On August 1, the University of Waterloo welcomed the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, for a special announcement on a new initiative to help entrepreneurs better access and leverage IP.
Three University of Waterloo researchers have received spring 2019 project competition grants from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) worth $3 million. They are:
When people use their computer or smartphone to store information, they may not be able to detect if that information has been manipulated when they retrieve it later, according to researchers from the University of Waterloo.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a blueprint for designing effective information systems that will help parents receive efficient updates about their school-aged children.
The system comes out of a study that examined the use of technologies such as GPS, fitness trackers and surveillance applications and the best ways these can be used to inform parents while respecting privacy.
Ten University of Waterloo researchers are receiving seed funding as part of a joint venture between Waterloo and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
A new material created at the University of Waterloo can switch back and forth between a hard solid or a soft gel at the same temperature, a breakthrough that offers an innovative solution to a long-standing challenge with synthetic materials by giving it both strength and shape adaptability.
The University of Waterloo and the University of Rochester jointly hosted a photonics symposium this week in honour of Nobel laureate Donna Strickland.
The Celebratory Waterloo-Rochester Photonics Symposium showcased her research in photonics with a keynote address by Professor Strickland.
Four key areas of photonics research were featured: High field science, chirped pulse amplification, biophotonics, and ultrafast lasers and quantum information.
In spring 2020, international robotics expert Katja Mombaur will join the University of Waterloo as a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Human-Centred Robotics and Machine Learning.
She discusses her new role and renowned research in a video highlighting the CERC program and the eight chairs awarded across Canada.
The Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute and the National Center for High Performance Computing of National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This MOU will further collaborative research in a broad range of Artificial Intelligence technologies.
More than 60 faculty members and graduate students at the University of Waterloo are receiving funds to advance their research in the areas of education, immigration, Indigenous health, and the environment.
History professor Steven Bednarski will receive $2.5 million to establish the first permanent humanities lab dedicated to digitizing environmental history and understanding human impacts on the natural world and vice versa.