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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Mike Schaekermann receives prestigious 2018 Google PhD Fellowship

PhD candidate Mike Schaekermann is one of 39 recipients globally and the only candidate from Canada to receive a prestigious 2018 Google PhD Fellowship. Established in 2009 and awarded annually since, Google PhD Fellowships recognize and support exceptional doctoral students as they pursue their research, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction — Tell Me What To Do: Understanding the Information Needs of Parents of Young Children

Anastasia Kuzminykh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

While technologies exist that are either marketed for or can be adapted to the monitoring of toddlers and school-age children, parents' perspectives on these technologies have received only limited attention. 

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction — Introducing Transient Gestures to Improve Pan and Zoom on Touch Surfaces

Jeff Avery, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Despite the ubiquity of touch-based input and the availability of increasingly computationally powerful touchscreen devices, there has been comparatively little work on enhancing basic canonical gestures such as swipe-to-pan and pinch-to-zoom. 

Thursday, April 5, 2018 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics — Protein Structure Elastic Network Model Normal Mode Analysis and the Rank 3 Positive Semidefinite Matrix Manifold

Xiao-Bo Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Friday, April 6, 2018 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics — Protein Structure Constrained Dynamics and the Rank 3 Positive Semidefinite Matrix Manifold

Xiao-Bo Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Friday, April 6, 2018 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Digital Playground: Computational Digital Art Capstone Exhibition

Come out to The Critical Media Lab at 44 Gaukel Street in Kitchener is experience the first ever Computational Digital Art Capstone Exhibition, where you will see interactive and digital art pieces made by students from the University of Waterloo!

Featured artists
Erin Kim
Helga Jiang
Susie Su
Simon Yu
Bonnie Wu
Stephanie Lin
Saadiya Desai
Jennifer Wu
Jimmie Shan

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Search results influence people’s decisions about treatment effectiveness

We’ve all done it — felt a cough, headache or fever coming on then searched online for a remedy. If you’re like most people, you’re probably confident you can assess the effectiveness of treatments you find on the web, separating medically beneficial ones from those that are a waste of money, dubious or even harmful.

Monday, April 9, 2018 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms / Privacy — Protecting Privacy & Guaranteeing Generalization by Controlling Information

Thomas Steinke, Postdoctoral researcher
IBM Almaden Research Center

​As data is being more widely collected and used, privacy and statistical validity are becoming increasingly difficult to protect. Sound solutions are needed, as ad hoc approaches have resulted in several high-profile failures.