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BCNET &
Netera proudly present this year's keynote speaker:
Tony Hey, Corporate Vice
President for Technical Computing, Microsoft.
Hey brings over 25
years of experience in concurrent computing to
Microsoft’s efforts to deepen collaboration
with top scientists and researchers.
As corporate vice president for technical computing,
Tony Hey coordinates efforts across Microsoft
Corp. to collaborate with the global scientific
community. He is a top researcher in the field
of parallel computing, and his experience in applying
computing technologies to scientific research
helps Microsoft work with researchers worldwide
in various fields of science and engineering.
Before joining Microsoft, Hey worked as head
of the School of Electronics and Computer Science
at the University of Southampton, where he helped
build the department into one of the pre-eminent
computer science research institutions in England.
Since 2001, Hey has served as director of the
United Kingdom's e-Science Initiative, managing
the government's efforts to provide scientists
and researchers with access to key computing technologies.
Hey is a fellow of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of
Engineering and has been a member of the European
Union's Information Society Technology Advisory
Group. He also has served on several national
committees in the U.K., including committees of
the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry and
the Office of Science and Technology. In addition,
Hey has advised countries such as China, France,
Ireland and Switzerland to help them advance their
scientific agenda and become more competitive
in the global technology economy. Hey received
the award of Commander of the Order of the British
Empire honor for services to science in the 2005
U.K. New Year's Honours List.
Hey is a graduate of Oxford University, with
both an undergraduate degree in physics and a
doctorate in theoretical physics.
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Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO,
Sxip Identity
A pioneer in the Web and open source software
community, Dick Hardt has been active in software
development for nearly two decades. His most recent
venture, Sxip Identity, develops simple, secure,
and open Identity 2.0 solutions that enable the
creation of Internet identities. Prior to Sxip,
Hardt founded ActiveState in 1997. Under his leadership
as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in open source
programming languages and anti-spam software and
was acquired by UK- based software company, Sophos
in 2003. As a successful entrepreneur and technology
expert, Hardt is very involved in the technology
community, speaking at numerous conferences and
holding a board position with the Vancouver Enterprise
Forum. |
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Ted
Dodds, CIO, UBC
Ted Dodds is the Associate Vice President for
Information Technology (CIO) at the University
of British Columbia, a position he has held since
1997. Prior to that, he held IT management positions
at two Ontario universities, and in the private
sector, spanning a period of over twenty years.
His current responsibilities include institutional
IT strategy and operations within a highly decentralized
campus environment. In that capacity, he is spearheading
UBC's e-Strategy Framework, which supports learning
and research through radical changes to administrative
practices and the use of Internet technologies
(www.e-Strategy.ubc.ca). He is responsible for
the University Networking Program (UNP), a $30
million capital project to install or upgrade
20,000 high-speed connections and establish a
campus-wide wireless data network by the Fall
of 2003.
Mr. Dodds is currently the Chair of the Board
of Directors for BCNET, British Columbia's first
Internetworking society focusing on the development
of advanced networks. |
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Dave
Nikolejsin, CIO Province of BC
Dave Nikolejsin was appointed as B.C.’s
Chief Information Officer in July 2005. He is
also a member of the Board of Directors for BCNET.
From 2003 to 2005, Dave was Assistant Deputy Minister,
Ministry of Management Services, responsible for
the NetWork BC (Digital Divide) Initiative. This
initiative was created to respond to the New Era
commitment to “connect every BC community
to high-speed broadband.” It remains part
of Dave’s new mandate.
Before that, Dave was Executive Director, Planning
and Engineering for Common IT Services from 2001-2003
and Executive Director of Network Services from
1996-2001. He was the BC Systems Corporation’s
Director of Network Services from 1994 to 1996,
after holding various network management positions
from 1989 to 1994. Dave earlier worked as a Network
Analyst providing technical support of major services
with SaskTel in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Dave graduated with Honours with a Diploma in
Electronic Engineering from the Saskatchewan Technical
Institute in Moose Jaw, Saskatch |
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Stuart
Kauffman, IBI Director and iCORE Chair Biocomplexity
and Informatics, University of Calgary
Stuart A. Kauffman is a professor at the University
of Calgary with a shared appointment between biological
sciences and physics and astronomy. He is also
an emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University
of Pennsylvania, a MacArthur Fellow and an external
professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Originally a medical doctor, Dr. Kauffman's primary
work has been as a theoretical biologist studying
the origin of life and molecular organization.
Thirty-five years ago, he developed the Kauffman
models, which are random networks exhibiting a
kind of self-organization that he terms "order
for free." Dr. Kauffman was the founding
general partner and chief scientific officer of
The Bios Group, a company (acquired in 2003 by
NuTech Solutions) that applies the science of
complexity to business management problems. He
is the author of The Origins of Order, Investigations,
and At Home in the Universe: The Search for the
Laws of Self-Organization. |
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Steve
Jones, Associate Director & Head, Bioinformatics,
Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre,
BC Cancer Agency.
