News

Dr. Roel Vertegaal (Director, Human Media Lab, Queen’s School of Computing) and Aneesh Tarun (Ph.D. candidate, QSC) are in the news once again on the occasion of the launch of the bendable flexible computer tablet known as PaperTab, on Fox TV News WKNY (Watertown, N.Y.); a profile of the Human Media Lab appeared on CKWS TV.

The Queen’s News Centre reports that the School of Computing’s own Hossam Hassanein (Director, Telecommunications Research Lab) has received an ENSERC Strategic Project Grant, which will enable his research specializing in technological solutions in the automotive industry. Congratulations!

The School’s own Wendy Powley has been featured in the Queen’s Equity Office report – “Achieving Employment Equity at Queen’s”. See page 10 to read about her being awarded the inaugural Employment Equity Award for 2011.

We are delighted to announce that Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, recently published:

The Semantic Representation of Natural Language by Michael Levison, Greg Lessard, Craig Thomas and Matthew Donald.

“The formalism presented here is designed to represent meaning as found at a variety of levels, including basic semantic units and relations, word-meaning, sentence-level phenomena, and text-level meaning. By drawing on fundamental principles of program design, the formalism is both easy to read and modify yet sufficiently powerful to allow for the representation of complex semantic phenomena.”

Congratulations!

We are happy to announce the publication of a new Springer book by Dr. Hossam Hassanein (Director, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Queen’s School of Computing), with Sherin Abdel Hamid and Glen Takahara:

The focus of this brief is to identify what unifies and what distinguishes the routing functions in four wireless multi-hop network paradigms. The brief introduces a generic routing model that can be used as a foundation of wireless multi-hop routing protocol analysis and design. It demonstrates that such model can be adopted by any wireless multi-hop routing protocol. Also presented is a glimpse of the ideal wireless multi-hop routing protocol along with several open issues.

The Imaging Network of Ontario 2013 Conference was a great success for representatives of the Queen’s School of Computing. The Perk Lab (Dr. Gabor Fichtinger, Director) won all awards of the Cancer Imaging Consortium:

Tamas Ungi – 1st prize
Laura Bartha- 2nd prize
Matthew Holden – 3rd prize

We’ve been told that everyone did a great job in presenting the posters and that Csaba Pinter and Tamas Ungi were brilliant on the podium.

Well done all!

There is a wonderful article about Dr. Jim Cordy (Director, Software Technology Laboratory, Queen’s School of Computing) in today’s e-Queen’s Bulletin.  The article focuses on his dedication to student success.

Update: Creative Computing Event Featured on CKWS TV and in The Whig

Please join us on Thursday April 4th from 11:00-1:30 for the Queen’s School of Computing’s day of Creative Computing: Art, Games, Research. The day will highlight 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.

The event will take place in the Biosciences Complex and will be a terrific opportunity for everyone to see first-hand what our creative students create throughout the school term.

Continue reading “Creative Computing 2013: Art, Games, Research”

A former student discusses how his pursuit of perfect grades may have cost him valuable lessons in real-world education. He further praises Doug Wightman’s CISC-492 class as a shining example of just such real-world learning. Read the whole story in the Globe and Mail.

Watch Aneesh on Reuters TV as he demonstrates the revolutionary PaperTab, the new, flexible and bendable tablet, developed by the Human Media Lab, Plastic Logic and Intel Labs.