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David Skillicorn commented, in the National Post, on patches being applied against the new malware Freak.

Team Eye3 received first prize at the Blueprint Challenge Phase for the World Citizenship category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup.  Members of the team School of Computing Undergraduates Zaeem Anwar and Jake Alsemgeest, and Commerce student Eddie Wang are featured in the Queen’s Gazette.  Read more about their amazing success here.

Congratulations to Team Eye3!

SPIE Medical Imaging 2015 took place February 21-26 in Orlando FL.  It is one of the largest medical imaging conferences.

The Perk Lab had 7 papers, 5 of those from our undergraduates. Unfortunately, the Perk Lab team got snowed in at home in Kingston, with roads closed and flights cancelled. Except Vinyas Harish, our 2nd year BMCO undergraduate, who was in Toronto at the time and managed to sneak out before the storm hit. He missed connections (both ways, as it turned out) and lost his luggage, but he got to Orlando in time. So he stood in for the Perk Lab single-handedly, presented our works in addition to his own paper.

He skillfully presented two podium talks as well.  He did a marvelous job – as indicated by the conference chair who emailed us while Vinyas was still leaving the podium.

David was on the CBC commenting on the Communications Research Establishment’s practice of monitoring millions of Canadian emails to government.

We are happy to announce that Professor Robin Dawes is this year’s winner of the Zalman Yanovsky Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service to Literacy. Congratulations Robin! More information on this award is provided.
Robin will be receiving the award at the Third Annual Gala Fundraiser in support of Kingston Literacy & Skills, on Tuesday, February 24, at Chez Piggy (that’s tomorrow).

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We are happy to announce that a team of Queen’s students – Jake Alsemgeest and Zaeem Anwar from Computing and Eddie Wang from Commerce, were awarded First Prize in the Blueprint Challenge phase for the World Citizenship category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup.

Teams from around the world participated, with runners up from Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America.

The winning team, Team Eye3, was coached by Pat Martin (Queen’s School of Computing) and Brent Gallupe (Queen’s School of Business).

This is an amazing result for our students! Congratulations to all, and well done!

School of Computing PhD student Eric Rapos was recently awarded the prestigious Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award. Induction in the Tricolour Society is the highest privilege that can be conferred by Queen’s University on a student for service to the community. Congratulations Eric on this much deserved recognition.

These photos were taken at a celebratory reception held at the School on February 5th in Eric’s honour.

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Photos by Dave Dove.

Dave Dove has been featured in the Queen’s Annual Report for 2013 – 2014. He is shown on the leading page of the Student Learning Experience section, teaching a class in Ellis Hall. What a wonderful example of the School’s teaching excellence!

David is in the news today commenting on the issue of technology firms being caught between the need for better encryption against hackers and politicians’ calls for surveillance measures, in the Globe and Mail.

Members of the Queen’s School of Computing have recently stood out in two game design competitions.

First, two groups from the School recently participated in the Ludum Dare game jam, where people from around the world compete over four days to design and implement a complete game.
Recent graduate Zi Ye created the game “Escape Character”, which won second place in the group competition, of 1,365 entries. Zi’s amusing and innovative game is now available.
Matthew Ishii, Mallory Ketcheson, Daniel Moran and Cheryl Savery created the game “Dog Pile” and received very positive comments from the reviewers.

Second, members of the School have been teaming up with students in the School of Business to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. The first phase of this competition was the Pitch Video Challenge. The team consisting of Susan Hwang, Tianbin Jiang and Gabrielle Quilliam of the School of Computing and Alex De Rosa of the School of Business received an Honourable Mention in the Games Category, competing against teams from around the world. More information is available.

The group’s video pitch you can find following this link

Congratulations to our brilliant game designers!