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Brought to you by ... Fellows and Carr Consultants, Greater Moncton Knowledge Industry Network, NRC IRAP, NRC IIT, Patterson Palmer Hunt Murphy, Rising Star Committee, Université de Moncton |
Below are links to presentations and brief biographies for the speakers at the MOST workshop (Maritime Open Source Technologies workshop). For those that are available, Powerpoint and Acrobat files of presentations can be downloaded by clicking the appropriate icon. Discussion forums are also accessible for each of the presentation topics (click on appropriate icon for each presentation). The event took place at the University of Moncton's Faculty of Engineering (room 147G-2) on November 10, 2004 (2:00 pm to 4:30 pm). |
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2:00 pm Group Leader, eLearning Research Group NRC-IIT e-Business National Research Council of Canada |
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Introduction presenting NRC IIT Native of Neguac in New Brunswick (Canada), Rodrigue Savoie joined the National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Information Technology (ITI) as a Research Council Officer in October 2001. He is currently Leader of IIT's e-Learning Research Group located in Moncton, New Brunswick. Before joining the National Research Council, Dr. Savoie was an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering (now the Faculty of Engineering) of the Université de Moncton where, since 1992, he taught technology and engineering courses. In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Savoie was active as an internal and external multimedia consultant (web sites, leaflets, logos, etc.) while performing research in fluid mechanics and e-Learning. On behalf of the NRC, Dr. Savoie leads (or otherwise participes in) many R&D projects in Information Technology (IT) totalling more than $20M in investments. By tranforming ideas into new or improved products and services, these projects will impact positively on the daily lives of Canadians by creating and allowing more efficient access to all types of information (e.g. learning, health, security). The recipient of several scholarships and research grants, Dr. Savoie is the principal or secondary author of several research publications on fluid mechanics and the scientific visualization of fluid flows. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the École Polytechnique de Montréal (1990), a M.Sc.A. (Fluid Mechanics) from the Université de Moncton (1992) and a Ph.D. (Fluid Mechanics) from the Université de Sherbrooke (1996).
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2:05 pm NRC IRAP Technology Advisor National Research Council Canada - IRAP |
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How to finance R&D projects, new technology, and tech transfer in SMEs (a short overview of IRAP) William has worked as a technology advisor in New Brunswick since 1993 specializing in the area of software and Ebusiness applications. In this capacity he has sponsored leading edge software development projects in a range of small companies and provided extensive business and technology mentoring to a wide range of organizations. He has brokered enhanced links between the university community and industry and has been particularly involved in the genesis of a number of early stage UNB spin-off efforts of significance. He has also encouraged the adoption of advanced software development practices in the industry and was a force in the creation of NB Software Process Improvement Network. He has played an active role in sensitizing the community to the issues facing early stage companies and has founded the Atlantic Venture Networking Group intended to connect business expertise and added value investment to young technology enterprises in the Region. He has also played a role in the building a foundation for the NRC/IIT since the early days of the conception of this project through to the presence now created in the Maritimes. He has been actively working towards building a viable information technology industry that is now emerging in the Region. He has also been an advisor to ACOA and the Atlantic Innovation Fund regarding strategic IT efforts in the Region. He is also called upon nationally within IRAP as a member of the Software Sector Group and Telecommunications Sector Group.
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2:10 pm Moncton Linux Users Group (LUG) peter@burtt.org |
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Short intro to OSS and why this is a business opportunity – highlighting some local success stories in Open Source Peter has been involved with systems administration and systems integration since 1991. He has been an avid user of Linux since 1994, and active with the Moncton Linux Users Group since 2000.
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2:30 pm Senior Researcher NRC-IIT e-Business National Research Council Canada - IIT |
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Digital Rights Management and the Open Digital Rights Language and how it is applied Stephen is a senior research officer with the National Research Council of Canada in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. within the Council's Institute for Information Technology. His principle work involves research and development in e-learning, working with institutions and companies to improve their competitive position in the industry, and outreach through articles, seminars and workshops. Previous to this position he was an Information Architect employed by the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was employed on a contract position to design and build a major internet resource called MuniMall, a one-stop site for all components of the municipal affairs sector and municipalities in Alberta. Before working at the University of Alberta, he was employed as a Distance Education and New Instructional Media Design Specialist with Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Prior to that, he taught philosophy by distance for Athabasca University. He holds a BA and MA, both in philosophy, from the University of Calgary.
