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Recent computer science master’s graduate Aayush Rajasekaran, along with his supervisor Professor Jeffrey Shallit and Professors Parthasarathy Madhusudan of the University of Illinois and Dirk Nowotka of Kiel University in Germany, have received the EATCS Best Paper Award at MFCS 2018, 43^rdInternational Symposium on M

Sihem Amer-Yahia, Professor Semih Salihoglu, PhD candidates Siddhartha Sah, Amine Mhedhbi, Professor Tamer Özsu, Jimmy Lin

One often-heard complaint is that academics labour away in their ivory towers, divorced from happenings in the real world. A few years ago, Professor Semih Salihoglu of the Data Systems Group at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science noticed exactly this for graph processing.

As Judge Brett Kavanaugh faces the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, debate rages on Capitol Hill if sufficient time is available for senators to substantially review the 42,000 documents released the night before his hearing was scheduled to begin concerning his time in the George W. Bush White House.

Computers can now learn to solve networking problems for themselves, a study from the University of Waterloo has found.

Professors John Brzozowski and Lila Kari, Bai Li (BCS 2017) and their colleague Marek Szykuła from the University of Wrocław in Poland have received the Sheng Yu Award for best paper at CIAA 2018, the 23^rd International Conference on Implementation and Applications of Automata.

PhD candidate Joseph Haraldson, with coauthors Professors Mark Giesbrecht and George Labahn, has won the Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC 2018, the 43^rd International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation.

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Why do our veins look blue when blood is red? This is a seemingly elementary science trivia question, and certainly not one that computer science researchers would be expected to be interested in.

Physics-based animation can be used to test the strength of bridges and to make realistic animated films that blow your mind.

An article by Mirjam Guesgen excerpted from Motherboard, a multi-platform multimedia publication.

Professor Robin Cohen has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association. She is the first female recipient of the Association’s highest honour, an award that is conferred to individuals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding research excellence in artificial intelligence during the course of their academic career.

PhD student Michael Abebe is one of six recipients worldwide and the only recipient from Canada to receive a prestigious 2018 Facebook Emerging Scholar Award.

Launched in 2017, Facebook’s Emerging Scholar Awards support talented students from under-represented groups in the technology sector to encourage them to continue their PhD studies, pursue innovative research, and engage with the broader research community.

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Aayush Rajasekaran, Jeffrey Shallit, Parthasarathy Madhusudan and Dirk Nowotka win EATCS Best Paper Award at MFCS 2018

University of Waterloo researchers reveal real-world challenges in graph processing

TAR allows timely pre-confirmation review of Kavanaugh documents

Machine learning the solution to networking problems

John Brzozowski, Lila Kari, Bai Li and Marek Szykuła win Sheng Yu Award at CIAA 2018

Joseph Haraldson wins ACM SIGSAM Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC ‘18

Computer science researchers help answer an age-old medical science question

Professor Christopher Batty: A computer scientist who makes incredibly satisfying computer animations

Professor Robin Cohen receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association

Michael Abebe receives prestigious 2018 Facebook Emerging Scholar Award