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May 2013

May, 16	Wigdor and Jota Honoured as U of T Inventors of the Year
	The 2013 awards recognized 10 research projects taking place at the university.

May, 13	Ron Baecker Receives Canadian Digital Pioneer Award from GRAND
	Ron will be honoured for his significant contributions to the advancement of digital media on May 16.

May, 10	Understoodit Acquired by EventMobi
	Classroom app picked up by another company started at U of T.

Apr 2013

Apr, 29	Cressy Awards Go to DCS Students Roy, Ogunbiyi, Li, and Mann
	Computer Science students were four of 187 total recipients.

Apr, 25	Brudno and Bader Awarded Funding from Genome Canada
	Prize supports bioinformatics research.

Apr, 24	PhD Candidate Heifets Takes Second Place in Three Minute Thesis Competition
	The competition included 30 doctoral presentations from 16 Ontario universities.

Mar 2013

Mar, 28	Aggregator Startup by Three U of T Undergrads Acquired by HubSpot
	The co-founders are headed to Boston this spring.

Mar, 26	Grad Student Jackie Cheung Named 2013 Facebook Fellow
	PhD candidate is one of 12 students honoured this year.

Mar, 12	U of T Neural Networks Start-Up Acquired by Google
	Company was founded by Geoff Hinton and students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever.

Mar, 04	DCS Celebrates Diamond Jubilee Medal Recipients
	Recipients Cook, Craig, Gotlieb, and Hume honoured for their contributions to Canada.

Feb 2013

Feb, 28	Eyal de Lara Awarded 2012 CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize
	De Lara is recognized for his research in mobile, pervasive, and cloud computing.

Feb, 28	Hector Levesque Receives 2013 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
	Levesque is recognized for his contributions to Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.

Feb, 27	Stephen Cook Wins Herzberg Gold Medal
	Cook was honoured for his extraordinary contributions to the fields of computer science and mathematics.

Feb, 22	Schroeder, Vaikuntanathan, and Salakhutdinov Receive Sloan Fellowships
	U of T celebrates five 2013 winners.

Feb, 19	PhD Student Muise Named Winner of Google Places API Developer Challenge
	Other Two 2012 Winners Hail from Brazil and the United States.

Feb, 07	Chechik Named Bell University Laboratories Chair in Software Engineering
	In 1999, BUL established a series of endowed chairs to support multi-disciplinary research at the University of Toronto.

Feb, 04	DCS Remembers Jim Horning, 1943-2013
	Horning was a faculty member in the department from 1969 to 1977.

Feb, 01	Celebrating 40 Years of "Social Issues in Computing"
	DCS Blog Honours Profs. Gotlieb and Borodin's Seminal Textbook.

Jan 2013

Jan, 31	Steve Cook Appointed to the Order of Ontario
	25 "extraordinary Ontarians" received the province's highest official honour.

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