Steven Jones is Associate Director and Head of
Bioinformatics at Canada’s Michael Smith
Genome Sciences Centre. His research involves
a broad number of genomic analyses - including
gene expression profiling in early stages of cancer
and investigating bioinformatic approaches to
determine cis-regulatory elements.
Prior to the Genome Sciences Centre, Steven Jones
was part of the bioinformatics group at the Sanger
Institute, Cambridge, where he worked on the C.
elegans genome project. Currently, in addition
to his affiliation at the GSC, Steven is the Founding
Firector of the CIHR/MSFHR Strategic Training
Program in Bioinformatics, as well as Director
of the GenomeBC Bioinformatics Platform, and a
Core member of the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops. |
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Michelle
Lamberson, Director, Office of Learning
Technology, UBC
Dr. Michelle N. Lamberson is the Director of
the Office of Learning Technology at UBC. This
office provides campus-wide facilitation and coordination
for learning technology and distance learning
at UBC, and, in partnership with Faculties, is
responsible for development and delivery of more
than 120 distance education courses. She has 10
years experience with developing materials for
use in online instruction, and eight years experience
working with faculty on how to use learning technologies
to support instruction. Michelle joined UBC from
WebCT, where she worked for three years in a variety
of roles related to training, event planning and
best practice use of the system. Prior to that,
she was the Faculty of Science EdTech Coordinator
and geology lecturer at UBC. Michelle's discipline
area is Geology, receiving her degrees from UBC
(Ph.D., 1993), Penn State (M.S., 1987) and Boston
University (B.A., 1981). She teaches an online
course within the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department.
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Richard
Smith, Associate Professor, School of
Communications, SFU
Richard Smith is an Associate Professor in, and
the Associate Director of, the School of Communication
at Simon Fraser University. He is also a member
of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and
Technology (CPROST) at SFU. Smith’s research
focus is new media – as a technology, as
a business, and as a factor in and outcome of
social change. He has an ongoing interest in technology
for education, privacy and surveillance in public
spaces, online communities, and the wireless information
society.
With academic training in communication and law,
Dr. Smith has degrees from Carleton University
(BA) and Simon Fraser University (MA and PhD).
He is a member of the IEEE, the Canadian Communication
Association, and the International Association
for Management of Technology. He is also the publisher
of the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC-Online) |
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Jens
Haeusser, Manager, IT Security Office,
UBC
Jens founded the Information Security Office
at the University of British Columbia in November,
2003. He has been an active member of the IT community
at UBC for the past 12 years. A passionate advocate
for security in a Higher Education setting, he
has given a wide range of seminars, workshops,
and conference presentations on a variety of IT
topics, and has contributed to various articles
and books on IT Security. He is a member of the
joint Internet2/Educause Security Task Force,
and the BCNET Applications Advisory Committee. |
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Randy
Sobie, Research Scientist, Institute
of Particle Physics Canada, Adjunct Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UVic
Randy Sobie is a Principal Research Scientist
of the Institute of Particle Physics of Canada
at the University of Victoria. Besides his interest
in particle physics he is actively investigating
how Canadian researchers will use a computational
and storage Grid to store and analyze the vast
data sets from the current and future experiments.
Sobie leads a team of researchers at the University
of Victoria, the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics,
the NRCan Pacific Forestry Centre and the NRCan
Pacific Geoscience Centre who are building a large
computer mass storage facility funded by CFI. |
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Dr.
Dennis Salahub, Vice President Research,
Univ. of Calgary
Dr. Salahub’s research interests lie in
theoretical and computational chemistry, especially
Density Functional Theory (DFT) and its applications
in materials and biomolecular modeling.
His research group has improved Density Functional
methods and software, which has helped to extend
the range of applications. New improved functionals
have been proposed, tested, and implemented in
the code suite deMon, developed in Montreal and
now in use in dozens of labs around the world.
A fusion of DFT-deMon with other techniques (reaction
fields, molecular dynamics, etc.) is underway.
Current efforts are aimed at describing reactivity
in complex environments: transition-metal catalysis,
on the one hand, and enzymatic catalysis, on the
other.
Dr. Salahub's overall research goal for the next
decade is to develop the theoretical, computational,
and conceptual expertise necessary to attain a
detailed microscopic understanding of chemical
reactions taking place in real, complex environments. |
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Dr.
Richard Keeler, Associate Vice President
Research, UVic
Richard K. Keeler attended McGill University where
in 1976 he was awarded a BSc with honours in physics.
After learning about the new Canadian particle
accelerator, TRIUMF, he moved to Vancouver and
worked on some of the early experiments at the
new facility. He was awarded a PhD by UBC in 1981.
Dr. Keeler then joined a team of scientists at
the CERN laboratory in Geneva that built and operated
an experiment that discovered the W and Z bosons
– particles that are responsible for the
forces that power the sun and cause nuclear decay.
He returned to Canada in 1983 to take a faculty
position at the University of Victoria where he
has continued his research at the CERN laboratory.
