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Researchers from the University of Waterloo are partnering with global information company Thomson Reuters to launch a collaborative research investigation on large-scale data integration and data cleaning.

Professor Ihab F. Ilyas, Alexandra Roatis and Mina Farid from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science will lead the project, which will create algorithms to highlight anomalies in enterprise data sets aimed at improving data quality.

First year Computer Science student Joyce Yang has been awarded a $12,000 HeForShe scholarship. Yang is among five other students entering STEM disciplines this September.

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is happy to announce the appointment of eight outstanding faculty members to the largest academic computer science research centre in Canada. These eight innovative and award-winning researchers will help us continue celebrating research excellence, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.

For more information about career opportunities in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, please visit our Open Faculty Positions page.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professors Ken Salem, Khuzaima Daudjee, Ashraf Aboulnaga, PhD candidate Jaemyung Kim, and former MMath student Xin Pan, have been awarded best paper at the 2015 Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Clou

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Joanne Atlee has been appointed as the first director of Women in Computer Science. A long time advocate of supporting women in computer science, Atlee explains that she is happy to take on the role and continue pushing for women to feel comfortable and confident in the field.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Lila Kari was awarded the Rozenberg Tulip Award for the DNA Computer Scientist of the Year at the 21st International conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming.

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David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science undergraduate students Benjamin Winger and Andrew Crichton recently took part in the Unmanned Systems Canada Student Unmanned Air System Competition (USC Student UAS Competition) in Alma, Quebec.

The startup RSVP Technologies Inc. will receive up to $950,000 from the federal government to build cutting-edge software that hears questions and provides answers in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

RSVP Technologies Inc. was co-founded in 2013 by CEO and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Ming Li, and postdoctoral fellow Anqi Cui, vice-president engineering.