Tag Archives: university

SAS stops charging students, profs for software

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19 Apr 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

SAS OnDemand for Academics will be free to all university students and professors around the world starting this fall. Professors say the move – and model – will have a big impact on business analytics education.

— reprinted by IT World, SAS stops charging students, profs for software

UWinnipeg and Cisco plan to commercialize research

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21 Jan 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

An upcoming commercial research centre at the University of Winnipeg intends to build a bridge between academia and business, with some help from Cisco. This may stimulate an intellectual property “growth spurt” and economic activity in Manitoba further down the road.

What cities will look like in five years

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19 Jan 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Predicting disease, preventing crime, charging vehicles with renewable energy sources and buildings that sense and respond to conditions like living organisms are only five years away, according to IBM. But don’t expect utopia in Canada, says a U of T professor of urban planning and design.

Are you a planner, problem solver or a pinball?

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14 Jan 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

A new study from the University of Western Ontario identifies six types of IT learners. Richard Ivey professor and co-author of the study Deborah Compeau reveals some surprises about how people learn technology in organizations.

— reprinted by ComputerworldUK.com, Are you a planner, problem solver or a pinball?

Are Canadians afraid to take risks?

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14 Oct 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Canada is ranked 13th in the world on the innovation list. In a roundtable discussion at the IBM Science & Innovation Summit, experts debate if and how risk-taking fits into the problem.

Mobile gap closes, but digital divide grows in South Africa

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19 sep 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

The digital divide is just one of the topics slated for discussion at Harvard next week, where Ottawa-based IDRC is gathering Nobel prize-winning economists, ICT experts and scholars from Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, South Africa and South Asia for a forum on ICT and poverty around the globe.

CIPPIC encourages advocacy on Canadian copyright law

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17 Aug 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

A new Website outlines the latest legislation and bills on digital issues and encourages Canadians to take action. The first item on the agenda is copyright, followed by net neutrality, anti-malware and a bill that allows law enforcers to obtain your ID from ISPs without a warrant.

– republished at Networkworld.com

The new soft skill: virtual competence

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14 Jul 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Researchers from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business suggest that virtual competence is a soft skill managers should be encouraging in their staff. Why IT professionals would have higher virtual competence than those of other industries.

— reprinted by CIO.com, The New Soft Skill: Virtual Competence

George Bernard Shaw plays sidestep copyright headaches

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15 Apr 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

York University is taking advantage of network restrictions and IP filtering on the fibre optic ORION network to sidestep copyright issues associated with Shaw’s work.

Budget commits $50 million to quantum computing centre

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28 Jan 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

With matching funds from the province of Ontario and RIM founder Mike Lazaridis, University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing will receive $150 million to build a research facility and attract talent.