The School of Information Studies is very pleased to announce that Prof. Benjamin Fung has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Prof. Fung is a stellar researcher and holder of the CRC Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. He has an outstanding and seemingly unstoppable successful track record in grantsmanship. He is also a highly valued teacher and mentor to our students as well as someone who is ever at the ready to contribute to the SIS, McGill and wider professional and practitioner communities. Our School is lucky to have him on board. Congratulations Prof Fung!

Published on: 17 Aug 2020

Prof Catherine Guastavino's research on quieted city sounds during lock down has been featured several times this past month in the news and on the radio.  Read or listen more about this new research here!

Article:

· Leblanc, E. (2020, May 30). L’après-COVID-19: tirer les leçons de ce printemps silencieux. Radio-Canada. Retrieved from http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/postier/suggerer-go.asp?nID=4523621

Radio interviews:

Published on: 8 Jun 2020

SIS is very excited to welcome Gracen Brilmyer as Associate Professor (Special Category) starting August 1, 2020

Published on: 28 May 2020

Prof. Kimiz Dalkir will be part of a collaborative project to help Canadian citizens critically assess and become resilient against harmful online disinformation: ”Développement et expérimentation d’outils éducatifs pour contrer la désinformation en ligne chez les jeunes adultes”. The $205,742 project is funded for two years (2019-2021) by Canadian Heritage under the Digital Citizenship program and will be led by PI Prof. Colette Brin (Département d’information et de communication, Directrice, Centre d'études sur les médias) at Université Laval.

Published on: 21 May 2020

Tune in to hear Prof Guastavino discuss her research and the effects of noise pollution in the city.  The interview will be available online a few days after the broadcast

https://matv.ca/montreal/mes-emissions/mise-a-jour-montreal/la-pollution-sonore

Published on: 7 Feb 2020

Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Fung who has been appointed Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) for a 2-year term from May 2019. IEEE TKDE is a top research venue in the area of data mining

Published on: 5 Jun 2019

What Happens When Libraries Play? Place aux jeux: quand les bibliothèques s’en mêlent ! McGill Library, Montreal Québec

"When we play, we explore the limits of the possible" –Thomas Hendricks.

Classified as: ROAAr – Rare Books, Osler, Art, Archives, Library news
Published on: 31 May 2019

New faculty member joining us for the fall 2019-2020 academic year Rebekah Willson.

 

Published on: 1 Mar 2019

Health insurance data are complex and large in volume. Finding the fraudulent claims is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Funded by the NSERC Engage Grants, SIS Faculty Member Benjamin Fung will start a new collaborative project with Segic, a software company that offers technology platforms and management services for the collective insurance industry.

Published on: 8 Nov 2018

SIS Faculty Member Benjamin Fung and his research team DMaS are collaborating with the Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) to develop an AI-powered interactive platform to understand the inner workings of software binaries, including both benign and malicious software.

Published on: 10 Oct 2018

Profs. Evans and Frissen recently presented their work on knowledge sharing at the the 19th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2018) in Padua, Italy. Their paper "The strength of strong ties you can trust: Re-examining the mediating role of trust in effective knowledge sharing" (Evans, Frissen, & Choo, C.W., 2018) can be found in the conference proceedings: pp. 250-258.

Published on: 3 Oct 2018

Congratulations to Prof. Evans for being appointed to CIRMMT as a full faculty member

Prof. Evans' research  projects will examine knowledge sharing among musicians.  The first is an experimental study further exploring the role of competence- and integrity-based trust on willingness to share and use knowledge among musicians. The second project would explore the universal movements of expert musicians, with the goal of seeing if these ‘universals’ can be transferred to musicians in beginning and intermediate stages of learning. 

Published on: 21 Aug 2018

Congratulations to Prof Evans for being appointed to CIRMMT as a full faculty member.  

Prof. Evans' research projects will examine knowledge sharing among musicians. The first is an experimental study further exploring the role of competence- and integrity-based trust on willingness to share and use knowledge among musicians. The second project would explore the universal movements of expert musicians, with the goal of seeing if these ‘universals’ can be transferred to musicians in beginning and intermediate stages of learning. 

Published on: 19 Jul 2018

Dr. Alexandre Fortier and Dr. Elaine Ménard received The Best Overall Paper award for the highest ranked submission at the 46th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) for their paper entitled "Quelles données satisferaient les utilisateurs de sites web de musées?". Award papers are being presented on the first day of the conference (May 30, 2018) between 10:00-noon.

The complete paper will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS).

Published on: 27 Mar 2018

Prof. Benjamin Fung has been appointed Associate Editor at the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) for a 3-year term from December 2017. SCS is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities.

 

Published on: 20 Feb 2018

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