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Two outstanding researchers who are conducting transformative work in areas as diverse as software and gamification, and transportation and land use will join the University of Waterloo after winning prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo is hosting its second annual Undergraduate Research Opportunities Conference (UROC) this coming fall. Following enthusiastic demand from last year, the School is extending this year’s workshop to a 4-day, fully funded event. The conference offers students the opportunity to explore research through a series of group-work sessions by tackling a mini project alongside a professor.

An innovative wearable technology for standing desks that creates a new way of interacting with your computer could reduce cyberslacking and increase healthy movement.
 
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are hoping to make computing a bit more fun and physically active all while helping computer users kick cyberslacking habits by introducing a foot interaction method for computer users with a standing desk. 
 

If you’re looking for a way to use a computer more efficiently, researchers at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science may have a solution for you.

Master’s candidate Jingjie Zheng and Professor Daniel Vogel have recently filed a patent that would allow computer users to trigger different shortcut commands by pressing the same keyboard key with different fingers, hands, or hand postures.

The Waterloo Black Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest competition team has placed 13th overall at the 2016 world finals in Phuket, Thailand. The team was awarded a bronze medal for solving 9 of 13 problems and $1,500 for the team. 

Programming and understanding of how computers work has traditionally been taught in computer science courses. However, knowing how to make computers do automatic and repetitive tasks makes everyone more efficient in their studies, research or workplace.