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36 unusual facts about University of Waterloo


Alt.sex

The University of Waterloo in 1994 ceased carrying alt.sex-bondage, alt.sex.bestiality, alt.sex-stories, and alt.sex-stories.d upon the recommendation of its ethics committee, which had expressed concerns that the content of those newsgroups may have violated the Criminal Code of Canada.

Anna Koutsoyiannis

She then emigrated to Canada working first as Professor at the University of Waterloo and then at the University of Ottawa.

Anne Zeller

Anne began teaching full time at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Anthropology in 1982, and spent several years as the Chair or Head of Anthropology after 1993.

Archimedes' cattle problem

This was first done at the University of Waterloo, in 1965 by Hugh C. Williams, R. A. German, and Charles Robert Zarnke.

Bayview Secondary School

Bayview S.S. ranked second nationally in the 2011 Euclid mathematics contest for grade 12 students held by University of Waterloo.

Biological Procedures Online

Biological Procedures Online was founded in 1997 by Mark Reimer, a surgeon at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Irem Ali, now Director of Operations for Biological Procedures.

Canadian Computing Competition

The top 20 (or so) students in the Senior division are invited to the University of Waterloo to participate in Stage 2.

The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is an annual programming competition for secondary school students in Canada, organized by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at the University of Waterloo.

CrossFit

According to Dr. Stuart McGill, a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, the risk of injury from some CrossFit exercises outweighs their benefits when they are performed with poor form in timed workouts.

FunTrivia

FunTrivia began at the University of Waterloo as the "Archive for Useless Facts and Trivia" in 1995, a simple website that allowed visitors to submit fun facts and information into a database.

General Amherst High School

GAHS has been recognized for a number of causes, including (but not limited to): the Canadian record of per capita student contributions in donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, championships in football, hockey, basketball, track & field, wrestling, tennis, cross country and volleyball; the recipient of several Essex County "Student Prime Minister of the Year" awards (2004, 2005, & 2009) and high rankings in the University of Waterloo Fermat Mathematics competition.

Gerald Hagey

This idea proved somewhat controversial, and Hagey ultimately became the founding president of the University of Waterloo in 1957, when the science and engineering faculties he had established broke away from the rest of Waterloo College, which later became Wilfrid Laurier University.

Joseph Gerald "Gerry" Hagey (September 28, 1904 – October 26, 1988) was a Canadian businessman, academic, and a founder and first president of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.

Gojko Šušak

His most notable work was assisting in the opening of the Croatian studies chair at the University of Waterloo in 1988.

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Master's of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

IBM Basic assembly language and successors

"Assembler G" was a set of modifications made to Assembler F in the 1970s by the University of Waterloo (Assembler F was/is open source).

Jacob Immanuel Schochet

He received his academic education in Canada, attending the University of Toronto, University of Windsor, McMaster University, and University of Waterloo, he holds degrees of BA (Phil), MA (Religious Studies), MPhil (Phil) and PhD (Phil).

Joel Reinders

Reinders spent four years at the University of Waterloo where he played on the school basketball team for two years before coming across the doorstep of Dennis McPhee, head coach of the University of Waterloo Football team.

KioskNet

KioskNet is a system, developed at the University of Waterloo, to provide very low cost Internet access to rural villages in developing countries, based on the concept of delay-tolerant networking.

Luminous Veil

The Luminous Veil was designed jointly by architect and University of Waterloo Professor Derek Revington and engineers at Halcrow Yolles, a structural engineering firm in Toronto.

Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute

The Canada-Wide Science Fair, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and the University of Waterloo's Mathematics & Computing Contests are some of the competitive avenues through which TOPS students have made a strong showing.

McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences

The campus in Kitchener, known as the Waterloo Regional Campus, shares facilities with the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo.

Park Tae-joon

He was granted an honorary engineering doctorate degree from Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Sheffield, Birmingham University, and The University of Waterloo.

Paul H. Cress

He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR (WATerloo FORtran), for the IBM System/360 family of computers.

Pedro Celis

Celis graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) and received both a master's degree in Mathematics (1982) and a doctorate in Computer Science (1986) from the University of Waterloo.

Pharmacy school

The University of Waterloo requires two years of prerequisite study in the basic sciences.

RapidMind

RapidMind was started in 2004 based on the academic research related to the Sh project at the University of Waterloo.

Rienzi Crusz

Crusz earned a Bachelor of Library Science at the University of Toronto after his arrival, and then attained a Master of Arts in History at the University of Waterloo.

Serge LeClerc

LeClerc graduated from the University of Waterloo with an honours degree in sociology with a minor in social work, and with a social work diploma.

Simon Raab

He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a Masters of Engineering Physics (Surface Physics) from Cornell University, USA, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

The Public History Program at The University of Western Ontario

Other early graduate programs include the program at the University of Waterloo (on hiatus since 2005), the now-defunct program at Simon Fraser University, and more recent programs at Carleton University and Université du Québec à Montréal.

The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative

(Blog post on the similarity of the Trump University logo to that of the University of Waterloo.)

WATBOL

In 1969 WATBOL, a teaching compiler for COBOL was developed at the University of Waterloo.

Women in computing in Canada

The University of Waterloo has a Women in Computer Science organization (WICS).

A study looking at enrollment based on program and gender was done at the University of Waterloo in 2010, and the results were especially egregious (even compared to the nationwide statistics from the previous year).

ΜC++

μC++ is part of the μSystem project, of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, a large-scale project led by professor Peter Buhr with the goal to create a "highly-concurrent shared-memory programming system".


École centrale de Marseille

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).

Fiona Brinkman

in Biochemistry at the University of Waterloo in 1990 and her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Jo-Anne Dillon at the University of Ottawa in 1996.

H. K. Kesavan

H.K. Kesavan (Hiremagalur Krishnaswamy Kesavan) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Jean-Benoît Nadeau

Previous to this diploma, he also tried civil engineering (at the University of Waterloo) and playwriting (at the National Theatre School).

John Errington Moss

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Huron College in 1961, a Master of Arts degree from The University of Western Ontario in 1969, a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Waterloo in 1970, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New Brunswick in 1973, where he was co-founder with David Arnason of the Journal of Canadian Fiction and wrote his first critical book, Patterns of Isolation (McClelland and Stewart, 1974).

Keith Mondesir

His ministerial biography indicates that he graduated from George Brown College and later earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo, a further Bachelor of Science degree in Optometry from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and a Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Houston in Texas.

Omer Arbel

He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, and gained work experience with the Catalan architect Enric Miralles in Barcelona and Canadian architects John and Patricia Patkau in Vancouver.

Paul G. Socken

Paul G. Socken (born 1945) is a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and a leading scholar on the work of French-Canadian author Gabrielle Roy.

QNX

Gordon Bell and Dan Dodge, students at the University of Waterloo in 1980, both took a standard computer science course in operating system design, in which the students constructed a basic real-time kernel.

Sharon Hayes

Hayes is a graduate of the Honours Math and Computer Science program at the University of Waterloo; while enrolled there, she worked as a co-op student with the Toronto Stock Exchange and IBM.

Universal transit pass

Both universities in the city of Waterloo, Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo) have implemented U-Pass programs in their tuition fees, allowing full-time students year-round unlimited travel on the Grand River Transit bus system anywhere in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo using their student card.

Waterloo Maple

Waterloo Maple Inc. was first incorporated under the name Waterloo Maple Software in April 1988 by Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet, who were both then professors in the Symbolic Computation Group, a part of the computer science department (now the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) at the University of Waterloo.