“Nobody actually has their eye on the ball,” says David Skillicorn about the Canadian government’s preparedness to fight off large-scale cyber attacks and industrial espionage. This story was featured in Businessweek, the New Orleans Times Picayune, The Oregonian, National Post and Ottawa Citizen.
Roel Vertegaal Talks About Corning’s New Willow Glass
Corning has developed it’s next generation of flexible glass – Willow Glass, an ultra-thin, super-flexible glass that will most likely make a big impact on the future development of flexible displays for interactive devices. The School of Computing’s Roel Vertegaal commented on the implications of this revolutionary product on both BBC News and Saida.
SAIL Wins Best Paper Award at MSR 2012
Congratulations to Nicolas Bettenburg (PhD Candidate) and Mei Nagappan
(Post-Doctoral Fellow) of the QSC Software Analysis and Intelligence
Laboratory (Dr. Ahmed Hassan, Director), whose paper:
“Think Locally, Act Globally: Improving Defect and Effort Prediction
Models”
was selected to receive a Best Paper Award at the 9th IEEE/ACM
International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR
2012), held in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012. http://2012.msrconf.org/
Roel Vertegaal Talks About Attentive User Interfaces
Roel Vertegaal was recently interviewed on CBC’s “Spark”, where he was invited to talk about attentive user interfaces.
David Skillicorn on Super-Cyberweapon
David Skillicorn talked recently with the Vancouver Sun, The Kingston Whig Standard, CTV National News and CBC Radio about a newly discovered virus that’s been stealing data from computers in the Middle East for as long as five years.
Human Media Lab Featured in The Journal
The Queen’s publication, The Journal, ran a story on the Human Media Lab. Read the whole story here!
Telecommunications Lab in the News
The Queen’s School of Computing Telecommunications Research Laboratory (Dr. Hossam Hassanein, Director) was featured in the Edmonton Journal on May 22. The article describes how members of the lab have implemented a network of sensors and smartphones to monitor Syncrude Canada’s tungsten-topped vibrating screens.
TeleHuman Featured on Thrash Lab
Roel Vertegaal and his team at the Human Media Lab have been featured on Thrash Lab.com, which is part of actor Ashton Kutcher’s YouTube channel. Roel talks about the pioneering work of the Human Media Lab and, in particular, the the TeleHuman videoconferencing technology.
Catch the whole story on Thrash Lab here!
Preparing for a Cyberstorm – David Skillicorn Weighs in
Security experts prepare for an inevitable cyber storm and the School of Computing’s David Skillicorn shares his expertise. This story is featured in the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and several other Postmedia newspapers.
Click here to read the story and David’s comments in the Ottawa Citizen.
Biomedical Computing Discovery Day 2012
Tamas Ungi, Jennifer Andrea, and Eric Moult of the Queen’s School of Computing Perk Lab (Gabor Fichtinger, Director) held a workshop at an event organized by Health Sciences on the occasion of Discovery Day 2012 held at Queen’s University on Wednesday May 16.
Here is how Professor Ken Rose, Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, described the event:
Like last year, I was the beneficiary of numerous compliments from students and especially the teachers and parents who came to Queen’s University on Wednesday. To say that you impressed those who attended Discovery Day 2012 is a gross understatement. Janet Tufts, the Executive Director of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Trish Grover who is the Coordinator of Discovery Day events (there are 12!) across Canada made the following statement to Katherine Rudder and I before they left on Wednesday afternoon: ‘This is THE best Discovery Day in the country’. When I questioned Janet that she must say this to all of the organizers, she responded with: ‘no, Discovery Day at Queen’s University is THE BEST Discovery Day in the country’. She really means it!
I sincerely wish that you had been present when Janet said these words. I sincerely wish you had been able to shake the hands of teachers who wished to offer their thanks for a great day. I sincerely wish that you had been present when I spoke to many students who enthusiastically described the workshop that one of you had just presented. I also wish that I could express my appreciation more eloquently than a simple thank you. You deserve it. I can say that I am very proud to be associated with a great group of volunteers who demonstrated on Wednesday May 16th 2012 that volunteering does have very special rewards.
Thank you!
Click here to read the entire story from the Queen’s News Centre.