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This article originally appeared on Waterloo Stories

By Cherri Greeno
Marketing and Strategic Communications

In a perfect world, computer science Professor Jo Atlee would like to glance around her classroom and see an even mixture of male and female students.

Ian Goldberg, a professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Project Grant for his work on rigorous privacy-enabled interactions with online information.

The Faculty of Mathematics and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are partnering with the Student Success Office to invite students to the student portal starting February 9.

This new online communications tool is enhancing the student experience by delivering just-enough, just-in-time information for current students.

Robert Bridson (BMath '98, MMath '99) has been awarded a Science and Technical Academy Award for "early conceptualization of sparse-tiled voxel data structures and their application to modeling and simulation."

Danny Yaroslavski, a graduate from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (2014) was named to the Forbes "30 under 30: Education" list, for his work in founding the company Lightbot. Lightbot teaches children ages four and up how to code though gaming. 

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Raouf Boutaba, former PhD student Qi Zhang, and former post-doctoral fellow Mohamed Faten Zhani were awarded Best Paper at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last week.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Reid Holmes and PhD candidate Laura Inozemtseva have won an Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Paper Award for their paper Are Mutants a Valid Substitute for Real Faults in Software Testing? at the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering. 

The Waterloo Black team finished 1^st at the East Central North America Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest in Windsor, Ontario this past weekend. The Waterloo Red and Gold teams, which comprised of only first and second year students, placed impressively 7^th and 8^th place respectively.

Ihab Ilyas, a professor with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist.