David was interviewed on the CTV News Channel regarding the Associated Press Twitter account being hacked and reporting false news about an attack on the White House.
Want a Great Scientific Career? Choose Computer Science
During a recent conversation with computer scientist Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington, Seattle, he alertedScience Careers to a very impressive analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) looking into trends for science-related jobs and predictions for job growth between the present and 2020.
Creative Computing Event Featured on CKWS TV and in the Whig Standard
The School of Computing’s Creative Computing event was held Thursday, April 4 in the BioSciences Atrium. It was a day that highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations and posters from a selection of our courses. The event featured the 5th Annual Computer Art Exhibit from this year’s students of COCA 201, projects in Game Design and Game Technology from students in CISC 226 and CISC 877, Human Computer Interaction projects from CISC 325, and poster presentations from our fourth year students based on their major undergraduate research projects.
CKWS TV was on hand to record the events and to hear from PhD student Eric Rapos and Professors Nick Graham and Roel Vertegaal. See the whole feature here.
The Kingston Whig Standard was also on hand to take in the event, and interviewed computing students Jonathan Stanford, Josh Taylor and Dillon Smith, who created a multi-player game featuring zombies. Nick Graham also provided some insight into the links between computing and creativity. Read the whole story here.
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Fifth Annual School of Computing Awards
On the afternoon of April 3, 2013, a large crowd gathered in Goodwin Hall on the occasion of the 5th Annual Queen’s School of Computing Awards ceremony. The awards were created to recognize excellence in various forms of endeavour, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of those in the school who distinguished themselves through their exceptional work, and as an opportunity to say thank you to those who made a difference in School life. The awards were presented by Selim Akl, Director of the School of Computing.
And now this year’s honorees:
- The COMPSA Howard Staveley Award for Teaching Excellence: Robin Dawes
- Ph.D. Research Achievement Award: Emad Shihab
- Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award: Layan Nahlawi
- Distinguished Graduate Supervision Award: Mohammad Zulkernine
- Distinguished Service Award: Ben Hall
- Research Award: Tamas Ungi
- Award for Outstanding Contribution to School Life: Mattea Welch
- Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance: Niv Yahell
- Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award: Anton Barua
Congratulations to this year’s winners and many thanks to all those who worked hard to make this day a memorable one: Members of the Awards Committee, nominators, Lynda Moulton for producing the awards, and Mattea Welch, Irene Lafleche, Tom Bradshaw, and Ben Hall for helping before, during and after the ceremony. Special gratitude goes to Dave Dove who arranged a perfect stage and took the photographs.
Congratulations to Gabor Fichtinger
We are pleased to announce that Professor Gabor Fichtinger (Director, Perk Lab, Queen’s School of Computing) has been awarded a three-year CHRP grant for his project “Perk Tutor: Ultrasound-guided Needle Placement Training Platform”.
Well done, and best wishes!
David Skillicorn Discusses the Online Fight Over Spam
David commented on the recent distributed denial of service attack on the Internet, in the Toronto Star and most recently on the CTV News Channel.
David Skillicorn Weighs in on Government Cyber-Security
David provided expert opinion on the issue of sophisticated email scans being able to bypass even the best federal government computer firewalls, in the Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen and several other Postmedia newspapers.
Student Startups Provide Great Opportunity
School undergrad, Michael Wong, wrote an article for the Waterloo Record about the opportunities afforded by starting one’s own business.
Meet the Experts: March 20 at 10:30 a.m. BMH 313
On behalf of WISC (the Women in the School of Computing), we would like to invite you to participate in an informal round table discussion with Dr. Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science and Director of the Information Law Institute at New York University and Dr. Carol Miernicki Steeg, Vice President, Intellectual Property at PARTEQ Innovations, the technology transfer office of Queen’s University. Topics for discussion include (but are not limited to): privacy and social media, entrepreneurship, patents and intellectual property. More information can be found on the WISC event page.
The event will be held in Beamish Munro Hall (the ILC) Room 313. You will have a chance to sit with both Dr. Nissenbaum and Dr. Miernicki Steeg (30 minutes with each). The round table discussion will run from 10:30 – 11:30 followed by a (complementary) hot lunch served in Goodwin 524. There will be a chance for further discussion over lunch.
Everyone welcome — grads & undergrads!!! Free food — hot catered lunch!!!!
Please RSVP by mailing Wendy Powley — an RSVP is necessary to attend as we need to let the caterers know how many people will attend.
Dr. Nissenbaum will be also be giving the Brockington Lecture at Queen’s on March 18th at 5PM in the Agnes Etherington Art Center Atrium — “What Privacy Protects Online: The Trouble with MOOCs”. All are welcome at this event as well.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Wendy Powley.
Roel Vertegaal in the news
The Queen’s School of Computing Human Media Lab, and its Director Roel Vertegaal, captured the show at the Crossmedia exhibition held recently in Toronto. From an article about the event:
One day, 26 leading edge companies and creators, and just seven minutes to make your mark in a packed room of TV, radio, gaming and ad people. That was the setting for this year’s sold out Crossmedia TO conference, which set a frantic pace for the day, mirroring the reality of how fast everything is moving now in the digital realm. […] Setting the tone for the day was Roel Vertegaal, the inventor of the “paper tablet” which made headlines across the globe when unveiled at CES in January. His 10.7-inch PaperTab tablet, created as a joint project with Queen’s University Human Media Lab, Intel Labs and the United Kingdom technology firm Plastic Logic., is designed to feel like a sheet of paper but features an interactive, and flexible, high-resolution touchscreen display.
For more information, see the full article.