On May 3, 2018 I gave an invited talk at the 9th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference at UOIT. The topic of my talk was “How to Succeed (and Fail) at Interdisciplinary Research.” Interdisciplinary research is defined as research that involves multiple areas of knowledge and expertise. As graduate students, researchers are often trained toContinue reading “How to Succeed (and Fail) at Interdisciplinary Research”
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Automating Software Development Using Artificial Intelligence
This week I gave a research seminar at Dalhousie University and at Mount Allison University on “Automating Software Development Using Artificial Intelligence (AI).” The intersection of AI and Software Engineering is an active research area and has lead to a number of effective and novel applications of machine learning, metaheuristic algorithms and deep learning. ManyContinue reading “Automating Software Development Using Artificial Intelligence”
Recording Programming Activities in the Classroom
Background Before I detail how I video record in-class programming activities I want to provide some context. I’ve been teaching introductory programming courses for close to 10 years and most recently I instructed a first-year first-semester course called CSCI 1060U: Programming Workshop I. My general philosophy on teaching programming is based on two simple rules: LearningContinue reading “Recording Programming Activities in the Classroom”
Top Reasons to Study Computer Science at UOIT
[Undergraduate Edition] 5 years ago I wrote a blog post titled Top 4 Reasons to Study Computer Science at UOIT. Since then a lot has changed and I thought it was time to write an updated post! I have participated in UOIT recruitment events for the past 10 years and I have answered a lot ofContinue reading “Top Reasons to Study Computer Science at UOIT”
Adaptive Serious Games for Computer Science Education
PhD student and SQR Lab member Michael Miljanovic was selected as a finalist in the 2017 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at UOIT. Michael’s 3MT talk discussed his PhD research into the use of adaptive serious games to improve Computer Science education. The goal of his research is to adapt games to an individual player in an effort to improve learning andContinue reading “Adaptive Serious Games for Computer Science Education”
Using Slack in the Classroom
This semester I decided to try using Slack as an alternative communication channel in an upper-year university course that I teach. I’d already been using Slack in my research lab and I was familiar with the features and I thought it might translate well to the university class setting. The one disclaimer I would offer to anybody considering using Slack isContinue reading “Using Slack in the Classroom”
A Canadian Guide to the Heartbleed Bug
What is the Heartbleed Bug? The Heartbleed bug is a recently identified bug in the OpenSSL security protocol toolkit. OpenSSL is widely used on web servers to encrypt user data.In general, software bugs are computer program error that cause the software to behave in an unexpected way (e.g., crash, produce a wrong output). Security bugs are aContinue reading “A Canadian Guide to the Heartbleed Bug”
What’s New for Concurrency in Java SE 8?
Java SE 8 was officially released yesterday (March 18th) and given the fact that Java 7 was released back in 2012, there are definitely lots of updates and new features. These updates include improvements to the Java language itself, Java security, Java tools and more. Although a lot of these updates are interesting and importantContinue reading “What’s New for Concurrency in Java SE 8?”
A Computer Science Professor’s Backpack
Every morning I read through my favourite technology blogs and one series of blog posts that I confess to enjoying are the Featured Bag posts on Lifehacker. These are basically a series of posts where different people from different jobs/walks of life describe the kind of bag they use and what they keep inside it.Continue reading “A Computer Science Professor’s Backpack”
Advice on Finding Relevant Research Papers
One of the questions I often get asked by new research students in my lab is how can they find research papers that are relevant to their thesis. For a student new to research this can be a very daunting task and doing a straight Google, Bing or Yahoo search generates a lot of noiseContinue reading “Advice on Finding Relevant Research Papers”