News archive - 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

ACM fellowship for S. Keshav

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Computer Science Professor Srinivasan Keshav is the University of Waterloo’s latest fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The 2012 ACM fellows were chosen from leading universities and corporations all over the world. Their contributions to computing innovation are advancing technologies in the information age.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Big E and Special K contest results

The Big E and Special K contests (PDF) were held on Saturday, November 3, 2012. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for first year students and the Big E contest is for upper year students. Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required.

The winners of the Big E contest:

Monday, November 12, 2012

Canada Excellence Research Chair

The University of Waterloo was selected to recruit a Canada Excellence Research Chair in the area of Security and Privacy for the New Digital Economy.

More information is available on the University of Waterloo media release.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Competitions update - Small c and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

2012 Small c Mathematics Competition

On Friday, September 21, over 400 first and second year University of Waterloo students wrote the 12th annual Small c Mathematics Competition (PDF). It is a multiple-choice contest based largely on high-school mathematics.

The top-ranked students were:

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Michele Mosca on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paiken

Quantum computing and nanotechnology aim to map the next groundbreaking frontier in technological innovation. The University of Waterloo is launching a brand new, state of the art facility with the opening of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC). Michele Mosca, deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), joins Steve Paikin to talk about the enormous potential of bringing two giants of tiny research together in one facility.