News archive - September 2015

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Hack the North Encore

Bouncy castle? Check. Bubble soccer balls? Check. Enough

Red Bull ® and poutine to fuel over 1,000 hackers throughout

the weekend? Check and check. The University of Waterloo

students organizing Hack the North 2015 know exactly what

it takes to pull off Canada’s largest international hackathon.

Last year, they attracted more than 1,000 students from

around the world to the first Hack the North for 36 hours

of coding, hardware development, plus a lot of fun.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Improving vision in the developing world

Ashutosh Syal (BASc ’14, Systems Design) was on track

to become a Toronto Bay Street trader when John Zelek

presented his third-year class with an issue. Hundreds of

millions people in the developing world have uncorrected

vision problems, said the Waterloo systems design

engineering professor. The mobile eye camps that serve

rural areas simply can’t keep pace with demand. Meanwhile,

many discarded smartphones end up overseas.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

SYDE Professor quoted in a USA Today story on the Popemobile.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As he cruised past cheering crowds in Naples, Italy, earlier this year, Pope Francis received an unexpected gift. A local pizzeria owner jogging alongside the papal car jumped over a barrier and handed Francis a pizza, which the smiling pope willingly accepted.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

SYDE student on a radio show

Our 2B SYDE students, Katharine Carras, will be featured on a radio show today at 1:30. She is going to talk about working at Kik as a co-op and the Kik Codes Project. You can listen live at 570news.com