Tag: technology
AI system to analyze hockey developed by VIP Lab
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab have developed a way to analyze videos of hockey games using artificial...
2021 Vision: Do you have plant blindness?
Can you name and describe your favourite animal, either from adulthood or childhood? How about for plants? Do you have a favourite?
Surprisingly, or not,...
Good mental health a prerequisite for good athletic performance
There is growing evidence that good mental health correlates with good athletic performance and that mental health disorders in athletes are more common than...
Chip Shortages: How to prevent it from happening
The start of a new decade has been a difficult time for technology. Due to the pandemic, people are forced to stay at home...
A new method to assess COVID-19 patients: screening with AI
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an AI-based software tool aimed at improving COVID-19 screening.
Alexander Wong, a system design engineering professor at...
The different facets of LGBTQ+ in STEM
Systemic biases are ever-prevalent in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and industry for LGBTQ+ people, be it LGBTQ+ scientists who would prefer...
A Bitcoin breakdown
I would like to see the day when I don’t need to carry cash, credit cards or any form of government-issued currency.
Instead, I’d just...
The “English please!!……” version of Bitcoin:
An important thing to note is that this article, just as the title suggests, is not going to be a technical overview of cryptography...
Self-driving cars in the snow, technology tackling the seasons for service...
Self-driving cars are the future of transportation. UW has been involved in the field since late 2018, when Krzysztof Czarnecki, a professor in the...
Just say the word: New voice tech could run home appliances
New developments in artificial intelligence technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo may bring us closer to a world run fully by...