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Using data to better understand hockey performance
As a defenseman for the Soo Thunderbirds, Colorado College Tigers and Waterloo Warriors hockey teams, David Radke often felt that his contribution wasn’t completely captured by the sport’s offensively-biased statistics–goals, assists, and shots on net.
In Memoriam: Paul Dirksen
Paul Dirksen, a pioneer computer scientist at the University of Waterloo, passed away on April 8, 2023. He was 83. Paul was a vital part of UW computing history. He was one of the developers of the WATFOR and WATFIV compilers for the IBM 360 mainframe system in the late 1960s. While a previous team had developed an earlier WATFOR for the IBM 7040, the 360 became the foundation architecture for several generations of IBM mainframes.
Inaugural Research Discovery Days highlights cutting-edge research in Faculty of Mathematics
On April 17 and 18, students, faculty, and members of the community gathered to take part in the inaugural Research Discovery Days, a research showcase and networking event hosted by the Math Innovation Office. The event, which featured both faculty and graduate student research presentations as well as discussions about entrepreneurship, aimed to connect industry partners with researchers doing exciting work in the Faculty of Mathematics.