News

In a recent Globe and Mail article, Nick Graham commented on whether the new Playstation is the next big thing, or whether the game is over. Further comments were made in articles in the Vancouver Province and the Ottawa Citizen.

Congratulations to Matthew Stephan, PhD candidate in the Queen’s School of Computing, on winning the Best Student Paper Award at Modelsward 2013, the International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development in Barcelona, Spain.

His paper “A Survey of Model Comparison Approaches and Applications” based on his PhD depth work with Jim Cordy was one of only 8 of 76 (11%) of submitted full papers accepted for the conference.

Congrats Matthew!

Nick Graham commented on whether the new PlayStation is the next big thing, or whether the game is over, in the Globe and Mail and on the CTV News Channel.

David commented on Canada having been hit by hackers, believed backed by a secretive Chinese government unit, in the National Post, Regina Leader-Post, Vancouver Sun, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, six other national daily newspapers, the International Business Times (India and UK) and CTV News Channel.

Congratulations to Dr. Nick Graham (Director, EQUIS Collaborative Gaming Technology Laboratory, Queen’s School of Computing), and Dr. Ryan Rhodes (UVictoria) on their successful application to the Canadian Cancer Society for an Innovation Grant. Their research entitled “Exercise Games and Physical Activity: Does Multi-Player Online Play Improve Adherence?” includes another Queen’s researcher, Dr. Amy Latimer-Cheung of Kinesiology, and from UBC, Drs. Mark Beauchamp and Darren Warburton.

The research team will be examining whether an interactive exergame bike, that can be used to play against others over the Internet, results in greater use and fitness compared to an exergame bike without the online play capability. Children are the primary interest of the study but parents will also take part.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nick Graham (Director, EQUIS Collaborative Gaming Technology Laboratory, Queen’s School of Computing) has been awarded an NSERC Engage Grant for his project, Digital Tabletop Interaction for Simulation-Based Training, in collaboration with THALES Canada.

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!