• ELG 5121 (multimedia Communications)
• SEG 3120 (Human Computer Interaction)
  

Press & News

• Professor EL Saddik is elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers, 2009
• Professor El Saddik is elected Fellow of IEEE for contributions to interactive haptic audio visual systems effective Jan 2009
• Professor El Saddik was featured in an interview with the Spanish newspaperDiario Vasco. In this article, he talks about his vision in Ambient Intelligence and Haptics and explains the research being carried out at the MCRLab.
• Making Computers more Human (Interview with Research Perspectives)
• The German News paper "Darmstaedter Echo" interviewed prof. El Saddik about his work and vision on Haptics
• Prof. El Saddik receives prestigious Award (see news article)
• The Ottawa Citizen showcases SITE's new Graduate Certificate in Modelling and Animation for Computer Games Technology. (Read full article)

2009

• Prof. El Saddik and his team Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, Ahmad Barghout, and ASM Mahfujur Rahman, won the ACM Multimedia 2009 Grand Challenge Most Entertaining Award for “HugMe: Synchronous Haptic Teleconferencing” System
• Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE)
• Fellow of IEEE for contributions to interactive haptic audio visual systems (FIEEE)

2008

• Professional of the Year Award, Canadian Lebanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• BEST Paper Award for "ALPHAN: A Haptic Enabled Protocol with Multi-User Collaboration", at ACM/IEEE DS-RT 2008
• ACM SIG MM Recognition for contributing to the success of ACM MM 2008 as General Chair
• IEEE Recognition of Service Award for outstanding organization of I2MTC 2008
• ACM recognition as ACM Senior Member
  

2007

• University Research Chair in Ambient Interactive Media and Communications
  
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  
• Chair TC-37 Measurements and Networking, IEEE Instrumentation & Measutrement Society, 2007 -
  
• Certificate of Appreciation from the Physicians and Students of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
  
• Best Paper Award for "A Dominating Set Based Peer-to-Peer Protocol for Real-Time Multi-Source Collaboration" at the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Collaborative Service-oriented P2P Information Systems (COPS 2007)
  

2006

• Best paper Award (Honor Article) "Graphical Password with Haptics", 6th International Conference on Virtual Concept, Cancun, Mexico, 26th Nov. - 1st Dec 2006
  
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
  
• International WHO'S WHO Historical Society
  
• Best Short-Paper/Demo Award at the 2006 annual Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories Conference (I2LOR-2006), Montreal Canada

2004

• Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE - GCC Section
  
• Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA)
  National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT)
• New Professorship Incentive Award
  
• Recipient of one of the three Best paper award for "Architecture and Evaluation of Tele-Haptic Environments" at the 8th IEEE DS-RT
  

• Associate Editor ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (IEEE TCIAIG)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM )
• Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer Science and Engineering,
  in Arabic
• Associate Editor, Journal of Multimedia (JMM), Academy Publisher
• Associate Editor Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI), , Academy Publisher

• Technical Program Co-Chair of the ACM Multimedia Conference 19-24 Oct. 2009 in Beijing, China. (ACM MM 2009)
• Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems in Hong Kong(IEEE VECIMS 2009)
  
• General Chair of the ACM Multimedia Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2008 (ACM MM 2008)
• Technical Program Co-Chair of the I2Mtc2008 - IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Victoria Island, BC, Canada, 2008
• Technical Program Chair: HAVE'2008- IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications (2008)
• Technical Program Chair of 2008The 12-th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation
  and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2008)
  
• Technical Program Co-Chair of the First International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-Sys2008), Qubec city, Canada

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