Author: Doug Martin

“What do Birds Flocking and Proteins Folding have in Common? Hazem Ahmed brings Swarm Intelligence to Bioinformatics” appears on the web site of the Queen’s School of Graduate Studies. Read it here!

Congratulations to Drs. Gabor Fichtinger (Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery, Queen’s School of Computing) and Karol Miller (Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory, UWA School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering) on their successful application under the Queen’s Visitors to Partner Institutions of the Matariki Network of Universities fund. Their new collaboration will integrate world-class research in image-guided surgery navigation (Queen’s) and soft tissue biomechanical deformation modeling (UWA) with the goal of significantly advancing the field of computer-assisted neurosurgery. We wish them every success in their new partnership.

The Queen’s News Centre published an article about the innovative Active Learning classrooms in Ellis Hall. The School’s own Dave Dove and his team-based learning approach are featured. Read all about it here.

David is quoted in articles in the Lethbridge Herald and the Prince George Citizen on the question of whether the Internet can sometimes provide too much information.

Congratulations to Andrew W. L. Dickinson, Craig B. Casier, Richard W. Sellens, David R. Pichora, and Randy E. Ellis, whose poster “Overall Wrist Biomechanics are Conserved by Phenol-based Embalming” won a Best Poster Award at the NextMed/MMVR (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 21) Conference, held in Manhattan Beach, California, USA, February 19 – 22, 2014.

Our own Wendy Powley has a feature interview in Trendy Techie. As the article says, “What better way to begin the series than with a woman who directly affects the way young people learn technology?”

Read it here!

David spoke to the media about the fact that cyber attacks could become the new normal, on CBC’s The National and in the Toronto Star.

An interview with David is featured today in the Toronto Star in an article entitled “Internet-connected Home Appliances Called Security Threat“. He also talked about
smart appliances in the home on CBC’s Ontario Morning show and on CBC’s As it Happens and in the St. John’s Telegram.

The Queen’s News Centre has a feature article on the School’s unique Computing and Creative Arts (COCA ) program. The article highlights the program’s singularity in North America and talks about some of the creative projects upon which our students have worked. Read all about it here.

Queen’s School of Computing fourth year student Lucas Marcelli is featured in an Ottawa Citizen article entitled “Code for Kids Introducing Kids to Computer Science“. A new article in the Globe and Mail features more on this practical and innovative program that gives kids a head start in computing.