This article originally appeared on Waterloo Stories
In a perfect world, computer science Professor Jo Atlee would like to glance around her classroom and see an even mixture of male and female students.
The Faculty of Mathematics and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are partnering with the Student Success Office to invite students to the student portal starting February 9.
This new online communications tool is enhancing the student experience by delivering just-enough, just-in-time information for current students.
Robert Bridson (BMath '98, MMath '99) has been awarded a Science and Technical Academy Award for "early conceptualization of sparse-tiled voxel data structures and their application to modeling and simulation."
Danny Yaroslavski, a graduate from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (2014) was named to the Forbes "30 under 30: Education" list, for his work in founding the company Lightbot. Lightbot teaches children ages four and up how to code though gaming.
The Waterloo Black team finished 1st at the East Central North America Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest in Windsor, Ontario this past weekend. The Waterloo Red and Gold teams, which comprised of only first and second year students, placed impressively 7th and 8th place respectively.
On September 19, the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science hosted it's annual research symposium in the Davis Centre.
28 graduate students, including those who were awarded Cheriton scholarships displayed their research posters in the great hall. Two prizes are awarded to the best posters present at the symposium. The first prize winner is awarded $300 and $200 goes to the second prize winner.
On September 22, 2014 the Office of the President honoured the 189 2013-14 Warrior Academic All-Canadians including three students belonging to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.
Academic All-Canadians are students who have maintained an average of 80% and higher while competing for an interuniversity sport. The University of Waterloo has one of the highest percentages of academic all-Canadian student-athletes in the country each year.
CS Professor Craig Kaplan's research was featured in a column hosted by The Guardian titled "Alex's Adventures in Numberland", this week.
CS alumnus Paul Salvini has been appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Accelerator Centre and Associate Vice-President, Research Commercialization at the University of Waterloo.
Read the media release on http://acceleratorcentre.com
