Environment

Kingston

Kingston is a relatively small (the population of the city and suburbs is around 120,000), "university" city, located midway between Toronto and Montreal and about 160 kilometers south of Ottawa.

There are excellent rail and road communications to these cities. Kingston was the site of the 1976 Sailing Olympics and is situated on the waterfront at the eastern most end of Lake Ontario. It supports a symphony orchestra and a number of theatre groups. A second university, the Royal Military College, is also located in the city.

Queen's

Queen's, founded in 1841, is one of the oldest Canadian Universities. The student population is deliberately small, around 13,000 students of whom about 2,000 are enrolled in the Graduate School, in 52 departments. About 60 of these graduate students are registered in the School of Computing.

The University is organized into 16 faculties and schools: Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, School of Business, School of English, School of Graduate Studies and Research , School of Industrial Relations, School of Music, School of Nursing, School of Physical Health and Education, School of Political Studies, School of Public Administration, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, and School of Urban and Regional Planning. Graduate work in Computing Science is administered through the School of Graduate Studies and Research , while undergraduate instruction is offered through the Faculty of Arts and Science.

The School

The School of Computing is located in Goodwin Hall. A "technology centre" provides an integrated set of buildings linking the School of Computing, Electrical Engineering and the Computing Centre. Administrative offices are currently on the 5th floor of Goodwin. The School was established in 1969, and has an academic staff with considerable teaching and research experience. As well as the graduate programs at the Master's and Ph.D. levels, it offers an honours Bachelor's degree either with a major or a medial concentration in CISC and provides introductory computing instruction to the university as a whole.

The normal requirement for the M.Sc. program is a background in Computing Science roughly equivalent to a Bachelor s degree with a major concentration in Computing Science. Exceptional students with some background in computing may be admitted as graduate preparatory students. The School has about 45 full-time graduate students at the Master's level and normally admits about 25 new students each year. The Ph.D. program admits about 6 students per year. Ph.D. applicants should have completed a Master's degree in Computing Science. There are currently 25 candidates enrolled in the Ph.D. program. The various programs of study are described later in this brochure.

The graduate program is administered by the Coordinator(s) of Graduate Studies. A graduate committee which includes both faculty and student representatives determines policy in the various graduate programs. A small sub-committee makes decisions regarding admissions. Decisions regarding equipment and other facilities are made by the resources committee which again includes graduate student representation. A third committee, the undergraduate committee, completes the School committee structure. These committees report to periodic meetings of the full School which includes faculty, graduate, undergraduate and staff representation. Students are encouraged at all times to participate in School decisions on policy affecting graduate students.

