Organization: Univ of Waterloo

Toronto and Shenzhen launch the Sino-Canada International Innovation Centre

The cities of Toronto and Shenzhen, often called Silicon Valley North and Silicon Valley of China, respectively, will open the Sino-Canada International Innovation Centre this month at a ceremony in Toronto. The Sci Innovation Centre is intended to increase cooperation between Chinese and Canadian entrepreneurs and companies in the following industry sectors: electronic technology, ICT, biotechnology, cleantech…

Canada’s first virtual reality optometry lab opens in Waterloo

Students at the Univ of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science are learning how to diagnose vision problems and eye diseases more quickly and accurately in a new virtual reality (VR) training lab. Known as the FYidoctors Simulation Lab, it represents the state-of-the-art in optometric education and is a first in Canada. The total cost…

Dominic Barton

The Univ of Waterloo has appointed international business adviser Dominic Barton as its 11th chancellor.

Univ of Waterloo joins international research teams on blockchain, cryptocurrency

The Univ of Waterloo will be the only Canadian university in the University Blockchain Research Initiative, an international research effort spearheaded by Ripple, a San Francisco-based technology company specializing in digital payments and blockchain. The university will join the world’s top universities to spur research and innovation in blockchain, cryptography and digital payment systems. Ripple…

Toronto hosts Samsung’s second AI centre in North America

Samsung Research America (SRA) will establish an AI centre in Toronto’s downtown core at MaRS Discovery District. The AI centre seeks to hasten the adoption of AI using machine-learning technology on multiple devices — ranging from household gadgets and appliances to vehicles — with the goal of reducing friction between the user and the device.…

Jackie Dawson

Dr Jackie Dawson has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA). She is the Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society and Policy (Tier II), and associate professor in geography at the Univ of Ottawa. She has a master’s degree from the Univ of Otago School of Business…

Excerpts: Research ecosystem reacts to Budget 2018

The whole ecosystem is patting themselves on the back, confident that their concerted efforts to lobby behind the Naylor report recommendations — foremost of which was an increase in budget – did not fall on deaf ears. RE$EARCH MONEY offers excerpts of what the ecosystem has to say about the federal budget.

Niagara supercomputer available to all Canadian researchers

Niagara, Canada’s most powerful supercomputer to date, is now available to researchers across the country, thanks to funding from the federal and provincial governments and Univ of Toronto, where the supercomputer is housed. Niagara is being supported by the university’s high performance computing division, SciNet. The supercomputer is part of the national advanced research computing…