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National Philanthropy Day is November 15 this year. In recognition of this day for generosity and giving, we recognize the support of alums like Brian and Janis Traquair, who went above and beyond to support students in their academic journey.

They helped young people who were worried about the cost of attending university through the Traquair scholarship, a charitable initiative they created.

Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a data-efficient pretrained transformed-based neural language model to analyze eleven African languages.

Their new neural network model, which they have dubbed AfriBERTa, is based on BERT — Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers — a deep learning technique for natural language processing developed in 2018 by Google.

As a graduate student in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, Cameron Seth studies graph theory algorithms and complexity theory.

As an athlete, he is among the top Canadian men’s squash players. He has been playing on the international professional tour since 2015, and during his undergrad, Seth was a mainstay on the University of Waterloo varsity team.

Being a PhD student means spending a lot of time focusing on a single research project. A PhD student learns everything they can about a topic, sets out to add something new to the field, and becomes an expert in one specialized area.

A company founded by two University of Waterloo graduates is on track to become a giant in the Canadian B2B credit card market.

Float, which was co-founded by Cheriton School of Computer Science alums Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev, recently brought in a whopping $37 million CAD in new investments.

The company’s third co-founder and current CEO, Rob Khazzam, who joined Float in March 2021, brings a wealth of experience in business and finance, having previously worked for Uber and various venture capital advisory firms.

The fall semester's edition of the Concept $5K startup challenge is underway, with four entrepreneurial teams linked to the Faculty of Mathematics in the semi-finals.

Researchers in the Cheriton School of Computer Science are incorporating a deep learning network into a more accurate method for identifying disease biomarkers.

The new method achieves up to 98 percent detection of peptide features in a dataset. That means scientists and medical practitioners have a greater chance of discovering possible diseases through tissue sample analysis.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is virtually returning to Waterloo to talk about her book The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred.

The talk is being hosted by the Institute for Quantum Computing on Monday, November 1st at 2:00 PM. It is a free event, though registration is required.

The Faculty of Mathematics’ health and well-being committees are building on the success of their September events with new ways to get involved in October.

September saw the launch of the Living Wellness Campaign, which had some 200 participants attend the planned physical wellness activities. Faculty members, staff and students took part in yoga, Zumba, wall climbing and an eat-well workshop.

Maura R. Grossman is featured in a special Q&A about the ethics of AI.

Grossman is a research professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and an affiliate faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also principal at Maura Grossman Law, an eDiscovery law and consulting firm in Buffalo, New York.