Dear all,
As far as I can tell, the School is mentioned at least twice in the current Alumni Review http://queensu.ca/news/sites/default/files/QAR-2010-3.pdf
1) Ahmed Hassan’s Industrial Chair is featured on page 13.
2) Gabor Fichtinger’s Perk Lab is profiled on pages S62-63.
Selim
Dear all,
As part of our research in quantum computation, a Quantum Chess competition was held recently in the Queen’s School of Computing. I would like to thank the participants who played the new game with passion and skill. Congratulations to our two winners Ernesto Posse and Frank Qi.
My appreciation goes to Alice Wismath (2010 NSERC USRA) who wrote the computer simulation, developed a playing strategy, and organized the competition. For technical and promotional support, I am indebted to Dave Dove and Ben Hall (School of Computing) and to Kristyn Wallace (News and Media).
You can read about the competition here: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/aboutus/highlights/put_item.php?year=2010&highlight=QuantumChess.php
A Queen’s News story on Quantum Chess is here: http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/queens-school-computing-takes-quantum-leap
For the technically oriented, the original paper is here: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/akl/techreports/quantumchessTR.pdf
And finally, you can play Quantum Chess here: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/Parallel/QuantumChess/QuantumChess.html
Cheers,
Selim
Dear all,
I am happy to report that Ryan Kavanagh and his Rob Roy Pipe Band won First Place at the North American Championship “Glengarry Highland Games” held at Maxville, Ontario, July 31st 2010.
A youtube clip of the winning performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN5aWYZo0WM
And of the customary winners-play-in-the-beer-tent afterwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Lt4vIm-gw
The band was interviewed by CKWS today, and I understand that there will be a writeup in the Whig tomorrow.
For those who don’t know him, Ryan is a School of Computing Intern this summer and has been admitted as a first year Computing undergraduate in September.
Congratulations!
Selim
P.S. Annual School Concert organizers take notice.