By Beth Gallagher
Communications and Public Affairs
While her expertise is managing risk, the University of Waterloo computer science professor specializes in how to avoid huge losses on the stock market when random events hit unexpectedly.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced it will award more than $4.7 million to four research projects at Waterloo. Professor Ian Goldberg of the Cheriton School of Computer Science will receive funding to support research about Privacy Enhancing Technologies at a Global Scale.
Professor Srinivasan Keshav of the Cheriton School has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to computer communication networks and systems.
Our latest Black Team (Guru Guruganesh, Deon Nicholas, Geoffry Song) solved 8 of the 9 problems in the Association of Computing Machinery regional programming contest. The team, coached by Cheriton School Associate Professor Ondřej Lhoták advanced to the World Finals to take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, summer 2013.
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo has built the world's largest simulation of a functioning brain, known as Spaun (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network). It can help scientists understand how the complex activity of the brain gives rise to the complex behaviour exhibited by animals, including humans.
Using several disciplines across campus including theoretical neuroscience, systems design engineering and computer science, Spaun was brought to life by lead researcher Chris Eliasmith and his affiliates.
At Facebook’s College Hackathon, Waterloo beats 17 other teams with its social version of Siri.
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