News

Hossam and Ahmad received a Best Paper Award at the Third International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012), held in Niagara Falls, August 27-29, 2012, for their paper “Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Using Wireless Sensor Networks”. Well done!

David Rappaport’s work with his students on compressing and enhancing 3-dimensional digital scans of dinosaur bones has received coverage on the Queen’s News Centre, the Queen’s Journal, CBC Radio Canada and on CKNW radio (Vancouver).

The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn commented in the Brockville Recorder and Times on the Brockville City Hall’s computers having been hacked.

Read the whole story here.

Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Doug Wightman has been been selected to attend the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit to be held in Mountain View, California, this October (all expenses paid by Google).

Doug was a mentor for a GSoC project this summer and his team helped deploy a system based on his research.

Well done Doug and best wishes!

MSR Vision 2020, the Third Canadian Summer School in Software Repositories, organized by Dr. Ahmed Hassan (Director, SAIL Lab) of the Queen’s School of Computing, Dr. Bram Adams (Polytechnique) and Dr. Daniel German (Victoria),
was held on the Queen’s University Campus August 20-24, 2012. Like its two predecessors, this edition of MSR was a success, drawing over 100 participants from 13 countries.

Read all about it on the Queen’s News Centre.

This quarter’s Alumni Review includes two stories featuring the School of Computing.

On page 15, read about the Human Media Lab and their work on the TeleHuman 3D videoconferencing pod.

COCA-201 is highlighted on page S63. The story focuses on sparking creativity through team learning.

Read the full stories in this quarter’s Alumni Review.

Randy Ellis has been awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship to collaborate with researchers at Osaka University. During the next months, Randy will spend six weeks in Japan to work with Professor Sato and his team on a project entitled “Towards Canada-Japan Collaboration in Computer Assisted Surgery”.

Congratulations, Randy and bon voyage!

This video features our own David Rappaport and his collaboration, through Fed Dev, with Research Casting International.

The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn commented on the possibility that Skype sessions can be intercepted, on CBC Radio syndication and Radio Canada International.

Professor Roel Vertegaal comments in the Toronto Star on reports that RIM has filed a patent that will allow their smart phones to read and interpret a user’s moods and emotional states. Find our what he and other industry professionals have to say about this cutting-edge technology here.