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The huge potential of artificial intelligence got much of the attention Friday as a University of Waterloo researcher joined other academics and business leaders for a wide-ranging panel discussion on growing the Waterloo-Toronto technology corridor into a global supercluster.

Alex Wong, a professor of systems design engineering who specializes in AI, was one of seven panelists at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who explored why the idea should be aggressively pursued and how to make it a reality.

The 2016 recipients of the Waterloo Engineering Faculty and Staff awards for outstanding contributions to education and research were celebrated by Engineering Dean Pearl Sullivan and colleagues at a dinner held January 25.    

The Outstanding Staff Performance Award administrative categorywinner is Emily Stafford of the School of Architecture. She was recognized for her unwavering commitment to its graduate program and for her dedication to the graduate student experience.

A company founded by two former Waterloo Engineering students has joined forces with a smaller startup in Israel to add video to its hugely popular chat platform.

Kik Interactive, which began as a mobile chat app at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity incubator in 2009, announced the addition of the 35-employee company, Rounds, in a press release today.

A startup company co-founded by a master’s student at Waterloo Engineering has been selected to join a high-profile San Francisco accelerator that focuses on the water sector.

EMAGIN Clean Technologies Inc., which is based at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, earned one of 12 spots at Imagine H2O in a competition featuring more than 180 applicants from 20 countries.

As construction of Engineering 7 continued right next door, cabinet minister Bardish Chagger announced $32.6 million in federal funding Thursday for the seven-storey building that will be the future home of both expanding student enrolment and ground-breaking research.

Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini has been immersed for more than 15 years in the complex technical details of his work on intelligent antenna systems for Internet connectivity.

A fourth-year Waterloo Engineering student took the bus home from Toronto today with the $10,000 top prize in a contest for undergraduate biomedical research.

Nidhi Juthani was recognized by the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) for her work on a cheaper, easier way to make cell sheets for use in areas including the repair of damaged heart tissue, corneal transplants and rebuilding cartilage.

A local startup company with ties to Waterloo Engineering went public this week with a new home security system that uses wireless signals, not traditional cameras and motion detectors.

Cognitive Systems Corp., which was founded in 2014 and has offices at the headquarters of Quantum Valley Investments in Waterloo, unveiled the system, called Aura, at the huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Kankar Bhattacharya of electrical and computer engineering has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services. Bhattacharya, a member of Waterloo Engineering's Power and Energy Systems Group, became a fellow on January 1.  

Expertise in autonomous vehicles has taken a team led by three Waterloo Engineering professors from a snow-covered parking lot in Stratford to a demonstration course in sunny Las Vegas.

More than 25 researchers from Waterloo are at the high-profile Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week to help showcase a highly automated car developed by Renesas Electronics America in collaboration with numerous partners.