Welcome to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1978, and made a transformational gift to the school in 2005. It has become the largest academic concentration of Computer Science researchers in Canada.
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News
- Sep. 18, 20182018 Loran Scholar pursuing computer science and business at the University of Waterloo
Katherine Gotovsky has been named a recipient of Canada’s largest and most comprehensive undergraduate merit award, conferred by the Loran Scholars Foundation.
This year, out of a pool of 5,023 applicants across the nation, and among 88 finalists, 34 earned the Loran Award, marking the largest class of scholars in the foundation’s history.
- Sep. 14, 2018Yuhao Dong, Woojung Kim and Raouf Boutaba win best student paper award at Blockchain-2018
Computer science doctoral student Yuhao Dong, master’s student Woojung Kim, along with their supervisor Professor Raouf Boutaba, have received the best student paper award at Blockchain-2018, the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain.
- Sep. 13, 2018Can labels on slot machines promote healthier gambling?
Professor Kevin Harrigan, Director of the Knowledge Translation Stream at Waterloo's Gambling Research Lab, and Professor Dan Brown, Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, are determined to figure out the best way to educate players about the addictive properties of slot machines and how much money they might win or lose.
Events
- Sep. 24, 2018Master’s Paper Presentation • Artificial Intelligence — On the Computational Complexity of Center-based Clustering
Nicole McNabb, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science - Sep. 24, 2018Inaugural Seminar • AI Institute — Artificial Intelligence — History, Opportunities and Challenges
Hamid Tizhoosh, SDE
University of WaterlooThe history of artificial intelligence (AI) contains several ebbs and flows and is marked by many colorful personalities. We review major milestones in the development of machine learning, starting from principal component analysis to deep networks, and point to a multitude of pivotal developments that have strongly contributed to drawing the historical path of AI.
- Sep. 25, 2018PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence — Learning Sparse Orthogonal Wavelet Filters
Daniel Recoskie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
