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Shahin Kamali, a PhD student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded the Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship.

Dr. Derick Wood was a Professor in the School from 1982 to 1992. He is widely known for his outstanding research contributions in a number of areas of theoretical Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, and formal languages.

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Second-year computer science student, Rudi Chen and second-year software engineering student, Shida Li have emerged victorious from the 27-hour long Nokia Imaging hackathon last week in Lund, Sweden.

As part of the David R. Cheriton Research Symposium which took place on Friday September 13, 28 graduate students displayed their posters in the Great Hall.

Tian Qi (Dinah) Shi of Mississauga was awarded one of three BlackBerry scholarships and will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science pursing a degree in software engineering programs this term. Shi joins Anastasia Santasheva of Maple, ON, a new Waterloo Engineering systems design engineering student, and Xiao Yan (Cheyenne) Guo of Toronto who joins the Faculty of Mathematics.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, August 15, 2013) - The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has named the University of Waterloo among the top 50 universities in the world for academic achievement in engineering/technology and computer science for the second year running.

Waterloo ranked at 43 in the world for Engineering and amongst the top 200 universities overall globally.

Professor Frank Tompa has been awarded an honourary degree by Halifax, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University.

David McKinnon, Henry Shi, and David Taylor

Henry Shi, a 3A Computer Science student, has been awarded both a co-op student of the year award from the University of Waterloo and one of two national awards from the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education.

Raouf Boutaba, Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC-ICI). Boutaba adds this fellowship to an impressive list of accolades having been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just over a year ago.

The School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo is the second Canadian university to be recognized by the CFA Institute University Recognition Program.

At Facebook’s College Hackathon, Waterloo beats 17 other teams with its social version of Siri.

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Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship awarded to Shahin Kamali

Second-year students victorious at Nokia Imaging Hackathon in Lund, Sweden

Cheriton Symposium Poster Competition results

BlackBerry scholarship recipient joins software engineering

Waterloo ranked among top 50 for engineering and technology by international rankings body

Professor Frank Tompa awarded honourary degree by Dalhousie University

Computer Science student awarded national co-op prize

Professor Raouf Boutaba named Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada

Computing Financial Management program recognized by CFA

Waterloo wins Facebook College Hackathon