Author: Doug Martin

Congratulations to Team 1 from Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and coach Mr. Kevin Wood for the team’s win in this year’s School of Computing Invitational High School Programming Contest. The team easily won, defeating its nearest rival, Sydenham High School Team 2, 374 points to 206. Thanks to Mr. Wood, and to coaches Mr. Daniel Tie Ten Quee (St. Theresa Catholic High School, Belleville), Mr. Mark Lee (Frontenac Secondary School), Mr. Jon Swaine (Sydenham High School), and Mr. Matt Smith (Brockville Collegiate Institute) for bringing teams to compete in this year’s very successful contest in which 38 students in 11 teams tried to solve four programming problems in three hours. The top teams from the April 6 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 30. Thanks and well done to contest organizer, Richard Linley, to Lynda Moulton for arranging the catering, and to School of Computing Manager, Tom Bradshaw.

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Hundreds of interested faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Biosciences Complex on Thursday, March 31st for the Queen’s School of Computing’s annual exhibition of Creative Computing: Art, Games, and Research. The event highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations, and posters from a selection of our courses, with topics including Game Design and Game Technology, Computing and the Creative Arts, 4th year projects, Human Computer Interaction, and more. Congratulations and thanks to the organizers and participants.

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Photos by Dave Dove.

Dr. Martin’s participation in the new Scotiabank Centre for Customer Analytics is noted in today’s Queen’s Gazette.

Congratulations to Professor Gabor Fichtinger of the Queen’s School of Computing for another Matariki Network success. Dr. Fichtinger will contribute expertise in open source software for computer assisted interventions to the Biomechanics Meets Robotics: Methods for Accurate and Fast Needle Targeting research led by Professor Adam Wittek of the University of Western Australia and funded under the Australian Discovery Projects program. On notification, Professor Wittek stated that, “the grant gives us some solid footing for collaboration.”

We look forward to developments in this partnership enabled by the Matariki Network.

Well done Gabor and the PerkLab team!

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Eslam G. AbdAllah who received a Best Paper Award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC-2015), held in Liverpool, England, October 26-28, 2015, for his paper “Detection and Prevention of Malicious Requests in ICN Routing and Caching,” co-authored with his co-supervisors Mohammad Zulkernine and Hossam Hassanein.

Great work!

A CBC story featuring QSC alumnus, Connor Dickie.

Dr. Hossam Hassanein of the Queen’s School of Computing is the recipient of the 2015 Queen’s School of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision. The award will be presented at the Fall Convocation. Congratulations, Hossam, on a well-deserved recognition.

Queen’s School of Computing students have made it to the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals. The Walkly team is the only one from Canada in all categories.  Congratulations and good luck!

One of three recipients of this national award, Dr. Ahmed Hassan is the Canada Research Chair in Software Analytics, the NSERC/Blackberry Industrial Research Chair in Software engineering for Ultra Large Scale Systems, and the director of the the Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (SAIL) at Queen’s School of Computing.