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Wednesday, August 19, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction — Comparing Smartphone Speech Recognition and Touchscreen Typing for Composition and Transcription

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Margaret Foley, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Monday, August 10, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages — TreeGen: A Monotonically Impure Functional Language

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Alistair Hackett, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present TreeGen, an impure functional language designed to express, consume, and validate JSON-like documents, as well as generate text files. The language aims to provide a more reliable and flexible way to create customised Interface Definition Languages, since the current state of the art is implemented via monolithic, ad-hoc codebases which cannot easily be modified.

Thursday, August 6, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Learn2Perturb: an End-to-end Feature Perturbation Learning to Improve Adversarial Robustness

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Ahmadreza Jeddi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Friday, August 7, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction — LightPlay: An Ambient Light System for Video Game Indicators and Notifications

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Kin Pong (Kenny) Fung, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

photo of Ian Milligan, Jimmy Lin, Nick Ruest and Jefferson Bailey
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

One-stop collection and analysis with Archive-It and the Archives Unleashed Project

Suppose you’re an archivist, librarian, or historian who’s trying to document and preserve for posterity a narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic or the ongoing Black Lives Matters protests. You’ll naturally be gathering documents from the web, and with tools available today it won’t be difficult to accumulate thousands or even millions of relevant records. How can you make sure that a scholar down the road can actually use the material that you’ve collected?

photo of Professor Bin Ma
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Rapid Novor, cofounded by Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Bin Ma, secures $5-million USD to decode antibodies for potential treatments for COVID-19 and other illnesses

A world-leading University of Waterloo spinoff company, that decodes blood samples for potential treatments for illnesses like cancer and COVID-19, is expanding operations with the help of a $5-million USD investment.

Bin Ma, a University of Waterloo computer science professor who cofounded Rapid Novor in 2015, says the company’s technology is the most advanced in the world when it comes to deciphering the complex workings of antibody proteins, a process called sequencing.

Monday, August 10, 2020 11:00 pm - 11:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Making Renewable Energy Certificates Efficient, Trustworthy, and Private

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Dimcho Karakashev, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — On the Relationship Between the Developer’s Perceptible Ethnicity and the Evaluation of Contributions in GitHub

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Reza Nadri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Context: Open Source Software (OSS) projects are typically the result of collective efforts performed by developers with different backgrounds. Although the quality of developers’ contributions should be the only factor influencing the evaluation of the contributions to OSS projects, recent studies have shown that diversity issues affect the acceptance or rejection of the contributions.