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WATERLOO — A San Francisco-based company that uses blockchain technology for processing international transactions is funding University of Waterloo researchers who are working in this evolving area of global commerce.

Waterloo is the only Canadian institution participating in Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative. Ripple, launched in 2012, uses blockchain to process international transactions quickly and inexpensively.

ECE Professor, Sherman Shen, and his PhD students, Cheng Huang, Dongxiao Liu and Jianbing Ni, have won the IEEE ICC 2018 Best Paper Award for their article "Reliable and Privacy-preserving Selective Data Aggregation for Fog-based IoT" at the IEEE Communications Society's flagship conference -International Conference on Communications in May. Their paper was selected from 2431 submitted papers.

Researchers in Canada have found a way to generate microwaves using inexpensive silicon which could dramatically lower the cost of production and improve sensors in devices such as driverless cars.

“Until now, this was considered impossible,” said CR Selvakumar, an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo who proposed the concept several years ago.

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University of Waterloo students drove away from the first part of a competition to develop a self-driving car with four awards and a fourth place overall finish.

Competing in the three-year AutoDrive Challenge held April 30 to May 5 in Arizona, the WATonomous student team won first in the Social Responsibility Presentation, second in both the Concept Design Report and Mapping Challenge events and third in Technical Reports contest.