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3:00 pm Senior Researcher NRC-IIT e-Business Adjunct Professor at UNB CS |
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The Open RuleML Standard for Semantic Web Rule Interchange Harold Boley is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada, and leader of the Semantic Web Laboratory at NRC, IIT e-Business. His current focus is Semantic Web knowledge representation using POSL and Object-Oriented RuleML. He received his PhD and Habilitation degrees in Computer Science from the Universities of Hamburg and Kaiserslautern, respectively. He developed the Relational-Functional Markup Language before starting and co-leading the Rule Markup Initiative. As member of the Joint Committee he co-designed the Semantic Web Rule Language, which combines OWL and RuleML. Presently he leads a first-order-logic effort for Web Services.
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3:45 pm e-Health Research Group NRC-IIT e-Business |
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Patient Health Records Application for New Brunswick – ongoing advances in creating an electronic patient record system for New Brunswick with Open Source tools and components René is a key developer in the NRC eHealth strategy for patient records systems in NB. The system architecture is based around Open Source tools. He completed a Bachelor of Social Science in Economics from the Université de Moncton and a certificate in Internet Object Oriented Software Engineering at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Keith Wilson completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen and a medical degree from Memorial University. He also has his own practice management software company called Healthnet Canada.
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4:15 pm Technology consultant |
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Short commentary session reflecting on OSS as a business opportunity for NB IT companies and questions from the audience on OSS in this context Note that because of time constraints, this presentation was omitted from the workshop (sorry Harold :) Harold has managed a wide variety of projects, including the development of flight simulator training programs; learning software evaluation; job competency models; business plans; e-learning system architectures; and the use of web logs & wikis for learning. During the past two years, Harold has used various open source applications for his projects, greatly reducing costs to clients. Harold Jarche helps organizations make sense of the noise in the digital economy. He uses a background in learning, business and information technology to solve practical problems for clients. He can help determine and create viable alternatives, particularly in strategic planning, needs assessments, learning system design, and the evaluation of information technology. Harold's Blog, available at http://www.jarche.com/blog/1 is where he discusses issues related to learning, work and technology - such as exemplary practices in learning, emerging business models or the use of open source software. The blog serves as a knowledge management system, as well as a way to stay in touch with colleagues & clients.
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4:30 pm |
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6:00 pm Fellows and Carr inc.
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Licensing Issues with Open Source Software Note that this talk was presented as part of the Cyber Social at Manhattan Bar and Grill. A principal in the firm of Fellows and Carr Inc Dr. Fellows has most recently been providing software project management services and software development process improvement guidance to small software companies. He has been a user and proponent of open source software since the early 1980s in both the academic and commercial environments. He is an occasional contributer to open source projects. Prior to founding Fellows and Carr Inc Dr. Fellows was a member of the Faculty of Computer Science at The University of New Brunswick for twenty-nine years. During that time Dr. Fellows authored or co-authored papers on topics as diverse as simulating forest growth, generating random numbers, computer operating system kernel design, and scalability problems in open distributed computing systems. He has taught courses on programming, software engineering, simulation, operating system internals, computer system performance modelling, distributed computing systems, and other topics. He has taught short courses on topics as diverse as Linux System Administration and Automated Software Testing. He has proficiency in over a dozen programming languages (Java, C++, C, and HTML to list a few). He also has fifteen years experience as a Unix system administrator. He has consulted to Bell-Northern Research on performance issues in the design of the DMS- 100 telephone switch. While on sabbatical leave at DSTC Pty in Australia, he participated in forming the Australian position on the draft ITU-T X.901/2/3/4 Basic Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing. In his spare time he maintains web sites for two non-profit organizations and does photography. Dr. Fellows is a certified Information Systems Professional.
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