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Monday, January 21
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Gabor Fichtinger awarded Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant |
| Description: |
I am pleased to announce that Gabor Fichtinger was awarded a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant for the project "Perk Station - Hands-on Surgery Experience for Students". Well done Gabor!
Each year, the Centre for Teaching and Learning awards Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grants. These grants are intended to encourage and support activities and projects designed to enhance student learning at Queen's. Projects might include designing or redesigning courses or programs, developing innovative and effective assessment or teaching strategies, or creating new active learning opportunities to increase student engagement in learning.
Applicants must submit a well defined proposal that will demonstrably enhance teaching and learning. The selection committee will look favourably on proposals that might be transferable to other individuals or units. Successful applicants are expected to share their outcomes with the university community and to submit a final report on their activities. Grants are typically awarded for one year, but in appropriate circumstances, may be extended. Applicants may apply for any amount, up to a maximum of $5,000, from the $10,000 available. Applicants or co-applicants may be awarded only one Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant in a calendar year. |
Thursday, January 24
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All day event |
| Summary: |
Congratulations to Thomas Chen, and co-authors |
| Description: |
Congratulations to Thomas Chen, and co-authors Adrian Thurston, Mehdi H. Moghari, Randy E. Ellis, and Purang Abolmaesumi, whose paper A real-time ultrasound calibration system with automatic accuracy control and incorporation of ultrasound beam thickness has been chosen as a finalist for the SPIE Medical Imaging Best Student Paper Award. The other finalists are from:
Forschungszentrum f�r Umwelt und Gesundheit, GmbH (Germany)
Univ. of Toronto
Duke Univ.
The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Technische Univ. M�nchen (Germany)
Rutgers Univ.
Cornell Univ.
Robarts Research Institute (Canada)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
Univ. Medical Ctr. Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany)
Simon Fraser Univ.
Univ. of Maryland/College Park and U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Lancaster Univ. (United Kingdom)
Gonzaga Univ.
The winner will be announced at the conference next month.
Best wishes to the School team. |
Tuesday, February 12
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
WISC participates |
| Description: |
WISC will be running Enrichment courses this week in the ILC and local classrooms |
Tuesday, February 19
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Thomas Chen et al paper wins two prestigious awards at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference |
| Description: |
Congratulations to the team of Thomas Chen, Adrian Thurston, Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari, Randy Ellis, and Purang Abolmaesumi to receive two prestigious awards, namely Cum Laude Best Poster Award and the Michael B. Merickel Best Student Paper Award, at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, which is currently taking place in San Diego, California. These awards were given for their paper, entitled A real-time ultrasound calibration system with automatic accuracy control and incorporation of ultrasound beam thickness. SPIE is one of the largest scientific meetings on medical imaging technology
The poster of Gabor Fichtinger and Ameet Jain on Prostate Brachytherapy was the runner up for the Best Poster Award.
For more information please visit the conference website
Congratulations to everybody. |
Monday, March 17
| Time: |
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Summary: |
Mehdi Moradi and Kathrin Tyryshkin win awards at CSCBC 2008 |
| Description: |
Our graduate students have given us once again a reason to be proud.
The Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing , organized at Queen's for the first time in 2006 by our own students, continued its successful run for the third consecutive year. CSCBC was held in Toronto March 13-15, and as usual our students shone. Two of the six awards presented were received by:
Mehdi Moradi: Best Paper Award (Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Interventions section)
Kathrin Tyryshkin: Best Poster Award (third place)
According to Mehdi:
With presenters from 13 universities from across Canada (including several from the West Coast and Alberta), an impressive venue and excellent organization, CSCBC2008 was a big step forward for a student initiative that started at Queen's in 2006. |
Thursday, March 27
| Time: |
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Location: |
Front of Goodwin Hall |
| Summary: |
Bench Dedication--Ian Van Toch |
| Description: |
A bench dedication was held for Ian Van Toch on
Thursday, March 27 at the Front Entrance to Goodwin Hall. For more information, please see the linked gallery of images. |
Wednesday, April 2
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
School of Computing recipients of NSERC and ARC grants |
| Description: |
Congratulations to:
The School's new recipients of 5-year NSERC Discovery Grants:
Purang Abolmaesumi for Medical Image Processing and Computer-Assisted Surgery
Dorothea Blostein for Document Analysis Systems
Gabor Fichtinger for Computational Modeling of Image-Guided Needle-Based Surgery
Kai Salomaa for Descriptional Complexity of Finite-State Machines
The School's new recipient of an ARC Grant:
Ahmed Hassan for Building Reliable Infrastructures Using Standard Protocols
The School's new recipients of NSERC RTI Grants:
Gabor Fichtinger and Parvin Mousavi for Facility for Surgical Guidance, Performance Evaluation and Training
Nick Graham for Prototyping Tools for Highly Immersive Computer Games
Hossam Hassanein (with M. Ibnkahla) for A Facility for Custom Development of Wireless Sensor Networks Platforms
Karilee Reinbold for her superb work in guiding these applications to a triumphal outcome. |
Sunday, April 6
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All day event |
| Summary: |
Juergen Dingel and Phil Hyoun Lee recognized at 2008 teaching awards |
| Description: |
It gives me great pleasure to announce this year's recipients of teaching awards in the School of Computing:
The winner of the Howard Staveley Teaching Award in Recognition of Teaching Excellence is Juergen Dingel. Congratulations Juergen on this great and well deserved honor, and thank you for inspiring your students to excel. Their words of praise showed how grateful they are for your dedication as a teacher.
