Thursday, June 13, 2019 8:00 am
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4:30 pm
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Join us on Thursday, June 13th for a day of captivating discussions presented by faculty and alumni.
Wes Graham Research Symposium
8:00 am - 10:00 am in DC 1302
| Time | Talk/Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Morning Refreshments | DC 1302 |
| 8:15 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Mark Giesbrecht, Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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| 8:30 am | Emotional Identity in Assistive Technology for Aging Jesse Hoey, Inaugural Graham Research Fellow, 2017–2019, University of Waterloo |
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| 8:50 am | Improving Perceived Humanness of Virtual Agents Through Emotions Moojan Ghafurian, Inaugural Graham Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo |
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| 9:20 am | Early Detection of Cancer (Multiple Myeloma) Relapse from Blood with Mass Spectrometry and Computation Bin Ma, Inaugural Graham Research Fellow, 2017–2020, University of Waterloo |
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Turing Symposium & Celebrating Women in Computer Science
9:55 am - 12:30 pm in DC 1302
| Time | Talk/Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:55 | Break | DC 1302 |
| 10:10 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Raouf Boutaba, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo |
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| 10:15 am | Multicore Programming Barbara Liskov - A.M. Turing Award Laureate |
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| 11:00 am | Cryptography for Safe Machine Learning Shafi Goldwasser - A.M. Turing Award Laureate |
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| 11:45 am | Celebrating Women in Computer Science
Moderator: Maura Grossman, Director of Women in Computer Science Panelists: Barbara Liskov - A.M. Turing Award Laureate and Shafi Goldwasser - A.M. Turing Award Laureate |
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Recognizing Excellence Series
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm in DC 1302
| Time | Talk/Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 pm | Welcome and Opening Remarks Stephen M. Watt, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo |
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| 2:10 pm | The Accidental Entrepreneurd: A Pocket MBA in 30 Minutes or Less Eldon Sprickerhoff, 2019 J. W. Graham Medal Recipient Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, eSentire |
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| 2:45 pm | How to Sell your Company to Bill Gates for $150M Sam Pasupalak, 2018 Young Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient, Co-Founder & former CEO, Maluuba |
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| 3:15 pm | Working with Bright High School Students Eddie Cheng, 2018 Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University |
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| 3:45 pm | Where are our Future Global Leaders are Going to Come From? Keith Farlinger, 2018 Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient CEO, BDO International Limited |
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