Month: March 2015

Congratulations to Team 1 from St. Theresa Catholic Secondary School, Belleville, and coach Mr. Daniel Tie Ten Quee for the team’s win in this year’s School of Computing Invitational High School Programming Contest. St. Theresa 1 narrowly defeated second place Team 42 41 40 from Frontenac Secondary School, Kingston, for the win. Thanks to Mr. Tie, and to coaches Mr. Mark Lee (Frontenac Secondary School), Mr. Jon Swaine (Sydenham High School), and Mr. Rod MacDonald (Brockville Collegiate Institute) for bringing teams to compete in this year’s very successful contest in which 35 students in 9 teams tried to solve four programming problems in three hours. The top teams from the March 30 contest will compete in the Educational Computing Organization Of Ontario’s East Regional Contest, which is also being hosted by the School of Computing, at Queen’s on April 25. Thanks and well done to contest organizer, Richard Linley, to Lynda Moulton for arranging the catering, and to School of Computing student volunteers, Clara Huh and Gabrielle Quilliam.

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Photos by R. Linley and C. Huh

David was interviewed by the Toronto Star on the subject of Target’s $10 million settlement for a data breach being a wake-up call to other businesses.

Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan, has been named  CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher for 2014. This award recognizes highly significant contributions, particularly to research. The prizes are sponsored by The Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association d’Informatique Canadienne, Canada’s national computer science academic organization.

Congratulations to Professor Hassan!

David Skillicorn commented, in the National Post, on patches being applied against the new malware Freak.

Team Eye3 received first prize at the Blueprint Challenge Phase for the World Citizenship category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup.  Members of the team School of Computing Undergraduates Zaeem Anwar and Jake Alsemgeest, and Commerce student Eddie Wang are featured in the Queen’s Gazette.  Read more about their amazing success here.

Congratulations to Team Eye3!

SPIE Medical Imaging 2015 took place February 21-26 in Orlando FL.  It is one of the largest medical imaging conferences.

The Perk Lab had 7 papers, 5 of those from our undergraduates. Unfortunately, the Perk Lab team got snowed in at home in Kingston, with roads closed and flights cancelled. Except Vinyas Harish, our 2nd year BMCO undergraduate, who was in Toronto at the time and managed to sneak out before the storm hit. He missed connections (both ways, as it turned out) and lost his luggage, but he got to Orlando in time. So he stood in for the Perk Lab single-handedly, presented our works in addition to his own paper.

He skillfully presented two podium talks as well.  He did a marvelous job – as indicated by the conference chair who emailed us while Vinyas was still leaving the podium.