Dr. Akl was winner in 2004 and 2007 of the Howard Staveley Award for Teaching Excellence. He received the Queen's University Prize for Excellence in Research in 2005 and the Queen's University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision in 2012. He served as Director of the Queen's School of Computing (2007 - 2017). In 2018, Dr. Akl was the recipient of a CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science and in 2020 the Queen's University Distinguished Service Award. In 2024, Dr. Akl was honored as an Inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. The citation reads: "Congratulations on being named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. Dear Dr. Akl, ScholarGPS celebrates Highly Ranked Scholars™ for their exceptional performance in various Fields, Disciplines, and Specialties. Your prolific publication record, the high impact of your work, and the outstanding quality of your scholarly contributions have placed you in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide." Selim G. Akl Highly Ranked Scholar-Lifetime
Journal and Conference Papers, Books, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Articles
Technical Reports
Current Research Posters
Recent Theses Supervised
Recent Book
Recent Book Edited
TEDxQueensU Talk
Contributions to a Recent Book
Chapters in a New Book
A Computational Challenge
Non-Universality in Computation
Inherently Parallel Computations
TheChurch-Turing Thesis Is False
Computation Is Universal, Computers Are Not
Time Travel
Play Quantum Chess
Quantum Chess on the Web
Stephen Hawking Plays Quantum Chess
The Quantum Chess Story
Natural Computing
Slime Mold Computes
Slime Mold In The News
Computing With DNA
Quantum Computers Can Do What Classical Computers Cannot Do
Quantum Security for Sensor Networks
Communicating Secret Information Without Secret Messages
A Festschrift
What Is Computation?
Nonuniversality In Computation: Thirteen Misconceptions Rectified
On Computable Numbers, Nonuniversality, and the Genuine Power of Parallelism
Nouniversality Explained
Unconventional Wisdom
How to Encrypt a Graph
Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Simple, Efficient, and Secure
Conventional or Unconventional: Is Any Computer Universal?
A Map of England, the Simulator Simulated, and Nonuniversality in Computation
Unconventional computational problems
Evolving computational systems
Computational nonuniversality: Philosophical and artistic perspectives
International Conference on Unconventional Computation 2007
The conference returns to Canada in 2014:
International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 2014
Phone: (613) 533-6062 or 533-6050
akl at cs dot queensu dot ca
Courses
Mathematics of Information Technology
Natural ComputingConference
Contact Information
School of Computing
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
K7L 3N6
Fax: (613) 533-6513