Author: Doug Martin

Queen’s School of Computing undergraduate student Jonah Eisen (Second Year, Software Design (SODE)) has written a beautiful editorial in the Queen’s Journal entitled Knowing the code. Well done Jonah!

The Human Media Lab’s Paper Tab has been chosen as an Innovation of the Year finalist for Stuff’s Gadget Awards. There’s still time to vote!  Read all about it, and cast your vote here.

Two Fall Preview events were held this year, on October 26 and November 9, in the Biosciences complex at Queen’s. Once again, many thousands of visitors were hosted over the two weekends.

The School of Computing was represented by a fantastic group of volunteers who donated their time and efforts generously and enthusiastically, by putting together the most impressive display of demos among all participating departments, thereby contributing significantly to the School’s undergraduate recruiting campaign. Thanks, and well done, to all our volunteers.

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Photos by Dave Dove

David commented in the Globe and Mail on how fearful customers make it tougher for companies to collect data.

We invite you to attend Queen’s School of Computing’s Drop-In Open House
Thursday, November 14 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm.
Join us for hands-on demos, lab tours and food. This will be a terrific opportunity for everyone to see first-hand the exciting and ground-breaking research that is happening right here at Queen’s School of Computing every day.

For students considering graduate work, this would be an ideal time to meet professors!

Please contact Debby Robertson for details and to RSVP (debby@cs.queensu.ca)

Fourth year School of Computing student, Amin Nikdel, is in the news today. See the article about his new classroom app on CBC’s “Ontario Morning”, in the Queen’s News Centre and in the Kingston Whig Standard.

The School of Computing’s own Greg Lessard was one of four recipients of the Queen’s Distinguished Service Awards, presented recently at the annual dinner of the University Council. See the full article from the Queen’s News Centre here.

Congratulations to Professor Gabor Fichtinger, Queen’s School of Computing CCO Research Chair, on his successful application to the Canada-Latin American and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants program. Dr. Fichtinger will be working with Professor Alvaro Gómez of the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay to develop a shared platform for radiation-free paediatric scoliosis monitoring. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Fichtinger’s Uruguayan collaborators to the School, and wish him safe travels in his research exchange collaboration.

Undergraduate student Jonas Lobo, who was enrolled in the Queen’s School of Computing course COCA 201 in Winter 2013, is the winner of the Editor’s Choice at Maker Faire. His giant actuated origami project received a good reception at the maker Faire winning three editor’s choice awards and is featured on the Make magazine blog , and was featured on the front page the Saturday of the Faire.

Queen’s School of Computing Professor David Skillicorn commented on news of the Government of Canada citing national security concerns in rejecting the purchase of Blackberry by a foreign buyer this week, in Bloomburg.