Robin Dawes and Kai Salomaa received honorable mention for this award. Congratulations Robin and Kai for being the motivational teachers that you are.
Phil Hyoun Lee is the winner of the Excellence in Teaching Assistance Award. Congratulations Phil for your superb work as a TA. |
Friday, April 11
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All day event |
| Summary: |
CISC-499 People's Choice Awards are presented |
| Description: |
The CISC-499* People's Choice Awards are presented annually to the CISC-499* students whose posters receive the most votes on each day of the end-of-term poster exhibit. This year the exhibit was held in the JDUC, and we attracted an excellent turn-out of visitors from the School of Computing and from the rest of Queen's.
Several people commented to me that they found the quality of the posters to be very high this year. This is a fine testament to the abilities of our students, and it is excellent publicity for our School. To all the presenters, I would like to say "Job well done".
The winners are
Day 1: Tim Ginnand and Jamie Press
Day 2: Ashwin Balu and Bonnie McKenzie
Day 3: Ji Huang, Jamie Ryu and Yvonne Wu
Day 4: Jessica Ip
Please join me in congratulating these students on their very impressive work. Each winner will be presented with a plaque at the School of Computing Reception on Convocation Day. |
Sunday, April 13
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All day event |
| Location: |
141 Collingwood |
| Summary: |
EQUIS Lab hosts an open house to celebrate its grand opening |
| Description: |
On April 3rd, 2008, the EQUIS Lab hosted an open house to celebrate its grand opening at 141 Collingwood Street which was also covered in the Gazette (on page 9). |
Monday, April 14
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Purang Abolmaesumi, Jim Rodger and Hagit Shatkay receive School promotions |
| Description: |
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the following promotions have been approved by the Principal, effective July 1, 2008:
Purang Abolmaesumi promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure
Jim Rodger promoted to the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor
Hagit Shatkay Hagit Shatkay promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
Congratulations Purang, Jim and Hagit on a well deserved recognition of your contributions to the School, Queen's, and the scientific community. |
Tuesday, April 15
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Hossam Hassanein receives funding from Syncrude Canada Ltd. |
| Description: |
Congratulations to Hossam Hassanein who was successful in receiving funding in Health Monitoring and Fault Detection of Vibrating Screen Cloth using Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks by Syncrude Canada Ltd. |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Gabor Fichtinger and Purang Abolmaesumi receive funding from NSERC Idea to Innovation fund |
| Description: |
Congratulations to Gabor Fichtinger and Purang Abolmaesumi. They have received funding from the NSERC Idea to Innovation fund for their project Intensity-Based Registration of Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy.
Queen's Partner: PARTEQ, Anne Vivien-Scott
Industry Partner: Acoustic Medsystems, Inc, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA |
Monday, May 12
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All day event |
| Summary: |
David Skillicorn is in the news with software that analyzes text for signs of spin, deception, and negotiation |
| Description: |
David Skillicorn was featured in the Ottawa Citizen, Winnipeg Free Press, Windsor Star, Regina Leader-Post, and Vancouver Sun for the development of software tools that analyze text for signs of spin, deception, and negotiation (courtesy of the Gazette). |
Tuesday, May 13
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All day event |
| Summary: |
David Skillicorn and Roel Vertegaal speak at Weird Wired World: Surveillance, Security and Society |
| Description: |
Weird Wired World: Surveillance, Security and Society was the theme of a recent Queen's Media Fellowship hosted by Communications and Public Affairs. The event, intended to support the work done by media in informing the public about important and complex issues, brought together some of Canada's leading journalists with university experts in the area of surveillance and security. The School of Computing was represented by David Skillicorn and Roel Vertegaal.
More details and a picture may be found on page 8 of the Gazette. |
Tuesday, May 20
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Congratulations to Adrien Lapointe for a successful MSc thesis defense |
| Description: |
"Issues in Performance Evaluation of Mathematical Notation Recognition Systems"
Abstract:
Performance evaluation of document recognition systems is a difficult and practically-important problem. In this thesis, we contribute to the understanding of performance evaluation by studying some issues that arise in evaluation of systems for recognition of mathematical expressions. Issues that are discussed cover the reported performance evaluation experiments; the code availability; the nature of the mathematical notation; the extent of the coverage of mathematical recognition systems; and the quantification of performance evaluation results. For each issue, we discuss its impact on performance evaluation, give an overview of the state of the art for addressing it and point out open problems.
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Thursday, May 29
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Congratulations to David Van Geyn for a successful MSc thesis defense |
| Description: |
"Voice Call Quality Using 802.11e On a Wireless Mesh Network"
by David Van Geyn
Abstract:
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) provide an affordable solution for last mile network access. They also allow for extension of a network by configuring a Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) where it may otherwise be physically infeasible or cost prohibitive to do so. With the increasing use of real-time applications such as video conferencing and Voice over IP (VoIP), networks are stressed to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for these applications. Examples of key requirements include bounded delay and packet loss ratios. Addressing this issue in WLANs, the IEEE 802.11e amendment was proposed to provide a QoS mechanism. However, the performance of 802.11e in meshed environments is
yet to be studied.
