>Waterloo is known for being mediocre/trash for CS research
Are you out of your mind?
Do you know why Waterloo's School of Computer Science is named after David R. Cheriton?
Yeah, the same DRC who made a major exit to Cisco, seed funded Google and hold an emeritus professorship at Stanford.
A sizeable chunk of the people who published Spark have done their undergrad' or research masters at UW.
Waterloo is definitely top-notch at the undergrad', perhaps less impressive than schools with bigger endowment at the research level, but far from being "trash". Tons of Waterloo profs are on the steering committees of major CS conferences (VLDB most notably).
This comment is so puerile, it has to be written by some jealous and petty undergraduate student. Or so I hope.
Are you out of your mind?
Do you know why Waterloo's School of Computer Science is named after David R. Cheriton?
Yeah, the same DRC who made a major exit to Cisco, seed funded Google and hold an emeritus professorship at Stanford.
A sizeable chunk of the people who published Spark have done their undergrad' or research masters at UW.
Waterloo is definitely top-notch at the undergrad', perhaps less impressive than schools with bigger endowment at the research level, but far from being "trash". Tons of Waterloo profs are on the steering committees of major CS conferences (VLDB most notably).
This comment is so puerile, it has to be written by some jealous and petty undergraduate student. Or so I hope.