David commented on the news that Federal government employees are attending hacker conferences to learn more about cyber security, in the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and several other Postmedia newspapers.
2012 Queen’s School of Computing Newsletter
The 2012 Queen’s School of Computing Newsletter is now available for your reading pleasure.
On your behalf, I would like to express my thanks to Ben Hall, Newsletter Editor, for his excellent work in producing this snapshot of the life of the School. Ben was ably assisted by Lynda Moulton and Amie Bello (Associate Editors). Beautiful job, editorial team!
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As a reminder, you can always read it and past newsletters at: www.cs.queensu.ca/newsletter
David Skillicorn Talks About High Level Cyber Crime
David commented on how hackers are using Canadian computers more often to host cyber attacks and crimes, on Radio Canada International.
Pat Martin’s Work in Data Analytics Featured in Queen’s News Centre
Patrick Martin (School of Computing) is creating a new data analysis program designed for scientists and researchers working in the health, energy and environment sectors. Read the story in the Queen’s News Centre.
Open House Friday Dec 7 10am – 2pm
That’s right, save the date and make plans to attend Queen’s School of Computing’s Open House! Friday, December 7, from 10am – 2pm the School will open its doors to local and area high school students, their teachers, Queen’s students, faculty & staff and the Kingston community.
The day will be packed with information, hands-on demos and lab tours. This will be a terrific opportunity for everyone to see first-hand the exciting and ground-breaking research that is happening right here at Queen’s School of Computing, every day.
Come back to this site and visit our Facebook Page for further updates on the day’s planned events!
Our Open House is presented as part of Computer Science Education Week.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you to Queen’s School of Computing!
PERK Lab in the News
A new story in the Queen’s News Centre features Gabor Fichtinger and his team in the PERK lab. The story focuses on Innovative imaging software developed by the PERK Lab team which increases the effectiveness of a widely used prostate cancer treatment option by focusing radiation treatment on target areas and reducing radiation damage to surrounding tissue. Read the whole story here.
This story was also featured on CKWS Television and CBC Radio.
Human Media Lab Featured in Maclean’s
Roel Vertegaal Featured on Mashable
Roel commented on a new technology that combines gaze detection, gesture recognition, and facial-feature recognition to create more natural ways to control everything from your TV to your car, on Mashable.com
Ahmed Hassan in the News: As Researchers Investigate How Software Gets Made, a New Empire for Empirical Research Opens
An article appearing in American Scientist describes Ahmed’s work on the strong correlation between complexity metrics and lines of code.
Pat Martin describes his group’s SOSCIP research
In this video from the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) Consortium and the IBM Canada R&D Centre, Pat Martin (Director, Database Systems Laboratory, Queen’s School of Computing) talks about his project “Analytics as Service”. This project is one of the first seven projects that have been launched under the SOSCIP initiative.
Groundbreaking R&D: IBM and Ontario Universities announce seven new research projects