Qwo-LI Driskill will deliver a talk entitled, Weaving with Words, on 3 March, 2017 at 3:00 PM in Hagey Hall 1104.
Qwo-Li Driskill is a non-citizen Cherokee Two-Spirit writer, performer, and activist. S/he is the author of Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory (University of Arizona: 2016) and Walking with Ghosts: Poems (Salt Publishing: 2005). S/he is also the co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (University of Arizona: 2011) and Queer Indigenous...
Frankie and her co-editor, Vershawn Young, will discuss their new book, Performing anti-racist pedagogy in rhetoric, writing, and communication (University Press of Colorado and WAC Clearinghouse) at the U-W Bookstore on 2 March, 2017 at 4:30PM.
I'll be presenting a talk along with Jennifer Fernick entitled "Big Metadata: Machine Learning on Encrypted Communications" at the RSA 2017 Cyber Security conference in San Francisco on February 17, 2017 at 11:30 AM. We'll be presenting criteria for design machine learning systems for security problems and...
I'll be attending the AAAI/EAAI 2017 conference in San Francisco Feb 4-9, 2017. I'll be giving a lightening talk on Sunday afternoon on ideas for AI education. If you'll be attending and want to meet up get in touch. I'll be posted about events and interesting talks on twitter @compthink.
A big congratulations goes out to Ian Evans for the successful completion of his Master’s of Science in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Ian as his senior honors thesis advisor and Master’s over the past 3 years over which time he has set a standard for many undergraduate and graduate students in our lab.
The Lorne Russwurm Award for outstanding performance by a teaching assistant (TA) is awarded by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management annually to a TA that has performed beyond the ‘call of duty’ and exemplified outstanding performance. The contributions of Collin Branton exceeded instructor expectations and all formal course requirements. Through a competitive process...
Today, Kathryn McGarry, MPP for Cambridge, and Daiene Vernile, MPP for Kitchener Centre, announced $2.3 million in funding for 21 University of Waterloo researchers, including Derek Robinson and John McLevey, both recipients of Early Researcher Awards.
Aaron is off to Trail Valley Creek with Vicky Vanthof and other researchers in Phil Marsh’s group at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) to conduct snow microstructure research in preparation for his radar deployment in 2017.