Public lecture: Adrien Pouliot Lecture




The first Bridges lecture in 2018 will explore how humans have sought to make the Arctic legible (to borrow the phrase of James C.


Discover the remarkable story of the Enigma machine, a device invented in 1918 to encrypt the most secret and sensitive communications in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and the lengths the Allies would go to in an effort to tap into its Ultra Secret yield!
What are we? By what processes and patterns did we originate and how do these patterns compare to the processes of the world around us, digital and biological, societal and fictional?
Infinite two-player games have been a very useful tool to prove many results in logic and other areas. What makes them fascinating to computability theorists is that winning strategies can be extremely complex even for simple games.

Join us for an afternoon of discussions presented by Alex Nicolaou, 2018 J.W. Graham Medal recipient and Rob Tibshirani and Anand Pillay, 2018 Honorary Doctorate recipients.
Itinerary:
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is pleased to announce its inaugural Wes Graham Research Symposium & Computer Science Awards. The ceremony takes its name from James Wesley (Wes) Graham, a humble visionary known as the “father of computing” at the University of Waterloo and an academic who devoted his career to making the magic of computers available to everyone.