Faculty Members

	Selim Akl Professor and Director Ph.D. McGill University - 1978 Office: Goodwin 520 Phone: 613 533-3184 akl@cs.queensu.ca		Dorothea Blostein Professor Ph.D. University of Illinois 1987 Office: Goodwin 720 Phone: 613 533-6537 blostein@cs.queensu.ca
	Roger Browse Associate Professor Ph.D. University of British Columbia 1982 Office: Goodwin 753 Phone: 613 533-6069 browse@cs.queensu.ca		Jim Cordy Professor Ph.D. University of Toronto 1986 Office: Goodwin 625 Phone: 613 533-6054 cordy@cs.queensu.ca
	Bob Crawford Professor Ph.D. Cornell University 1975 Office: Goodwin 735 Phone: 613 533-2475 rgc@cs.queensu.ca		Robin Dawes Associate Professor Ph.D. University of Toronto 1983 Office: Goodwin 537 Phone: 613 533-6061 dawes@cs.queensu.ca
	Juergen Dingel Associate Professor Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University 1999 Office: Goodwin 723 Phone: 613 533-3071 dingel@cs.queensu.ca		Randy Ellis Professor/Queen's Research Chair in Computer-Assisted Surgery Ph.D. University of Massachusetts 1987 Office: Goodwin 737 Phone: 613 533-6536 ellis@cs.queensu.ca
	Gabor Fichtinger Professor, Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair Ph.D. Budapest Technical University 1990 Office: Goodwin 725 Phone: 613 533-3258 gabor@cs.queensu.ca		Janice Glasgow Professor/Queen's Research Chair in Biomedical Computing Ph.D. University of Waterloo 1983 Office: Goodwin 662 Phone: 613 533-6058 janice@cs.queensu.ca
	Nick Graham Professor Ph.D. Technical University of Berlin 1994 Office: Goodwin 629 Phone: 613 533-6526 graham@cs.queensu.ca		Ahmed Hassan Assistant Professor/NSERC RIM Software Engineering Ph.D. University of Waterloo 2005 Office: Goodwin 751 Phone: 613 533-3337 ahmed@cs.queensu.ca
	Hossam Hassanein Professor Ph.D. University of Alberta 1990 Office: Goodwin 628 Phone: 613 533-6052 hossam@cs.queensu.ca		David Lamb Associate Professor Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University 1983 Office: Goodwin 626 Phone: 613 533-6067 dalamb@cs.queensu.ca
	Margaret Lamb Adjunct Associate Professor M.Sc. Carnegie-Mellon University 1983 Office: Goodwin 554 Phone: 613 533-6059 malamb@cs.queensu.ca		Pat Martin Professor Ph.D. University of Toronto 1984 Office: Goodwin 630 Phone: 613 533-6063 martin@cs.queensu.ca
	Mary McCollam Adjunct Associate Professor M.Sc. Queen's University 1990 Office: Goodwin 527 Phone: 613 533-6763 mccollam@cs.queensu.ca		Alan McLeod Adjunct Associate Professor Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1987 Office: Goodwin 550 Phone: 613 533-6716 mcleod@cs.queensu.ca
	Parvin Mousavi Associate Professor Ph.D. University of British Columbia 2001 Office: Goodwin 729 Phone: 613 533-6070 pmousavi@cs.queensu.ca		David Rappaport Professor Ph.D. McGill University 1987 Office: Goodwin 532 Phone: 613 533-6055 daver@cs.queensu.ca
	Jim Rodger Adjunct Associate Professor Ph.D. Queen's University 1994 Office: Goodwin 554 Phone: 613 533-6059 rodger@cs.queensu.ca		Kai Salomaa Professor Ph.D. University of Turku 1989 Office: Goodwin 545 Phone: 613 533-6073 ksalomaa@cs.queensu.ca
	David Skillicorn Professor Ph.D. University of Manitoba 1981 Office: Goodwin 528 Phone: 613 533-6065 skill@cs.queensu.ca		James Stewart Professor Ph.D. Cornell University 1992 Office: Goodwin 732 Phone: 613 533-3156 jstewart@cs.queensu.ca
	Bob Tennent Professor/Chair of Undergraduate Studies Ph.D. University of Toronto 1973 Office: Goodwin 541 Phone: 613 533-6060 rdt@cs.queensu.ca		Roel Vertegaal Associate Professor Ph.D. Twente University 1998 Office: Goodwin 634 Phone: 613 533-3070 roel@cs.queensu.ca
	Mohammad Zulkernine Associate Professor / Canada Research Chair in Software Dependability Ph.D. University of Waterloo 2003 Office: Goodwin 535 Phone: 613-533-2837 mzulker@cs.queensu.ca

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Professors Emeriti

	Don Jardine Professor Emeritus Ph.D. University of Delaware 1956		Mike Jenkins Professor Emeritus Ph.D. Stanford University 1969
	Michael Levison Professor Emeritus Ph.D. London University 1962 Office: Goodwin 637 Phone: 613 533-6071 levison@cs.queensu.ca		Glenn MacEwen Professor Emeritus Ph.D. University of Toronto 1971

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Cross-Appointed Faculty Members

