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News archive - August 2018

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

John Brzozowski, Lila Kari, Bai Li and Marek Szykuła win Sheng Yu Award at CIAA 2018

John Brzozowski and Lila Kari

Professors John Brzozowski and Lila Kari, Bai Li (BCS 2017) and their colleague Marek Szykuła from the University of Wrocław in Poland have received the Sheng Yu Award for best paper at CIAA 2018, the 23rd International Conference on Implementation and Applications of Automata.

Friday, August 24, 2018

Joseph Haraldson wins ACM SIGSAM Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC ‘18

Joseph Haraldson

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.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Two Schulich Leaders entering Faculty of Mathematics this fall

Schulich Leaders Advait Maybhate and Yunfei (Robin) Wen

Two incoming first-year students in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo have won Schulich Leader Scholarships, the largest scholarships for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs in Canada.

Monday, August 20, 2018

Getting your TV to better understand you

X1 Voice Remote is a "listening" remote control that allows users to find what they want faster by using voice commands to chang

Researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of Maryland have collaborated with the Comcast Applied AI Research Lab to improve the voice query understanding capabilities of the Comcast Xfinity X1 entertainment platform.

Monday, August 20, 2018

Math and Computer Building Shutdown

Math and Computer building

As the result of a planned infrastructure upgrade for Math & Computer (MC) there will be a full electrical shutdown from August 21-30, 2018, during which time the building will be closed to all faculty, staff and students. 

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