A new course entitled “Looking Behind the Screen: The Mathematics of Information Technology” will be offered for the first time in the coming Winter, 2013 term. This course was developed and will be taught jointly by the School’s own Director, Selim Akl and Ram Murty, Head, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. For more on this exciting new development, read the story in the Queen’s News Centre here.
David Skillicorn Speaks on CORUS Radio
David spoke on CORUS Entertainment radio about fake websites set up by the Taliban with the purpose of recruiting.
Congratulations to Hossam Hassanein and Ahmad El Kouche
Hossam and Ahmad received a Best Paper Award at the Third International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012), held in Niagara Falls, August 27-29, 2012, for their paper “Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Using Wireless Sensor Networks”. Well done!
Queen’s Students Digitize Dinosaur Bones
David Rappaport’s work with his students on compressing and enhancing 3-dimensional digital scans of dinosaur bones has received coverage on the Queen’s News Centre, the Queen’s Journal, CBC Radio Canada and on CKNW radio (Vancouver).
David Skillicorn in the News
The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn commented in the Brockville Recorder and Times on the Brockville City Hall’s computers having been hacked.
Read the whole story here.
Doug Wightman to Attend Google Summer of Code
Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Doug Wightman has been been selected to attend the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit to be held in Mountain View, California, this October (all expenses paid by Google).
Doug was a mentor for a GSoC project this summer and his team helped deploy a system based on his research.
Well done Doug and best wishes!