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Our latest Black Team (Guru Guruganesh, Deon Nicholas, Geoffry Song) solved 8 of the 9 problems in the Association of Computing Machinery regional programming contest.  The team, coached by Cheriton School Associate Professor Ondřej Lhoták advanced to the World Finals to take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, summer 2013.

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo has built the world's largest simulation of a functioning brain, known as Spaun (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network). It can help scientists understand how the complex activity of the brain gives rise to the complex behaviour exhibited by animals, including humans.

Using several disciplines across campus including theoretical neuroscience, systems design engineering and computer science, Spaun was brought to life by lead researcher Chris Eliasmith and his affiliates.

Monday, December 3, 2012

News Awards

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is home to a multitude of talented individuals who excel in their research areas. Here is an update of awards that have been received by researchers from the school over the past year.

Congratulations to all!

Professor Ian Goldberg of the School's Cryptography, Security and Privacy
research group, has been named a University Research Chair for  seven
years from 2012 to 2019.  Waterloo recognizes exceptional achievement and
pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge with this designation.
Prof.
The School has been selected to nominate a Canada Excellence Research
Chair in the area of Security and Privacy for the New Digital Economy.
This chair program brings world-renowned researchers to campuses across
the country, funded by $10 million in federal money for each chair.
Waterloo will invest an additional $17 million, which will fund hiring
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Dr. Frank Tip has joined the Cheriton School as its first Cheriton Chair in Software Systems, a position funded by the School's naming endowment.
Prof. Tip has spent his career at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, here he has managed the Program Analysis and Transformation group since 2003.