Professor Roel Vertegaal comments in the Toronto Star on reports that RIM has filed a patent that will allow their smart phones to read and interpret a user’s moods and emotional states. Find our what he and other industry professionals have to say about this cutting-edge technology here.
Best Paper Award at ECMFA
Congratulations to Gehan Selim, Shige Wang, Jim Cordy, and Juergen Dingel whose paper, “Model Transformations for Migrating Legacy Models: An Industrial Case Study”, won a Best Industrial Paper Award at the 8th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA) held in Lyngby, Denmark, July 2 – 5, 2012.
Well done!
David Skillicorn Weighs in on Airport Eavesdropping
The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn commented on CBC radio stations in Windsor, Winnipeg, Kelowna (B.C.), Calgary, Yellowknife, New Brunswick and Quebec City about plans currently being considered by security officials to eavesdrop on airport travelers.
Secret Memo Warns that Canada is not Prepared – David Skillicorn Weighs in
“Nobody actually has their eye on the ball,” says David Skillicorn about the Canadian government’s preparedness to fight off large-scale cyber attacks and industrial espionage. This story was featured in Businessweek, the New Orleans Times Picayune, The Oregonian, National Post and Ottawa Citizen.
Roel Vertegaal Talks About Corning’s New Willow Glass
Corning has developed it’s next generation of flexible glass – Willow Glass, an ultra-thin, super-flexible glass that will most likely make a big impact on the future development of flexible displays for interactive devices. The School of Computing’s Roel Vertegaal commented on the implications of this revolutionary product on both BBC News and Saida.
SAIL Wins Best Paper Award at MSR 2012
Congratulations to Nicolas Bettenburg (PhD Candidate) and Mei Nagappan
(Post-Doctoral Fellow) of the QSC Software Analysis and Intelligence
Laboratory (Dr. Ahmed Hassan, Director), whose paper:
“Think Locally, Act Globally: Improving Defect and Effort Prediction
Models”
was selected to receive a Best Paper Award at the 9th IEEE/ACM
International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR
2012), held in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012. http://2012.msrconf.org/
Roel Vertegaal Talks About Attentive User Interfaces
Roel Vertegaal was recently interviewed on CBC’s “Spark”, where he was invited to talk about attentive user interfaces.
David Skillicorn on Super-Cyberweapon
David Skillicorn talked recently with the Vancouver Sun, The Kingston Whig Standard, CTV National News and CBC Radio about a newly discovered virus that’s been stealing data from computers in the Middle East for as long as five years.
Human Media Lab Featured in The Journal
The Queen’s publication, The Journal, ran a story on the Human Media Lab. Read the whole story here!
Telecommunications Lab in the News
The Queen’s School of Computing Telecommunications Research Laboratory (Dr. Hossam Hassanein, Director) was featured in the Edmonton Journal on May 22. The article describes how members of the lab have implemented a network of sensors and smartphones to monitor Syncrude Canada’s tungsten-topped vibrating screens.