News

Congratulations to Randy Ellis who is in the news today for his election to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  

David Skillicorn expressed the view that major gaps still exist in Canada’s cyber-security strategy when it come to protecting vital infrastructure, on CBCNews.ca.  He also was interviewed on CBC Radio One on the same topic.

The Queen’s School of Computing is thrilled to announce that the 11th annual Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare took place November 13-15, 2015 with the brilliant School of Computing students on the big stage.

Vinyas Harish, 3rd year Biomedical Computing undergrad, received the Best Poster Presentation Award for his project “Monitoring Electromagnetic Tracking Error in Computing Navigated Breast Cancer Surgery.” 

Christina Yan, 2nd year Biomedical Computing undergrad, gave an invited podium presentation on “Comparison of portable and conventional ultrasound imaging in spinal curvature measurement”.

Congratulations to our wonderful young researchers!

BitDrones, a research project out of the Queen’s School of Computing Human Media Lab (Roel Vertegaal, Director) was runner up for best demo at the prestigious 28th ACM User Interface Software Technology Symposium held in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 8- 11, 2015.

The BitDrones demo figured prominently in the news this week. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to the project.

Shown hard at work, Fall Preview volunteers Zac Baum and Vinyas Harish figure prominently on the  Queen’s home page.

Roel Vertegaal is in the news talking about BitDrones, a new drone technology like floating Legos, on RedOrbit, Gizmodo, phys.org, Gizmag, Tech Radar, Discovery.com, The Gadget Show, Station 14, ElectronicProducts.com, Queen’s Journal, Daily Planet (Discovery) and a number of other trade publications.

The School of Computing is delighted to announce that both computing programs reviewed by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS):

Computer Science (CSCI)
Software Design (SODE),

have received accreditation for six years from 2014 to 2020.

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the review.

Special thanks to David Lamb who coordinated the entire process.

Photo by Dave Dove

Congratulations to Professor Gabor Fichtinger of the Queen’s School of Computing for another Matariki Network success. Dr. Fichtinger will contribute expertise in open source software for computer assisted interventions to the Biomechanics Meets Robotics: Methods for Accurate and Fast Needle Targeting research led by Professor Adam Wittek of the University of Western Australia and funded under the Australian Discovery Projects program. On notification, Professor Wittek stated that, “the grant gives us some solid footing for collaboration.”

We look forward to developments in this partnership enabled by the Matariki Network.

Well done Gabor and the PerkLab team!

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Eslam G. AbdAllah who received a Best Paper Award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC-2015), held in Liverpool, England, October 26-28, 2015, for his paper “Detection and Prevention of Malicious Requests in ICN Routing and Caching,” co-authored with his co-supervisors Mohammad Zulkernine and Hossam Hassanein.

Great work!

The Queens’ School of Computing is pleased to announce that Manuels appeared on CKWS Television  to talk about the research being conducted at the Human Mobility Research Centre.