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Mark Giesbrecht, a professor with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist.

The University of Waterloo and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science will host the fourth annual Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing this weekend.

The conference brings together female professionals from across the province, students and faculty who are interested in, or working in, computing. The conference, on November 8 and 9 helps generate excitement about the field while providing attendees with opportunities for networking, sharing and mentoring.

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.

Sevag Gharibian, a PhD graduate from the David R. Cheriton School and current postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkley, has been awarded a prestigious NSERC Banting Postdoctoral fellowship based on his work while at the University of Waterloo.

Doctoral candidate, Carol (Jun) Fung (Computer security group, Raouf Boutaba), has been awarded the 2013 Alumni Gold Medal (PhD program) which will be presented during the October convocation

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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.

Jim Mitchell, Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging at Oracle Labs, is a Waterloo alumnus who graduated not only with a degree in Mathematics/Physics Option, but with some extraordinary firsthand experience. As an undergraduate, he was one of the four developers of the first WATFOR FORTRAN compiler.

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.

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Mark Giesbrecht named ACM Distinguished Scientist

Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing comes to the University of Waterloo this weekend

Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship awarded to Shahin Kamali

NSERC Banting Postdoctoral fellowship awarded to CS grad

Doctoral candidate awarded 2013 Alumni Gold Medal

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

Cheriton Symposium Poster Competition results

BlackBerry scholarship recipient joins software engineering

Jim Mitchell, Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging at Oracle Labs, returns to Waterloo

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