Large direct-touch information displays are becoming more commonplace in public exhibition spaces such as museums, art galleries, and libraries. Their interactive capabilities, along with their size and form factor offer opportunities to present information to exhibition visitors in an engaging yet informative way. 

The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become one of the most popular approaches to building large-scale network applications. The web service technologies are de facto the default implementation for SOA. Service composition is a way to deliver complex services based on existing partner services. 

Dr. Regan Mandryk was recently featured in an article for the University of Saskatchewan for her research and thoughts on the gaming industry. Dr.Mandryk sheds light on the predicted changes in the gaming industry, including the shift in video game development and how programmers are getting involved. Check out the full article on the University of Saskatchewan's website. 

Sanjay Bakshi, a Computer Science alumni from the University of Saskathchewan, was recently featured in an article in The Sheaf. Sanjay is the Supervising Technical Director at Pixar and talks about his career and recent films. His most recent project is the highly anticipted movie Monsters University.

Check out the full article on The Sheafs website. 

The Department of Computer Science is now offering an exciting and valuable introduction course for University students. The course is titled "Digital Document Processing" and it allows students to master the skills required to effectively use digital documents such as Microsoft Office. Students will become familiar with basic and advanced document preparation, spreadsheets, and data presentation. The class also extends practice into emerging tools such as Dropbox and Cloud Computing. Computer literacy is must-have requirement in today's industry and this class will prepare students with the tools and knowledge to obtain successful academic and future careers.