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Deep-learning AI techniques can identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy

Researchers have made a key advancement in the development of technology to automatically analyze video of hockey games using artificial intelligence.

Engineers at the University of Waterloo combined two existing deep-learning AI techniques to identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Aliens invade first-year design course

This year’s incoming class of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) students will be navigating their first semester at the University of Waterloo alongside visitors from the far-off planet TsTs.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

SYDE Welcomes Grad Students

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) welcomed new students to our graduate programs this week. To conclude the orientation sessions, the students gathered for an outdoor coffee chat on some of Waterloo’s greenspace. Thanks to the orientation organizers (and the weather) for making this event possible!

Welcome SYDE grad students! 

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Meet SYDE's 2021 Schulich Leader

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) student awarded Schulich Leader Scholarship, a national undergraduate STEM scholarship. 

Clearco challenges the status-quo with unbiased investment opportunities for entrepreneurs.

From about the age of 10, Andrew D’Souza (BASc ’08) began to think of inventive ways to earn money. An early entrepreneur, whose family immigrated to Canada from India, D’Souza started providing services like paper-delivery, lawn mowing and dog walking to his neighbours. Later, he took on part-time jobs to save for university because he wanted to avoid debt.