The CBC ran a story on the National last night that covered James Stewart‘s work in Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery. There is also a story about this on the CBC web site.
David Skillicorn comments on cyberattacks and spearphishing
David was interviewed about the cyber attack on Canadian government computers, on CBC’s The National, National Post, Toronto Star and on nine CBC Radio stations across Canada and many websites including Reuters.com, Reuters China, TibunNews.com (Indonesia), and Yahoo.ca.
David Skillicorn on CBC – Eqypt’s Internet Kill Switch
Experts CBC News talked with say Egypt’s net access was particularly vulnerable because the configuration of the net in authoritarian countries is typically much different than it is in more open societies.
“Typically, these countries have a state-controlled telecom, so much of the physical infrastructure is under the control of the government directly,” says David Skillikorn, who teaches computer science and internet security at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
For more information, please visit the CBC website.
Gabor Fichtinger receives significant support from Cancer Care Ontario
Congratulations to Gabor Fichtinger who has again received significant support from Cancer Care Ontario, this time from their Applied Cancer Research Unit program.
Dr. Fichtinger has received funding for his System Prototyping in Image-Guided Robotic Percutaneous Intervention research, which will develop reusable and customizable software infrastructures to assist clinical translation of experimental diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
Dr. Fichtinger is the Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Cancer Imaging.
Well done Gabor!
Selim
Rizwan Mian on TV
Rizwan was interviewed by CKWS on the subject of the career fair held at Queen’s on Wednesday.
To see the interview, click on the url below, then click on Wednesday, then click on Newswatch. He appears at 8m15s sec into the clip: http://www.ckwstv.com/index.cfm?page=news
Selim
Parvin Mousavi receives the CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2010
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce that the Canadian Association for Computer Science/Association d’Informatique Canadienne (CACS/AIC) has selected Professor Parvin Mousavi of the Queen’s School of Computing to receive the CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2010. Well done Parvin! What a wonderful way to start the new year!
Selim
The Tri-Council Research Expense Eligibility & Documentation Guide is now available
Queen’s Game Developers Club
The next Queen’s Game Developers Club meeting is set for Wednesday,
February 2nd, at 8:00pm! Come and join the fun in Goodwin 247.
If you haven’t heard of us yet, we’re an AMS ratified club devoted to providing an environment to foster the development of games, whether electronic or not, through discussion and mentoring. We provide regular presentations about topics including life in the professional games industry, issues with game design and theory, and other related issues. If you have heard of us, then sorry for the spam. Please add us to your block-forever list, and avert your eyes if you see us walking down the hallway. (Seriously though, this is the only time we’ll be sending to social this term; we have some new students and wanted to make this computing-related resource available.)
We’ve booked Flash game developer Sash Mackinnon to join us remotely from the sunny utopia of Australia! Sash has created some visually stunning, and very addictive games. You can check them all out on his site:
This meeting is going to be a good one, so come on out! Goodwin 247, 8:00pm, Wednesday, February 2nd. We have an announcement list if you’d like to be kept aware of future meetings and other events, so please take a look at the homepage. http://qgdc.ca/
And last but not least, if you were unable to make it to our last meet, you can now enjoy Jeffrey Yim’s presentation on his experience in the game industry on our website.
Internships proven valuable
Work-integrated learning preparing students for changing labour market, study finds: Work-integrated learning (WIL) such as co-operative education, apprenticeships, and internships can help Ontario post-secondary students respond to rapid change in the Ontario labour market, according a report prepared by Academica Group and commissioned by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. In the first phase of a study of institutional and employer attitudes toward WIL, both groups view it as an important part of the student experience, preparing students to enter the labour market with relevant, transferable, and marketable skills. They cite career preparation and improved employment prospects as the top motivating factor for students. Among PSE institutions surveyed, strengthening linkages with community and enhancing institutional reputation are the most significant benefits of WIL, while for employers the key attributes are access to highly motivated and creative students and improved productivity
Top Ten for 2010
1. Undergraduate achievements. A graduate from our Biomedical Computing program was this year’s winner of the Governor General’s Medal for achieving the highest academic standing in a bachelor degree program, across all disciplines. The research work of a third-year undergraduate attracted a tremendous amount of positive publicity from national and international media, including the CBC, Wired Magazine, and the NSERC web site, and earned a tip of the hat from a reigning World Chess Champion. Another undergraduate was the recipient of a prestigious CRA Undergraduate Research Award, placing in sixth position over all categories, being the only Canadian in the top 40, and enjoying the company of winners from Princeton, Harvard, Rice, Tufts, Yale, Brown, Berkeley, and the like.
2. Undergraduate enrollment. Our undergraduate enrollment is up. The number of first-year students is now twice that of three years ago and very close to twice the University’s enrollment target for the School. Fully 35.8% of our undergraduates, and 37.5% of our instructors, are women.
3. Undergraduate programs and activities. The School’s program prerequisite charts received national attention. Our undergraduate students organized and executed an excellent orientation week, earning praise from both the Administration as well as their peers.
4. Graduate students. Many of the School’s graduate students completed their degrees successfully and moved on, we welcomed a wonderful new group of excellent graduate students, and our graduate program maintained its positions as the largest (and best!), its members making an impact, winning awards, and organizing the first Graduate Computing Students Conference.
5. Research contributions. Our researchers had an impressive presence in terms of journal publications, as well as at international gatherings of professionals in biomedical computing, communication networks, databases, human computer interaction, knowledge discovery, software engineering, and theoretical computer science. A colleague in the School earned a prestigious Research Chair from Cancer Care Ontario.
6. Research Grants. Substantial research grants were received from the main granting agencies, including NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR, CFI, OMRI, and ORF. The latest funding received was a major award from NSERC, General Motors and IBM, intended to make automobiles safer, more reliable, and more secure.
7. Interdisciplinarity. The School continues to be a model of interdisciplinarity; our collaborators, in Canada and around the planet, come from electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, biology, physiology, anatomy, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, politics, sociology, business, medicine, kinesiology, art, drama, film, and music.
8. Service. We are not only citizens of the world, but we are also good citizens. We respond to every request for service from the Faculty of Arts and Science and from the University. We offer courses in Continuing Studies and in Enrichment Programs. Through outreach activities, we are involved with the local community, at elementary and secondary schools, as well as at organizations such as the H’art School, and we hosted the first Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing.
9. New colleagues. The ranks of our award-winning staff were enriched by the arrival of several wonderful new members, including instructors, administrative assistants, research associates, and research adjuncts.
10. A new lab. After three and a half years of preparation, design, and planning, construction work is finally set to begin on a world class facility, a School laboratory in Jackson Hall, the new Human Media Lab.
Happy holidays everyone and best wishes for 2011.
Selim