Notable Alumni and Faculty
Waterloo's graduates have found success in a variety of fields, serving at the heads of diverse institutions both in the public and private sector. Over 156,000 people have graduated from Waterloo residing in over 141 countries. Waterloo graduates have accumulated a number of awards including the Academy Award and the Governor General's Award, and Rhodes Scholarships.
A significant number of prominent business leaders have worked or studied at Waterloo. Examples include John Baker, founder of Desire2Learn, David Cheriton, co-founder and chief scientist of Arista Networks, Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and former co-CEO of Research in Motion, Prem Watsa, chairman of Fairfax Financial and the current chancellor of the Waterloo, Steven Woods, co-founder of NeoEdge Networks and Quack.com. and co-founders of Waterloo Maple, engineering graduate and former professional football player Taly Williams who founded TALY MIND Sets, Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet. Gonnet was also the co-founder of Open Text Corporation. Several university's faculty members and students have also gained local and national prominence for serving in government. David Johnston, the former president of Waterloo, currently serves as the Governor General of Canada.
A number of the university's faculty and students have also gained prominence in the field of computing sciences. Examples include QNX operating systems co-creators Gordon Bell and Dan Dodge, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the PHP scripting language, Peter Buhr, the creator of the μC++ programming language, Gordon Cormack, the co-creator of Dynamic Markov compression algorithm, and Ric Holt, co-creator of several programming languages, most notably Turing.
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