In this work, we study VoIP call quality in a meshed environment with provisions for QoS. We study the call quality and throughput of background traffic in an experimental WMN testbed in order to test how well the IEEE 802.11e QoS provisions support voice calls. Call quality is tested in different configurations and scenarios. We study the effect of the number of wireless hops on VoIP call quality. In addition, we investigate the number of VoIP calls that can be supported simultaneously for different numbers of wireless hops. We also study how fairly the network treats different calls in different configurations. Then, we look at how much effective bandwidth a VoIP call uses on the network. Finally, we examine the VoIP call quality of different calls when calls have different QoS parameters and study the effect that a busy central node has on traffic passing through it. We provide suggestions to improve call quality on a WMN and hint at possible future work.
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Monday, June 2
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
New, flexible computers use displays with any shape |
| Description: |
Computers of the future will change shape, respond to touch and physics, and fold into your pocket, says Queen's prof
(Kingston, ON) - The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen's University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices in his Human Media Laboratory.
Not only will they take on flexible forms we've never imagined - like pop cans with browsers displaying RSS feeds and movie trailers - computers of the future will respond to our direct touch and even change their own shape to better accommodate data, for example, folding up like a piece of paper to be tucked into our pockets. |
Wednesday, June 11
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Roel Vertegaal Featured on CBC's Nora Young's Spark |
| Description: |
Here is the blog:
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/06/episode_41_june_11_14.html
Here is the podcast:
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/spark_20080611_6183.mp3 |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Congratulations to Jeff Yim for a successful MSc thesis defense |
| Description: |
"Computer-Aided Exercise"
by Jeff Yim.
Wednesday June 11, 2008,
10:00 AM,
Goodwin 524.
Supervisor: Nick Graham,
Internal Examiner: Dorothea Blostein,
External Examiner: Lucie Levesque (Kinesiology & Health Studies),
Head's Rep: Bob Tennent,
Chair: Malcolm Stott (Physics) |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
The Grace L. Boileau Graduate Award |
| Description: |
Please join me in congratulating Samir Mohammad on receiving the Grace L. Boileau Award
Established by a bequest from the estate of Grace L. Boileau, B.A. 1941, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to full-time funding-eligible graduate students in any year of a masters or doctoral program at Queen's University.
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Wednesday, June 18
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Hossain Shahriar has been chosen as the "honorable mention" for the IEEE Kingston Section Research Excellence Award for MSc! |
| Description: |
http://www.ieee.ca/www_kingston/ |
Monday, June 23
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
James Dutrisac receives honourable mention from IEEE conference |
| Description: |
James Dutrisac's thesis work, the paper "Subverting Prediction in Adversarial Settings" (Dutrisac and Skillicorn) received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference in Taipei, Taiwan. |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
David Skillicorn receives funding from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada |
| Description: |
We have just heard the good news that David Skillicorn's project, Personas : Beyond Identity Protection by Information Control, has been selected for funding by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/resource/cp/2008-2009/cp_background_e.asp. |
Wednesday, June 25
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Congrats to Nevon Brake, who this morning achieved Master status by passing his M.Sc. defense with flying colours. |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Congratulations to Lynda and Karilee! |
| Description: |
At a beautiful graduation celebration this morning, Lynda Moulton and Karilee Reinbold received each a Certificate of Achievement from Queen's:
Lynda: Administrative Professional at Queen's Program Certificate
Karilee: Certificate in Workplace Communications
They are now both certified to do what they have always done so well!
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Thursday, June 26
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
New Facebook Group for the Class of 2012 |
| Description: |
search for
Queen's Computing 2012
and join today! |
Monday, June 30
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Hanady Abdulsalam has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. |
| Description: |
Please join us in congratulating her. Because of the Canada Day holiday, celebrations will be in the coffee room at 11 on Wednesday.
- David Skillicorn
- Pat Martin
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Wednesday, July 9
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Jim Cordy Wins 2008 IBM International Faculty Award |
| Description: |
Prof. James Cordy of the School of Computing has been recognized with a 2008 IBM Faculty Award. Only fifty winners of these highly competitive international awards are selected from leading universities worldwide each year in recognition of the quality of faculty research programs and their importance to industry. Dr.
Cordy is one of only nine Canadian recipients in 2008.
Dr. Cordy, who is also an IBM Visiting Scientist and has previously received a number IBM Innovation and Center for Advanced Studies collaborative research awards, has a long history of industrially relevant research in programming languages and software engineering that has been carried into practice by IBM and others. His current research with IBM focuses on code patterns, the problem of finding and categorizing common fragments in computer software with the aim of automatically adapting computer programs to rapidly changing hardware configurations and capabilities such as multi-core processors.
While primarily intended to recognize worldwide researchers "who have an outstanding reputation for contributions in their field, or in the case of junior faculty, show unusual promise", the awards come with a small unrestricted cash donation to the recipient's research program which is often matched by the institution.
In keeping with the goals of "fostering collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations" or alternatively "promoting courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM", nominations for global faculty awards can only be made from within IBM.
