- Mike Lazaridis
Mike Lazaridis President and Co-Chief Executive Officer Mike Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator and engineer of extraordinary talent. He traces his passion for his work to his hometown of Windsor, Ontario, where his love of science and fascination with electronics were nurtured in supportive family and school environments. - Mohamed Elmasry
Mohamed ElMasry (born December 24, 1943) is an Egyptian-Canadian professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo and activist for Muslim causes. He is the current president of the Canadian Islamic Congress. Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1943, he earned a B.Sc. degree from Cairo University in 1965. After moving to Canada, he continued his studies at the University of Ottawa, and in 1974 earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. - James Downey
James Downey (born April 20, 1939) is a Canadian academic. Born in Winterton, Newfoundland, Downey was a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and of the University of London where, as a Rothermere Fellow, he earned a PhD in English literature in 1966. At Carleton University, where he began his career, he held a series of academic and administrative posts, including chairman of the English department, dean of the faculty of arts, … - Jan Narveson
Jan Narveson (born 1936) is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. An anarcho-capitalist and contractarian, Narveson's form of libertarianism is deeply influenced by the thought of Robert Nozick, David Gauthier and Anthony de Jasay. Along with Nozick's "Anarchy, State and Utopia", Narveson's "The Libertarian Idea" (1988) stands as one of the most important works of libertarian theory. - Adel Sedra
Adel Sedra is an electrical engineer whose research specialization is microelectronics, with particular emphasis on applications in communication and instrumentation systems. He received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1964. This was followed by a master's degree in 1968 and a PhD in 1969, both from the University of Toronto. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 1969, … - Andrew Telegdi
Andrew Telegdi, PC, MP (born May 28, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. Telegdi was elected in the riding of Waterloo in the general election of 1993, and in the riding of Kitchener—Waterloo in the elections of 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2006. Telegdi is known for his blunt outspokenness on several issues. A Hungarian expatriate who entered Canada as a refugee, … - Alfred Menezes
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography". Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. - David Johnson
David John Johnson (born December 17, 1945 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was the mayor of East York from 1982 to 1993, a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1993 to 1999, and a senior cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris. He has also sought election to the federal House of Commons. Johnson has a Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University, … - Michele Mosca
Michele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and associate professor of mathematics at St. Jerome's University. He has held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation since January 2002, and has been a scholar for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research since September 2003. - Elizabeth Witmer
Elizabeth Witmer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, originally representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo for the Progressive Conservative Party. Witmer moved with her family to Ontario at a young age. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario, and later attended the Althouse College of Education. - Ian Goldberg
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a Jewish-Canadian cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner), and for his role as Chief Scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Beginning with the fall 2006 academic term, Goldberg is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. - Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. Smolin is best known for devising several different approaches to quantum gravity, in particular loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, … - Ric Holt
Richard C. "Ric" Holt is a computer science professor. Ric Holt was one of the original developers of the Turing programming language, Grok programming language, Euclid programming language, SP/k, and of the S/SL programming language. He also did early research on deadlock theory, operating systems and transcontinental hitchhiking protocols during his pre-Cyber Mennonite youth. After a distinguished career at the University of Toronto, … - Erik Demaine
Erik Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His childhood was spent traveling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14. His Ph.D., … - Cleve Moler
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, he co-founded The MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program. - Scott Vanstone
Dr. Scott A. Vanstone Founder & Executive Vice-President Strategic Technology One of the founders of Certicom, Dr. Vanstone is also a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Vanstone devotes much of his research to the efficient implementation of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the provision of information security services in handheld computers, smart cards, wireless devices and integrated circuits. - Arthur Carty
Arthur J. Carty, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. (born 1940), is a Canadian academic and the National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada. Born in Rowlands Gill, County Durham, England, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 and a Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry in 1965 from the University of Nottingham. In 1965, he joined Memorial University of Newfoundland as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. In 1967, he left for the University of Waterloo. - Jonathan Borwein
Jonathan M. Borwein (born 1951) is a Canadian mathematician noted for his prolific and creative work throughout the international mathematical community. He is a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have recently been among the most prominent public advocates of Experimental mathematics in North America. Dr. Borwein was Shrum Professor of Science (1993-2003) and a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology (2001-08) at Simon Fraser University, … - Gary Goodyear
Gary Goodyear (born March 10, 1958 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, having been elected to represent the riding of Cambridge as a Conservative in 2004. Goodyear was educated at the University of Waterloo, in Biomechanics and Psychology. He attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, where he graduated cum laude, was class president, and valedictorian. - Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999. Smith has a diploma in Urban Design from Fanshawe College, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo, and a degree in Public Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He worked as a senior planner in the city of London, Ontario after graduating, … - James Bow
James Bow (19 April 1972) wrote "The Unwritten Girl" and its sequel, "Fathom Five", published by Boardwalk Books. Bow was born in Toronto, Ontario, growing up not far from Chinatown, just south of the University of Toronto. He attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute where he took an interest in geography and urban studies. He and his family later moved to Kitchener, Ontario, where he attended the University of Waterloo, … - Srinivasan Keshav
