Month: April 2014

David was interviewed by the Globe and Mail on why Canada’s banks have weaker passwords than Twitter or Google. To counteract this, some banks have hired hackers to help find the weaknesses. David comments on this in the Toronto Star.

Queen’s School of Computing was proud to host the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario’s (ECOO’s) annual East Regional Programming Contest for eastern Ontario high school students on Saturday, April 26th. The three-hour event was held in prestigious Wallace Hall, where thirteen teams from schools in Ottawa, Brockville, Kingston, and Belleville were charged with finding working – and correct – solutions to four challenging programming problems. Congratulations to the winners, Bell High School Team 1, from Ottawa. Thanks to School of Computing Organizer Richard Linley, to ECOO for its donation to the event, to Co-Ordinator Chris Kulenkamp from Prince Edward Collegiate Institute, to School of Computing staff members Lynda Moulton and Irene LaFleche for organizing the food and venue, respectively, to the invaluable student volunteers at the event, Andrew MacDougall, Mitch Mullings, James Peng, and Christian Gilberg, to all the participants and their teacher coaches, and to Dave for his usual sterling job behind the camera lens.

You can read more about this event in the Queen’s News Centre.

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Photos by Dave Dove.

The team in the Human Media Lab have been hard at work to produce cutting-edge technological advances, and recently Professor Roel Vertegaal and HML student Antonio Gomes unveiled their latest ground breaker. PaperFold, a touch-sensitive smartphone, is featured in this week’s Queen’s News Centre and the Kingston Herald website.

More on PaperFold!  PaperFold E Ink phone is context sensitive based on folds, on CNET Australia and NBC News.

PaperFold is also making waves in Asian News International, India Today, Hindustan Times, in the Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) and over 20 other international news agencies and trade publications.

Fourth year Queen’s School of Computing student Daniel John Moran is in the news this week, having developed a very popular online game called Flappy48. His story is also featured on Tech Times and the Queen’s News Centre.

Dan is graduating from the Game Development option of our Software Design Program. The success of the game is a testament to Dan’s ingenuity and skill. It also illustrates the importance of logical and algorithmic thinking, creativity, and problem solving ability, all fundamental features of the excellent education students receive in the School of Computing.

 

 

David was on CBC’s The National, commenting on Revenue Canada’s knowledge last Friday about stolen SINs.

Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Bob Tennent, was interviewed by the Globe and Mail about the Heartbleed bug, OpenSSL and Internet security in two articles published April 11, 2014. Read them here and here.

Hundreds of interested faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Biosciences Complex on Thursday April 3rd for the Queen’s School of Computing’s annual exhibition of Creative Computing: Art, Games, and Research. The event highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations, and posters from a selection of our courses, with topics including Game Design and Game Technology, Computing and the Creative Arts, 4th year projects, Human Computer Interaction, and more. Congratulations and thanks to the organizers and participants. The event was also featured in the Heritage newspaper,the Instructables website and 3D Printing Industry, a renowned blog in the tech prototyping industry.

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Photos by Dave Dove.

Find below the CoCA201’14 explorations

Mood Fern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yBfg-KsABQ

Interactive Clothing:

Goon Quad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqIDKVA1GFA&feature=youtu.be

Trapped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_DyLWtPqqY&feature=youtu.be

Venus Fly Trap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_DYSHYTT0

David was interviewed by several media outlets yesterday regarding the Heartbleed security bug exposing millions of passwords to theft risk, including CBC’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange, CBC National, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Province, Calgary Herald, Windsor Star, Vancouver Sun, globalnews.ca and a number of other Canadian Press and Postmedia newspapers. He also appeared on Calgary Today (Calgary radio) and Radio Canada on the same topic.

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Roel Vertegaal, on his new industry-partnered NSERC Collaborative Research and Development funding.

Dr. Vertegaal and his team will investigate new non-flat interactive form factors for computing. We look forward to the results of this exciting new technology.

Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Professor, Dr. Parvin Mousavi, on her successful application to the CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered) funding program.

Dr. Mousavi and her co-investigators from Western University and UBC will work to enhance detection and grading of prostate cancer in order to improve its clinical management through their research on “RF Time Series Flashlight for Targeted Prostate Biopsy.”