Project Tags: Computer Science

Minicomplexity

Computational Complexity Theory studies the fundamental properties of computation, independent of computational model. Many of its open questions are by now long-standing, having already defied decades of intense attacks by…

Alice for Middle East — Alice ME

Alice is a software tool for introducing computational thinking and programming concepts in the context of creating 3D animations. Alice has been remarkably successful in North America, where research has…

Bringing Computer Science to Secondary Schools – Curriculum Design and Implementation

Until very recently, the focus on preparing a computer science educated generation has only been limited to tertiary education, while computing education in K-12 was largely ignored. Most of the…

Personalised Drug Selection for Cancer Treatment in Qatar

Cancer is now the number one cause of death in Qatar. Despite a remarkable series of changes made over the last decade, the discovery and development of new medicines is…

A type-safe programming language to build safe and secure web applications

Software as a Service (SaaS) is the idea of pushing software and data from the desktop to the Web. For instance, Google Docs is an office suite that is accessible…

Qloud: Towards a Cloud Computing Infrastructure in Qatar to Target Regional Scientific Applications

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that provides flexibility, elasticity, high utilization and pay-as-you-go-model while removing the overheard of maintaining a system-specific, fixed-sized cluster of under-utilized machines. On the physical…

Human-Robot Interaction in an Arabic Social and Cultural Setting

Recognizing Context for Human-Robot Interaction

I-GEST – Multi-Point Low-Cost Gesture-Based Input Platform

Traditional input devices limit mobility, accessibility and interactivity. These devices are also unintuitive, require experience, and limit the potential user-base [1]. In fact, for decades, human-computer interaction has largely remained…

Automated Tools for Effective Team Coordination in Emergency Response