David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Matei Zaharia as the recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has enabled large-scale machine learning, analytics, and AI at global scale.

Cameron Seth, a PhD student at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, took home the Totzke Trophy at the University of Waterloo’s 64^th annual Athletic Awards Banquet.

Which of the following might leave a University of Waterloo student trembling in fear?

(A) Sleeping in and missing a midterm

(B) Being at the tail end of the semester and not having a co-op placement yet

(C) Seeing a Canada goose on the way to class