Author: Karen Knight

Wendy Powley is in the news today on the topic of Canada lagging in push to teach kids computer coding, on cbc.ca and on “All in a Day.”

Wendy is also featured on “RCI (Radio Canada International).”

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Wendy Powley  has been appointed as Chair of the ACM-W Celebrations of Women in Computing.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.  ACM-W is ACM’s wing which supports, celebrates and advocates for Women in Computing.

Some excerpts from the announcement follow.

“Wendy Powley (Queens University) … will be taking over leadership of the Celebrations project. … Wendy has been a real stalwart champion of ACM-W and I am thrilled that she’s agreed to take on greater responsibility to continue the success and growth of ACM-W Celebrations.” Valerie Barr, ACM-W Chair

“I am pleased to welcome Wendy Powley (Queens University, Ontario, CA) to the role of ACM-W Celebrations chair.  Wendy has been deeply involved with the project, having been a lead organizer of the Ontario Celebration (ONCWiC) for several years.  Wendy was instrumental in the effort to combine previous regional Celebrations in Canada to create the All Canada Celebration (CAN-CWiC), which will be held for the first time in January 2016.  Wendy also has been a part of the Celebrations committee during the 2014-2015 academic year as communications chair, a role she will now be seeking to fill (any interested readers?).” Jodi Tims, ACM-W Vice Chair

Congratulations Wendy on this recognition of your leadership and best wishes on this important new role!

Dr. Troje’s research on the visual system as a sensitive lie detector is featured in  today’s Gazette.

David commented to the media on how to spot lies on the campaign trail.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-245-first-nations-voting-debate-spotting-lying-politicians-martin-short-on-robin-williams-and-more-1.3181885/how-to-spot-lies-on-the-campaign-trail-1.3181983

Team Walkly – Julie Lycklama (Cmp’17), Riley Karson, (Cmp’17), Christopher Thomas (Cmp’17) and Anastasiya Tarnouskaya (Cmp’17) – recently competed in the world final of the Microsoft Imagine Cup. (University Communications)

Please read their story in today’s Gazette

Congratulations to recent PhD graduate Gehan Selim, supervisors Jim Cordy and Juergen Dingel, and their colleagues at McGill, Toronto, and General Motors Corporation, on winning the Best Paper Award at ICMT 2015, the International Conference on Model Transformations in L’Aquila, Italy.

Michalis Famelis, Levi Lucio, Gehan Selim, Rick Salay, Marsha Chechik, James R. Cordy, Juergen Dingel, Hans Vangheluwe and Ramesh S., “Migrating Automotive Product Lines: A Case Study”

David Skillicorn was in the news on the topic of personal data on the web:

1) Ashley Madison hack won’t stop cheaters, on CBC’s The Exchange and in the Hamilton Spectator, Ottawa Sun, Guelph Mercury and the Waterloo Region Record;

2) Can you ever really erase your personal data from the web, on globalnews.ca and on thesudburystar.com.

The Queen’s School of Computing congratulates Professor Bob Tennent who will be retiring tomorrow, June 30, 2015, after 44 years of impeccable dedication and a wealth of contributions to the mission of the Queen’s School of Computing.

I am also delighted to announce that Bob has been granted the title of Professor Emeritus following his retirement.

In his letter to Bob, Principal Woolf wrote: “This honour affords the University an opportunity to express its thanks to you and to acknowledge your outstanding academic achievements and your exemplary service to Queen’s over the years.”

Best wishes Bob!

The Queen’s School of Computing is happy to announce that Tamas Ungi received a Best Paper Award from the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery for his paper.

Ungi T., Gauvin G.,, Yeo C.T., Engel C.J., Rudan J., Fichtinger G., Real Time Navigation in Breast Tumor Surgery, presented at the  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 29th International Congress, on June 24-27, Barcelona, Spain, 2015, and published in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, volume 10, Suppl. 1, pp. 59-60, 2015.  Congratulations Tamas and the entire team!

The School of Computing is pleased to announce that Dr. Ahmed Hassan and Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine have been promoted to the rank of Professor effective July 1, 2015.  Congratulations and best wishes Professor Hassan and Professor Zulkernine!