Building systems based on problem-driven research
NOTE: The interview this article is based on was conducted in March 2020. It’s not about building technology; it’s about finding a solution to an existing problem for the research group of Ihab Ilyas, a professor with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science [...]
Liquid animations so realistic you can almost taste them
Prof. Christopher Batty and master's student Jade Marcoux-Ouellet Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a method of animating high-viscosity liquids. Achieving this milestone stems from the understanding that the pressure and viscosity forces that [...]
UBC researcher Mark Schmidt and co-authors receive Lagrange Prize
Mark Schmidt UBC Computer Science Assistant Professor Mark Schmidt, together with co-authors Nicolas Le Roux and Francis Bach, received the prestigious Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization, for their paper "Minimizing finite sums with the stochastic average gradient" (NIPS, 2012; Mathematical Programming, [...]