Queen’s School of Computing Professor David Skillicorn quoted in today’s Maclean’s article “Anonymous morphs into a political movement”
 

Getting the message across

By DAVID SKILLICORN AND CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT

The Republican candidates’ debate in Ames, Iowa, showed what a shaky grasp many of the candidates have on how to be a convincing candidate. Of course, this venue was a difficult one. Its overt purpose was for candidates to explain themselves to the local Republican base ahead of the Ames Straw Poll, but national television coverage made it an opportunity not to be missed to reach out to a wider, much more diverse audience.

Editorial continues at The Whig website.

School of Computing professors Juergen Dingel and James Cordy, Electrical & Computer Engineering professor Thomas Dean and their colleagues from five Ontario universities along with business partners General Motors, IBM Canada, Malina Software Systems and NexJ Systems have been awarded $4.7 million in a new five-year Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) grant supporting leading-edge research in model-driven software engineering (MDE).  MDE is a radically new approach to developing software components, products, and services that reduces the complexity of development tasks by (1) simplifying developers’ views of software artifacts via decomposition, abstractions, and models; and (2) automating labour-intensive tasks, via automated processing and transformations of those models.

 

The Ontario Research Excellence project, announced last week by Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation Glen Murray and  led by Prof. Joanne Atlee of the University of Waterloo, extends and enhances the $16.5 million national NSERC Automotive Partnership Canada Network on Engineering Complex Software Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems (NECSIS), announced by the federal government earlier this year.  Prof. Dingel, a world expert in MDE, will focus his research on quality assurance for model transformations, while Profs. Cordy and Dean will leverage their pioneering work in software architecture to the design and implementation of languages for expressing and formalizing software model patterns.

 

References:

MRI ORF-RE Round 5 Projects: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ORF-RE080211_waterloo_bd.asp

Prof. Dingel: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~dingel/

Prof. Cordy: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~cordy/

Prof. Dean: http://www.ece.queensu.ca/People/T-R-Dean/index.html

Roel Vertegaal – ‘Paperphone’ flexible computer can be rolled up in your pocket, in the Los Angeles Times.

David Skillicorn – Cyber spies using employee ignorance to infiltrate government, firms, in the Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist, Moncton Times & Transcript, Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen

David Skillicorn – World’s largest cyber attacks discovered by computer security experts, on Radio Canada International’s The Link and News 95.7 (Halifax, St. John and Moncton talk radio)

David Skillicorn – a lost flash drive can cost a company millions of dollars, in the Toronto Star.

Professor David Skillicorn of the Queen’s School of Computing commented in the media yesterday on uncovered cyber attacks:.

• CBC TV’s The National
• The Montreal Gazette
• The Halifax Chronicle Herald

as well as Sun TV News Network, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Province, Toronto Sun, CBC.ca and many other newspapers and websites across Canada, 10 CBC Radio stations across Canada, Broadcast News (Canadian Press radio service) and CKNW (Vancouver radio).