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Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Bernoulli Trials Contest which was held March 2. This year, the three winners each correctly answered 12 of the 15 questions correctly. Jiahui Huang, Gian Cordana Sanjaya, and Luming Zhang each received a $50 prize.
Albert Gevorgyan placed second with 11 of the 15 questions answered correctly and received a $22 prize.
Jamie Sebastian and Anton Iliashenko received the last of the cash prizes at $14 each.

University Professor M. Tamer Özsu has received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science from CS-Can/Info-Can. Conferred annually since 2014, these prestigious national awards recognize faculty members in departments, schools and faculties of computer science who have made outstanding and sustained achievement in research, teaching and service.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Making homes smart could become easier

Making your house “smart” could soon become cheaper and easier, thanks to new technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo.

Their recent study describes an approach that can be used to deploy, for the first time, battery-free sensors into a home using existing WiFi networks. Previous attempts to use battery-free sensors ran into some obstacles making the efforts impractical. These hurdles include the need to modify existing WiFi access points, challenges with security protocols, and the need to use energy-hungry components.

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Bin Ma has received $462,998 in research support from Genome Canada for an ambitious three-year project titled “Software for peptide identification and quantification from large mass spectrometry data using data independent acquisition.” Additional funds bring the total amount to $925,987.

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Professor Cameron Stewart is respected and admired for the care, knowledge, insight, and wisdom that he has provided to his students throughout his 40-year long career at the University of Waterloo. Over his career, 22 Master’s students and 11 doctoral students obtained degrees under his supervision and he provided guidance to 18 postdoctoral fellows. Read the full story.