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
- July 18, 2018Liquid animations so realistic you can almost taste them
Anyone who’s poured honey onto a stack of pancakes likely has been intrigued by the golden liquid’s motion as it oozes, buckles and coils like a rope. This behaviour is caused by the high viscosity of honey, a physical property of gooey liquids that makes them resistant to deformation.
- July 11, 2018Hustle to success — The unlikely entrepreneur
In February 2008, while working towards his degree in computer science, Sam Pasupalak found out that Bill Gates was speaking at the University of Waterloo. He had no ticket, but it didn’t stop him. Carrying T-shirts and bags to appear as a volunteer, he slipped past security and received a pink wristband. To get the one remaining seat and past the second round of security, he pulled off his first hustle.
- July 10, 2018Computer science researchers help answer an age-old medical science question
by Rose Simone
Why do our veins look blue when blood is red? This is a seemingly elementary science trivia question, and certainly not one that computer science researchers would be expected to be interested in.
Events
- July 20, 2018PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics Group — TwitSong: The Evolution of a Poetry Generator
Carolyn Lamb, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceWe describe three versions of TwitSong, a system that generates poetry based on the news. TwitSong is designed to make aesthetic decisions about potential lines of poetry and, in the third version, to edit its own work. We describe how the system was developed, how it performs in user studies, and why this type of computer-generated poetry still has a long way to go.
- July 20, 2018PhD Defence • Quantum Computing Computational Problems Related to Open Quantum Systems
Chunhao Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science - July 24, 2018PhD Seminar • Software Engineering — Transfer Learning for Improving Model Predictions in Highly Configurable Software
Pavel Valov, PhD candidate
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