Early in his career, Edward Lank noticed that people were often impressed with interesting new software developments but wouldn’t embrace them.
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.
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
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.
Waterloo startup moves to Toronto as more than a million users download mobile fitness app
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