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On September 22, 2014 the Office of the President honoured the 189 2013-14 Warrior Academic All-Canadians including three students belonging to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Academic All-Canadians are students who have maintained an average of 80% and higher while competing for an interuniversity sport. The University of Waterloo has one of the highest percentages of academic all-Canadian student-athletes in the country each year.

One thousand of the brightest students in the world will spend 36 hours this weekend on campus, at the largest international hackathon in Canada.

The #HacktheNorth hackathon, will bring students with different technical backgrounds and skill levels together to form teams and solve a problem or idea, and collaboratively code a unique solution from scratch.

CS Professor Craig Kaplan's research was featured in a column hosted by The Guardian titled "Alex's Adventures in Numberland", this week. 

The Rubik’s Cube is traditionally thought of as a complex puzzle that both frustrates and fascinates. For Waterloo student Daniel Que, it's also a blank canvas, perfect for pixel art.

By Mirko Petricevic

Marketing and Strategic Communications

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Martin Derka was awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, worth up to $150,000 over three years to support his work searching for error-correcting codes that improve the reliability of digital communication.

Troy Vasiga and I are happy to report from the 2014 International Olympiad in Informatics in Taipei, Taiwan. Jacob Jackson, Timothy Li, Ben Zhang and Zihao Zhang represented Canada at this year's algorithm and programming competition.

The team is bringing home one gold medal and two bronze medals.

CS alumnus Paul Salvini has been appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Accelerator Centre and Associate Vice-President, Research Commercialization at the University of Waterloo.

Read the media release on http://acceleratorcentre.com