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PhD student, Francisco Claude-Faust, has won a Google U.S./Canada PhD Fellowship in Search and Information Retrieval. He was the only Canadian recipient of 34 fellowships given worldwide to young researchers. In addition to his research at the Cheriton School under the direction of Professor Ian Munro, Francisco will be paired with a full-time "Googler" based on shared research interests.

Waterloo Programming team, coached by Cheriton Computer Science Professor Ondrej Lhotak, won a Bronze Medal at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals held this past weekend in Orlando, Florida. The team, comprised of Tyson Andre (1A SE), Brian Bi (1A CS), and Hanson Wang (2A CS), placed 12th overall and 2nd in North America. One hundred and five teams who won their regional contest competed.

CS Professor Don Cowan will be awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Science, by the University of Guelph at Guelph's June convocation in recognition of his significant contributions to the fields of computer science and software engineering. Professor Cowan was the founding Chairman of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and continues as an active researcher. His work has focused on simplifying access to the development of software systems and their use.

Cheriton School of Computer Science (CS) undergraduate student, Jacqueline Mok and PhD candidate, Carol Fung, won two of five Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships available to students enrolled at Canadian universities. "Both of these students have made outstanding contributions to the work of women in CS and the School in general," notes Professor Nancy Day, Chair of the Cheriton School's Women in CS committee.

Professors Charles Clarke, Gordon Cormack, Michael Terry and Urs Hengartner, have received $900,000 over 3 years from Google to support research in context-aware mobile social networking. The funding will support two graduate students to work with each researcher on this project in collaboration with Google.

John Champaign, a graduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. This is one of four awards for 2011. John also holds a Cheriton Scholarship for academic excellence in the area of artificial intelligence under the supervision of Professor Robin Cohen. The winners' names were announced at a recent Waterloo senate meeting by Sue Horton, the associate provost (graduate studies).

Ian Goldberg, a Cheriton School of Computer Science Assistant Professor, has been named an Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Ian's research focuses on privacy enhancing technologies: tools and systems that help you maintain the privacy of your Internet transactions and communications.