David was interviewed by The Wire Report (a Canadian online news service) and quoted in an article entitled “The Canadian Effort Behind the Olympic Network Build“.
Undergraduate Jacob Andreou Takes First Place at Hackathon Finals
The School’s own Jacob Andreou (third year Biomedical Computing) recently had the opportunity to represent both Canada and Queen’s University at Facebook’s Global Hackathon Finals in Menlo Park, California. The competition hosted teams from the top ivy league schools from all over the US, as well as teams from Brazil, England, Mexico, and Canada. Jacob and Khalid Karim (Software Engineering, University of British Columbia) comprised the First Place team. This opportunity came through the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference regional qualifier, a technology conference that is rapidly gaining momentum in the Canadian technology community. We are proud to share this accomplishment!
School of Computing Shines Again
Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Sherin Abdel Hamid whose paper “On the Recruitment of Smart Vehicles for Urban Sensing”, co-authored with Professors Hossam Hassanein (Computing) and Glen Takahara (Mathematics and Statistics), received the Best Paper Award at the Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium held in Atlanta, Georgia, December 9 – 13, 2013, as part of the 2013 IEEE GLOBECOM conference.
This award is particularly significant, since this year GLOBECOM, the major conference on global communications, awarded only one best paper award per symposium, combining all categories. The Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium received in excess of 400 submissions from around the world.
There is a nice writeup in the Queen’s News Centre.
Queen’s School of Computing Shines in Germany
We are happy to share with you this good news just in from Germany.
The paper “Empowering Mobile Service Provisioning Through Cloud Assistance” by Queen’s School of Computing researchers Khalid Elgazzar, Patrick Martin, and Hossam S. Hassanein, was selected today to receive a Best Paper Award, at the 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, held in Dresden, Germany, December 9-12, 2013.
The award was based on both contributions and presentation.
The paper has been invited for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
There is a nice writeup in the Queen’s News Centre. Read all about it here.
Bob Crawford Retires
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Congratulations to Professor Bob Crawford on the occasion of his approaching retirement! It was celebrated at the School’s 2013 Holiday Party on November 28. Further congratulations to Bob for his appointment to Professor Emeritus, which takes effect January 1, 2014. In his letter to Bob, Principal Woolf wrote, “This honour affords the University an opportunity to express its thanks to you and to acknowledge your outstanding academic achievements and your exemplary service to Queen’s over the years.”
Human Media Lab is “Technological Marvel”
The Queen’s School of Computing Human Media Lab (Dr. Roel Vertegaal, Director) is featured in today’s issue of Magna Magazines in an article entitled “The Human Media Lab by designer Karim Rashid is a technological marvel“. Enjoy!
Elodie Lugez in the News
Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. candidate Elodie Lugez was featured in an article on HMRC CREATE students appearing in the Fall 2013 issue of The Complete Engineer.