His activities have included membership on an
NSERC Grant Selection Committee, Director of the
Institute of Particle Physics between 2001 and
2004, member of the International Committee on
Future Accelerators, and membership of several
committees at TRIUMF, most recently, the Board
of Management.
In 2004, he was appointed Associate Vice President
for Research at the University of Victoria where
he is responsible for the Office of Research Services,
regulatory committees, internal research support
committees and liaison with provincial and federal
granting agencies. He assists with strategic planning,
policy formation and special programs.
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Dr.
Michael Blades, CFI Coordinator, UBC
Michael Blades was born in 1951 in Barrington
Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada. He attended Barrington
Passage Municipal High School and in 1971 obtained
a diploma in Electronic Engineering Technology
from the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology and
worked for a brief period as an electronic technician
at the Defence Research Establishment - Atlantic
in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He received his undergraduate
degree at St. Marys University(Halifax) in 1975
and his PhD at the University of Alberta in 1980
under the supervision of Dr. Gary Horlick. He
subsequently went to Indiana University to work
as a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory
of Dr. Gary Hieftje (1980-81).
Blades is currently a prof. in the Department
of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia
a position he has held since 1981. His research
interests are in the areas of plasma spectroscopy,
in particular,the development of new plasma sources
and the characterization of excitation conditions
in plasmas; laser fluorescence spectroscopy. |
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Paul
Thiel, Director of Advanced Information
Technology, BCIT
Paul Thiel has been the director of Group for
Advanced Information Technology at BCIT Technology
Centre for the past 4 years. Paul has twenty five
years of Middle and Senior Management experience
within Research and Development for the Information
and Communication Technology sector in BC. He
has been an integral part of Applied Research
and development activities in BC, plus Pacific
Northwest, both as an employee of companies including
PMC-Sierra Inc., MPR Teltech Ltd and as an independent
consultant. He full filled a 3 year secondment
as Senior Technology Advisor with the BC Provincial
Government and is active in the BC-TIA. Many of
the projects Paul has been responsible for included
technology transfers, performing due diligence
on technology, production interface, sourcing
project funding, marketing studies and sales.
Paul is a Graduate of the SFU Executive MBA program,
holds a B.Sc. in EE from U of A and is a Professional
Engineer. He is a founding member of the Canadian
Microelectronics Consortium and has served on
many boards and advisory committees throughout
his career. |
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Robert
Rankin, Associate Professor, Department
of Physics, U of A
Robert Rankin is a Professor with the Department
of Physics at the University of Alberta. He studies
the solar wind magnetosphere interactions that
couple megnetohydrodynamic wave energy into the
near Earth (within 10 Earth radii) space environment.
ULF magnetohydrodynamic waves are associated with
a variety of phenomena observed with ground based
instrument arrays in Canada, and by satellites
in near-Earth space orbits. |
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Rachid
Ouyed, Associate Professor, Department
of Physics, U of C
Dr. Rachid Ouyed is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Physics at the University of
Calgary. Dr. Ouyed is the founder and head of
the CAPCA (Computational Astro-Physics Calgary)
group. He applies numerical methods and techniques
to solve outstanding problems in physics and astrophysics.
His recent research involves high performance
computational investigation (using the WestGrid
facilities) of the enigmatic Astrophysical Jets
and Gamma Ray Bursts. |
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Brett
Gladman, Associate Professor & Canada
Research Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UBC
Dr. Brett Gladman is an Associate Professor and
a Canada Research Chair at the University of British
Columbia. His research interests include the dynamics,
evolution and formation of the solar system; observations
of small bodies in the solar system; meteoritics;
non-linear dynamics and celestial mechanics; and
the impact history of the solar system. His main
computational research is done on a 170-CPU Athlon/Opteron
Beowulf cluster in the Planetary Sciences lab
at UBC. |
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Michael
Hrybyk, BCNET
Michael Hrybyk is BCNET's President and CEO.
He actively oversees and manages the operations
of the society and is responsible for implementing
the overall mission and vision of BCNET. He has
managed BCNET since 1994. He pioneered the concept
of transit exchanges as a method of linking research
and education networks to their local communities
as well as to national and international peers.
Mr. Hrybyk has been an active member of the technology
community in the U.S. and Canada and has been
recognized for his efforts in helping to develop
the Canadian Internet. In 2003, he received a
BC Information Technology Builder Award, and in
2002 was recognized by the University Presidents’
Council for his work creating advanced networks
for BC's universities. In 1997, he was named as
a builder of Canada's information society by CANARIE
and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
Mr. Hrybyk also serves on the optical regional
advanced networks advisory committee for CA*net4,
the next-generation Canadian high-speed research
and education advanced network sponsored by CANARIE.
