Written by Sakshi Jain
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science undergraduate students Benjamin Winger and Andrew Crichton recently took part in the Unmanned Systems Canada Student Unmanned Air System Competition (USC Student UAS Competition) in Alma, Quebec.
The startup RSVP Technologies Inc. will receive up to $950,000 from the federal government to build cutting-edge software that hears questions and provides answers in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
RSVP Technologies Inc. was co-founded in 2013 by CEO and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Ming Li, and postdoctoral fellow Anqi Cui, vice-president engineering.
A message from the Student Portal team. This article originally appeared in the Daily Bulletin on July 6, 2015.
The Student Portal has recently reached an exciting milestone: adding a portal feature created by a student web developer.
Our first student-developed feature is the Open Classrooms widget, which allows students to view nearly real-time classroom availability (in Registrar’s Office managed rooms) which they can use as study space.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professors Therese Beidl and Lap Chi Lau have been selected to receive a funding boost to further their transformational and potentially groundbreaking research from The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Raouf Boutaba has been inducted as a Fellow to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Congratulations to Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu and Vincent Oria who were awarded the 2015 SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management Of Data Conference this week, for their 2005 SIGMOD paper "Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories."