Photo: Representatives from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Sciences celebrate signing their dual degree doctoral program (cotutelle) agreement in Beijing.
The University of Waterloo's ACM competition teams dominated at the 2016 Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest East Central North America Regional Programming Contest, held October 29, 2016. The programming contest took place at the University of Windsor and was the qualifying contest for the ACM ICPC World Finals for teams from Ontario, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor, Raouf Boutaba, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award.
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been ranked #1 in Canada by U.S. News' Global University Rankings.
This ranking sees Waterloo's Computer Science program move up from 19th globally, to 18th. The Cheriton School of Computer Science has continuously placed in the top 20 subject-area rankings.
Two outstanding researchers who are conducting transformative work in areas as diverse as software and gamification, and transportation and land use will join the University of Waterloo after winning prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Thomson Reuters and the University of Waterloo are joining forces to fuel breakthroughs in data science and develop the next generation of global entrepreneurial leaders. The wide-ranging collaboration is valued at over CAD $20 million over the next five years and will include:
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Tamer Özsu was recently named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
An innovative wearable technology for standing desks that creates a new way of interacting with your computer could reduce cyberslacking and increase healthy movement.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are hoping to make computing a bit more fun and physically active all while helping computer users kick cyberslacking habits by introducing a foot interaction method for computer users with a standing desk.
If you’re looking for a way to use a computer more efficiently, researchers at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science may have a solution for you.
Master’s candidate Jingjie Zheng and Professor Daniel Vogel have recently filed a patent that would allow computer users to trigger different shortcut commands by pressing the same keyboard key with different fingers, hands, or hand postures.