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2009 Research Exposition April
8, 2009, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. UNB
Speakers Hon. Greg Byrne, Q.C. Greg Kealey PhD,
FRSC, FRHistS. Provost and Vice-President Research.
He is a graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Hai
Zhuge, Keynote Speaker Harrison
McCain Foundation Visiting Professor at UNB for the 2008-09 academic year. Dr. Zhuge is a professor
at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
chief scientist and former director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent
Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the founder of the
China Knowledge Grid Research Group http://kg.ict.ac.cn. He is also the
author of The Knowledge Grid and The Web Space Resource Model, and is a chief
scientist of the National Semantic and Knowledge Grid Research Project, the
most prestigious project of the National Basic Research Program of China. Keynote Title: Web Ecology Abstract Exploring
the laws of nature and the patterns of human societies is the grand challenge
of the sciences. The World Wide Web and its expanding resources, applications
and users have constituted an enormous information sharing space. But the Web
is still a young entity in the continuing history of information. How will it
function in the future? In nature, billions of years of evolution create the
most elegant and efficient ecosystems. If the Web were to develop into an
artificial ecosystem, harmoniously evolving with society, economics, culture,
sciences and technologies, the study of Web ecology could lead to a new
branch of science. Don Fitzgerald Team Ali Ghorbani Professor and Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB. Director of
Information Security Centre of Excellence, Director of Intelligent and Adaptive
Systems (IAS) Laboratory and Network and Information Security (NIS)
Laboratory, Project leader of Adaptive Websites R&D project, Project
leader of Fast Intrusion Detection & Response System (FAST ID) project. Presentation Title: Overview of
Computer Science Research at UNB Keith McIntosh President and CEO of Professional
Quality Assurance Ltd. (PQA). As one of the most experienced software testing
professionals in See Hean Quek Chief
Technology Officer, Accreon Inc. See Hean has been working in the Applied
Technology/Information field for the past twenty-four (24) years and has
extensive experience in all phases of project management, system development,
software development, IT planning and consulting. Prior to his
engagement at Accreon, See Hean
was the Director of the Single Window Government (SWG) lab at CGI Atlantic,
developing and exporting SWG tools, techniques and methodologies. Prior to
CGI, See Hean was the manager of the Projects Division
at CARIS. Presentation Title: Accreon's Software Development Framework (T2M)
David Bremner Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB. He is
currently also the MITACS Atlantic Scientific Director. David Bremner holds three degrees in Computer Science, a B.Sc. Hons. from the University of Presentation
Title: Accelerating Collaborative C.S. Research in Abstract Przemyslaw Pochec Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB. Presentation Title:
Modeling data networks Dawn Maclsaac Associate professor, joint appointed with the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Engineering (within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), UNB. She is the Director of the undergraduate software engineering program and researches in the two distinct areas of software engineering and biomedical engineering. Her primary focus in software engineering is software quality and knowledge engineering. Her primary focus in biomedical engineering is biosignal processing and medical device technology. She has recently proclaimed a new interest in health information systems. Presentation Title: Digital
Technologies in Biomedical Engineering Eric Aubanel Associate
Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Presentation Title: Time Parallelization of Partial Differential Equations Abstract Parallelization of partial differential equations (PDEs) by time decomposition was first proposed by Lions et al in 2001. The motivation for this method was to achieve real-time solutions, but this method is also of interest for enabling very long time simulation. Recent developments have included a few applications, and combination with spatial domain decomposition. Most of the developments have come from numerical analysts or application specialists, and analysis of the algorithm has focused mainly on its convergence properties rather than on its parallel efficiency. Currently I have been investigating the use of this method for solution of the Farley-Buneman equation, which models the dynamics of the ionosphere, in collaboration with Dr. Hamza of UNB's department of Physics. I am also developing a project that is addressing the efficient implementation of time parallelization on current cluster architectures. This includes the combination of time parallelization with shared memory parallelization using OpenMP, to take advantage of the increasing number of cores on current computing nodes. I will describe this technique, outline my ongoing work, and present the potential for its use in the solution of partial differential equations on computational grids. Ken Kent Associate
Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Presentation Title: Deciding between Hard and Soft Logic Multipliers Abstract Field
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming
extremely popular in large many devices including cell phones, PDAs, and digital cameras. With shrinking technology
sizes, the computer architecture of the FPGA device itself is changing and
offering opportunities for adding fixed hard logic circuits. A primary
candidate for a special "hard" logic block is a multiplier. In this
talk, I will introduce the problem that I am investigating of
"splitting" and "fracturing" multipliers. Bradford Nickerson Dr.
Nickerson received his Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Presentation Title: Massive Data Algorithmics Abstract Modern
data-gathering instruments and communication systems generate massive amounts
of data. For example, modern large large
format aerial cameras collect data at a rate of 1.1 Terrabytes
per hour. Core internet routers process packets at speeds up to 92 Terrabits per second. Such massive data gathering
and processing equipment has given rise to new classes of algorithms for
dealing with such data. This talk gives an overview of the models for
these types of algorithms. I/O efficient, streaming and cache-oblivious algorithms
are discussed with a view to understanding how their models differ from the
classic computational models. Dana Sanderson Director of Systems Management, J.D. Irving, Limited Stephen Dixon Manager of Research at Service New Brunswick (SNB), responsible for the research agenda across multiple lines of business. His role in research and innovation at SNB seeks to create a culture of constant improvement and leadership in public service delivery. Delivering on that role, he works to establish ties between SNB lines of business, research institutions and private sector in order to create opportunities for partnership and collaboration on research initiatives. Current research projects in collaboration with UNB include the faculties of Computer Science, Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering and Business Administration. Stephen has a background as an entrepreneur and researcher in sports medicine and physiology. He is also currently working to complete a MSc. Xiaolun
Yi Data
Analyst at Service New Faezeh Ensan PhD student, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB. Presentation Title: Service
New Abstract Public and private sector organizations face increasing challenges to meet the rapidly changing needs and expectations of citizens and business. Most organizations lack the structure, capacity and expertise for research. Research institutions have that inherent capability that may be leveraged by organizations. Organizations face many challenges when seeking to gain new knowledge in specific areas of practice. Often, internal processes and governance structures do not accommodate applied research activity that would bridge gaps between future needs and current knowledge. Service New Brunswick (SNB), with the establishment of its Research Branch, seeks to establish a research agenda to meet the current and future needs of rapidly changing technologies and processes when providing services to both private and public sectors. This
research seeks to establish a model for research activity. The current
Research Model project is being conducted in conjunction with the SDI
Usability Research project, tracking an instance of research collaboration
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