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September 2009
ORION Tech Workshop 09 announced
Don't miss the next ORION Tech Workshop for CIOs, IT directors, network managers and other technical staff at ORION connected institutions, held on November 10 at the University of Toronto downtown campus. Participants will hear from ORION's engineering team on new capabilities enabled by ORION's network upgrade. They will also hear about the new value-added services that are in the works. Read more at www.orion.on.ca/techworkshop09.
Dates announced for 2010 ORION Summit
Mark your calendars for the 2010 ORION Summit! The not-to-be-missed conference for the Ontario research and education community will be held April 12 and 13, 2010, hosted at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto. Keynote and session topics will be organized around this year's theme of "Fostering Collaboration in Changing Times." Stay tuned for more information.
Deadline extended for ORION Awards
Researchers, faculty and students have more time to submit their applications for the ORION Awards: the submission deadline has been extended to February 26, 2010. Learn more about the Awards and how to submit a nomination at www.orion.on.ca/2009awards.
ORION at Nexus Ottawa 09
ORION is sponsoring Nexus Ottawa 09 on October 2, hosted by OttawaRAN, joining CANARIE in a half-day workshop. Attendees will hear about the role and benefits of advanced networks, as well as latest network developments and new applications and services supporting research and education.
Students ask Hill about book deal
Canadian students have a unique perspective on the news that film director Clement Virgo acquired the rights to Lawrence Hill's best-selling novel, The Book of Negroes. Students met the writer at last fall's live ABEL Interactive Author Session and national webcast over ORION and CANARIE networks, and asked the author about film deals and losing creative control. "It's another artistic product, and you have to get your head around that mighty fast, and so I would just take the money and run," said the writer. "I would be happy to use the money... to write another book, or two or three." Virgo hopes to develop an international co-production with British and South African partners. Video of the full interactive author session may be viewed online at http://blogs.abel.yorku.ca/abel-interactiveauthor/.
Ontario invests in early research
Minister John Milloy recently announced the province is investing $11.5 million in 82 research projects across Ontario through the Early Researcher Awards program. The program will support the work of 338 researchers and will ensure that leading Ontario researchers have the resources they need to build their research teams. The funding will also help create jobs for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research assistants, associates and technicians from across Canada and abroad. Learn more at www.mri.gov.on.ca.
Ontario investigates low carbon data centres in the north
With support from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre will explore opportunities to develop a data centre industry in Northern communities that use green technology. New low carbon data centres that provide alternative, less expensive and greener data storage facilities are being studied in Thunder Bay. A feasibility study is expected to be completed by October 2009. Read more at www.mndm.gov.on.ca.
OCUTINA hosts conference at Georgian College
The Association of Ontario College and University Communications Technology Professionals (OCUTINA) host its annual conference at Georgian College's Kempenfelt Conference Centre, October 14 to 16. This year's agenda will include topics such as value-added applications and services and incident response and emergency notification systems. A number of cost saving initiatives will also be covered in the sessions and open forums. Learn more at www.ocutina.org.
Register for Cybera/CANARIE National Summit
The Cybera/CANARIE National Summit will be held as part of the week-long event, Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development in Banff, Alberta, from October 13 to 15. Sessions and keynote presentations will explore the ways advanced networks, network-enabled platforms, cloud computing, and other emerging technologies are changing the ways we perform research and conduct business. Keynote speakers include Anthony Williams, co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Edward Seidel, Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation, NASA geophysicist Andrea Donnellan, Bill Appelbe, CEO of the Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing, and Jacques McNeill, Green ICT Initiative Coordinator at Prompt Inc. Learn more at www.summit09.ca/summit.
Clement visits Googleplex
Industry Minister Tony Clement visited the Googleplex in Mountain View California earlier this month and met with some of the Canadians working at the facility, including ORION's own Randy Neals, who was among the original ORION staff who helped develop and build the ORION network. Randy, who is now Program Manager, Global Network Planning at Google Inc. alerted us to the visit and this photo posted on Twitpic. Randy is the second from the left.
Visit ORION's Google map
Over the summer a Google map of ORION's connected institutions and points of presence (PoPs) was added to the ORION website. Check out the map to see ORION's connected institutions, including how long each member has been connected.
People News
Former President and CEO of CANARIE Inc., Andrew K. Bjerring, will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the 2009 Fall Convocation at the University of Manitoba. Prof. Malcolm Campbell recently became Vice-Principal (Research) at the University of Toronto Scarborough for a five-year term. ORANO board member Dr. Sara Diamond's term as President of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) has been extended for another five years. Dr. Paul Genest recently stepped down from his role as President and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities to join the Ontario Public Service as Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Associate Secretary to Cabinet. Dr. Paul Maxim, Associate Vice-President, Research at Wilfrid Laurier University, was recently appointed Chair of SHARCNET. Richmond Hill MPP Reza Moridi is new Parliamentary Assistant to Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation, John Milloy. Kevin Pashuk, former CIO at Sheridan College, recently became CIO at Appleby College, a private school in Oakville. Mark Romoff steps down this month as President and CEO of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) after serving a five-year term. OCE VP of Human Resources, David Choat, will assume the role of Interim President and CEO. Dr. Calvin Stiller was recently appointed Chair of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Board of Directors. Jill Tomasson Goodwin was recently appointed Director of Research at the University of Waterloo's new Stratford Institute. At U of T's Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), Prof. Kostas Plataniotis has been named Deputy Director and Prof. Gerald Penn has been appointed Chief Scientist. Dr. Daniel Woolf becomes the 20th Principal of Queen's University this month.
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