Month: February 2011

Dear all,
Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing graduate student Amy VanBerlo who has just been invited to the Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort Workshop, to be held in April at Boston. All travel and lodging expenses are covered, thanks to support from Microsoft and Google (among others).

The workshop is organized by CRA-W, which is the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research that is jointly sponsored by NSF and NSERC.

Amy is completing her Master’s degree under the supervision of Randy Ellis.

This is the second time this academic year that CRA recognizes the work done by students in the School of Computing.

Selim

The CBC ran a story on the National last night that covered James Stewart‘s work in Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery. There is also a story about this  on the CBC web site.

David was interviewed about the cyber attack on Canadian government computers, on CBC’s The National, National Post, Toronto Star and on nine CBC Radio stations across Canada and many websites including Reuters.com, Reuters China, TibunNews.com (Indonesia), and Yahoo.ca.

Experts CBC News talked with say Egypt’s net access was particularly vulnerable because the configuration of the net in authoritarian countries is typically much different than it is in more open societies.

“Typically, these countries have a state-controlled telecom, so much of the physical infrastructure is under the control of the government directly,” says David Skillikorn, who teaches computer science and internet security at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.

For more information, please visit the CBC website.

Congratulations to Gabor Fichtinger who has again received significant support from Cancer Care Ontario, this time from their Applied Cancer Research Unit program.

Dr. Fichtinger has received funding for his System Prototyping in Image-Guided Robotic Percutaneous Intervention research, which will develop reusable and customizable software infrastructures to assist clinical translation of experimental diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Dr. Fichtinger is the Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Cancer Imaging.

Well done Gabor!

Selim

Rizwan was interviewed by CKWS on the subject of the career fair held at Queen’s on Wednesday.

To see the interview, click on the url below, then click on Wednesday, then click on Newswatch. He appears at 8m15s sec into the clip: http://www.ckwstv.com/index.cfm?page=news

Selim

Dear all,

I am delighted to announce that the Canadian Association for Computer Science/Association d’Informatique Canadienne (CACS/AIC) has selected  Professor Parvin Mousavi of the Queen’s School of Computing to receive the CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2010. Well done Parvin! What a wonderful way to start the new year!

Selim

The Tri-Council Research Expense Eligibility & Documentation Guide is now available.

The next Queen’s Game Developers Club meeting is set for Wednesday,
February 2nd, at 8:00pm! Come and join the fun in Goodwin 247.

If you haven’t heard of us yet, we’re an AMS ratified club devoted to providing an environment to foster the development of games, whether electronic or not, through discussion and mentoring. We provide regular presentations about topics including life in the professional games industry, issues with game design and theory, and other related issues. If you have heard of us, then sorry for the spam. Please add us to your block-forever list, and avert your eyes if you see us walking down the hallway. (Seriously though, this is the only time we’ll be sending to social this term; we have some new students and wanted to make this computing-related resource available.)

We’ve booked Flash game developer Sash Mackinnon to join us remotely from the sunny utopia of Australia! Sash has created some visually stunning, and very addictive games. You can check them all out on his site:

bitbattalion.com

This meeting is going to be a good one, so come on out! Goodwin 247, 8:00pm, Wednesday, February 2nd. We have an announcement list if you’d like to be kept aware of future meetings and other events, so please take a look at the homepage. http://qgdc.ca/

And last but not least, if you were unable to make it to our last meet, you can now enjoy Jeffrey Yim’s presentation on his experience in the game industry on our website.