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Our latest Black Team (Guru Guruganesh, Deon Nicholas, Geoffry Song) solved 8 of the 9 problems in the Association of Computing Machinery regional programming contest.  The team, coached by Cheriton School Associate Professor Ondřej Lhoták advanced to the World Finals to take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, summer 2013.

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo has built the world's largest simulation of a functioning brain, known as Spaun (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network). It can help scientists understand how the complex activity of the brain gives rise to the complex behaviour exhibited by animals, including humans.

Using several disciplines across campus including theoretical neuroscience, systems design engineering and computer science, Spaun was brought to life by lead researcher Chris Eliasmith and his affiliates.

At Facebook’s College Hackathon, Waterloo beats 17 other teams with its social version of Siri.

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Dr. Frank Tip has joined the Cheriton School as its first Cheriton Chair in Software Systems, a position funded by the School's naming endowment.
Prof. Tip has spent his career at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, here he has managed the Program Analysis and Transformation group since 2003. 

John Doucette, soon to begin his PhD at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded one of ten Vanier Scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

John will research resource allocation in multi-agent systems. He began his post-secondary education at Dalhousie University at the age of 15. He has also held an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and a David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship.