Friday, September 23, the annual Cheriton Symposium will begin with research seminars by Professors Therese Biedl and Robin Cohen. Professor Biedl, recently named the Ross and Muriel Cheriton Fellow will discuss the technical complexities required to create various styles of cartograms. Professor Robin Cohen, a Cheriton faculty fellow, will speak about issues of trust and incentives to honesty in intelligent agent environments.
Professor David R. Cheriton of Stanford University, an alumnus of Computer Science at Waterloo, and for whom the School is named, provided an endowment to support graduate students and researchers at the School. Students will present a poster of their research to Professor Cheriton during the day. For research abstracts and a complete schedule of the day's activities please visit Annual Cheriton Research Symposium.