News

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that the QSC Summer Coding Camp is in the News!

http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/igniting-passion-computer-science?utm_source=e-queens-gazette_faculty

Wendy Powley is featured today in the Kingston Whig Standard empowering Kingston women!

http://www.thewhig.com/2016/07/03/empowering-women-through-computer-programming

David Skillicorn was in the news in a July 2nd Whig Standard article entitled Talk isn’t cheap in election races.

Queen’s School of Computing undergraduates continues to impress.  Once again their entries in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition have caught the attention of the organizers.

Two teams are featured in the Microsoft videos below.

Team Dabo: Alex Adusei, Enoch Tam and Steve Emmanuel are QSC Software Design students.  Ali Khokhar is a Commerce student.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/trending/software-leaders/team-dabo

Team FuelE.Co: Scott Killeen is a QSC Software Design student, and William Thompson is doing a Major in Computing and a Minor in Physics.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/trending/education/team-fuele

Well done!

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to be offering a Summer Coding Camp.  Please see this article.

A big thank you to all involved!

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Wendy Powley has been appointed as a Continuing Adjuncts.  Best wishes Wendy on your new position!

The Queen’s School of Computing Perk Lab (Professor Gabor Fichtinger, Director) was featured in a story about health care research in Kingston. The story appears on the web site of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario.

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!