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Month: April 2013

MorePhone to be Unveiled at Paris Conference

MorePhone1Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab will unveil MorePhone at Paris conference. The revolutionary smartphone curls when a call comes in.

See it on on ctv.ca and CKWS-TV. Read more about it in The Kingston Whig Standard and the Queen’s News Centre. The story was also featured in the Daily Mail Online, the Huffington Post (United Kingdom), The Hindu Business Line.  the Toronto Star, New Electronics and a number of trade publications.

Want a Great Scientific Career? Choose Computer Science

Courtesy of Ed Lazowska
Courtesy of Ed Lazowska

During a recent conversation with computer scientist Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington, Seattle, he alertedScience Careers to a very impressive analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) looking into trends for science-related jobs and predictions for job growth between the present and 2020.

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Creative Computing Event Featured on CKWS TV and in the Whig Standard

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The School of Computing’s Creative Computing event was held Thursday, April 4 in the BioSciences Atrium. It was a day that highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations and posters from a selection of our courses.  The event featured the 5th Annual Computer Art Exhibit from this year’s students of COCA 201, projects in Game Design and Game Technology from students in CISC 226 and CISC 877, Human Computer Interaction projects from CISC 325, and poster presentations from our fourth year students based on their major undergraduate research projects.

CKWS TV was on hand to record the events and to hear from PhD student Eric Rapos and Professors Nick Graham and Roel Vertegaal. See the whole feature here.

The Kingston Whig Standard was also on hand to take in the event, and interviewed computing students Jonathan Stanford, Josh Taylor and Dillon Smith, who created a multi-player game featuring zombies. Nick Graham also provided some insight into the links between computing and creativity. Read the whole story here.

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Fifth Annual School of Computing Awards

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On the afternoon of April 3, 2013, a large crowd gathered in Goodwin Hall on the occasion of the 5th Annual Queen’s School of Computing Awards ceremony. The awards were created to recognize excellence in various forms of endeavour, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of those in the school who distinguished themselves through their exceptional work, and as an opportunity to say thank you to those who made a difference in School life. The awards were presented by Selim Akl, Director of the School of Computing.

And now this year’s honorees:

  • The COMPSA Howard Staveley Award for Teaching Excellence: Robin Dawes
  • Ph.D. Research Achievement Award: Emad Shihab
  • Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award: Layan Nahlawi
  • Distinguished Graduate Supervision Award: Mohammad Zulkernine
  • Distinguished Service Award: Ben Hall
  • Research Award: Tamas Ungi
  • Award for Outstanding Contribution to School Life: Mattea Welch
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance: Niv Yahell
  • Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award: Anton Barua

Congratulations to this year’s winners and many thanks to all those who worked hard to make this day a memorable one: Members of the Awards Committee, nominators, Lynda Moulton for producing the awards, and Mattea Welch, Irene Lafleche, Tom Bradshaw, and Ben Hall for helping before, during and after the ceremony. Special gratitude goes to Dave Dove who arranged a perfect stage and took the photographs.

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