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Dec. 11, 2018Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers study catastrophic effects network failures have on cloud-computing systems $Hatem Takruri, Ahmed Alquraan, Mohammed Alfatafta and Professor Samer Al-Kiswany$
Computer clusters power everything from Google and Facebook to online retail and banking. They’re comprised of hundreds or even thousands of machines connected together by networks, typically in a vast data centre.
Dec. 7, 2018Waterloo student design team wins silver at 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition $Waterloo iGEM team poses at competition$
A team of University of Waterloo undergraduate students, including 6 from the Faculty of Mathematics, returned with a silver medal from the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in Boston.
Dec. 4, 2018Professor Shai Ben-David and colleagues win best paper award at NeurIPS 2018 $Professor Shai Ben-David$
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Shai Ben-David, his former PhD student Hassan Ashtiani, now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, along with colleagues Christopher Liaw, Abbas Mehrabian and Yaniv Plan, have received a best paper award at NeurIPS 2018, the 32^ndAnnual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.