More information on the IBM Faculty Awards can be found here:
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/ur/awards/faculty/index.html
A complete list of 2008 IBM Faculty Award winners can be found here:
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/ur/awards/faculty/2008_recipients.html
More information on Dr. Cordy and his research program can be found
here:
http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~cordy/
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Thursday, August 21
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Dr. Hagit Shatkay receives Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Government |
| Description: |
Research aimed at developing tools to help turn scientific data into healthcare solutions is one of the two projects at Queen's University that will receive $280,000 in funding from the province’s Early Researcher Awards program.
Funding world-class research is part of Ontario's plan to build an innovation economy.
Dr. Hagit Shatkay, who is working to develop tools that will help scientists understand and use the flood of data that has been pouring in since the sequencing of the human genome.
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Monday, September 8
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Convention speeches help professor detect deception |
| Description: |
Convention speeches help professor detect deception
Updated Sun. Sep. 7 2008 11:58 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A Queen's University computer science professor claims he has studied the Democratic and GOP convention speeches, crunched the numbers, run them through his computer and found that Republican John McCain really may be a straight talker.
David Skillicorn analyzed the speeches of major speakers at the Republican and Democratic conventions, counted some key words that indicate if someone is trying to be deceptive, put them through a software program, and came up with results that may surprise some people.
Full Story:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080905/truth_machine_080905/20080907?hub=TopStories |
Thursday, September 11
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Queen's Computing theses online now! |
| Description: |
Many of our most recent graduate theses can be found on QSHARE at:
https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/792/browse-date
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Tuesday, September 16
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Congratulations to Dr Gabor Fichtinger |
| Description: |
A paper by Gabor Fichtinger et al. on "Robotic assistance for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy" received the Second Best Paper Award of the Journal of Medical Image Analysis, in the special issue on the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). The journal's impact factor is 3.505 and in 2007 it was the third highest ranked journal in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, as well as in Biomedical Engineering. The annual MICCAI conference attracts about 700 submissions, with a general paper acceptance rate of 33%.
The paper is freely available online at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2008.06.002
MICCAI
The MICCAI Society is an important forum for medical image computing, computer-assisted intervention and medical robotics. The multidisciplinary nature of these emerging fields brings together clinicians, bioscientists, computer scientists, engineers, physicists & other researchers who are contributing to, and need to keep abreast of, advances in the methodology and applications.
http://www.miccai.org/
Journal Of Medical Image Analysis
Medical Image Analysis provides a forum for the dissemination of new research results in the field of medical and biological image analysis, with special emphasis on efforts related to the applications of computer vision, virtual reality and robotics to biomedical imaging problems. A bi-monthly journal, it publishes the highest quality, original papers that contribute to the basic science of processing, analysing and utilizing medical and biological images for these purposes. The journal is interested in approaches that utilize biomedical image datasets at all spatial scales, ranging from molecular / cellular imaging to tissue / organ imaging. While not limited to these alone, the typical biomedical image datasets of interest include those acquired from:
* Magnetic resonance
* Ultrasound
* Computed tomography
* Nuclear medicine
* X-ray
* Optical and Confocal Microscopy
* Video and range data images
The types of papers accepted include those that cover the development and implementation of algorithms and strategies based on the use of various models (geometrical, statistical, physical, functional, etc.) to solve the following types of problems, using biomedical image datasets: representation of pictorial data, visualization, feature extraction, segmentation, inter-study and inter-subject registration, longitudinal / temporal studies, image-guided surgery and intervention, texture, shape and motion measurements, spectral analysis, digital anatomical atlases, statistical shape analysis, computational anatomy (modelling normal anatomy and its variations), computational physiology (modelling organs and living systems for image analysis, simulation and training), virtual and augmented reality for therapy planning and guidance, telemedicine with medical images, telepresence in medicine, telesurgery and image-guided medical robots, etc.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620983/description#description
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Dr James Cordy receives award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision |
| Description: |
The School of Graduate Studies and Research is pleased to announce the 2008 recipients of the Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision to Dr. Julian Barling from the School of Business and Dr. James Cordy from the School of Computing. We congratulate them on their outstanding contribution to graduate education.
The Awards for Excellence in Graduate Supervision recognizes outstanding supervisors from the Social Sciences and Humanities and from the Life Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering, who demonstrate an enthusiasm for the pursuit of knowledge, encourage research and professional development of the student through mentorship and guidance.These awards are given to two faculty members annually.
The purpose of this award is to recognize those outstanding supervisors who demonstrate excellence in advising, monitoring and mentoring graduate students through their training. Excellence is judged on the quality of supervision and mentorship in facilitating the acquisition of skills and resources needed for the student to succeed as scholars and professionals. Characteristics include availability, timeliness and quality of guidance and feedback, responsiveness to student needs, and enthusiasm for the pursuit of knowledge. In addition the supervisor must promote timely completion of the thesis and encourage the career development of the student through the provision of leadership and support in academic matters such as publishing, presenting and applying for funding. Past winners have been Dr Mark Rosenberg (Geography) & Dr John Smol (Biology) in 2006 and Dr Karen Dubinsky (History) & Dr Robert Montgomerie (Biology) in 2007.
