The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn commented on CBC radio stations in Windsor, Winnipeg, Kelowna (B.C.), Calgary, Yellowknife, New Brunswick and Quebec City about plans currently being considered by security officials to eavesdrop on airport travelers.
Secret Memo Warns that Canada is not Prepared – David Skillicorn Weighs in
“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.