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Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Bob Tennent, was interviewed by the Globe and Mail about the Heartbleed bug, OpenSSL and Internet security in two articles published April 11, 2014. Read them here and here.

Hundreds of interested faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Biosciences Complex on Thursday April 3rd for the Queen’s School of Computing’s annual exhibition of Creative Computing: Art, Games, and Research. The event highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations, and posters from a selection of our courses, with topics including Game Design and Game Technology, Computing and the Creative Arts, 4th year projects, Human Computer Interaction, and more. Congratulations and thanks to the organizers and participants. The event was also featured in the Heritage newspaper,the Instructables website and 3D Printing Industry, a renowned blog in the tech prototyping industry.

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Photos by Dave Dove.

Find below the CoCA201’14 explorations

Mood Fern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yBfg-KsABQ

Interactive Clothing:

Goon Quad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqIDKVA1GFA&feature=youtu.be

Trapped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_DyLWtPqqY&feature=youtu.be

Venus Fly Trap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_DYSHYTT0

David was interviewed by several media outlets yesterday regarding the Heartbleed security bug exposing millions of passwords to theft risk, including CBC’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange, CBC National, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Province, Calgary Herald, Windsor Star, Vancouver Sun, globalnews.ca and a number of other Canadian Press and Postmedia newspapers. He also appeared on Calgary Today (Calgary radio) and Radio Canada on the same topic.

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Roel Vertegaal, on his new industry-partnered NSERC Collaborative Research and Development funding.

Dr. Vertegaal and his team will investigate new non-flat interactive form factors for computing. We look forward to the results of this exciting new technology.

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Parvin Mousavi, on her successful application to the CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered) funding program.

Dr. Mousavi and her co-investigators from Western University and UBC will work to enhance detection and grading of prostate cancer in order to improve its clinical management through their research on “RF Time Series Flashlight for Targeted Prostate Biopsy.”

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing, Human Media Lab M.Sc. student, Paul Strohmeier (supervised by Dr. Roel Vertegaal) whose HCI paper Mediated Touch: Exploring Embodied Design for Remote Presence won the Top Presentation Award at the 15th International Conference on Presence, held in Vienna, Austria in March 2014.

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Professor David Skillicorn on being awarded a Big Data, Big Impact Grant by The Cancer Institute NSW and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (Australia) for a project entitled: Generating Actionable Knowledge from Complex Genomic Data for Personalised Clinical Decisions.

David is joined by a team of 10 researchers: McCowage, G., Li, J., Felix Navarro, K.M., Bowden, N., Simoff, S.J., Robertson, T.J., Khan, J., Catchpoole, D.R., Nguyen, Q., Kennedy, P.J.

Our School of Computing researchers have all been successful in their application for NSERC Discovery funding. Congratulations to Drs. Blostein, Hassan, Hassanein, Vertegaal and Zulkernine who will continue their research programs for another five years.

In addition, Dr. Vertegaal was singled out as the recipient of an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement. The purpose of the Accelerator program is to provide additional Discovery funding in order to encourage quicker results in research important to Canada.

Congratulations to Dr. Manuela Kunz on her successful application to the NSERC Research Tools and Instruments program. Dr. Kunz and her co-investigators, Drs. Fichtinger, Ellis, Stewart, Mousavi and Deluzio, will receive funding to purchase valuable equipment for “A system for real-time, portable 3D medical imaging acquisition for interdisciplinary research.” This unique system will support a wide range of research, including image-guided interventions, advanced cartilage repair techniques in knee and ankle joints, computer-aided diagnosis and detection of cancer and human motion analysis. Much needed and well done!

The fashion sense of our very own stylish professor Alan McLeod is featured in this article from the Queen’s Journal.