Victoria Hand Project (VHP) has been selected as a top-10 finalist in the Google Impact Challenge Canada, a nationwide competition providing funds to non-profits using technology to make Canada and the world a better place. This is the first time the grant has been awarded in Canada.
Don Mattrick, BC-based technology and investment leader, is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business 2017 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year.
As digital technology becomes increasingly integrated and more advanced, so too does the threat to cyber-security. UVic鈥檚 Information Security and Object Technology research lab has been addressing this threat since 1999. Coordinator and research engineer Issa Traor茅 admits it鈥檚 a constant battle to keep ahead of hacker expertise and adaptability.
A quirky mix of student programmers. Dr. Jim Tanaka, the research psychologist who leads them. And the app software they designed that could change the face of autism therapy.
Randall Sobie is leading a project to build a cloud computing system for the ATLAS experiment at CERN鈥攑roviding storage and analysis tools for the billion gigabytes of data produced at the Large Hadron Collider. The new system will significantly advance global investigations into the fundamental structure of the universe.
UVic physicist Randall Sobie is leading a project to build a data and cloud computing system for the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva Switzerland. The new system will significantly advance global investigations into the fundamental structure of the universe.
It's full-speed ahead for a new software platform that builds on the world-leading data management system of the UVic's Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) thanks to federal funding announced today at UVic.
Take a virtual tour from seaweeds and sea stars to wolves and eagles, with a new digital field guide. The guide provides experts and amateurs with a tool to identify over 700 species in the Great Bear Rainforest to help deepen our appreciation of the biodiversity along BC鈥檚 central coast.
From seaweeds and sea stars to wolves and eagles, a new app provides experts and amateurs with a tool to identify over 700 species in the Great Bear Rainforest to help deepen our appreciation of the biodiversity along BC鈥檚 central coast. The guide for phone, computer and tablet is a collaborative project developed by UVic's Brian Starzomski and including grad studentChanda Brietzke and alumna Kelly Fretwell.
A team of researchers based at the 番茄社区 are poised to revolutionize medical diagnostics with new, far less invasive methods that can be applied to a variety of diseases and wellness monitoring.
An innovative study and clinical trial led by UVic's Centre on Aging will soon allow nurses and doctors to better monitor the health of Victoria-area seniors in the comfort of their own homes.
The newly released Let鈥檚 Face It 2.0, a scrapbook app developed by the 番茄社区鈥檚 Centre for Autism Research Technology Education (CARTE) and now available free on iTunes, is a powerful educational tool for learning faces and recognizing emotions of the important people in the lives of children on the autism spectrum. 鈥淚t is a selfie culture and I hope our app will be adopted by anyone who finds it useful,鈥� says CARTE director and UVic psychology professor Jim Tanaka. 鈥淧arents and educators can create their own storybook from people and objects in their children鈥檚 lives.鈥�
The newly released Let鈥檚 Face It 2.0, a scrapbook app developed by the 番茄社区鈥檚 Centre for Autism Research Technology Education (CARTE) and now available free on iTunes, is a powerful educational tool for learning faces and recognizi鈥�
Many students spend their summers tromping through slash-piles and battling blackflies to replant Canada鈥檚 forests. Two UVic engineering undergrads took a different approach: they designed and built a tree-planting robot with the idea of supplementing the humans鈥� hard work.聽 鈥淭reeRover鈥� is the brainchild of third-year electrical engineering students Nick Birch and Tyler Rhodes. Through an entrepreneurial co-op work term, they formed their own company鈥擨ota Enterprises鈥攖o build their robot prototype in Rhodes鈥� Saanich backyard.
Call it learning 360. When writing professor Maureen Bradley teaches digital media for storytellers, her venue is a departure from the typical university lecture hall: no podium, desk seating or front of the classroom. Instead, tables with roller-wheel chairs line the room, with a multi-media teaching island in the centre. Each table serves as a five-student pod, equipped with a 48-inch wireless video screen, audio speakers, laptop plug-ins and writable white board. Bradley displays video or broadcasts audio to any or all dozen screens in the room, or shows individual or group projects to every screen.
A small six-person team of scientists and lab technicians are leading a global revolution in medical diagnostics鈥攆rom right here, in Victoria. Healthy or not, all of us at some time have been subjected to one of the most common forms of medial diagnostics鈥攖he dreaded blood test. But what if there was a way to avoid this uncomfortable process?
