You are invited to the third Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference (QGCSC 2012), which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, May 9-10, 2012. The main highlights of QGCSC 2012 are:
1) Distinguished keynote speakers:
Dr. Steve Easterbrook, Dr. Esin Kiris and Dr. Selim Akl
We are proud to have three great speakers this year, which are Dr. Steve Easterbrook, Dr. Esin Kiris and Dr. Selim Akl. The first speaker, Dr. Steve Easterbrook is from the University of Toronto. He will give us an overview of history and his research in the exciting area of climate modeling, which involves tools known from software engineering. Dr. Esin Kiris from CA Technologies will show us her work that combines research and industry in the area of Human Computer Interactions. Our final speaker, Dr. Selim Akl, is the director of Queen’s School of Computing, and he will present us the highlights of his research in the area of unconventional computing.
2) Panel discussion:
Has social media changed computer science as we know it?
We will be holding a panel discussion on the effects of social media within computer science. More specifically we want to hear from panelists their opinions on how permanent are those effects and what do they mean for scientists and for practitioners. The discussion will involve our guests, Dr. Esin Kiris and Dr. Steve Easterbrook, and representatives of the School of Computing: Dr. James Cordy, Wendy Powley and Scott Grant.
3) Scientific presentations and posters from our students
This is one of the most important events during our conference. Students from many different research areas, such as networking, biomedical computing, software engineering, computation theory and human computer interactions will present their achievements. This is a showcase of the breadth and depth of the research that is conducted in the School of Computing, of which we are all very proud.
4) Programming competition
We will have a competition between labs and we will find out which lab has the best programmers!
More information and the detailed program are available on our website. Please note that the registration for the event closes April, 24.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!