He was considered a radical and a revolutionary, and for years the RCMP watched him closely. But the life and times of Burnley (Rocky) Jones was mainly about leadership, inspiration and education to redress racial injustice for black communities in Canada and especially Nova Scotia.
A Waterloo startup is staking out new ground in the increasingly connected business and security worlds of robots, drones, and machine-to-machine communication with an Internet of Things platform that monitors and tracks using 99.5 per cent less bandwidth and cloud resources.
With her recent collection of poetry, Rupi Kaur has gone from self-publishing to landing on the Amazon top seller list for Canadian literature, alongside literary icons like Margaret Atwood.
As educators struggle to expand digital literacy globally and U.S. President Obama announces a $4-billion Computer Science for All initiative, the University of Waterloo is launching free online courseware that will teach people computer science and programming skills.
The future of the automotive sector and the impact for Ontario will be the focus of a panel discussion at the University of Waterloo next week.
The University of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT) is hosting the discussion. UWAFT is one of the two teams that will represent Canada in the North American EcoCAR 3 competition.
In high-income countries, the median child abuse costs are equivalent to a loss of 1.2 per cent of per capita income, translating to $150 billion each year in the United States of America. The estimated loss is $50 billion in China, a middle income country.
Two University of Waterloo alumni, who began developing their smart workout gear while still electrical engineering students, have landed on the 2016 Forbes Top 30 Under 30 list.
John McPhee thought it would be easy to design a device to give Canada’s competitive wheelchair curlers better control of their shots.
Eighteen months and seven prototypes later, he doesn’t mind admitting it hasn’t been easy at all.
The surprisingly complex problem has so far required hundreds of hours of work by McPhee, a systems design engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, and four of his students.
“When Team Canada described it to me, I thought ‘how hard can it be?’” he said. “It turns out it was very, very difficult.”
Nearly 40 teams of children ranging in ages from nine to 14 will compete with robots they created at the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Ontario West Championships at the University of Waterloo tomorrow.
The University of Waterloo will draw talented engineering students from across the province this week for the Ontario Engineering Competition to showcase their engineering skills and communication proficiency.
Waterloo's Faculty of Engineering will welcome about 300 competitors from 16 Ontario universities and colleges as well as judges, sponsors and guests for the annual competition from January 29 to 31.