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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship awarded to Shahin Kamali

Shahin Kamali, a PhD student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded the Derick Wood  Graduate Scholarship.
Dr. Derick Wood was a Professor in the School from 1982 to 1992. He is widely known for his outstanding research contributions in a number of areas of theoretical Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, and formal languages.
Friday, October 18, 2013

Distinguished Paper Award

The Influence of Non-Technical Factors on Code Review by Olga Baysal, Oleksii Kononenko, Reid Holmes and Mike Godfrey was awarded a Distinguished Paper Award at the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (2013).

The paper was invited to be extended for consideration in a special issue of the journal Empirical Software Engineering.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Colloquium Series Revived

Please come to the inaugural colloquium of the newly revived SCS Colloquium series this Thursday (October 17).

The idea of this series is to foster scientific community, discussion and buzz in the School. It will feature local and visiting speakers, with talks aimed at a general CS grad/faculty audience.

I hope to see you all at the talk, and at the reception in the Fishbowl afterwards!

Mark Giesbrecht

Friday, September 13, 2013

BlackBerry scholarship recipient joins software engineering

Tian Qi (Dinah) Shi of Mississauga was awarded one of three BlackBerry scholarships and will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science pursing a degree in software engineering programs this term. Shi joins Anastasia Santasheva of Maple, ON, a new Waterloo Engineering systems design engineering student, and Xiao Yan (Cheyenne) Guo of Toronto who joins the Faculty of Mathematics.
 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Jim Mitchell, Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging at Oracle Labs, returns to Waterloo

Jim Mitchell, Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging at Oracle Labs, is a Waterloo alumnus who graduated not only with a degree in Mathematics/Physics Option, but with some extraordinary firsthand experience. As an undergraduate, he was one of the four developers of the first WATFOR FORTRAN compiler.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Waterloo ranked among top 50 for engineering and technology by international rankings body

WATERLOO, Ont. (Thursday, August 15, 2013) - The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has named the University of Waterloo among the top 50 universities in the world for academic achievement in engineering/technology and computer science for the second year running.

Waterloo ranked at 43 in the world for Engineering and amongst the top 200 universities overall globally.