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Professors Charles Clarke, Gordon Cormack, Michael Terry and Urs Hengartner, have received $900,000 over 3 years from Google to support research in context-aware mobile social networking. The funding will support two graduate students to work with each researcher on this project in collaboration with Google.

Seven professors and one graduate student of the Cheriton School of Computer Science were recognized with outstanding achievement awards at a reception held at the Davis Centre during the afternoon of May 4th. The honourees include Ming Li, recipient of the Killam Prize, Richard Cleve, who was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Reza Dorrigiv, who was honoured for outstanding achievement in graduate studies.

John Champaign, a graduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has received an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. This is one of four awards for 2011. John also holds a Cheriton Scholarship for academic excellence in the area of artificial intelligence under the supervision of Professor Robin Cohen. The winners' names were announced at a recent Waterloo senate meeting by Sue Horton, the associate provost (graduate studies).

Ian Goldberg, a Cheriton School of Computer Science Assistant Professor, has been named an Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Ian's research focuses on privacy enhancing technologies: tools and systems that help you maintain the privacy of your Internet transactions and communications.

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Google focused research award for four Cheriton School of Computer Science faculty members announced

Seven CS professors and one grad student win outstanding achievement awards

CS grad student awarded for exceptional teaching

CS professor named Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher