September 2004
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At one-year mark - ORION reshapes Ontario research & education landscape
One year after becoming operational, the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network has already started to reshape the research and education landscape in Ontario, bringing unprecedented levels of connectivity and opening the gate to new research, scientific discoveries and innovation throughout Ontario.
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Robarts opens state-of-the-art imaging labs
London’s Robarts Research Institute officially opened its new Clinical Imaging Research Laboratories earlier this month, the result of an ambitious partnership to advance research findings through clinical studies.
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HPC "critically important" to Canada's future
A new survey of industry experts is calling on Canada to boost its efforts to develop and support the high performance computing (HPC) industry, as “critically important” to the health of our country.
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Northern medical school pioneers "Distributed Learning"
While dignitaries gathered to break ground for the new Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Thunder Bay a few weeks ago, the real “ground-breaking” has been taking place in the Distributed Learning approach the new school is helping to pioneer.
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New nano lab makes giant leap in "small" science
The University of Western Ontario, making a large leap ahead in terms of “small” science, has officially opened its $23-million nanofabrication laboratory, expected to advance research in areas that can be measured on the nanoscale – as small as a billionth of a metre.
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  • Trent hosts ORION Day
  • Michigan upgrades R&E network
  • Halifax hosts CANARIE workshop
  • RISQ annual conference
  • Korea & Barcelona send HD over CA*net 4
  • New Lakehead research VP aims for the top
  • SHARCNET workshop to focus on SMP
  • 93 million Euros for massive GEANT upgrade
  • Georgian offers U of Windsor engineering degree
  • Seneca hosts open source conference
  • $1M Xerox endowment to McMaster
  • New Internet land speed record
  • $3M boost for cancer research
  • LionShare open source code released
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