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A security researcher at the University of Leuven in Belgium recently discovered a serious weakness in Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), a protocol that secures almost all modern Wi-Fi networks, potentially exposing wireless Internet traffic to eavesdroppers and attackers.

The flaw is known as KRACK, short for Key Reinstallation AttaCK, and it could allow a hacker within range of your router, smartphone, computer or other wireless device to break encryption.

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been ranked second in Canada and 15^th globally in the latest U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities assessment. The scores evaluate 1,250 universities across 74 countries and are the largest and most comprehensive assessment of research universities worldwide.

Two researchers in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have received John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) awards from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The funding will provide them with infrastructure support to expand their research programs. The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, made the funding announcement in Sudbury today.

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A Waterloo-local Association for Computing Machinery-style programming contest took place today on Saturday, September 30, 2017 with an unprecedented turnout — 154 registered contestants participated and 81 contestants solved at least one problem successfully.

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science unveiled a new lab on Thursday, September 28, 2017. Located on the third floor of the Davis Centre, the recently completed 5,000 square foot data systems lab is an open-concept space for more than 70 undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and other researchers to conduct innovative, high-impact research in big data and data science.

Each year, the David R. Cheriton Research Symposium holds a poster competition for graduate students. In total, 29 graduate students participated in the 2017 competition.

Posters were on display in the Great Hall, as students explained the theory behind and the results and impacts of their research to David R. Cheriton and a panel of judges.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 Cheriton Research Symposium poster competition. Congratulations to the winners and to all who participated in the poster contest!

Recent PhD graduate Martin Derka, his supervisor Professor Therese Biedl and colleagues Markus Chimani and Petra Mutzel received the best paper award for “Crossing number for graphs with bounded pathwidth,” which will be presented at ISAAC 2017 — the 28^th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation.