December 2009



ResearchImpact leads the way on O3
Q&A with David Phipps

David Phipps is Director of Research Services and Knowledge Exchange at York University and is responsible for leading ResearchImpact, one of the first research groups to adopt ORION's new O3 Collaboration and professional networking platform.
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ORION welcomes northern growth plan
Northern Ontario already has the critical network infrastructure in place to help drive greater involvement and support in advanced research and scientific discovery and perhaps lay the foundation for the north as a research and advanced technology powerhouse.
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Panel set up to develop Canadian CI strategy
CANARIE has convened a multi-stakeholder panel to help shape a vision and implementation plan for a Canadian cyberinfrastructure (CI) strategy.
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Students take hands-on classes at the ROM
The Royal Ontario Museum has launched a joint program with a Toronto private school that allows students to take high school accredited courses at the museum.
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New centre for science communication
Occasionally, science can be a tricky thing for a layperson to understand.
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HPC goes portable
SHARCNET's supercomputer-in-a-box

SHARCNET has developed a portable Supercomputer-in-a-Box in order to cultivate wider awareness of what high performance computing (HPC) has to offer to the more general Canadian academic community.
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  • CANARIE funds world's first wind and solar-powered network
  • Ontario invests in digital media commercialization centre
  • Perimeter expands with new Stephen Hawking Centre
  • LHC fires up again
  • Fleming develops software to treat wastewater
  • Boreal unveils wireless system
  • UHN scientists develop technology to aid cancer detection
  • Pacific Ocean goes live
  • ORION in the community
  • RISQ celebrates 20 years
  • Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum
  • ORANO board chair receives award
  • People News
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