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Congratulations to the School’s own Dr. Gabor Fichtinger (Director, Perk Lab, Queen’s School of Computing) on his appointment as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The letter of award states:

“EMBS Distinguished Lecturer is a major Society award, which recognizes your outstanding contributions in both research and education to the EMBS field of interest.”

Congratulations to Professor Jim Cordy, who has been appointed an international Grand Professor at the Centre for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfAED), a German national centre of excellence at the Technical University of Dresden. The centre, which includes industry partners from AMD, Intel, BASF, SAP, Infineon, Vodafone and more than 30 other companies, is focussed on addressing the current and future challenges of electronic information processing and communications technology, including the entire gamut from basic materials research to complex heterogeneous software systems. As part of his appointment Professor Cordy will spend one month each year on-site at the centre to act as senior mentor, postgraduate advisor and collaborator to the young scientists and students of the centre.

Congratulations to Professor Hossam Hassanein (Director, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Queen’s School of Computing) on two recent Best Paper Awards:

1) “Benchmark Message Authentication Code Functions for Mobile Computing”
with Abdulmonem Rashwan (Ph.D. candidate) and Abdelhamid Taha (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
IEEE Global Communications Conference, Anaheim, California, December 2012

2) “Heuristic based Dynamic Spectrum Assignment in Cognitive Radio Network”
with Michael Liu (Ph.D. Candidate) and Nidal Nasser (Adjunct Associate Professor)
International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, January 2013.

Well done!

We are extremely happy to announce that our very own Karilee Whiteway is a winner of the 2012 Queen’s University Special Recognition for Staff Award. This is a well- deserved honour for Karilee who distinguished herself through her exemplary dedication to the School’s research mission and her characteristic pursuit of excellence in carrying out her duties.

Karilee’s accomplishments and contributions to the life of the School were recognized by her colleagues and Queen’s Administration at the Principal’s Holiday reception. Read the whole story at the Queen’s News Centre. Congratulations, Karilee!

“It’s just appealing to what they think is important,” said University
of Ottawa engineering professor Catherine Mavriplis. Several studies
suggest “a lot of women are very socially minded – they want to help
people.”

Dr. Mavriplis points to Queen’s University, where nearly a third of
bachelor’s students in computing are women – far above the average.
The school has an option in biomedical computing – which incorporates
the life sciences, where women are a strong majority of students –
and it has proven popular. “You don’t even have to change the course
that much. You still have the heavy programming, but just tell them,
`okay, we’re going to calculate how many blood cells there are in this
blood.'”

Read the entire Globe and Mail story here.

Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and Director of the
Human Media Laboratory, Queen’s University

Focus: Re-Imagining Computing Technology

Headline looks at innovative approaches to new computing technology at
Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab with Roel Vertegaal, Associate
Professor in Human-Computer Interaction.

See the entire feature below!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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.

David commented on how hackers are using Canadian computers more often to host cyber attacks and crimes, on Radio Canada International.