Presentation of the awards will occur at fall convocation. |
| Time: |
12:00 AM - 12:05 AM |
| Summary: |
Hot technology that could change health care |
| Description: |
Advances in health care run the gamut from mind-boggling medicines to simple Web solutions that, if adopted, could slice huge slabs of fat from a bloated system. Whatever form innovation takes in the coming years, much of it will spring from start-ups, not pharma and tech giants.
For the full story, please see:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/09/08/f-forbes-healthtech.html
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Wednesday, September 17
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Software spots the spin in political speeches |
| Description: |
David Skilliconr is featured in this article:
Skillicorn has been watching out for verbal "spin". He has developed an algorithm that evaluates word usage within the text of a conversation or speech to determine when a person "presents themselves or their content in a way that does not necessarily reflect what they know to be true".
For the full story, please visit:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19926746.200?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=top1_head_Software%20spots%20the%20spin%20in%20political%20speeches |
Saturday, September 20
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Writing Opportunities |
| Description: |
The School of Computing is always interested in articles and news stories about their students, staff and alumni as well as faculty! If you are interested in submitting a story to be posted on our website, please contact Dean McKeown (mckeown@cs.queensu.ca) with your ideas. Alumni and research profile authors may be eligible for compensation! |
Monday, September 29
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Computerworld: Careers |
| Summary: |
Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain |
| Description: |
September 26, 2008 (Computerworld) The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and ITcareers attractive to students who abandoned these fields in droves after the pop of the last big bubble, the dot-com bust of 2001.
For the full story:
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Homecoming Dean's Coffee Event |
| Description: |
The Homecoming Coffee Party hosted by the Dean of Arts and Science this morning at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre was a great success.
I am delighted to report that the School of Computing was capably and enthusiastically represented by Paweena (Sue-Sue) U-Thainual, a PhD candidate under the supervision of Gabor. Sue-Sue set up a wonderful display (a Perk station and three posters) all by herself, and entertained the alumni with her detailed, skillful and sometimes humorous, explanations. Visitors to our table, including the Speaker of the House of Commons, were impressed by the demonstrations and the work we do here. Thank you Sue-Sue, we are proud of you. Thank you Gabor for volunteering your time and expertise. And thank you Richard for your help with the posters. A team effort that once again made us look good!
Selim
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Tuesday, September 30
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Toronto, ON |
| Summary: |
Ontario Universities Fair |
| Description: |
Dear colleagues,
One of the most pleasant aspects of my job as Director is having the opportunity to recognize the contributions of those who volunteer their time so generously in the service of our School's mission. This past weekend gives me ample opportunity to do so. You already heard about our showing at Homecoming. Let me now tell you about the wonderful people who represented us so brilliantly at the Ontario Universities' Fair in Toronto.
On behalf of all members of the School of Computing I am happy to acknowledge the dedication and superb commitment of the following individuals:
Dean McKeown
Irene LaFleche
Wendy Powley
Brian Gudmundsson
Tamara Redwood
Julian Pileggi
Attendance counts for the 2008 OUF:
Friday - 43,500
Saturday - 40,500
Sunday - 24,000
Total - 108,000
In comparison to the 2007 OUF:
Friday - 37,000
Saturday - 33,000
Sunday - 23,000
Total - 93,000
Thank you all so much.
Selim
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Rares Crisan claims first place in senior men's lightweight pair rowing |
| Description: |
Congratulations Rares, a biomedical computing student, with his victory. Please see the whole story here: |
Wednesday, October 1
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Developing human-computer interaction that lets users focus on tasks not technology |
| Description: |
We are pleased to announce that Roel Vertegaal has received a major grant from the Province of Ontario, Ministry of Research and Innovation, for his project:
Developing human-computer interaction that lets users focus on tasks not technology
Congratulations Roel and best wishes for continued excellence in research.
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Development of an empirical software engineering facility capable of mining software repositories for large long lived industrial and open source projects |
| Description: |
We are pleased to announce that Ahmed Hassan has received a major grant from the Province of Ontario, Ministry of Research and Innovation, for his project:
Development of an empirical software engineering facility capable of mining software repositories for large long lived industrial and open source projects
Congratulations Ahmed and best wishes for continued excellence in research.
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Thursday, October 2
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
NSERC Strategic Grant Awarded: "Real-time image guidance for robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery" |
| Description: |
We are pleased to announce that Purang Abolmaesumi was awarded an NSERC Strategic Grant for the project "Real-time image guidance for robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery" on which he is a co-investigator with colleagues from UBC.
Congratulations Purang and best wishes for continued success in your research.
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Graduate Student Representatives for 2008-2009 |
| Description: |
Dear All,
It is my pleasure to announce the names of our Graduate Student Representatives for the 2008-2009 academic year. They have been elected through a voting process which took place on Wednesday the 24th of September, 2008.
May we take this opportunity to congratulate them all and wish them and our School a great year ahead! They have kindly volunteered their time and efforts to represent our graduate students, hence your cooperation and encouragement would be greatly appreciated.
