The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is deeply saddened to share the passing of former chair, Nicholas Cercone. Professor Cercone passed peacefully with his wife by his side, members of the school were told in a letter from York University's dean of the Lassonde school of Engineering Janusz Kozinski.
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is mourning the loss of Gabriel Barsky, age 20, who died as the result of a motorcycle accident while in San Francisco on a work term. Gaby was a bright and vibrant third-year student who was extremely interested in the startup culture and loved working on his own side projects. Gaby will be deeply missed by his many friends in Computer Science and across campus.
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has joined the the National Center for Women & Information Technology as an academic affiliate. The National Centre for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), based out of the University of Colorado, is a non-profit community of more than 600 universities, companies, non-profits and government organizations working to increase women's participation in computing and technology.
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been ranked second in Canada by Maclean's magazine's brand new program rankings.
Members of the Waterloo Black Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest team are headed to Phuket, Thailand this coming May for the contest world finals thanks to a stunning performance at this past weekend's East Central North America Regional Programming Contest which took place at the University of Windsor.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Michael Godfrey and alumnus Cory Kasper (PhD, 2009) have been awarded most influential paper from Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) and the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), for their 2006 paper "Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful (PDF).
National Taiwan University (NTU) has published its annual ranking of world universities based on the performance of scientific papers, aiming to investigate the world’s top research universities.
For a second time, the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has ranked in the global top-20 in subject-area rankings for Computer Science by U.S. News & World Report.
The global universities ranking uses a pool of 1,000 institutions to create the list of the top 750 schools. The top 750 schools were ranked using 12 indicators such as global research reputation, regional research reputation, publications, books, and conferences.