September 16, 2011
Jimmy Huang, Director of the School of Information Technology at York University, presents a research seminar: "CRTER: Using Cross Terms to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval" at 9:30 a.m. in SC 206.
September 16, 2011
Toufiq Kazi Hossain, M.Sc. candidate in Trent's Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods Graduate Program, successfully defends his thesis "Web Prefetching using Neural Networks for Digital Library Applications". Toufiq's work was supervised by Dr. Wenying Feng (Computing & Information Systems and Mathematics).
September 2011
Sofie Andreou, Lecturer in Computing & Information Systems, releases an updated edition of her book "Leveraging the Power of the Internet" for the non-technical business person: http://www.sofieandreou.com
June 2, 2011
Michael Gowanlock, M.Sc. candidate, receives the President's Medal for academic excellence and achievement at the graduate level at spring convocation:
http://trentu.ca/convocation/profiles_2011gowanlock.php
Michael received a joint-major B.Sc. in Computer Science and Political Studies from Trent in 2008. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in astrobiology at the University of Hawaii.
May 2011
Trent University honours Professor Stephen Regoczei at a special luncheon to recognize his 25 years of service to the University.
April 28, 2011
Graeme Young, M.Sc. candidate in Trent's Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods Graduate Program, successfully defendss his thesis "On the Use of Evolutionary Programming to Dynamically Alter Cache Partition Sizes". Graham's work was supervised by Dr. Richard Hurley (Computing & Information Systems).
March 20, 2011
Brian Patrick, Chair of the Department of Computing & Information Systems, delivers an invited public address "World Wide Wonder" as part of the Peterborough Speakers Series: Visionaries of Change at The Venue in downtown Peterborough.
September 13, 2010
The department delivers courses at the newly-opened Thornton Road Campus in Oshawa. For further details, go to http://www.trentu.ca/oshawa/ .
July 6, 2010
Wilfred Blight, M.Sc. candidate in Trent's Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods Graduate Program, successfully defends his thesis "Prediction of Detectability of Potentially Habitable Extrasolar Planets Using a Monte Carlo Simulation". Will's work was co-supervised by Dr. Sabine McConnell (Computing & Information Systems) and Dr. David Patton (Physics and Astronomy).
May 5, 2010
Michael Gowanlock, M.Sc. candidate in Trent's Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods Graduate Program, successfully defends his thesis "A Model of Habitability Within the Milky Way Galaxy". Mike's work was co-supervised by Dr. Sabine McConnell (Computing & Information Systems) and Dr. David Patton (Physics and Astronomy).
January 25, 2010
Karan Vij of the AMINSS program successfully defends his Master's thesis on "Pre-fetching and Multiple Pre-fetching: Multi-Dimensional Matrices and Simple Web Object Relationship Model". Congratulations to Karan and his supervisor, Professor Wenying Feng.
November 22, 2009
Professor Wenying Feng of the Departments of Computing & Information Systems and Mathematics delivers a keynote address entitled "Machine Learning: Techniques and Applications" at the
2009 International Conference on Information, Electronic and Computer Science and 2009 Workshop on Information Security and Applications in Qingdao, China.
September 23, 2009
Tony Read, lecturer in Computing & Information Systems, releases his new book “IT Value Network: From IT Investment to Stakeholder Value”, published by John Wiley & Sons. The book explores maximizing IT stakeholder value through IT governance and strategic business alignment, providing useful tools to measure and manage IT investment and spending.
September 9, 2009
Peter O’Keefe successfully defends his Master’s thesis on “A Computational Model to Optimize the SETI Search at the Allen Telescope Array”. Peter’s thesis was also a first for his supervisors, Sabine McConnell (Computing & Information Systems) and Dave Patton (Physics & Astronomy).
August 27, 2009
Graeme Young, an AMINSS graduate student in Computing, receives an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2009-2010 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
June 17, 2009
Peter Northrop, Lecturer in Computing & Information Systems, and his COIS-ADMN 3850H Project Management course are featured in a Project Times article by Kevin Aguanno, Solution Manager at IBM Canada:
http://www.projecttimes.com/kevin-aguanno/a-fresh-approach-to-project-management-training.html
March 26, 2009
Gongzhu Hu, Professor of Computer Science at Central Michigan University, presents a seminar on "Privacy-Preserving Mining of Distributed Association Rules using Mobile Agents" at 5:00pm in GC 110.
January 20, 2009
Hung Tam, former student in Computing & Information Systems, successfully defends his PhD thesis on " Resource Management in Multi-hop Cellular Networks" at the School of Computing, Queen's University.
November 6, 2008
Michel de Champlain, Chief Scientist of DeepObjectKnowledge Inc., presents a seminar on "B#: An Object-Oriented Answer to C for Small Footprint Embedded Systems" at 3:00pm in GC 108.
October 27, 2008
Ernst Grundke, Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, presents a seminar on "Dalhousie's Bachelor of Informatics: A New Direction in Computer Science Education" at 1:00pm in OC 202 (ATOP Lab).