The Graduate Student Representatives are:
School Council Rep (Vice-Coordinating Rep) Kashif Ali
School Council Rep (Vice-Coordinating Rep) Tim Ginn
Graduate Committee Rep (PhD) Mohamed Hefny
Graduate Committee Rep (MSc) Pandeli Kolomitro
Promotion, Renewal, and Tenure/Appointments Rep Naya Nagy
Resource Committee Rep Michael Xiao
Awards Committee Rep Mohamed Hefny
Privacy Committee Rep Samir Mohammad
Grad Liaison to COMPSA Sean Gill
SGPS Rep Qutaiba Albluwi
Social Rep – Coffee break Hossain Shahriar
Social Rep – Sports Yin Lam
Social Rep – Indoor activities Sue Sue
Social Rep – Outdoor activities Dumitru Onceanu
Web Master Michael Yang
So far no one volunteered for the Beautification committee Rep, so if any graduate student is interested in the position then he/she are kindly requested to contact me as soon as possible.
Best wishes,
Sharief Oteafy.
- Graduate Coordinating Rep
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Friday, October 3
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
NSERC Strategic Grant Awarded: "Enabling Ubiquitous Mobile Services" |
| Description: |
The project "Enabling Ubiquitous Mobile Services" led by Hossam Hassanein with co-investigators Pat Martin and M. Ibnkahla (ECE) has received funding from the NSERC Strategic Grants Program.
Well done and best wishes to our colleagues for continued research accomplishments.
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
First Prize Win: “Intra-operative Localization of Brachytherapy Implants Using Intensity-based Registration” |
| Description: |
Congratulations to the team of Z. Karim Aghaloo, P. Abolmaesumi, N. Ahmidi, T. K. Chen, E.C. Burdette, D. G. Gobbi and G. Fichtinger to win the first prize for their poster, entitled “Intra-operative Localization of Brachytherapy Implants Using Intensity-based Registration,” at the 7th Imaging Network Ontario Symposium which took place this week in Toronto.
Purang
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
NSERC Strategic Grant Awarded: "Technology for Rich Group Interaction in Networked Games" |
| Description: |
Congratulations to Nick Graham, our third recipient of the day of an NSERC Strategic Grant, for his project "Technology for Rich Group Interaction in Networked Games" with partners Ron Baecker at Toronto and Carl Gutwin in Saskatchewan, as well as companies Alcatel-Lucent, Coole Immersive and TinyEye.
Congratulations Nick and best wishes for continued research excellence.
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems |
| Description: |
At the ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS'08), held in Toulouse, France, September 28-October 3, 2008, and its co-located International Conference on Software Language Engineering, and International Workshop on Challenges in Model-Driven Software Engineering, Juergen Dingel's group had 4 papers.
This is impressive given a submission acceptance rate of 20%.
Juergen served on the program committee and has been invited to chair the Doctoral Symposium at MoDELS'09.
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Saturday, October 4
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All day event |
| Summary: |
24th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance |
| Description: |
At the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, held in Beijing, China, September 28-October 4, 2008, Ahmed Hassan's group (SAIL) presented SEVEN papers: 5 in the main program, 1 in a co-located conference and one invited keynote address.
ICSM is the top conference in Software Maintenance and one of the top two IEEE conferences in all of Software Engineering.
This year, the conference accepted 40 papers out of 156 submitted (26%); thus 5 out of the 40 papers (12.5%) were from SAIL.
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Thursday, October 9
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Leaders offer little more than facts, prof says |
| Description: |
Party leaders in Canada are telling voters little more than facts, unlike their American counterparts, said a Queen's University expert on spin.
The problem is, Canadian leaders aren't saying much.
"All these speeches they make are press releases with a little bit of policy in them," said David Skillicorn, a professor in the school of computing whose area of expertise is detecting deception in speech. "There's so little that comes through that [isn't] a list of facts."
For the full story profiling David Skillicorn's work: |
Saturday, October 18
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Queen's University |
| Summary: |
Queen's Fall Preview |
| Description: |
Dear all,
Earlier today at the Queen's Fall Preview, our School was ably represented by an outstanding group of volunteers. The crowds and line-ups at our booth are a testimony to the enthusiasm and excitement exuded by the following wonderful people:
Purang Abolmaesumi
Roger Browse
Brian Butler
Gabor Fichtinger
Brian Gudmundsson
Krista Kostroman
Melissa Trezise
Paweena U-Thainual.
Thank you all so much. Thanks also to Irene and to Dean for their superb organizational efforts.
Selim
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Monday, October 20
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Goodwin Hall |
| Summary: |
School Crest Renewed! |
| Description: |
On behalf of the School, a great thank you to all of the undergraduate students who volunteered their time last Friday to paint a beautiful, shining, new crest by the main entrance to Goodwin Hall.
Congratulations, well done!
Selim
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Tuesday, October 21
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Human Mobility Research Centre |
| Summary: |
Queen’s-KGH discovery revolutionizes hip transplants |
| Description: |
A revolutionary new surgical tool developed by researchers at Queen’s and Kingston General Hospital will increase the accuracy and accessibility of hip transplant operations, as well as saving time and money.
The new [drill template] was created at the Human Mobility Research Centre by Dr. Rudan and research assistant Manuela Kunz, a mechanical and software engineer whose work combines 3-D medial imaging, computer visualization, tracking technologies, biomechanics and kinematics. “This is a completely new way of performing navigational surgery, allowing patients and surgeons access to the most advanced techniques outside of the clinical research setting,” says Dr. Kunz.
