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David was interviewed on how hackers are exploiting the Shellshock bug, while fixes are proving ineffective, in the Globe and Mail, GlobalNews.ca and Global National.

Dear all,

The Ontario Universities Fair was held in Toronto Friday September 19 – Sunday September 21. Once again this year, Queen’s School of Computing students donated their time and energy to represent their School at the Fair and help us recruit the best and brightest of high school students. I thank them on your behalf for their loyalty and brilliance. We are so proud of them.

I also would like to thank Wendy Powley who, as she does every year, spent the weekend promoting the School at the event and convincing every young woman to whom she spoke that Computing is the discipline to study and that QSC is the place to do it.

Here is how Wendy described our team’s contribution at the Fair:
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The Queen’s School of Computing 2014-2015 Newsletter is now available on line. This splendid publication has been a collective effort, many thanks to all those who contributed. A special recognition is well deserved by our inspired editorial team: Lynda Moulton, Doug Martin, and Ben Hall. Well done!

I am happy to announce that Parvin Mousavi and her research team won a Best Paper Award at the MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures: Translational Research in Medical Imaging. Special congratulations to Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr. Farhad Imani who was one of the lead authors on the paper.

David was interviewed by the Kingston Whig-Standard for an article entitled “Little Defence for Password Grab”. He also appeared on Global National to comment on the security breach at Home Depot.

Congratulations to Antonio Gomes, Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. Candidate in Dr. Roel Vertegaal’s Human Media Lab, on his selection as a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP).

As an MSP, Antonio will build apps and demos, demonstrate the newest technologies, host tech events at Queen’s, acquire the tools and training to lead technology discussions on campus, and provide insight and answers on Microsoft technologies.

The School’s own Dr. Ellis has been awarded recognition for lifetime achievement by the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery. Read all about it on Page 7 of the August 12 Issue of the Queen’s Gazette.

The School of Computing’s summer internship program for high school students was featured in the Queen’s News Centre and the Queen’s Gazette. Read the whole story here.

We are happy to share the news that Dr. Ahmed Hassan has been awarded a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund for his project, “Methods and Tools for Developing and Operating Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Software Services”.

Nick Graham commented in the Queen’s News Centre about Google Play’s recent posting and removal of the Bomb Gaza game and other similarly controversial games. Read the story here.