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Camilo Munoz, MMath candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Thanks to the advance in mobile and touch screen devices, handwritten input has gained more popularity among users. When considering mathematical input, however, handwritten math interfaces have to deal with new problems and issues not found in natural language. A popular area of interest that deals with math formulae recognition is math information retrieval (MIR). 

Joan Bartlett, School of Information Studies
McGill University

Millennials have been found to rely heavily on information obtained from the web and social networks; but it is also seen that they may not be able to judge the authenticity, validity and reliability of the digital information, and may share misinformation among themselves. 

Michael Abebe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Workload access patterns can limit the performance achievable with static data placement in distributed database systems. Dynamic physical database designs in which data item master locations, partitioning schemes and replica locations can vary with the workload help improve system performance.

Siddhartha Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Bradley Glasbergen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Chang Ge, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Khaled Ammar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Differential Computation (DC) has shown strong performance for maintaining the answer of different data flow queries as data change over time. 

Kerem Akillioglu, MMath candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science