Mr. Hrybyk is currently on leave from the BCIT
Technology Centre, where he serves as the Director
of the Group for Advanced Information Technology
R&D (GAIT). He secured nearly $1 million in
funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation
and the BC Knowledge Fund to establish the BCIT
Internet Engineering Lab. The lab, which opened
in the spring of 2001, specializes in network-performance
evaluation and security conformance. GAIT also
conducts research in the areas of software design,
instructional multimedia, geographical information>
systems, and bioinformatics. Mr. Hrybyk has 25
years of experience with Internet networks, Unix
systems, and software development. He has a Master’s
degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins
University, and held the position of Manager of
Computing Systems and Networks there. While at
Hopkins, he helped create the first campus-wide
Ethernet network in 1986, and connected it to
SURANet and NSFNET. He also worked at EDUCOM (now
EDUCAUSE) and CREN in Washington, DC, and was
responsible for the management of the BITNET national
network. Previously, he held positions with the
University of Delaware, the University of Maryland
Applied Neuroscience Institute, the University
of British Columbia and Micros Systems.
Mr. Hrybyk is the past president of the BC Internet
Association, and a founding director of the Vancouver
Community Network. He is a member of the Internet
Society, the Association for Computing Machinery
and IEEE. Mr. Hrybyk gives frequent talks on advanced
networks throughout North America, and teaches
the Computer Networks course in the Bachelor of
Technology program at BCIT. |
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Jim
Cranston, CIO, SFU
Jim Cranston is an Engineer, MBA who joined SFU
in September, 2001 into the newly created position
of Chief Information Office. At SFU the CIO has
responsibility for the backbone network and telephone
system, administrative systems (PeopleSoft ERP
and numerous Departmental systems), institutional
services (computer account management, e-mail,
web/file space for students/faculty/staff, student
computing labs), HPC research support, microcomputer
store, desktop support for major administrative
units, IT/Network security and establishing computing
policies, standards across the University.
Prior to joining SFU Jim was a management consultant
for over 26 years whose practice encompassed a
wide range of information technology, organizational
improvement, strategic/business planning and other
assignments for a variety of private and public
sector clients in transportation, utilities, oil
and gas, government and forest products. During
this time he worked throughout North America,
South America and South East Asia. |
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Mark
Roman, Executive Director, Uvic
Mark Roman is the Executive Director, Computing
and System Services at the University of Victoria.
Prior to joining UVic, he worked at Carleton University
in Ottawa. Mark served at the I.T. Director
and Vice President levels in the insurance and
banking industries before moving into higher education. Strategic
systems consulting enabled Mark to gather international
I.T. experience. He is currently looking
forward to settling in Victoria to enjoy the wonderful
weather. |
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Brian
Mackay, CIO, TRU
Brian Mackay is Associate Vice President, IT
Services and CIO for Thompson Rivers University,
BC’s newest university based in Kamloops,
BC with over 25,000 students enrolled in both
face-to-face and distance programs.
Brian is currently implementing an IT strategy
that supports TRU’s multi-campus and open
learning (distance) mandates. IT projects underway
include connecting TRU to BCNET, an enterprise
administrative systems renewal project, implementing
business intelligence tools in all areas at TRU,
VoIP and Video over IP, campus wireless bubble
expansion, identity management, on-campus residence
network services, synchronous and asynchronous
learning technologies, disaster recovery, and
by January 2007, amalgamating all IT infrastructure
in Burnaby and Kamloops in a new facility currently
under construction in Kamloops.
Brian has nearly 20 years experience leading IT
teams. Before joining TRU, Brian was the CIO at
the Open Learning Agency (OLA). Before joining
OLA Brian ran global IT for Vancouver-based Teekay
Shipping Ltd, the world’s largest oil shipping
company and one of BC’s largest public companies.
Brian has diplomas in Operations Management and
Computer Systems Technology from BCIT as well
as an Advanced Diploma in Management and an MBA
from Athabasca University. |
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Ian
McLeod, Director Computing Resources,
BCIT
Ian McLeod is currently serving his fifth year
as Director of Computer Resources at the British
Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). In this
capacity he is responsible for supporting an evolving
learning and teaching environment, applied research,
and increasing demands for superior administrative
information and systems. Prior to joining BCIT,
Mr. McLeod was the Director of Information Management
Services at the School District #36 (Surrey),
a position he held for 11 years.
A B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University
of Regina and 27 years of IT experience in several
different industries bring a breadth and depth
of knowledge on the impact of technology on business,
and for the last 15 years, in the “business
of education”.
Mr. McLeod also holds a Certified Computing Professional
(CCP) designation from the Institute for Certification
of Computing Professionals (ICCP), and an Information
Systems Professional (I.S.P.) certification from
the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS).
BCIT is one of Canada’s largest polytechnic
institutions, with 5 campus locations, approximately
50,000 annual registrations, over 2,000 faculty
and staff, and an annual budget of approximately
$214 million. |
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Keir
Novik, PhD, Manager, Information Technology,
BCNET
Keir Novik is the IT Manager for BCNET, seconded
part-time from SFU Operations and Technical Support.