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Friday, October 24
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Antwerp, Belgium |
| Summary: |
15th International Working Conference on Reverse Engineering |
| Description: |
The School of Computing had a very strong representation at WCRE 2008, the 15th International Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, held in Antwerp, Belgium, October 15 - 18, 2008.
This edition of the top conference in the area was dominated by Queen's participation, with Ahmed Hassan serving as Chair of the Program Committee and with six papers from Queen's by Jim Cordy, Tom Dean and Jenny Zou and their students.
In addition, at the conference banquet on Thursday evening Jim was presented the Best Reviewer award.
Congratulations to all.
Selim |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Kingston |
| Summary: |
Tone Deaf 7: Adventures in Sound |
| Description: |
Kingston's Tone Deaf Festival promotes a wide range of practices in adventurous sound performance and installation. |
Thursday, October 30
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Toronto |
| Summary: |
CASCON 2008 |
| Description: |
The 18th Annual International Conference hosted by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies and sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada (CASCON) was held in Toronto this week.
Congratulations to Wendy Powley, Pat Martin and their IBM partner Paul Bird on winning the best paper award at the conference. Their paper "DBMS Workload Control Using Throttling: Experimental Insights" was selected as the Best Paper of 23 accepted from a field of 73 international submissions.
As usual, Queen's had a strong presence at CASCON, with 3 full papers and 8 technical showcase exhibits from the labs of Pat Martin, Juergen Dingel, Diane Kelly, Mohammad Zulkernine and Jenny Zou,representing the largest single university contribution at the conference.
Once again, congratulations to Wendy, Pat, Paul and all of the Queen's students and professors who represented the School.
Selim
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Grant Hall |
| Summary: |
Fall Convocation 2008 |
| Description: |
The Fall 2008 convocation marked the installation of the new Chancellor of Queen's University, Dr David Dodge. Participating in the robing, the School's James Cordy as well as Sue Bates, Seamus Ryan, and Talia Radcliffe.
Congratulations to Dr. James Cordy of the School of Computing for receiving the 2008 award for excellence in graduate student supervision.
Congratulations also to our new graduates. Please follow the link for pictures and a complete list of our newest alumni. |
Monday, November 3
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
ACM-ICPC Programming Contest |
| Description: |
This is the annual notice to inform you about the outcome of the undergrad's ACM-ICPC Programming Contest. The Regionals were held last weekend at McMaster University. Competition in our region is very tight, with Waterloo and CMU being notoriously dangerous!
Notwithstanding which Queen's has twice in the past advanced to the World Finals.
Queen's had two teams competing, and I am pleased to be able to report that we placed 22/124 (Queen's Crimson) and 45/124 (Queen's Marines).
Our teamsters (alphabetical order) were:
Alex Miller
Brad Kratky
Derek Sue-Chue-Lam
Douglas Martin
Jon Eyolfson
Mark Wu
I believe I can say that it was a great experience for all involved.
A hearty congratulations to our teams for their dedication and intrepid hackery!
--
Andrew Seniuk
ACM-ICPC Coach
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| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Datamation: The 2009 IT Salary Guide |
| Description: |
James Maguire
The 2009 IT Salary Guide indicates that average starting salaries will increase by 3.7 percent over 2008 levels. This modest boost – a step down from last year’s 5.3 percent increase – reflects the toll that today’s gloomy economy is exacting on company revenues.
Still, it’s heartening to note that IT unemployment remains relatively low, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
(Follow the link for the full story) |
Thursday, November 6
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All day event |
| Summary: |
NYTimes.com: I.B.M. Has Tech Answer for Woes of Economy |
| Description: |
By STEVE LOHR
Published: November 6, 2008
I.B.M.’s chief executive, Samuel J. Palmisano, is proposing a technology-fueled economic recovery plan that calls for public and private investment in more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care.
(Follow the link for the full story) |
Friday, November 7
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Computing Senior Year's Dinner |
| Description: |
Last night's dinner was a sold out event. Students attended in large numbers and seem to have enjoyed the evening a great deal. Some were still there when I left, close to 9:00!
On their behalf I would like to thank the following people for attending and for their motivational talks: Professors Roger Browse, Jim Cordy, Robin Dawes, and Randy Ellis, as well as our exceptional Ph.D. candidates Scott Grant and Sami Torbey. I am sure that many students were inspired by you to consider graduate school as a serious option. (It was Scott who kept them talking late in the night.) Thanks to Irene for taking care of all organizational details and to Dean whose idea it was to hold such an event.
Selim |
Saturday, November 8
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Queen's University |
| Summary: |
Fall Preview Part 2 |
| Description: |
The second edition of Queen's Fall Preview 2008 was held November 8 in the BioSciences Complex. An estimated 3000 visitors attended the event. I am happy to report that members of the School of Computing set a new record of participation.
Eighteen people volunteered the better part of their Saturday this weekend to serve the School's recruitment cause. We had four tables, several displays, a video presentation, and two interactive demonstrations.
Please follow the link for more information and photos. |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Globe and Mail |
| Summary: |
David Skillicorn in the Globe and Mail: Obama's style: What kind of leader will he be? |
Friday, November 14
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
CHAMP |
| Summary: |
18 minutes to change the world |
| Description: |
Eva Vertes, a 23-year-old science superstar from Hamilton, has radical ideas about how to cure cancer.
