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The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Part of the Faculty of Mathematics, the school comprises 80 faculty members, over 300 graduate students, approximately 2900 undergraduates, and 46 staff members. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs worldwide. In 2014 (QS World University Rankings ) ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 24th in the world, 10th in North America and 2nd in Canada in Computer Science in 2014.〔(), QS World University Rankings〕 US News and World Report ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 18th in world, 12th in North America and first in Canada.〔(), US News Best Global Universities〕 Business Insider magazine ranked the School #4 in the world for the "Most Grads at Facebook".〔(), Business Insider - Best Schools to Get a Job at Facebook〕 ==History== In 1965, when Mathematics was still a department within the Faculty of Arts, four third-year mathematics students (Richard Shirley, Angus German, James G. Mitchell, and Bob Zarnke) wrote the WATFOR compiler for the FORTRAN programming language, under the direction of lecturer Peter Shantz. "Within a year it would be adopted by computing centres in over eight countries, and the number of student users at UW increased to over 2500." Later on in 1966, two mathematics lecturers (Paul Dirksen and Paul H. Cress) led a team that developed WATFOR 360, for which they received the 1972 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. UW's Faculty of Mathematics was later established in 1967. As a result, the ''Department of Applied Analysis and Computer Science'' (AA&CS) was created. By 1969, AA&CS had become the largest department in the faculty. At that point, the first two PhD degrees in computer science were awarded, to Byron L. Ehle, for a thesis on numerical analysis, and to Hugh Williams, for a thesis on computational number theory. In 1975 the department dropped the words "Applied Analysis" and became simply the ''Department of Computer Science''. In 1982, the Institute for Computer Research (ICR) was established. Its goals were "to foster computer research..., facilitate interaction with industry, and encourage advanced education in computer science and engineering." Also that year, the Ontario government announced plans to build the Davis Centre, current home of the School of Computer Science. The groundbreaking was in April 1985 and the Davis Centre was formally dedicated on November 10, 1988. On May 1, 2002, the department officially became the ''School of Computer Science''. On November 18, 2005, it was renamed again to the ''David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science'', in recognition of the establishment of the David R. Cheriton Endowment for Excellence in Computer Science. Cheriton had recently donated $25 million to the university. Support for computing within the School of Computer Science had been historically provided by the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF) and ICR. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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