At BCNET he is responsible for core services and
supporting the Applications Advisory Committee
working groups. Recent projects have been in the
areas of videoconferencing, collaboration technology,
and identity management. Keir was previously at
the University of London, UK, and obtained his
PhD in computational physics from the University
of Cambridge, UK. |
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Mike
Keating, Manager, Education Services,
UVic
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Eric
Byres, Research Faculty, BCIT
Eric J. Byres is a Professional Engineer and
research leader at the Critical Infrastructure
Security Centre at the British Columbia Institute
of Technology, one of North America's leading
research facilities in the field of industrial
cyber-security. As well as conducting security
research, Eric currently provides consulting to
government security agencies, major oil companies
and power utilities on cyber protection for critical
infrastructures. In October 2003, he testified
to Congress on the “Security of Industrial
Control Systems in National Critical Infrastructures”.
Eric currently holds the Advanced Systems Institute
(ASI) fellowship for industrial network security
research. In September 2000 he was awarded the
IEEE Outstanding Industry Applications Article
Prize for his paper on process control network
security and in 2004 he was honored with the Donald
P. Eckman Education Award given by the Instrumentation,
Systems, and Automation Society (ISA). This award
recognizes "outstanding educational and training
contributions to the fields of industrial data
communications, network security, and fieldbus
technology". Most recently he was the recipient
of the 2005 “Keith Otto Award” presented
by ISA for his article titled, “Insidious
threat to control systems”. |
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Darren
Lissimore, Senior Research Associate,
BCIT
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Nate
Kube , Senior Research Associate, BCIT/Wurldtech
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Dr.
Charles Krasic, Assistant Professor,
Computer Science, UBC
I joined the faculty at UBC in August 2003.
I did my Ph.D. (2003) at OGI/OHSU, working under
Prof. Jonathan Walpole. I received my M.Math (1996)
and B.Math (1992) from the University of Waterloo.
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Dr.
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Professor, School
of Engineering Science, SFU
Ljiljana Trajkovic is currently a Professor in
the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
From 1995 to 1997, she was a National Science
Foundation Visiting Professor in the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences Department,
University of California, Berkeley. She was a
Research Scientist at Bell Communications Research,
Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member
of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1990. Her research
interests include high-performance communication
networks, control of communication systems, computer-aided
circuit analysis and design, and theory of nonlinear
circuits and dynamical systems. Dr. Trajkovic
is currently serving as president-elect of the
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She is Chair
of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society joint
Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections. She
was Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2005 and
served as Technical Program Chair and Vice General
Co-Chair of ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems (Part I) and (Part II), and the IEEE Circuits
and Systems Magazine. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Dan
Vanderster, GridX1 (UVic)
Daniel Vanderster is a PhD student involved with
the GridX1 project at the University of Victoria.
He completed his undergraduate education in Computer
Engineering at the University of Victoria in 2003.
Vanderster’s other research interests include
investigating resource allocation strategies and
quality of service for computational grids, as
well as temperature-aware task scheduling for
data centres. |
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Dugan
O’Neil, Assistant Professor, Dept
of Physics, SFU
Dugan O’Neil is an Assistant Professor
with the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser
University. He is also a researcher with the D0
Project, an international collaboration studying
matter and the interactions of matter in the smallest
possible scale. O’Neil’s research
interests include high energy physics, fundamental
particles and their interactions, proton-antiproton
collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, and high
performance computing, data handling and processing.
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Christopher
Hearty, Associate Professor, Dept of
Physics and Astronomy, UBC
Christopher Hearty is an Associate Professor
and IPP Research Scientist with the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at the University of
British Columbia. Hearty’s area of research
is subatomic physics. He recently completed a
term as Physics Analysis Coordinator for BaBar,
an international collaboration undertaking research
at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He
is also the Principle Investigator of the Canadian
BaBar group, which includes nine faculty members,
five research associates and 14 graduate students.
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Roger
Moore, Assistant Proffesor, Physics,
U of A
Roger Moore is an Assistant Professor with the
Department of Physics at the University of Alberta.
His main research focus is high energy physics,
with a particular interest in studying the properties
of the top quark and looking for evidence of Supersymmetry,
a possible symmetry between force and matter that
could explain the preponderance of cold dark matter
observed in the Universe. |
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Louis
Fox, Vice Provost, University of Washington
In his day job, Louis Fox is Vice Provost for
Partnerships and Learning Technologies at the
University of Washington, where he has been for
the last twenty years and has held numerous academic
and administrative posts, all with obscure titles.
The office he leads connects the research and
education expertise of the UW to a range of communities
– locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally;
and develops and diffuses new learning technologies.
