December 2007
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Northerner Jean-Louis takes over as chair of ORANO
Contact North/Contact Nord President and CEO Maxim Jean-Louis takes over as Chair of the ORANO Board of Directors, as former Chair, Dr. Stan Shapson, ends his three-year term at the helm of Ontario's ultra high-speed optical research and education network.
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Ontario research contributes to Virtual Earth 3D mapping - Interview with Dr. Vincent Tao
Virtual Earth and Live Local Maps, Microsoft's live 3D mapping service, is gaining a lot of attention, partly because of its innovative 3D, interactive capabilities, including photo-realistic 3D city models, leading-edge photogrammetry and computer vision technologies.
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ORANO to lead 'cyberinfrastructure' plan for Ontario
ORANO should take the lead in developing a stakeholder-led 'cyberinfrastructure' strategy for Ontario and take a more active role in facilitating the deployment of "user-centric" services and web 2.0 applications over the ORION network.
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CANARIE's St. Arnaud zeroes in on ICT's carbon footprint
CANARIE's Chief Research Officer Bill St. Arnaud has triggered a global "buzz" with his new blog, urging urgent action and innovative solutions to deal with the growing environmental impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICT).
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Alice in Tech-land - U of Waterloo's latest production of multi-point interactive theatre
Alice will be experimenting with technology when she next visits Wonderland next month. In fact, it will be an all new kind of "Wonder"-land, envisioned and choreographed by a joint collaboration between the University of Waterloo, the University of Central Florida and Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois.
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• Past Board member receives community leader award
• SHARCNET helps solve cosmological puzzle
• SHARCNET signs MOU with Shanghai Supercomputer Center
• CONII provides expertise to small businesses
• U of Ottawa student develops image search technology
• Virtual hub for francophone municipalities
• Submission deadline nearing: FutureFlick Contest
• KMDI hosts Media Spaces for Learning seminar
• People News
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