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Profile on Dr. Vertegaal and the work of the Human Media Lab, in Numrush (Dutch). Hands-on with ReFlex, the flexible Android-powered smartphone developed by Queen’s researchers was also profiled on Notable and in MobileSyrup.

The Queen’s School of Computing wishes to congratulate Professor, Dr. Parvin Mousavi, on her new research collaboration funded through an NSERC Engage grant.

NSERC Engage funding is specifically for new collaborations in research. Dr. Mousavi will be investigating a biofabrication and validation platform for 3D bioprinting.

Well done and best of success in Professor Mousavi’s new research collaboration!

Congratulations to the Queen’s School of Computing Perk Lab (Dr. Gabor Fichtinger, Director), five of whose members received awards of the 2016 Imaging network of Ontario (ImNO) Symposium:

Maggie Hess, Amani Ibrahim, Tamas Ungi, Vinyas Harish, and Elodie Lugez.

Well done!

Queen’s School of Computing Professor and Director of the Perk Lab, Dr. Gabor Fichtinger has been awarded funding by the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund in support of his project NaviKnife, the world’s first spatially navigated surgical tool that can differentiate between cancerous and healthy tissues, in real-time at the tooltip.

Congratulations!

Student: Benjamin Bestvater
Supervisor:  Randy Ellis
Project Title:  Research on Hip Biomechanics

Student:  Rachael House
Supervisor:  Manuela Kunz
Project Title:  Intra-operative Visualization for Breast Conserving Surgery Navigation

Student:  Vinyas Harish
Supervisor:  Gabor Fichtinger
Project Title: Low-cost Pericardiocentesis Training System

Student:  Zachary Baum
Supervisor:  Gabor Fichtinger
Project Title:  Image Overlay Guidance for Medical Interventions

Student:  Nuwan Perera
Supervisor:  Dorothea Blostein
Project Title:  Biomechanical Modeling Using the NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit

Student:  Callum Tomkins-Flanagan
Supervisor:  Doug Mewhort
Project Title:  Applying Machine-Based Knowledge to Simulate Human Memory

Queen’s School of Computing is thrilled to announce that our students organized the university’s first ever hackathon. 

Pictures of the event, held March 4-6, 2016 are available here.

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that BitDrones, a research project by the Queen’s School of Computing Human Media Lab (Roel Vertegaal, Director) was  on CBC’s Disrupting Design (14 minute mark) on Sunday, March 6, 2016.

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Dr. Hossam Hassanein (Director, Telecommunications Research Laboratory) is in the news today  on the occasion of his award of a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for his iDriveSense project – a system that integrates sensors already available in vehicles and drivers’ smartphones to provide information about the vehicle’s location and dynamics, with the goal of improving road safety.

Congratulations Hossam!

The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Professor Roel Vertegaal and his researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab have developed the World’s first wireless flexible smartphone on CBCNews.ca, CKWS TV,  Wireless Week, The Queen’s Journal and the Printed Electronics World.

As well, please check out new bendable smartphone introduced by Queen’s University, on the Australia Network News, in Mobile Syrup, Christian Post, on CBC’s The Exchange (36 minute mark), the Cantech Letter and a number of other international trade publications.

Revolutionary smartphone allows users to feel the buzz by bending their apps, in Tech Story and on Station 14

Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Professor David Skillicorn was in the media over the last few days;  Dr. Skillicorn:

1. Published an op-ed on February 21st entitled “Apple Inc. isn’t a defender of your privacy” in the Ottawa Citizen;
   
2. Was interviewed on February 19th regarding the debate between privacy and public security, on CBC Radio.