Lacking hobbies, Fox also leads a national Internet2
K20 Initiative, which brings together Internet2
members (180 research institutions) with primary
and secondary schools, colleges and universities,
libraries, and museums to get new technologies—advanced
networking tools, content, and applications—into
the hands of innovators, across all educational
sectors in the United States, as quickly and as
“connectedly” as possible, and to
link these innovators to similar communities around
the globe. At the request of Washington Governor
Gary Locke, Fox recently relinquished the last
shreds of a normal life and accepted a new role
as founding CEO of the Washington Digital Learning
Commons, a distance learning initiative to support
students and teachers in Washington State. |
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Shannon
Kelly, Program Head and Research Co-Chair,
School of Computing and Academic Studies, BCIT
Shannon Kelly holds a Ph.D. in Language and
Literary Analysis from the University of Waterloo.
She is full-time faculty at the British Columbia
Institute of Technology (Communication Department),
and enjoys "guest stints" teaching communications
and “enlightened” leadership in industry.
Her diverse background in both academia and technology
includes lecturing for the Faculty of Mathematics
at the University of Waterloo, and serving as
director of communications for a software company
in Vancouver. As a Program Head and Research Co-Chair
for her School, Shannon’s current research
examines the nature of emerging “virtual”
relationships, including possible linguistic,
intellectual, and technological frameworks for
these relationships. |
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Robert
Grant, Associater Professor, Renewable
Resources, UofA
Dr Robert Grant is a Professor in the Department
of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta.
Dr Grant’s research interests lie in the
area of mathematical modeling of physical,
chemical, and biological processes in soil-plant-atmosphere
systems as a means of studying resource management
and conservation in agricultural, grassland and
forest ecosystems under current or future climates.
He was awarded the McCalla Professorship
in 2005. |
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Benoit
Pirenne, Assistant Director, Information Technology,
NEPTUNE Canada Project, UVic
Benoit Pirenne is the Assistant Director, IT,
for Neptune Canada. Pirenne joined the NEPTUNE
project in October 2004. Prior to his position
at NEPTUNE he worked for the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) as the head of the Operations
Technical Support department. While at the ESO,
Pirenne played a key role in the development of
the ESO’s end-to-end data system, this system
was recently awarded Computer World’s 21st
Century Achievement award recognizing world-class
IT excellence. |
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Dr.
Andrew Calvert, Associate Professor, SFU
Dr. Andrew Calvert is an Associate Professor
specializing in Applied Seismology at Simon Fraser
University in British Columbia. Dr. Calvert received
his B.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University
and his Ph.D in geophysics from Cambridge University.
His research interests include the reflection
imaging of faults in the Canadian continental
crust, the mapping of variations in rock properties
using seismic tomography, and the location of
non-volcanic tremors caused by slow-slip in the
Cascadia subduction zone. |
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Honourable
Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and
Minister responsible for Research and Technology
Murray Coell was appointed Minister of Advanced
Education and Minister responsible for Research
and Technology on June 16, 2005. He previously
served as Minister of Community, Aboriginal and
Women's Services. He was first elected in 1996
to represent the riding of Saanich North and the
Islands and was re elected in 2001 and 2005.
Prior his election to the Legislative Assembly,
Murray served on Saanich Municipal Council for
12 years, 6 of them as mayor. From 1989 to 1996,
he also served as Chair for the Capital Regional
District, the Saanich Police Board and the Capital
Regional District Hospital Board, and as Deputy
Chair for the Municipal Finance Authority. Murray
has worked as both a social worker, specializing
in alcohol and drug rehabilitation and services
for those with mental disabilities, and a small
business owner. He has served as a volunteer for
10 years on the board of Silver Threads Meals
on Wheels and for five years on the board of the
Queen Alexandra Hospital for Children.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare
from the University of Victoria. Murray is committed
to the people of Saanich North and the Islands
and, if re elected, will continue to serve as
their voice in the Legislature. |
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Brian
Corrie, Collaboration and Visualization
Coordinator for WestGrid and Collaboration and
Visualization Coordinator for IRMACS, SFU
Brian Corrie is the Collaboration and Visualization
Coordinator for the WestGrid Collaboration and
Visualization research program and SFU’s
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Math
and Advanced Computational Science. Brian’s
research interests are in advanced collaborative
environments, computer graphics, scientific visualization,
virtual environments (VE), and coupling computational
simulation to visualization. Over the last ten
years Brian has been involved in the establishment
of three virtual environment facilities including
the Virtual Environments lab at the Australian
National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia,
the Virtual Environments Technology Centre (VETC)
at the National Research Council of Canada’s
Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute
in London, Ontario, and the Immersive Media Lab
at the New Media Innovation Centre (NewMIC) in
Vancouver, British Columbia. He was the Project
Leader for the Collaborative VE project at ANU,
the Technical Leader at the VETC, and the Focus
Area Leader for the Immersive and Collaborative
Environments research program at NewMIC. Brian
joined WestGrid and IRMACS in 2004 to coordinate
and manage their collaborative and visualization
research programs and facilities. |
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Pierre
Boulanger, Professor/iCORE Industrial
Chair, U of A
Dr. Boulanger graduated from Laval University
in Engineering Physics where he received his Masters
in Physics. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Montreal. He
worked for 18 years at the National Research Council
of Canada as a senior research officer. Since
July 1st 2001, he has been a professor at the
University of Alberta doing research and teaching
on virtualized reality systems. He is also an
adjunct scientist and principal investigator for
new media at TRLabs and at the Banff Centre. In
2005, Dr. Boulanger was awarded an iCORE industrial
chair on Collaborative Virtual Environment. He
has published more than 150 scientific papers
in various Journals and Conferences. He is on
the editorial board of two major academic journals.
