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Congratulations to those School of Computing graduands receiving degrees at the 10 June 2015 Convocation!

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Photos by Dave Dove.

School of  Computing cross-appointed (Medicine and Critical Care) professor Dr. David Maslove’s work with big data in the intensive care unit of KGH is featured in the 2015 Spring issue of (e)affect.

Queen’s School of Computing Professor Pat Martin is featured in the Spring 2015  (e)affect. The article features Pat’s work on big data with IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system. IBM’s Watson is a Jeopardy! champ.

Third-year Computing and Creative Arts student Emma Irwin, (on the ladder) and Anjene Balint, Art History Graduate, are working with the SWEP (Queen’s Summer Work Experience Program). They will be working with new acquisitions–cataloguing, examining and storing works for a new online collection.

Our warm congratulations go out to Matthew Holden who will receive Mitacs Globalink funding to support his research on Modelling of Surgical Workflows.  Matthew will be travelling to France this year to work with Professor Jannin and the Université de Rennes.  Bravo, Matthew and bon voyage!

Former QSC graduate student Dr. Kathrin Tyryshkin is featured in this Queen’s Gazette article about the Queen’s School of Graduate Studies’ Dissertation Boot Camp.

We are delighted to note from this article in the Queen’s Gazette that the School of Computing has two teams of undergraduate students competing at the world’s level finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup. They are Canadian champions in two of a total of three categories in this competition.

The Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association d’informatique Canadienne has announced that Beatrice (Trixie) Worsley (1921-1972) is an initial recipient of its new Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Worsley was the first female computer scientist in Canada and a founding member of the Department of Computing and Information Science at Queen’s University (now the Queen’s School of Computing). A brief biography is provided here.

David Skillicorn commented today on the case of thousands of CRA employees who fell for a fake phishing email test, in the Globe and Mail and Business News Network.

Congratulations to the QSC graduate students on their successful edition of the Sixth Annual Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference. The high quality two-day event was superbly organized and professionally executed. It included research presentations, a poster session, invited keynoted speakers, panel discussions, and of course the ever popular carnival.

Thanks to the organizing committee, Emese Somogyvari, Nisrin Abou-Seido, Marwa Elsayed, Shadi Khalifa and Doug Martin. Thanks, too, to all volunteers, participants, and attendees on an excellent QGCSC 2015!

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