The Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR) is a one-day program designed to help ease the transition of our incoming first-year students and their families.
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Three Students Honoured by Computing Association
Congratulations to School of Computing students Mattea Welch, Eric Moult, and Gregory Allan who have been recognized for outstanding undergraduate research by the Computing Research Association (CRA). Read the full story here: https://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/three-students-honoured-computing-association.
David Skillicorn in the News
David commented on our federal information spies getting new $880M digs, being built at a time of austerity with little public knowledge, in the Toronto Sun and the Winnipeg Sun
Hammad Khalid of SAIL Wins the ACM SRC Competition in Software Engineering
Hammad Khalid’s work on studying user reviews about mobile apps has just won the ACM Student Research Competition at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
Hammad’s award-winning research was done while he was a summer SWEP/ULSS undergraduate research student at the Queen’s School of Computing SAIL lab last summer. Hammad continues this work as a Master’s student under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Hassan, Director of SAIL.
Hammad has to pass though one more round of competition that goes across all of ACM fields, not just SE, before he competes at the grand final. The grand final will be held at the annual ACM Awards Banquet.
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Grant
Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Scott Grant and his co-author Buddy Betts (OUYA, USA), whose paper, “Encouraging User Behaviour with Achievements: An Empirical Study”, won the Mining Challenge at MSR2013, the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories.
David Skillicorn on Cyber Bank Heist
Interviewed on CBC Radio syndication (a number of stations across Canada) and CKNW (Vancouver radio), David commented on a cyber bank heist that saw thieves steal $45 million from thousands of ATMs.
Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference 2013
The third annual QGCS Conference took place on May 8th and 9th this year. It was, again, by all accounts, a successful, vibrant conference. Congratulations to the organizers and thanks to the sponsors and participants!
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Photos by Dave Dove.
SAIL and the Database Systems Lab Win ACM’s Top Paper Award for Software Engineering
We are very happy to announce that Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. Candidate Weiyi (Ian) Shang, and his co-authors Dr. Ahmed Hassan, Dr. ZhenMing (Jack) Jiang, Dr. Bram Adams, Dr. Hadi Hemmati and Dr. Pat Martin have just been announced as the winners of the top ACM paper award for Software Engineering.
Their paper, titled “Assisting Developers of Big Data Analytics Applications when Deploying on Hadoop Clouds”, was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, to be presented at the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013) later this month in San Francisco, California. It is worth noting that. ICSE 2013 has accepted 85 papers to be delivered at the conference, from among a record number of 461 submissions.
Congratulations to our researchers on this significant achievement.
David Skillicorn Comments on Smartphone Skimming App
David commented on an app that turns a smartphone into a credit card skimmer, on GlobalNews.ca
MorePhone to be Unveiled at Paris Conference
Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab will unveil MorePhone at Paris conference. The revolutionary smartphone curls when a call comes in.
See it on on ctv.ca and CKWS-TV. Read more about it in The Kingston Whig Standard and the Queen’s News Centre. The story was also featured in the Daily Mail Online, the Huffington Post (United Kingdom), The Hindu Business Line. the Toronto Star, New Electronics and a number of trade publications.