He is also the Director of the Advanced Man Machine
Interface Laboratory (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/ammi). |
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McLean
Mashingaidze-Greavees, President, Founder,
The Nimble Company
MMG was the driving creative force behind a
revolutionary format that landed 5 Gemini nominations
in its inaugural season as well as selection in
the prestigious 2003 INPUT TV conference (Denmark)
and 2 Leo Awards (including Best Variety Show).
His second season followed up with more acclaim
including Gemini, Webby and a prestigious Emmy®
nomination for Advanced Media. Season three landed
four Gemini nominations and a Media Person Of
The Year nomination at the Western Canadian Music
Awards. Most recently, MMG created and executive
produced Burning To Shine, an intimate documentary
on the rapper K-OS collaborating with the CBC
Radio Orchestra.
The NIMBLE Company signals MMG's return into
new media entrepreneurialism, after producing
300+ episodes of music, variety & interactive
public broadcasting. Prior to his recent foray
in television, MMG was an internet content pioneer
in New York City where, as founder of the urban
dotcom company VMI, he was twice selected as a
Silicon Alley "cyber star" by the Village
Voice and Virtual City magazines. His new media
work has drawn positive reviews from the likes
of The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, The New
York Times, Wired and Crain's Business Weekly.
Former clients include filmmaker Spike Lee, music
mogul Sean "P-Diddy" Combs and media
giant Time Warner. MMG's NYC days also included
stints as VP of Content at HBO's Volume.com, Associate
New Media Editor at PAPER magazine and contributor
to Essence, Vibe, BET Weekend & The Source
magazines. As a guest lecturer, MMG has presented
at the 2005 PBS Technology Conference, Western
Canadian Music Awards, New York University, Columbia
University School of Business, Pratt Institute
and more.
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Paul
Amodeo, VP Sales, Syntagma
An accomplished business strategist, entrepreneur
and early adopter of emerging technologies, Paul
Amodeo has over 25 years of executive level experience
in the Information Technology Industry. His early
achievements include an exceptional track record
of successful projects with network integrators,
distributed computing manufacturers and value
added telecommunications companies such as The
Boeing Company, Computer Sciences Corporation,
Datapoint and Bell Canada.
In 1994, Amodeo began importing and distributing
internet related networking technologies across
Canada, merged with Solunet Inc. USA in 1996 and
helped build North American revenues to over U$218M
by 2001. More recently, as an independent contractor,
he was instrumental in securing a multi-million
dollar systems integration project to supply optical
network components for the construction of the
Government of Alberta’s SuperNet. Paul is
currently helping to launch a new breed of Network
Services Provider focused on delivering Next Generation
IP applications including VoIP Centrex, broadband
video (IPTV), audio/video collaboration services,
and a range of hybrid technologies for wireless
and edge network aggregation.
Amodeo has a degree in Business Administration
and Computer Science from Ryerson University,
extensive industry training and technical certifications
from multiple equipment manufacturers plus security
clearance to SECRET with the Canadian federal
government. |
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Bernard
Jules, Sr. Project Manager of Internet
and New Media Technology, CBC/Radio-Canada
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Cathy
King, Director, Member Relations, Netera
Cathy King is the Director of Member Relations
and Communications for Netera Alliance. Netera
operates as an Alberta-based, not-for-profit alliance
that coordinates Alberta's inter-institutional
information and communication technology (ICT)
research infrastructure, in the shared interests
of the major research and education organizations
in the province. Netera also provides project
management to WestGrid (Western Canada Research
Grid), a consortia of western Canada research
institutions that support high performance computing
and collaboration resources for researchers across
Canada. Through her work with Netera, King has
collaborated with hundreds of researchers and
educators at Alberta colleges and universities
in the areas of High Performance Computing (HPC),
visualization, advanced collaboration, distance
education and video streaming. |
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Graham
Mowbray, Executive Director, ACEnet
Graham Mowbray is the Executive Director of ACEnet
(Atlantic
Computational Excellence Network). ACEnet is a
partnership of 7 Atlantic Canada universities
with a mandate to expand over time to serve the
entire region. ACEnet relies on the capabilities
of the ORANs in Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick/PEI. Graham has a broad
background in Networks and Information Technology.
He was business manager for the first Departmental
network for the Government of Newfoundland &
Labrador, he participated in business function
specific networks such as the Hibernia Oil and
Gas project, a Newfoundland Health network and
web-based government services delivery in Ireland.
Most recently, prior to joining ACEnet he was
the principal consultant for Focus Atlantic an
IT and Networking consultant responsible for business
planning and the development of architectures,
strategy and management of regional broadband
projects under Industry Canada's BRAND program.
