Backgrounder

September 30, 2008

BUILDING ONTARIO’S INNOVATION ECONOMY

Digital Media And Information And Communication Technologies Research Projects

Location

Institution

Lead Researcher

Project

Provincial Funding

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Sean Victor Hum

Advancing Ontario’s expertise in satellite and wireless networking technology

$101,504

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Matthew Roorda

 

Designing logistics practices to improve trucking efficiency

$100,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Stefan Saroiu, Dr. Nick Koudas

Developing the next-generation of search and content delivery technologies for the Internet

$194,366

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Yashar Ganjali

Developing new networking systems to keep the Internet growing

$120,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Joyce Poon

Developing the next-generation of optoelectronic devices

$199,916

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Sajeev John

Harnessing light to create super-fast computer processors

$200,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Brendan Frey

 

Making advances in image and video processing techniques

$174,921

Guelph

University of Guelph

Dr. Kris Inwood, Dr. Graeme Morton

Analyzing data to shed light on how people adapt to economic and demographic changes

$250,000

Guelph

University of Guelph

Dr. Nidal Nasser

Advancing wireless sensor networks

$114,687

Guelph

University of Guelph

Dr. Stephen Crawford

Incorporating Aboriginal traditional knowledge in the management of natural resources

$58,144

Guelph

University of Guelph

Dr. James Harley

Advanced digital audio production and performance studio

$126,298

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Roel Vertegaal

 

Developing human-computer interaction that lets users focus on tasks not technology

$397,773

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Ahmed Hassan

Development of an empirical software engineering facility capable of mining software repositories for large long lived industrial and open source projects

$100,000

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Slim Boumaiza

Developing portable, flexible, cost competitive wireless communications

$230,624

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Kevin Resch

 

Laboratory for optical quantum computation and communication technologies

$130,000

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Dayan Ban

Developing the next generation of communications products

$100,000

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. David Nairn

Developing the next-generation of converters to translate between the digital and analog worlds

$50,000

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Jonathan Baugh

Developing faster and more powerful computers

$119,998

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Gregor Weihs

Developing the perfect security code

$157,424

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Manoj Sachdev

 

Developing next-generation integrated circuits

$145,000

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Xianbin Wang

 

Improving wireless communications

 

$173,446

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Morad Benyoucef

e-marketplaces for safe and fair trade (e-MP) laboratory

$39,080

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Wojtek Michalowski, Dr. Kenneth Farion, Dr. Stan Matwin

Developing a point of care information system for emergency physicians

$103,900

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Teresa Scassa

Developing information law to govern how we use, protect and commercialize information

$64,283

St. Catharines

Brock University

Dr. Kevin Kee

Designing computer games to teach history

$46,646

Windsor

University of Windsor

Dr. Kemal Tepe

 

Improving wireless communication

$50,000


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