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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.

MMath candidate Shiyun Yang (supervised by Arne Storjohann) was awarded a Distinguished Student Author Award last week at the International Symposium of Symbolic and Algebraic Computing (ISSAC), for her paper Linear Independence Oracles and Applications to Rectangular and Low Rank Linear Systems.

Shiyun Yang has just completed her MMath thesis and is a member of the

Symbolic Computation Group

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

Zongwei Chen and John Watrous with Vice-President George Dixon, Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid, President Hamdullapur

PhD Candidate Laura Inozemtseva (supervised by Reid Holmes) was awarded a distinguished paper award last week at the International Conference on Software Engineering, for her paper Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness.

With files from Jeffrey Shallit

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science graduate Luke Schaeffer, has been awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for highest standing in a Master's program. The selection was made from a group of nominees with superb intellectual achievement and international reputation established while they were students.

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Waterloo startup moves to Toronto as more than a million users download mobile fitness app

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Former PhD student, Qi Zhang (supervised by Raouf Boutaba) received the Best Dissertation Award last week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/International Federation for Information Processing

(IEEE/IFIP) Network Operations and Management Symposium, in Krakow, Poland for his PhD thesis, "Effic

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Professor Charles Clarke investigates why Google can read your mind

Ph.D. candidate awarded Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

MMath candidate awarded Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC.

IOI 2014

The Accelerator Centre appoints CS alumnus as Chief Executive Officer

NSERC boosts funding for CS researchers

PhD candidate awarded distingushed paper award at ICSE

CS graduate awarded the Master’s Governor General’s Medal

Computer Science student gains traction with his startup company PumpUp

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Former PhD student awarded best dissertation at symposium