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By Cherri Greeno
Marketing and Strategic Communications

In a perfect world, computer science Professor Jo Atlee would like to glance around her classroom and see an even mixture of male and female students.

The Faculty of Mathematics and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are partnering with the Student Success Office to invite students to theÌýstudent portalÌýstarting February 9.

This new online communications tool is enhancing the student experience by delivering just-enough, just-in-time information for current students.

Robert Bridson (BMath '98, MMath '99) has been awarded a for "early conceptualization of sparse-tiled voxel data structures and their application to modeling and simulation."

Danny Yaroslavski, a graduate from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (2014) was named to the Forbes "" list, for his work in founding the company .ÌýLightbotÌýteaches children ages four and up how to code though gaming.Ìý

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professor RaoufÌýBoutaba, former PhD student Qi Zhang, and former post-doctoral fellow Mohamed Faten Zhani were awarded Best Paper at the inÌýRio de Janeiro, Brazil last week.

The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Black team finished 1^st at the East Central North AmericaÌý in Windsor, Ontario this past weekend. The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Red and Gold teams, which comprised of only first and second year students, placed impressively 7^th and 8^th place respectively.

On September 19, the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science hosted it's annual research symposium in the Davis Centre.Ìý

28 graduate students, including those who were awarded Cheriton scholarships displayed their research posters in the great hall. Two prizes are awarded to the best posters present at the symposium. The first prize winner is awarded $300 and $200 goes to the second prize winner.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science PhDÌýcandidate, FathiyehÌýFaghih (Borzoo Bonakdarpour), has been awarded the best student paper for her work on "SMT-based Synthesis of Distributed Self-stabilizing Protocols", at theÌý16th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (), in Paderborn, Germany.

On September 22, 2014 the Office of the President honoured the 189 2013-14 Warrior Academic All-Canadians including three students belonging to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Academic All-Canadians are students who have maintained an average of 80% and higher while competing for an interuniversity sport. The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ has one of the highest percentages of academic all-Canadian student-athletes in the country each year.