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UW Professor Emeritus in CS, focused on Hockey Analytics and improving my golf game.

Joined December 2013
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Hockey Analytics folks! One of the best conferences, LINHAC, has their research submissions open for the 2025 program until April 25. There is a wide range of research topics and depth of analysis that you can submit so there is something for everyone! ida.liu.se/research/sportsan…
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🏅Lawrence Folland has been named an Honorary Member of #UWaterloo, the highest honour a staff can attain. ✨He is a tenacious leader, a pioneering technologist, and a tireless volunteer. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-scienc… #UWaterlooProud
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Some pretty inspiring paper presentations at #LINHAC
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LINHAC panel and talks announcement: What is going on in the hockey analytics industry? Hear from it from our collaborators: @KinexonSports @dartfish @Hudl Stretch on Sense 49ing @spiideo @SportContract ida.liu.se/research/sportsan…
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🏆Congratulations to Professor Jo Atlee for receiving the @CSCan_InfoCan's Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science! ✨She is a pioneering researcher, a transformative educator, and a dedicated advocate. 🔗Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-scienc…
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Hey Sports Analytics Students! We are in the last couple weeks to enter LINHAC's data competition. Now that spring is here and finals are mostly over, why not try your hand at some Swedish hockey data? ida.liu.se/research/sportsan…
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🎖️ Waterloo coders took on the global competition at simultaneous 46th & 47th ICPC World Finals. At the 47th ICPC, Andrew Qi Tang, Kevin Wan and Ramazan Rakhmatullin secured an impressive 8th place win globally, 1st in NA, earning them the silver medal! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo…
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Congrats to CS Prof Edith Law and her colleague Psychology Prof Elizabeth Nilsen, recipients of a ~$66k Insight Development Grant for their proposal “Associations Between Children’s Characteristics and Their Perceptions of, Strategies Toward, and Learning from Teachable Robots”!
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Students, you can now sign up for the LINHAC 2024 student competition. Show your work on ice hockey analytics to the analytics companies, ice hockey teams and federations. Info and sign up at ida.liu.se/research/sportsan… @linhacevent @liu_universitet @LHChockey
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Save the date: Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference - LINHAC 2024 will take place in Linköping/hybrid on June 3-5, 2024. @linhacevent @liu_universitet @LHChockey
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We are having a Grad Information Session for current undergrad students to learn more about graduate studies tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 14, from 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in the M3 Atrium! Refreshments will be served.
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We invite applications for tenure-track faculty positions. Priority areas include algorithms and complexity; bioinformatics; quantum computing; machine learning, computer vision, robotics, AI for science; as well as other areas within computer science. cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p…
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CS Prof Jo Atlee has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network (@WXN), a recognition conferred for her foundational research in software engineering and her advocacy for women in computer science. 👏 cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/profess…
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Tim Brecht retweeted
Our Hockey Systems & Analytics group at the @NHLBlackhawks is hiring several interns for summer 2024! Please share and apply. -Machine Learning Engineer Intern -Data Science Intern -Software Engineering Intern, Hockey Systems -Intern, Hockey Strategy 🔗: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/…
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Surging an astonishing 42 spots in just one year, @UWaterloo continues to climb its way to the top of the coveted @worlduniranking list. Find out what's fueling its latest spike: hubs.ly/Q01Y21J00
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This ⚽️ ad deserves endless RTs. teapawt.net/838_carlisle/status/16…
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Tim Brecht retweeted
Excited to announce that I’ve successfully defended my PhD at @UWCheritonCS, titled “The Impact of Teams in Multiagent Systems”! Big thanks to my family, all my collaborators (especially @lexiorch), and my advisors @kateslarson and @tim_brecht!
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