A professor of quantum information science at the University of Waterloo was selected to receive a prestigious E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Waterloo shares advances in quantum research, food sustainability at AAAS annual meeting

Harnessing the power of the quantum realm is paving the way for a new breed of computers with tremendous processing power. Today's computers encode, store and manipulate information using bits - zero or one. Quantum bits, or qubits, have the remarkable property of being in a "superposition" of zero and one. In other words, they can be in both simultaneously. This characteristic, and other quantum phenomena, offer a much richer environment for processing information and allows us to develop devices that will drastically outperform today's computing and communication technology.

Melanie Campbell sees the eyes as a window to the brain, where the presence of amyloid beta proteins in the neural layers of the retina may lead to an early and definitive test for Alzheimer’s disease. 

The eye is a window to the brain, says a Waterloo physics professor who is developing a new instrument to detect the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. January is Alzheimer's Awareness Month in Canada.