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Dec 2011

Dec, 08	Baecker Named ACM Fellow
	Ron Baecker was honoured with the Association for Computing Machinery's distinguished annual award.

Nov 2011

Nov, 21	U of T Announces New Campaign
	The university embarks on the public phase of "Boundless," its $2-billion fundraising campaign.

Nov, 11	Gotlieb Receives Honorary Degree from University of Victoria
	Canada's Association of Information Technology Professionals (CIPS) recognizes the occasion with a dinner in honour of Kelly Gotlieb.

Nov, 02	McIlraith Honoured with SWSA Ten-Year Award
	Sheila McIlraith co-authored a paper, "DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services", that was recognized by the Semantic Web Association this October.

Oct 2011

Oct, 26	Shanghai Ranking Recognizes CS at U of T
	The Academic Ranking of World Universities put U of T in 10th place in the Computer Science category.

Sep 2011

Sep, 23	Gries Awarded 2011 OCUFA Teaching Award
	Paul Gries is one of three U of T faculty members to receive this honour.

Sep, 13	Celeste Francis Esteves Receives Arbor Award
	The department's Graduate Program Administrator wins U of T's distinguished alumni volunteer award.

Sep, 06	Fall Message from DCS Chair Sven Dickinson
	Sven kicks off the school year with a message to the department.

Aug 2011

Aug, 17	DCS Success at 2011 AAAI Conference
	Faculty and graduate students were honoured by conference awards.

Jul 2011

Jul, 28	Ganjali Receives Early Researcher Award
	Yashar Ganjali was funded by the province for his research "developing next generation Internet technologies."

Jul, 28	NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements Awarded to Four DCS Faculty Members
	Aaron Hertzmann, Kyros Kutulakos, Karan Singh, and Daniel Wigdor received funding to accelerate their research progress and maximize its impact.

Jun 2011

Jun, 29	Farewell Message from the Acting Chair
	Fahiem Bacchus reflects upon the past year at DCS.

Jun, 28	Success at Annual “Random Hacks of Kindness” Event
	Graduate student Christian Muise and his team took first place with an innovative mobile app.

Jun, 28	Miller Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
	RSC honours Renee Miller for her work combining theory, scholarship and industrial impact.

Jun, 17	Four DCS Faculty Members Receive NSERC Accelerator Awards
	Projects by Hertzmann, Kutulakos, Singh, and Widgor were funded in this latest round of awards.

Jun, 01	Borodin Named University Professor
	Allan Borodin is one of only two faculty members honoured as 2010-2011 University Professors.

May 2011

May, 31	DCS Grad Students Recognized by Dissertation Awards
	Martin de Lasa, Daniel Vogel, Alex Levinshtein, and Jorge Baier were recognized this spring for their outstanding work.

May, 26	U of T President's Message Highlights Success at DCS
	David Naylor's annual open letter notes Hinton's Herzberg Medal, Hertzmann's Steacie Prize, and department's leading academic status.

May, 19	Brudno Receives Connaught New Researcher Award
	Michael Brudno was honoured for his work on "Enabling medical application of high throughput sequencing technologies".

May, 18	McIlraith Named AAAI Fellow
	The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence elected Sheila McIlraith one of the six 2011 Fellows.

May, 11	U of T Computer Science 10th in the World
	The latest QS World University Rankings named DCS in the Top 10.

Apr 2011

Apr, 28

Paul Gries Receives 2011 President's Teaching Award

Mar 2011

Mar, 07	DCS Faculty Member Awarded Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience Award
	Karen Reid recognized for her ongoing commitment to enhancing undergraduate student experiences

Feb 2011

Feb, 24	DCS Professor Elected Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
	Charles Rackoff recognized for his contributions to the field of Cryptology

Feb, 15	DCS faculty member awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowship
	Mark Braverman recognized for his achievements and potential

Feb, 15	DCS Professor wins 2011 RSA Conference Award
	Charlie Rackoff recognized for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics

Feb, 14	DCS Professor awarded the 2010 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
	Professor Geoffrey Hinton recognized with Canada's most prestigious science award

Feb, 03	DCS Student Awarded Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship
	Farah Juma was one of only 10 North Americans to receive this prestigious award

Jan 2011

Jan, 28	DCS Snags Microsoft's New User Experience Architect
	Daniel Wigdor, well known at Microsoft Corporation for his innovative user experience designs, has committed to designing a different type of program; he will be designing courses and research programs for the computer science departments at UofT and UTM.

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