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David Skillicorn was on the CTV News Network discussing how ransomware attacks work.

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Queen’s School of Computing members Dr. Parvin Mousavi and PhD. candidate  Layan Nahlawi, along with Queen’s AVP Research Dr. Yolande Chan, attended the Research Matters event, a parliamentary pop-up research day, at the Parliament in Ottawa.

For Parvin and Layan, the day at the parliament was an excellent opportunity to meet the MPs and talk about their research and its impact.  They met with the Minister of Democratic Institutions (they were the only group to which the Minister spoke) as well as the Deputy Speaker of the House.  It was also a great chance to interact with Vice Principal Chan and benefit from her avid promotion of Queen’s and the research conducted at the QSC.  Dr. Chan commented:  “Their poster exhibit attracted a lot of attention.  Everyone seemed to have a relative or know someone who has (or has not) survived prostate cancer.  some individuals (e.g., Don Boudria) visited the Queen’s area repeatedly and spent quite a bit of time with Parvin and Layan”.

The Queen’s team had a chance to interact with several people, including:

• Marilyn Gladu (MP Sarnia)
• Yvonne Jones (MP Labrador)
• David Tilson (MP Dufferin – Caledon)
• Irene Mathyssen (MP London – Fanshawe)
• Terry Duguid (MP Winnipeg South)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Terry-Duguid(31119))

• Nick Whalen (MP Newfoundland and Labrador)

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Nick-Whalen(88296))

Queen’s Alumnus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Whalen)

• Honorable Maryam Monsef (MP Peterborough – Kawartha and minister of democratic institutions

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Maryam-Monsef(88922))

In addition to other distinguished people

• Honorable Don Boudria (former MP and cabinet minister)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Boudria)

Pierre Norman (Vice-President os External Relations and Communications at Canada Foundation of Innovation (CFI)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-normand-a416441a)

Well done!

Please join the Queen’s School of Computing in congratulating Dr. Juergen Dingel on his well-deserved promotion to the rank of Professor effective July 1, 2016.

Best wishes Juergen for continued success!

The Queen’s School of Computing is delighted to announce that Alum Dr. Shane McIntosh (Ph.D. 2015, Dr. Ahmed Hassan, supervisor) is a recipient of the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal for 2015-2016.  The medal is awarded on the basis of outstanding academic achievement.  Dr. McIntosh will receive the medal at the Spring Convocation Ceremony on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.

Dr. McIntosh is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University.

Congratulations Shane and best wishes!

The Queen’s School of Computing EQUIS Laboratory (Dr. Nick Graham, Director) is in the news today  for its pioneering technology that combines video game with physical exercise.

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that QSC Alum Dr. Peter O’Hearn (Ph.D. 1991, supervisor QSC Emeritus Professor Bob Tennant) is a co-recipient (with Stephen Brookes) of the 2016 ACM (SIGACT)/EATCS Godel Prize.

http://processalgebra.blogspot.ca/2016/05/stephen-brookes-and-peter-w-ohearn.html

Congratulations Peter!

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Human Media Lab (Professor Roel Vertegaal, Director) is  in the news today for its invention of the world’s first holographic flexible smartphone.

Professor Vertegaal also appears for a second time in the Queen’s Gazette for its invention of the world’s first  hand-held device with a fully cylindrical user interface.

HoloFlex: the world’s first flexible, holographic smartphone and MagicWand: cylindrical handheld display, is on The Verge, SlashGear, The Next Web, IEEE Spectrum, TechWorm, and CKWS  as well being  unveiled, in Daily Mail (UK), MobileSyrup, GizMag, Tech Radar, Motherboard, ScienceAlert, Engadget, WhatMobile,  Digit.in and other international and trade publications  and numerous other international and trade publications.

Cylindrical screens and bendable holograms: the future of smartphone technology, on Pursuitist.com. The HoloFlex phone was also the topic of a panel discussion on CTV National News Network on futuristic technology.  Also the HoloFlex holographic smartphone, MagicWand cylindrical display is unveiled, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Other articles included:

Bloomberg: Bendable smartphones are coming; But are they ready for prime time?

Electronic Products and Technology: Queen’s U to unveil world’s first wireless flexible smartphone

Fortune: Bendable Smartphones Are Coming This Year.

Also in the New York Post

Sydney Morning Herald – Bendable smartphones coming this year, Chinese start-up says.

Design Engineering – Canadian researchers develop holographic flexible smartphone.

NewsWatch – HoloFlex: The first flexible phone with a holographic display

Cbc.ca: Bendable phones ‘right around the corner,’ says Samsung exec.

Kicker Daily News: Lenovo is making bendable phone you can slap on wrist like a bracelet

San Francisco Chronicle: Lenovo explores building flexible, bendable smartphones.  

Government technology: Large screen vs compact device: bendable phones could be the answer.

The School of Computing played host for the third time to the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario’s East Regional High School Programming Contest on April 30th. Twenty-two teams of up to four student programmers each participated, attempting to solve four challenging programming problems in the space of three hours. The top five teams from Saturday’s contest are eligible to enter the final in the ECOO programming contest series next month in Toronto. Thanks to all the teams and their coaches for participating. Congratulations to the winning team from Bell High School Team 1, and team members Jacob Maxwell, Ian Frosst, Charles Holtforster, and Victor Bubis. Honorable mention to second place Lisgar Collegiate Institute Team 1 and to other teams that placed highly in the contest in spite of an unfortunate delay in arriving owing to a broken down bus. Thanks to School of Computing organizer, Richard Linley, to ECOO’s Chris Kulenkamp who acted as principal score-keeper, to School of Computing Manager, Tom Bradshaw, and to the School’s Lynda Moulton for organizing the catering.

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Photos by Richard Linley, Jon Swayne, Mark Lee, and Tom Bradshaw.

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Eric Rapos, who has been awarded one of the only two national NSERC CREATE / Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology summer research awards this year. The award will enable Eric to spend two months this summer conducting research in the laboratory of Professor Jonathan Lee at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Eric’s QSC supervisor is Professor Jim Cordy.

Well done Eric and best wishes!

Human media lab unveils ground breaking technologies, in Virtual Strategy Magazine