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Professor Kevin Harrigan, Director of the Knowledge Translation Stream at Waterloo's Gambling Research Lab, and Professor Dan Brown, Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, are determined to figure out the best way to educate players about the addictive properties of slot machines and how much money they might win or lose.

As Judge Brett Kavanaugh faces the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, debate rages on Capitol Hill if sufficient time is available for senators to substantially review the 42,000 documents released the night before his hearing was scheduled to begin concerning his time in the George W. Bush White House.

We are thrilled to share news of Canada’s performance at the 2018 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) held in Tsukuba, Japan. This is an annual competition for high school students in algorithmic problem-solving and computer programming. This year, over 335 students participated representing 87 countries.

Joey Yu finished in 26th place earning him a gold medal. He is a graduate of Thornhill Secondary School and now a first-year student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Getting your TV to understand you better

New research out of the University of Waterloo has found a way to improve the voice query understanding capabilities of home entertainment platforms.

The research, in collaboration with the University of Maryland and Comcast Applied AI Research Lab, uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to achieve the most natural speech-based interactions with TVs to date. 

Friday, September 28, 2018 10:00 am - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Launch

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On Friday, September 28 we will launch the new Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.

The Institute brings together under one umbrella Waterloo’s 40 security researchers from across the University. These renowned experts are collaborating to uncover new approaches to security and privacy while also partnering with corporations and government to advance the application and implementation of cybersecurity and privacy technologies.

PhD candidate Joseph Haraldson, with coauthors Professors Mark Giesbrecht and George Labahn, has won the Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC 2018, the 43rd International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. The annual symposium was held this year at the CUNY Graduate Center and Courant Institute/NYU in New York from July 16–19, 2018.