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
Data Science at Waterloo second nationally in QS World Subject Rankings
A recently released update to the QS subject ranking for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence puts the University of Waterloo second in Canada and 40th globally.
The results are part of the annual QS World University Rankings by Subject, which rank approximately 1,600 universities in 54 disciplines. Indicators for the subject rankings are drawn from a peer review survey, employer survey, citations data and collaboration data.
Q&A with the Experts: Why ChatGPT struggles with math
Professor Yuntian Deng explains why AI still finds it challenging to generalize beyond the data they have been trained on
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.
Events
PhD Defence • Programming Languages • Safe Memory Reclamation Techniques
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314.
Ajay Singh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Trevor Brown, Peter Buhr
Data Systems Seminar Series • Efficiency in Data Systems
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302.
Tilmann Rabl, Professor for Data Engineering Systems
Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam
Hasso Plattner Institute
Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • Effective Computational Representations for AI-Assisted Design
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 2568.
Yue Jiang, Final-year PhD student
Computational Behavior Lab, Aalto University