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Jenny Zou (cross-appointed from ECE)  was named the 2014 CAS Faculty Fellow at CASCON Tuesday. Jenny was honoured for her research with CAS and for her work organizing and running the Emerging Technology Track at this year’s CASCON.

This morning at CASCON 2014, the 24th Annual International Conference on
Computer Science and Software Engineering sponsored by IBM CAS Research,
Queen’s School of Computing Professors James Cordy and Thomas Dean (ECE cross-appointee),
along with their former student Nikita Synytskyy (now at Amazon), were awarded the
“Most Influential Paper” award for their CASCON 2004 paper
“Practical Language-Independent Detection of Near-Miss Clones”.

The Most Influential Paper is awarded each year to the contribution published in the
conference ten years ago that is judged to have had the greatest overall academic
and practical impact on the field. In addition to its 63 citations and 464 direct
descendant paper citations, the Awards Committee noted several references to the
paper in recently granted patents in the data management domain, beyond the
originally targeted source code and web site analysis domains, which provided further
evidence of the continued impact and industrial applicability of the work.

Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Lili Wang of the Med-i lab (Dr. Parvin Mousavi, Director), won the first prize for the best poster award at the Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing conference, held this past weekend at the University of Guelph. Her poster was related to her PhD research on Protein-interaction-network-based Pathway Analysis.  The prize is an all-expense paid trip to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in Houston, Texas in 2015.

Lili’s PhD research will also be featured as a podium presentation at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in 2015.

The two Fall Preview events for 2014 were held on October 25 and November 8 in the Biosciences complex at Queen’s. Once again, many thousands of visitors attended.

The School of Computing was represented by a terrific group of volunteers who donated their time and efforts generously and enthusiastically, by putting together the most impressive display of demos among all participating departments, thereby contributing significantly to the School’s undergraduate recruiting campaign. Thanks, and well done, to all our volunteers.

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Photos by Ben Hall.

Five School of Computing students will be going to Florida next winter to present the results of their research in Biomedical Computing. Vinyas Harish, Maggie Hess, Mark Schumacher, Kyle Sunderland, and Matt Lougheed, all of the PERK Lab, have had their papers accepted for presentation at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference to be held in Orlando, February 21-26, 2015.

The SPIE Medical Imaging conference is one of the largest international conferences on medical imaging. The prestige of this conference is further demonstrated by the fact that each fully refereed 10-page accepted paper is published in the conference proceedings, and indexed on PubMed for the medical research community. “I am immensely proud of our undergraduates” said Dr. Gabor Fichtinger, Director of the Perk Lab.

The full authorship and title for each paper is as follows:

V Harish, T Ungi, A Lasso, A Macdonald, S Nanji, G Fichtinger, “Intraoperative visualization and assessment of electromagnetic tracking error” (Vinyas is now a second year undergraduate; he completed this work and submitted his paper while a first year student)

M Hess, T. Looi, A Lasso, G Fichtinger, J Drake, “Quantification of intraventricular blood clot in MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery” (Maggie is now in a third year undergraduate; she completed this work and submitted her paper while a second year student)

M Schumacher, A Lasso, I Cumming, A Rankin, C Falkson, LJ Schreiner, C Joshi, G Fichtinger, “Patient-specific surface mould applicators for high-dose-rate brachytherapy” (Mark is now a fourth year undergraduate; he completed this work and submitted his paper while a third year student)

K. Sunderland, B. Woo, C. Pinter, and G. Fichtinger, “Reconstruction of surfaces from planar contours through contour interpolation” (Kyle is now a fourth year undergraduate; he completed this work and submitted his paper while a third year student)

M Lougheed, G Fichtinger, T Ungi, “Evaluation metrics for bone segmentation in ultrasound” (Matt is now a first year Master’s student; he completed this work and submitted his paper while a fourth year undergraduate).

David was interviewed by the Toronto Star for two articles: “Cloud Based Services are Increasingly Tempting Small Businesses”, and “Looking Back at the History of Cybercrime”.

The School of Computing’s SAIL Lab (Dr. Ahmed Hassan, Director) collaboration with inBay (an Ottawa-based company) and the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) is one of eight featured OCE success stories for 2014!

Read all about it here.

David’s research in data analytics to combat terrorism was highlighted this past weekend in a number of media outlets, including  the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Sun and the Winnipeg Sun and trade websites phys.org and Science Codex.

On October 4th and 5th, Jacob Andreou and Mark Schumacher, both 4th year Queen’s School of Computing students, represented Queen’s at the MasterCardN>XT Hackathon. There were teams sent from technology companies and computing schools in Canada and the United States to compete.

“MasterCard N>XT is a 2-day developer challenge to create innovative retail and commerce applications using a variety of platforms and APIs. This includes MasterCard’s Simplify Commerce platform, the Nymi, and more. The challenge brings together developers and payment professionals who have a strong understanding of the problems to be solved in industry and what consumers are asking for. By taking part in this challenge, participants have a major say in the future of retailing and a chance to compete for $30,000 in prizing.”

Our students succeeded in taking the overall first prize for the event. Congratulations Jacob and Mark on this fantastic accomplishment! We are very proud of you.

Queen’s School of Computing alumnae Jenn Clarke and Lauren Long are featured in Queen’s Career Services’ What’s Next magazine (pages 46 and 38-39, respectively).

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