Author: Doug Martin

David spoke on the CBC program “All in a Day” about the UK’s government working on banning porn sites. The story was also featured in the Kingston Whig Standard. Read the entire article here.

Congratulations to Jim Cordy on the publication of his new  book The Personal Web (Chignell, M.; Cordy, J.; Kealey, R.; Ng, J.; Yesha, Y. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7855, Springer, 2013).

Manuela and James (along with co-authors John Rudan (Surgery) and Vladimir Kratky (Ophtalmology)) won a best poster award at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society of Computer Aided Surgery, held in Heidelberg, Germany, June 26 – 29, 2013, for their paper “Faster intraoperative localization of posterior orbital tumours using a patient-specific instrument guide“.

Read the story in the Queen’s News Centre.

Queen’s News features a story about David and Carolyn’s research which examines the language used to motivate terrorist attacks.

Read the entire article here.

TELEHUMAN, a research project at the Queen’s School of Computing Human Media Lab (Dr. Roel Vertegaal, Director), is highlighted in an article in the August 2013 issue of Wired UK.

The full article is posted here as a pdf.

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Roel gives an interview about how technology is finally catching up to paper, on ITWeb.

Congratulations to Gabor for his success in building a new industry partnership for the research and development of his biopsy guidance system. Although not a large project, it is the beginning of an industry prototype that will incorporate his open-source platform. We wish him all the best in this important collaboration.

Principal Woolf has been authorized by the Executive Committee of University Council to assemble an advisory committee to assist him in the search for a candidate to become Queen’s 14th chancellor. The committee’s membership consists of: Principal Daniel Woolf (Chair), Nick Francis (Rector), Barbara Palk (Chair of the Board of Trustees), Alison Holt (University Council Executive Committee member), David Bakhurst (faculty member), Irene LaFleche (staff member), Heather Black (University Council and Alumni Association member), and Bruce Mitchell (benefactor). Irène Bujara, Director, Equity Office and Human Rights Office, will serve as a non-voting advisor to the committee and University Secretary Lon Knox will serve as its secretary.

David gave interviews on the subject of how vulnerable are Canadians to data snooping on The Current, cbc.ca, the Huffington Post and on CKNW (Vancouver radio).

David commented on attacks launched by cyber criminals from virtual bases in Canada, in his interviews with the Hamilton Spectator, Vancouver Province, Victoria Times Colonist, Winnipeg Free Press and the Brandon Sun.