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 at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.
News
Theoretical neuroscientists receive ENNS Best Paper Award at ICANN 2024
A team of theoretical neuroscientists has received the European Neural Network Society Best Paper Award at ICANN 2024, the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. The prestigious recognition was given for their paper “Biologically-plausible Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling from Vector Symbolic Algebra-encoded Distributions.”
Led by P. Michael Furlong, Research Officer at the NRC-UW Collaboration Centre, along with colleagues Kathryn Simone, Nicole Dumont, Madeleine Bartlett, Terrence Stewart and Professors Jeff Orchard and Chris Eliasmith, the work describes a way that a network of spiking neurons can generate random samples from a probability distribution. The distribution is encoded using vector symbolic algebra, a type of compositional language embedded in a vector space.
Security researchers honoured with 2024 Best Portuguese Internet Research Award by ISOC.pt
An international team of security researchers has received the prestigious 2024 Best Portuguese Internet Research Award from the Portuguese Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC.pt). The researchers were recognized for their paper, “Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor Onion Service Sessions with Sliding Subset Sum,” work that uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the Tor network.
Computer science students's art luminates Uptown Waterloo
Student-led installation attracted 3,000 visitors at the annual Lumen festival
Events
DLS: I.F. Akyildiz — NETWORKING 2030: Metaverse, Extended Reality, Hologram Type and Mulsemedia Communication Challenges for 6G/Beyond Wireless Systems
Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1304 and online.
I.F. Akyildiz, Professor, Telecommunications
President & CTO, Truva Inc.
PhD Seminar • Empirical Software Engineering • Reevaluating the Defect Proneness of Atoms of Confusion in Java Systems
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Guoshuai Shi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Michael Godfrey
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • The Role of Modularization in Minimizing Vulnerability Propagation and Enhancing SCA Precision
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.
Mohammad Mahdi Abdollahpour, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Lam