"There's a need to take a new approach," says the Princeton grad who is now working as a cancer researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
"For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They're toxic and primitive. We need to look at it in a rational way and say, how can we help the body heal itself?"
Vertes sees cancer as the body's healing response gone wrong.
"You have to look at, why does cancer begin? You get skin cancer after exposure to UV rays. You get lung cancer from the toxins in smoke. Something is injuring the body and cancer is the wound response. The wound response gets out of control."
That's just a taste of what Vertes will propose tomorrow as a speaker at the Changing The World (changingtheworld.ca) conference at Convocation Hall.
For the full story please go here:
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/536540 |
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Nicolas Bettenburg just won one of the top ACM paper awards for Software Engineering. |
| Description: |
I am happy to announce that Nicolas Bettenburg and his co-authors (at universities in Germany, Switzerland and Canada) just won one of the top ACM paper awards for Software Engineering.
Earlier today, Nicolas' paper titled "What Makes a Good Bug Report?" was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. The award was given at the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2008) in Atlanta Georgia. Out of 153 submitted papers, only two papers received this award.
Nicolas is a Ph.D. candidate working in the SAIL lab under the supervision of Ahmed Hassan.
Great work Nicolas!
Details at: https://cgi4.cc.gatech.edu/phps/conferences/fse16/program.php
(scroll down to Thursday, November 13, Session 9).
Selim
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Monday, November 17
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Changing the World |
| Description: |
The changing the world conference on Saturday at Convocation Hall at UofT was a wonderful success, with over one thousand students attending. I would like to thank Justin Lee, Sylvia Cheng, HML students and alumni as well as other volunteers from UofT and the School of Computing for putting this unprecedented conference on. This was a tough act to put together! If you missed the event, a DVD will be made available with further announcements.
prof roel vertegaal | hml.queensu.ca | queen's university | 613.533.3070
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Tuesday, November 18
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Image of Computing Task Force formed |
| Description: |
please visit for details:
http://www.imageofcomputing.com/index.html
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Thursday, November 27
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Goodwin Hall |
| Summary: |
Graduate Information Night |
| Description: |
Queen's students came by the dozens yesterday evening to attend our Graduate Information Night.
The attractive and informative displays as well as the fascinating demos were matched only by the enthusiasm of our graduate students, postdocs, and faculty who were on hand to answer questions from a decidedly interested and curious audience.
Please follow the link for more information and photos. |
Thursday, December 4
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Industrial Environments |
| Description: |
Hossam Hassanein's project "Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Industrial Environments" has received funding from Ontario Centres of Excellence - Communications and Information Technology (OCE CCIT). Well done Hossam.
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Tuesday, December 9
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
Discovery Channel |
| Summary: |
Human Media Lab on Discovery Channel |
| Description: |
A Daily Planet program featuring Roel Vertegaal and his team will be aired on the Discovery Channel as follows:
9 December: 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.
10 December: 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.
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Thursday, December 11
| Time: |
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| Location: |
Donald Gordon Centre |
| Summary: |
School Holiday Party |
| Description: |
This year, holiday festivities began with the annual School Holiday Party, held on Thursday, December 11th at the Donald Gordon Centre.
After cocktails and a fabulous buffet dinner, attendees were treated to a very special guest. Santa found time in his busy schedule to bring gifts to the children and even stayed around for an extended photo session with those young at heart.
On behalf of all who attended the party, we would like to thank Irene and Lynda for organizing a truly delightful evening. |
Wednesday, December 17
| Time: |
All day event |
| Summary: |
CFI Funding for "Percutaneous Oncology Intervention Laboratory" |
| Description: |
I am pleased to announce that the Canada Foundation for Innovation has approved Gabor Fichtinger's project "Percutaneous Oncology Intervention Laboratory" at the tune of $400,000. Ontario and Queen's matching funds bring the total amount of the grant to $1M.
Among 44 Institutions and 312 researchers funded, this was the second highest grant: http://www.innovation.ca/en/news/2008/12/12/18#queens
Congratulations to Gabor on this excellent result! Many thanks to Karilee Reinbold: All your hard work paid off!
Selim |
Thursday, December 18
| Time: |
All day event |
| Location: |
6th floor Goodwin Hall |
| Summary: |
Holiday Sing Along |
| Description: |
Janice Glasgow hosted a traditional Christmas sing along in her lab. Margaret Lamb and Janice accompanied on piano and guitar as students, faculty, and their families sang to traditional Christmas songs. |
| Time: |
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Location: |
Goodwin Hall |
| Summary: |
Eid al-Adha Festival Potluck |
| Description: |
Members of the School were treated to excellent food and company in an Eid al-Adha Festival buffet hosted by the Muslim students in the School of Computing on December the 18th. Students brought delicious treats from around the world for everyone in the School to share and enjoy. The great food was matched by the company, an excellent time was had by all.
The lunch featured delicious dishes from around the world including: bufteek, kabseh, chicken biriyani, pakora, shawrma, Saudi green coffee, and more!
The School would like to thank the organizers of the potluck: Imad Abdallah and Farhana Zulkernine. |
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