Computer Models for Social Change

This is the third year that Scott Bell, Nadine Schuurman and I have run the Spatial Knowlege and Information Canada conference. The Proceedings for this year can be found here.

Our research assistant, and Flex extraordinaire, Jimmy Li, has posted the ontology based GUI onto sourceforge.

He describes it as the

"GUI front-end of a Chinese historical database built using Flex. The search interface is a tree-structured concept map, where similar criterion are organized into subtrees that can be expanded when clicked. This aims to make searching more intuitive."

This one on web harvesting for tourism that's co-authored by some excellent undergraduates:

Johnson, Peter A. , Sieber, Renee E. , Magnien, Nicolas and Ariwi, Joseph. 2011. Automated web harvesting to collect and analyse user-generated content for tourism, Current Issues in Tourism. First published on: 16 February 2011 (iFirst)

Our work in Quebec has been highlighted in this video, which is being used to attract Fracophone students to McGill.

Congratulations to Yuan Jin for his Masters Thesis in Computer Science.