	Gunnar Blohm Assistant Professor Ph.D. Universite Catholique de Louvain 2004 Office: Botterell Hall 230 Phone: 613-533-3385 gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca		Thomas Dean Assistant Professor Ph.D. Queen's University 1993 Office: Goodwin 750 Phone: 613 533-6482 dean@cs.queensu.ca
	Suzanne Fortier Professor, President, NSERC Ph.D. McGill University, 1976 fortiers@queensu.ca		Michael Greenspan Associate Professor Ph.D. Carleton University 1991 Office: WalterLight 518 Phone: 613 533-6000 ext. 77736 michael.greenspan@queensu.ca
	Diane Kelly Assistant Professor Ph.D. Royal Military College 2004 Office: RMC-Girouard 310 Phone: 613 541-6000 ext 6171 kelly-d@rmc.ca		Scott Knight Assistant Professor Ph.D. Queen's University 2000 Office: RMC-Sawyer 3008 Phone: 613 541-6000 ext 6194 knight-s@rmc.ca
	Susan Lederman Professor and Queen's Research Chair in Haptics Ph.D. University of Toronto 1973 Office: Humphrey 346 Phone: 613 533-2878 lederman@post.queensu.ca		Greg Lessard Professor Ph.D. Laval University 1984 Office: Goodwin 635 Phone: 613 533-6865 lessard@cs.queensu.ca
	Damian Redfearn Assistant Professor University of Leicester 1993 Office: Department of Medicine Phone: 613 548-3232 redfearn@queensu.ca		Karen Rudie Professor Ph.D. University of Toronto 1992 Office: WalterLight 414 Phone: 613 533-2966 karen.rudie@queensu.ca
	Niko Troje Professor and Canada Research Chair Ph.D. University of Freiburg 1994 Office: Humphrey 344 Phone: 613 533-6017 troje@queensu.ca		Ying Zou Associate Professor Ph.D. University of Waterloo 2003 Office: Goodwin 731 Phone: 613 533-6000 ext 8684 ying.zou@queensu.ca

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The Library

Computing Science textbooks, monographs, journals and technical reports from dozens of universities and research institutes are all housed in the Douglas Library (Engineering and Science). Other books and periodicals of interest may be found in the main university library, and in other branch libraries, particularly those for Mathematics and Psychology.

University Computing Facilities

Queen's Information and Technology Services (ITS) manages a number of systems on campus, including an (IBM) mainframe (QUCDN), a Sun Sparc server (QLINK) and the Jeffery SPARC lab. Terminals connected to the IBM mainframe are located at various sites across campus. QUCDN is used for Academic computing. QLINK can be accessed from PCs on campus, or through the QLINK dial-in-lines; QLINK provides Internet Service for the student population at Queen's. The Jeffery SPARC lab is a collection of 36 Sparc4 workstations with a Ultra Sparc server located in Jeffery Hall room 155; this site supports Academic computing. For more information on the ITS computing facilities visit their office in the Stauffer Library.

School of Computing Facilities

Graduate students tend to make more extensive use of the School's facilities rather than the University central ones described above. The general research facility is a network of Sun, SGI, Apple and PC workstations. The network consist of about 100 workstations supported by file servers. The network is connected to the University network which provides access to the Internet. The School's facilities are divided into about 10 laboratories that contain specialized equipment such as high-end graphics workstations, scanners, robotic equipment, audio and video equipment, multi-processing machines and colour laser printers. The School also maintains a laboratory of Sun, PC and Apple workstations for undergraduate teaching. These facilities are available during the Spring and Summer terms for research.

Office Space

All full-time students are provided with office or lab space. Currently most offices are shared by four students although some of the larger offices have a larger population. Smoking is forbidden in University buildings.

Lounge Area

A general lounge and coffee room area is maintained on the 6th floor. This is open to all staff and graduate students in the School.

Further Information

For further information concerning School and research activities, contact:

Debby Robertson, Graduate Secretary,
debby@cs.queensu.ca, or (613) 533-6781.