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Professor Pascal Poupart got hooked on computer science early. It began decades ago when he took a programming course and fell in love with the discipline. But perhaps even he didn’t foresee how this nascent interest in coding would lead to developing interactive artificial intelligence that improves hockey and physical and mental health.

Professor Pascal Poupart in his lab.

The University of Waterloo has the distinction of being the only Canadian university to have graduates who have created unicorns — start-up companies valued at more than $1 billion.

Six graduates have founded four start-up firms that have achieved unicorn status, so named because they are as uncommon as the spiral-horned creatures of fantasy and mythology.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Janusz (John) Brzozowski and Professor J. Ian Munro have each won a 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science.

Conferred by the Canadian Association of Computer Science, these prestigious awards are given annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in research, teaching and service over a distinguished academic career.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professors Michael Godfrey and Urs Hengartner have been appointed as Association for Computing Machinery senior members. 

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has named 45 distinguished members, including David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science director of Women in Computer Science Jo Atlee, for their individual contributions to the field of computing. Their achievements have advanced the science, engineering and education of computing, and highlight the growing role of computing in the major technological advances shaping society today. 

Raouf Boutaba, a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 TCIIN Technical Achievement Award.

Photo: Representatives from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Sciences celebrate signing their dual degree doctoral program (cotutelle) agreement in Beijing.