The ethics of driverless cars
Jason Millar, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy, spends a lot of time thinking about driverless cars. Though you aren’t likely to be able to buy them for 10 years, he says there are a number of ethical problems that need to be tackled before they go mainstream.
Bringing town teens to computer science
Brandon Turner leans over his keyboard and with a few key strokes shows what he 91Ƭ ’s spent this summer working on. A digital rendering of an enormous vertebra fossil appears on his computer screen, followed by a chipped femur and then the hulking skull of a haudrosaur, the duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period.
SNOLAB on CTV Northern Ontario
Nigel Smith (Director, SNOLAB) discusses SNOLAB on .
Queen's University real estate expert comments on July's Canadian Real Estate Association data
Tomorrow the Canadian Real Estate Association will announce home sales volume and price data for July and Queen 91Ƭ ’s real estate expert John Andrew is available to comment on these numbers.
Aid must act, not react
Following Japan 91Ƭ ’s 2011 tsunami, Kiyoshi Kurokawa – chairman of the Fukushima Accident Independent Investigation Commission – described the Fukushima disaster as a “profoundly man-made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented.” It is this mentality that motivated the Japanese government to enact some of the world 91Ƭ ’s most stringent bui
On the Misrepresentations of Gaza in Canadian News Coverage
Middle East Professor Ariel Salzmann and activist Azeezah Kanji cite specific examples of how Canadian media has misrepresented the ongoing assault and how the Harper government aims to fuel this conflict to ensure high prices for Tar Sands oil.
More than summer fun in Muskoka for PhD student
Like many students, Sarah Hasnain has spent her summer on the water. However, this biology PhD candidate has devoted her time to academic rather than leisure pursuits.
An international invitation
Andrea Craig, a doctoral student in the at Queen 91Ƭ ’s, has been invited to attend the prestigious Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany.