David Skillicorn was interviewed recently by the Toronto Star and was asked to comment on the DNSChanger virus, which is expected to affect computers as of July 9, 2012.
Read the entire article here.
David Skillicorn was interviewed recently by the Toronto Star and was asked to comment on the DNSChanger virus, which is expected to affect computers as of July 9, 2012.
Read the entire article here.
You are invited to the third Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference (QGCSC 2012), which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, May 9-10, 2012. The main highlights of QGCSC 2012 are:
1) Distinguished keynote speakers:
Dr. Steve Easterbrook, Dr. Esin Kiris and Dr. Selim Akl
We are proud to have three great speakers this year, which are Dr. Steve Easterbrook, Dr. Esin Kiris and Dr. Selim Akl. The first speaker, Dr. Steve Easterbrook is from the University of Toronto. He will give us an overview of history and his research in the exciting area of climate modeling, which involves tools known from software engineering. Dr. Esin Kiris from CA Technologies will show us her work that combines research and industry in the area of Human Computer Interactions. Our final speaker, Dr. Selim Akl, is the director of Queen’s School of Computing, and he will present us the highlights of his research in the area of unconventional computing.
2) Panel discussion:
Has social media changed computer science as we know it?
We will be holding a panel discussion on the effects of social media within computer science. More specifically we want to hear from panelists their opinions on how permanent are those effects and what do they mean for scientists and for practitioners. The discussion will involve our guests, Dr. Esin Kiris and Dr. Steve Easterbrook, and representatives of the School of Computing: Dr. James Cordy, Wendy Powley and Scott Grant.
3) Scientific presentations and posters from our students
This is one of the most important events during our conference. Students from many different research areas, such as networking, biomedical computing, software engineering, computation theory and human computer interactions will present their achievements. This is a showcase of the breadth and depth of the research that is conducted in the School of Computing, of which we are all very proud.
4) Programming competition
We will have a competition between labs and we will find out which lab has the best programmers!
More information and the detailed program are available on our website. Please note that the registration for the event closes April, 24.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
We are very pleased to report that Queen’s School of Computing Professor Nick Graham has been awarded an NSERC Collaborative Health Research Project grant for his Cerebral Palsy Fit ‘n Fun research.
Nick will be collaborating with Holland Bloorview Hospital on improving fitness for children with Cerebral Palsy.
Well done, Nick, on your first application to the NSERC CHRP funding program!
Nick was interviewed by CKWS Television during the Creative Computing event, which was held April 5 at the Queen’s BioSciences Building. In the interview, he comments on computing in the modern era.
See Nick’s interview here.
Although many universities offer computer science as an option to satisfy science or math requirements, some schools are now making it a required course in order to graduate. For example, each of the nearly 2,000 freshmen entering the Georgia Institute of Technology each year must take a computer science course regardless of their major, says College of Computing Associate Dean Charles Isbell. In addition, every student at Montclair State University must complete a computer science course in order to graduate. Most Montclair students take “Introduction to Computer Applications: Being Fluent with Information Technology,” which is designed to teach students majoring in non-technical fields about network security, artificial intelligence, databases and e-commerce, says Computer Science Department Chairman Michael Oudshoorn. “It’s not aimed at making them experts; it’s aimed at making them aware,” Oudshoorn says. “They do live in a digital age … they have an obligation to know something about the technology.” University of California, Irvine professor Geoffrey Bowker says more schools should make computer science a requirement. “All aspects of our personal lives and our work lives are affected by computers,” he says. “We need to know about the tools that we’re working with.”
View the full article from US News here.
We are delighted to announce that the Queen’s School of Computing has done very well at this year’s NSERC Discovery and RTI competitions.
Congratulations to Jim Cordy, Randy Ellis, Nick Graham, and James Stewart who have seen their Discovery Grants renewed, thus maintaining the QSC’s renewal success rate at 100%.
Congratulations to Kibum Kim on receiving his first Discovery Grant, along with an Early Career Researcher supplement.
Congratulations to Roel Vertegaal on receiving an RTI grant.
These grants represent a research income of over $834,000 for the School over the next five years. Well done!
Area high schools entered six teams of students in the Third Annual Programming Contest hosted by the Queen’s School of Computing and held on March 30, in co-operation with the Limestone District School Board, and the Algonquin & Lakeshore District Catholic School Board. The contest consisted of a set of four programming problems which the teams had to try to solve in three hours. The winning team was from St. Theresa Catholic Secondary School of Belleville, coached by Mr. Daniel Tie Ten Quee. The three top teams from the contest will compete at the next level of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario’s programming contest series later in April. Well done, all!
Organizers for the event were Richard Linley, Doug Wightman and Lynda Moulton from the School of Computing, and Mr. Kerry Haight from the Limestone District School Board.
Vignettes of the event, as captured by Dave Dove, can be seen here: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/aboutus/highlights/put_item.php?year=2012&highlight=hsprogcontest.php
Thanks to all!
The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn was recently interviewed on the CTV News Network, CBC Radio and by the Toronto Star on the subject of the U.S. credit card hack and how it might affect Canadians.