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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.