Winner of 2010 Friesen prize in health research - Dr. Shirley Tilghman - President of Princeton University

Research and education audiences across Canada are invited to tune in to live lectures by Dr. Shirley M. Tilghman, President of Princeton University, and one of Canada's most accomplished research scientists.

Dr. Tilghman, winner of this year's Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research, has been invited to give lectures at two Ontario universities, which will be simulcast…

TORONTO - Ontario researchers, processing multiple terabytes of raw data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment transmitted over ORION and other advanced networks, report new world records in the search for new particles.

University of Toronto (U of T) physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS project colleagues, announced the first findings from the LHC at CERN in Switzerland, which confirm the Standard Model of physics is working as expected. This allows the LHC to move on to its…

Internet2 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today announced a partnership to deploy a highly reliable, high capacity nationwide network that will serve to significantly enhance the capabilities of NOAA's researchers and their partners across the country.

Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new high capacity research network called "NWave" will be built on a set of 10-Gigabit per second dedicated waves on the national Internet2…

Participants in the Windsor and Essex County Smart Community launched an expansion of the WEDnet Regional Advanced Network today which is the culminationof over four years of efforts in planning and implementation. A network of approximately 200 sites including schools, libraries and municipalities are now connected by more than 1,500kms of high grade fibre-optic cable.

Participants include elementary and secondary schools of the Greater Essex County District School Board, the Windsor Essex…

Toronto's Ryerson University has completed testing of high definition IP video technology over ORION that broadcasters could use to stream live content from remote sites to production studios over IP networks, instead of satellites.

The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) is Ontario's advanced research and education network, which supports and enables new and innovative next-generation technologies in research, education, science and digital media.

Ryerson's Richard Grunberg,…

[Ottawa, Ontario, January 26, 2010] - Social scientists' hands are often tied when it comes to analyzing and sharing health and population statistics for two simple reasons. The sheer amount of data collected by agencies such as Statistics Canada makes it difficult to process the information; and the confidential nature of the data, from health records to lifestyle choices, often makes the information difficult to share.

CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, is pleased to…

IceLink will establish a high-capacity circuit in the northern polar regions through Iceland and Greenland, linking the US, Canada, and the five Nordic countries. IceLink will connect the CANARIE network to Europe through a new submarine cable traversing Greenland with a strategic connection point in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The new capacity will provide CANARIE with a much-needed redundant path to Europe through a northern connection. CANARIE's contribution to IceLink is a dedicated lightpath from…

CANARIE has convened a multi-stakeholder panel to help shape a vision and implementation plan for a Canadian

cyberinfrastructure (CI) strategy.

The call comes after representatives of Canada's research community, who came together at the CANARIE Users' Forum in Banff last month, say it is critical to start advancing a CI agenda in Canada.

Canada, they say, is lagging behind its competitor countries in filling gaps to create a 21st century infrastructure for research and development. Our country…