solve pressing problems

photo of Cohere Hackathon with Jimmy Lin

In a rapidly evolving world where artificial intelligence is reshaping not only entire industries but the world itself, students need to be prepared to harness this technology to solve pressing issues. With this goal in mind, Cohere and Waterloo.AI sponsored a student-led hackathon that focused on Retrieval Augmented Generation — also known as RAG — at the University of Waterloo’s IDEAs clinic.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Partnership with Rogers to revolutionize the landscape of telecommunication and network management

photo of Professor Raouf Boutaba and his research team

The emergence of 5G technology is transforming telecommunications, granting people and industry remarkable capabilities. With research advancements, in the future we could see 5G offer speeds of up to 20 gigabits per second, far surpassing 4G’s capabilities. This speed not only enables lightning-fast downloads, its low latency, as low as 1 millisecond, is ideal for real-time applications like remote surgery and augmented or virtual reality. 

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