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Congratulations to Dr. Sharief M.A. Oteafy and Professor Hossam S. Hassanein on the publication of their book, Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks.

Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine and Dr. Tom Dean (ECE) have received an award from MITACS and their industrial partner Irdeto for their project “Security in Ultra Large Software Systems”. This funding is provided under the “Mitacs-Accelerate Graduate Research Internship Program” and will provide support for approximately 20 graduate student internships over the next four years

David discussed the art/science of deception detection on CBC News. Read the whole story here.

The Queen’s School of Computing’s ULySSeS Project is sponsoring a free Android Development Workshop for high-school students aged 13 to 18. The workshop runs from Tuesday July 22 to Thursday July 24 from 10am to 4pm.

Click here for more information and to register.

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Ahmed Hassan has received MRI support for his John R. Evans Leaders Fund Project “Methods and Tools for developing and Operating Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Software Services”.

Mohammad Zulkernine has received MEDI support for his Leaders Opportunity Fund Project “Methods and Tools for Building and Monitoring Reliable and Secure Software Systems”.

David commented on whether Canada’s new anti-spam law can really clean up your inbox, on cbc.ca.

Roel and several other Queen’s researchers have been awarded additional funding for their research in the form of the Discovery Accelerator Supplement, valued at $120,000 over a three-year period. Read more about it in the Queen’s News Centre.

“Twenty years of research into how the human brain processes visual information has earned Nikolaus Troje (Psychology, Biology, School of Computing) the Humboldt Research Award, an honour established by the German government to recognize a lifetime of achievement.”

Read the whole story on the Queen’s News Centre.