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Congrats to Prof Peter Forsyth and colleagues on winning the 2024 Chris Daykin Prize. Their research shows that modern tontines can be an effective way to reduce longevity risk and increase payments to participants to improve retirement income security. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/peter-for…

Our students rocks🔥

Deepfakes are increasingly challenging the legal system, raising issues of truth, cost and access to justice. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman co-authored a proposed U.S. court rule to manage AI-altered evidence, aiming to protect fairness in trials. abajournal.com/columns/articl…

Behind the VFX of blockbusters are complex physics simulations. Prof Christopher Batty explains that part of the goal is to offload the physics onto computers so artists can focus on their vision. His group advances simulations to make CGI more lifelike. aps.org/apsnews/2025/0…

✏️ CodeShaping is a sketch-based code editing approach where programmers annotate on and around code to guide AI in shaping the code structure, flow, and syntax #CHI2025 paper preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03719 video here: youtube.com/watch?v=QeI61Y…

This is actually to be happening tomorrow, Friday, March 14. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

🔋 Small change, big energy impact 🔋 Martin Karsten & Joe Damato at Fastly have reworked 30 lines of Linux code, which cuts data centre energy use by up to 30%. Now in Linux 6.13, the code change optimizes network traffic handling, boosting efficiency. spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-en…

🚀 WORKSHOP RECAP: Web3 & Solana 101 That’s a wrap on our Web3 & Solana Workshop with Superteam Canada 🇨🇦! 🎉 With 20+ attendees, we covered: ✅ Blockchain fundamentals & Solana’s ecosystem ✅ How to break into Web3 without coding (thanks to viet for the insights!) Great

Big win for Waterloo Blockchain at the Flare ☀️ x Google Cloud Verifiable AI Hackathon at Berkeley! 2DeFi by coreana and Alex brings TradFi investors into DeFi instantly, securely and effortlessly with AI and Google Cloud TEE. Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo

It's a bit damp today, but spring has officially sprung. Happy vernal equinox.

Franklin is a third-year Waterloo Mathematics student. He talks about finding a co-op job that suits him and how he hones his skills to match his career goals. Read more about Franklin's co-op journey: bit.ly/3BwAazz #Math #MyCoopExperience #UWaterlooCoop #UWaterloo

📢 Join us for the ACL Mentorship Session NAACL HLT 2025 #NAACL2025 • Session Link: mentorship.aclweb.org/schedule • Ask Questions: app.sli.do/event/kzWigUJa… Mentors: • Aaron Mueller (BU Computer Science) • Freda Shi (Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science Vector Institute) • Jiayuan Mao (MIT CSAIL) • Martin Ziqiao Ma

🎓Student Alumni Highlight: @FredahShi, now an Assistant Professor at Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science + CIFAR AI Chair at Vector Institute! Shi’s path reflects a deep commitment to grounded language learning, multilingual #NLP, and #LLMs. Read more: 🔗 buff.ly/oYoRdZf

🔥Check out this story at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-scien…

Wednesday, April 16 at 11:00 am CT: TTIC's Young Researcher Seminar Series presents Vihan Shah of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science with a talk titled "Space Complexity of Minimum Cut Problems in Single-Pass Streams." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.

Nearly $100K in prizes. 17 students. One unforgettable ETHDenver. Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science + Waterloo Blockchain showed up in force at ETHDenver 2025; sweeping community votes, sponsor bounties, and BUIDLathon finalist spots. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-scien…

Vector Faculty Member and Assistant Professor Freda Shi’s distinguished lecture, ‘Linguistic Insights Deepen Our Understanding of AI Systems: The Cases of Reference Frames and Logical Reasoning.’ Now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=HijH8G…

We were very lucky to have Peter Bartlett visit Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science and give a Distinguished Lecture on "Gradient Optimization Methods: The Benefits of a Large Step-size." Very interesting and surprising results. (Recording will be available eventually)

Our CTO #DataScience Speaker Series welcomes Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science's Victor Zhong (Victor Zhong) to our Toronto #AI office for a talk with our research engineers around the globe about building & evaluating generalist language agents bloom.bg/3FgPNwW #AgenticAI #GenAI #ML #NLProc

This project was part of my undergrad at Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science, supervised by Jian Zhao. I'm honoured that it received a Best Poster award 🏆 at #GI2025! (2/2)