Thursday, March 13, 2014
The mathematics of making money
Algorithm developed by Waterloo computer scientist shows online brokerages are wasting investors’ money
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Waterloo's Computer Science ranked 10th in North America by QS
UK firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 10th, in their 2014 North American University Rankings. Computer Science also ranks 24th in the world – second among Canadian universities in this subject. This is the fourth consecutive year that Computer Science has risen in the international classification.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Boutaba awarded the 2014 McNaughton Medal
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Former graduate student awarded Best Student Paper Award at Buildsys Workshop
Former masters graduate student, Peter Xiang Gao, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 Buildsys Workshop held recently in Rome, Italy. Gao's paper titled "Optimal Personal Comfort Management Using SPOT" is co-authored by S.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Mark Giesbrecht named ACM Distinguished Scientist
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing comes to the University of Waterloo this weekend
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.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship awarded to Shahin Kamali
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.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
NSERC Banting Postdoctoral fellowship awarded to CS grad
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.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Distinguished Paper Award
The Influence of Non-Technical Factors on Code Review by Olga Baysal, Oleksii Kononenko, Reid Holmes and Mike Godfrey was awarded a Distinguished Paper Award at the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (2013).
The paper was invited to be extended for consideration in a special issue of the journal Empirical Software Engineering.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Colloquium Series Revived
Please come to the inaugural colloquium of the newly revived SCS Colloquium series this Thursday (October 17).
The idea of this series is to foster scientific community, discussion and buzz in the School. It will feature local and visiting speakers, with talks aimed at a general CS grad/faculty audience.
I hope to see you all at the talk, and at the reception in the Fishbowl afterwards!
Mark Giesbrecht