Three incoming computer science master’s students, Benjamin Schneider, Hala Sheta and Xin Yan, have been named recipients of this year’s Vector Institute Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI).
University Professor Ian Munro has been named a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, honouring his more than five decades of scholarly excellence, outstanding pedagogy and dedicated service to the university.
University Professor M. Tamer Özsu has received the ACM Presidential Award for long-standing and significant contributions to the computing field and its scientific community in general, as well as to ACM in particular. He is one of seven individuals recognized for exemplary service to the computing field.
Former Cheriton School of Computer Science staff member, Lawrence Folland, has been named an Honorary Member of the University of Waterloo.
A team of researchers based at the University of Waterloo have created a new tool – nicknamed “RAGE” – that reveals where large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are getting their information and whether that information can be trusted.
Liam Hebert, a PhD candidate at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Co-advised by Professors Robin Cohen at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and Lukasz Golab in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (cross-appointed to Computer Science), Liam is one of seven doctoral students at Waterloo to receive this honour.
A team of systems and networking researchers from the Cheriton School of Computer Science has received the 2024 CNOM Test of Time Paper Award for “Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks,” work that was presented originally at the IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management in 2013.
“In the tech industry, it’s so easy to lose track of the fact that we are humans designing things for other humans,” says Areena Akhter, who graduates with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science this month. “Whether we’re thinking about ethics or interfacing with diverse social systems, people need to be at the core of everything we do.”
Safi, a Waterloo-founded milk pasteurization start-up, was invited to present at the United Nations as part of a Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Four computer science students and graduates have received the top honours at the 42nd annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). It took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, from May 11th to 16th, 2024.
Organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CHI is the premier international Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conference. It is also one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science.