The University will award 10 honorary doctorates at the June 2018 convocation. The three honorary doctorates for the Faculty of Mathematics include:
David I. McKay and Anand Pillay — Friday, June 15, 2018 at 10 a.m.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, a University of Waterloo PhD computer science alumnus, has received the Ángela Ruiz Robles Award for research excellence and entrepreneurship in computer engineering.
Although federal prosecutors in the United States had originally objected to the appointment of an independent person to review materials the FBI seized from Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, they officially withdrew their opposition.
The Association for Computing Machinery has named David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Khuzaima Daudjee an ACM Senior Member.
The first-ever Canadian team to compete in the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) returned home this month with three medals and an honourable mention.
The Faculty of Mathematics recognizes three graduate students for their outstanding research papers. Sam Harris from Pure Mathematics and Ahmad Abdi from Combinatorics and Optimization each receive the 2018 Huawei prize, while Michael Cormier from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science wins the Murray Martin prize. The three PhD award winners include:
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is opening a cyber security lab and investing $1.78 million into research at the University of Waterloo to develop advanced cybersecurity and privacy tools.
“To the man that has only a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
Your toolbox needs more than just a hammer. Why? That’s exactly it – Why?
Sherry Shannon-Vanstone told a crowd of academics, business professionals and entrepreneurs that people don’t buy what you do, but why you do it. To explain what she meant, Shannon-Vanstone opened her toolbox and shared her tools to commercialize information technology.