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.
David Skillicorn on Growing Internet Insecurity
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.