News

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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Photos by Dave Dove.

A paper from the Queen’s School of Computing Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (Dr. Ahmed Hassan, Director) has won the IEEE Software Best Paper Award for 2015. The latter is believed to be the most prestigious paper award in Software Engineering for industrially relevant research.

The paper titled “An industrial case study on the automated detection of performance regressions in heterogeneous environments” will be presented in the Software Engineering in Practice track at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering.

Based on Derek Foo’s M.Sc. research, the paper documents over 4 years of industrially-relevant work done in collaboration with Blackberry. Co-authors are (ex-sailors) Dr. Bram Adams (now a Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) and Dr. Zhen Ming Jiang (now a professor at York University). Also members of the winning team are Dr. Ying Zou from ECE and Parminder Flora from Blackberry.

Well done and congratulations, all!

For the second time in the same week, Queen’s School of Computing students are making the headlines. Today’s Gazette has a story on our students who are going to the Global Hackathon in Seoul.