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Scott
Mah, Director of Communications Technology,
University of Washington
Scott Mah is an Assistant Vice President for
Computing & Communications Service Delivery
& Support at the University of Washington.
He is responsible for customer services, technical
operations, provisioning, and the engineering
teams that support the data center, networking,
and telecommunications. He also oversees business
continuity efforts, external initiatives, and
a growing regional optical network serving the
University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Gigapop,
Washington State K-20 Network, and other strategic
partners. |
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Marilyn
Hay, Manager, Network Engineering, BCNET
and Manager, Network Management Centre, UBC
Marilyn Hay is currently serving her fifth year
as Manager of the Network Management Centre at
the University of British Columbia Institute in
Vancouver, BC. In this capacity she is responsible
for the operation, support, design, and engineering
for the UBC campus networks including data, telephony,
and video. BCNET contracts all of its Network
Engineering and Operational support through UBC.
Marilyn reports within BCNET as the Manager of
Network Engineering and this team spans the peer
IT Networking groups of BCNET’s member universities.
Marilyn has 20 years experience in computing
and network support while completing a Computing
Technology Diploma at SAIT in Calgary and a B.Sc.
in Computer Science from UBC. |
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Gary
Finley, Director of Networking, Netera
Alliance
I am the Director of Networking for Netera Alliance
Inc., the non-profit consortium that manages Alberta's
high speed research and education network. Our
next-generation network connects a number of Alberta
universities and colleges at gigabit speeds. In
addition to carrying ultra-broadband routed TCP/IP
traffic, NeteraNet features the ability to allocate
dedicated wide-area optical circuits (called lightpaths)
for demanding research applications. In cooperation
with the CA*net4 national research network, Netera's
lightpath services support the WestGrid Project,
which links high performance computing and networked
storage resources at eight academic institutions
in Alberta and B.C. |
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Dr.
George Chiu,
Senior Management of Advanced Server Hardware Systems,
IBM Research Division
Dr George Chiu is the Senior Manager of Advanced
Server Hardware Systems in the Systems Department
at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received
a PhD degree in astrophysics from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1978, and an MS degree
in Computer Science from Polytechnic University
in 1995. He joined IBM in 1980 after having been
on staff at Yale University. Dr. Chiu is a member
of the International Astronomical Union, and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He has worked on picosecond device and internal
node characterization, laser beam and electron beam
contactless testing techniques, functional testing
of chips and packages, optical lithography, display
technologies, computer packaging, and supercomputing.
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Simon
Alban, Senior Instructor in the Division
of Biomolecular and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
Simon P. Alban, University of British Columbia,
is a Senior Instructor in the Division of Biomolecular
and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Faculty of
Pharmaceutical Sciences. He currently teaches
a third-year lecture/laboratory course in pharmaceutical
analysis and has research interests in scholarly
teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning
with a focus on learning-centered education in
the basic pharmaceutical sciences. Simon is currently
involved in an NSF funded pilot program to evaluate
the use WWU’s Integrated Laboratory Network
(ILN) for implementation at UBC. His most recent
articles on the use of remote instrumentation
include: A Learning-Centered Course in Pharmaceutical
Analysis, [Am J Pharm. Ed. 2004:68(5):article
114] and Creating Authentic Learning Activities
in Pharmaceutical Instrumental Analysis: Using
the Integrated Laboratory Network for Remote Access
to Scientific Instrumentation [Journal of Asynchronous
Learning Networks (2005, 9(2):4-19)]. |
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Devon
A. Cancilla, Director of Scientific Technical
Services, WWU
Devon A. Cancilla, is the Director of Scientific
Technical Services and an associate professor
of environmental science at Western Washington
University where he teaches environmental chemistry.
He has been the lead investigator in the development
of the Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN), a
project currently funded by the National Science
Foundation to use remote instrumentation in the
classroom and laboratory. The ILN project won
a Most Effective Practice Award from the Sloan
Consortium in 2004. Recent publications of this
work appear in the Journal of Chemical Education
(2004, 81(12):1809-1813) and the Journal of Asynchronous
Learning Networks (2005, 9(2):4-19). |
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Dr.
David Kaufman, Director, Learning &
Instructional Development Centre and Professor,
Faculty of Education, SFU
Dr. Kaufman is the 1998 recipient of Dalhousie
University's Instructional Leadership Award for
his efforts in promoting and enhancing teaching.
In July, 2001, he was appointed as Director, Learning
& Instructional Development Centre at Simon
Fraser University and more recently, Professor
in the Faculty of Education. Besides his administrative
duties, he continues academic work in the areas
of educational research, teaching faculty and
graduate students, supervising graduate students,
presenting at professional meetings, and serving
on university committees. In October, 2004, Dr.
Kaufman was awarded an SSHRC INE Collaborative
Research Initiative grant of $3 million for four
years on Simulation and Advanced Gaming Environments
(SAGE) for Learning. |
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