Srinivasan Keshav is the author of the much celebrated book on computer networks titled "An Engineering approach to Computer Networks". He used to be a professor at Cornell University. He left Cornell in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, and returned to academia in 2003 as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. - Kenneth Davidson
Kenneth R. Davidson is Professor in Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He did his undergraduate work at Waterloo and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Davidson was Director of the Fields Institute from 2001 to 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His areas of research include operator theory and C*-algebras. - David Cheriton
David R. Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer science professor at Stanford University and a billionaire as a result of his investments in technology companies. He received his Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia before moving to Stanford. - Steve Smith
Steve Smith, CM (born December 24, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and actor. Before turning to comedy, Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in "Smith & Smith", a sketch comedy series with a cast of two: Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH and syndicated to other television stations in Canada. - Parker Mitchell
Parker's work in international development began with a simple water purification system for developing communities designed during his Bachelor's degrees in Engineering and Arts at the University of Waterloo. This progressed to a Master's in Development Studies at Cambridge University and, using strategic planning experience gained while a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, the co-founding of Engineers Without Borders. - Brian Orend
Brian Orend is a professor of Ethics at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. His works focus on just war theory and human rights. He is most well-known for his discussions of jus post bellum (justice after war), which regard the moral obligations on victors once the major fighting of a war is complete. - Richard Gwyn
Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, OC, LL.D (born 1934) is a Canadian civil servant, journalist and author. Born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, the second son (the first died in infancy) of Brigadier Philip Eustace Congreve Jermy-Gwyn, an Indian Army officer, and Elizabeth Edith Jermy-Gwyn (nee Tilley) he was educated at Stonyhurst College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In 1954, he emigrated to Canada. - Val O'Donovan
Michael Valentine (Val) O'Donovan, C.M., D.Eng., P.Eng. (February 14 1936 - February 5, 2005) was a Canadian businessman and Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Born in Cork, Ireland, he started working at Pye Telecommunications in 1959 after graduating as an electrical engineer from the Cambridge College of Technology. In 1962 he invented a new type of microwave multiplexer, … - Doug Stinson
Douglas Robert Stinson (born in 1956 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician and cryptographer, currently a professor at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. Stinson received his B.Math from the University of Waterloo in 1978, his MSc from Ohio State University in 1980, and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1981. He was at the University of Manitoba from 1981 to 1989, … - John Moffat
John Moffat is a Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto. He is also an adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is best known for his work on a Variable speed of light approach to cosmological problems, which posits that the speed of light may have been much faster in early moments of the Big Bang. - Karen Redman
Karen Redman, PC (born Karen Longo, January 8, 1953, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She has been a member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, representing the riding of Kitchener Centre for the Liberal Party. She served as Chief Government Whip in the 2004-05 Parliament, and is now the Chief Official Opposition Whip. After completing high school at Eastwood Collegiate, Redman went on to graduate from the University of Waterloo, … - George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke University. He earned a B.A. honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an M.A. in English from Dalhousie University (1989) and a Ph.D. in English from Queen’s University (1993). - Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson , the recently elected president of the 43-year-old Islamic Society of North America, is the first convert, first non-immigrant and first woman to lead the largest Muslim umbrella organization on the continent. Her rise to prominence comes as more women and native-born Muslims are defining the faith, making Islam more of an American religion. - Dan Dodge
Dan Dodge is a true pioneer of embedded systems technology. Together with business partner Gordon Bell , he created one of the world's first message-passing operating systems - the forerunner to the revolutionary QNX A Neutrino A microkernel RTOS. - W. T. Tutte
William Thomas Tutte (May 14 1917 - May 2 2002) was a British, later Canadian, codebreaker and mathematician. During World War II he broke a major German code system, which had a significant impact on the Allied invasion of Europe. He also had a number of significant mathematical accomplishments, including foundation work in the fields of combinatorics and graph theory. Tutte was born in Newmarket in Suffolk, the son of a gardener. - François Paré
François-Rosaire Paré BA, PhD (born 1949 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a French Canadian author and academic specialising in French literature. Paré lived in Montreal during his youth. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Université de Montréal, he pursued further studies in Buffalo, New York at SUNY. He would eventually settle in Ontario, first at St Catharines, then moving to the Kitchener-Waterloo region to teach at the University of Guelph. - Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario. He attended Montclair Senior School in Oakville and White Oaks High School in Oakville, both near Toronto. In 2005, Colonel Hadfield revisited Montclair to talk to the students about dreams and determination. In Milton, Hadfield was a Wolf Cub and later joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadets' 820 Blue Thunder Squadron. - Maria Klawe
Dr. Maria Klawe became fifth president of Harvey Mudd College in July, 2006. Prior to joining HMC, Maria served as Dean of Engineering and a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and in several positions at the University of British Columbia including Dean of Science, Vice-President of Student and Academic Services, and Head of Computer Science. Maria has also worked at IBM Research in California, and at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. and B.Sc. - Steve Paul-Ambrose
Steve Paul-Ambrose, (born 1983), is a poker player from Ontario, Canada. Paul-Ambrose won the 2006 PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure, a World Poker Tour event after winning his entry spending less than $110 through a satellite tournament. He is a student at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he studies business and science. As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,700,000. Paul-Ambrose is a member of Team PokerStars.<sup></sup>
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