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ICT Insight

ICT Insight: A Guide to Information & Communications Technology Research and Resources in Manitoba / Vansco Electronics

University of Winnipeg:
Overview


A Dynamic Research Environment

Located in the heart of downtown, The University of Winnipeg is a compact, diverse, multicultural undergraduate academic community committed to access and excellence for its 9,341 students. In the Globe and Mail 2006 Report Card, The University of Winnipeg earned top marks from its students, especially in the areas of class sizes and quality of education.

The University of Winnipeg acknowledges that research funding is critical to consistent and successful programs. In 2005/2006, internal University of Winnipeg financial funding was provided to just over 50 active faculty researchers. That support ranged from small discretionary awards to major research grants. Major federal government funding was applied to NSERC, SSFRC, and CFI scholarships, grants, and research, as well as a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Science Education.

The University of Winnipeg has two departments conducting ICT research – the Department of Applied Computer Science and the Department of Geography.

From Internet to Climate Change

The Department of Applied Computer Science Database Research Group has concentrated, since 2000, on enhancing the speed of Internet databases and improving the results produced by Internet database searches. Since 2006, the Distributed Computing Systems organization has concentrated its efforts on facilitating a better integration between a system's hardware and software, thus improving the operation, efficiency and safety of distributed systems. The Quantitative Software Engineering Group has conducted ICT research since 1995. Emphasis has been in the field of image processing and biologically inspired bots, as well as decision-making ability and the modelling and analyzing of conflict dynamics during requirements analysis and negotiation.

Since 1996, the GIS Laboratory of the Department of Geography has focused on analyzing the socio-economic impacts of climate change in central Canada.

All of these programs are conducted in partnership with other academic institutions, industry and governmental organizations around the world. Such partnerships include the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, NASA, the European Space Agency, Warsaw University, Poland, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Access to Unique Facilities/Equipment

Some of these ICT opportunities make use of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Manitoba. Other special facilities and equipment include a complete suite of ESRI GIS software, ENVI image processing software, IDL programming language, large format digitizers, scanners and colour plotters, as well as a complete remote sensing/spectroscopy lab which includes field-portable spectrophotometers.

For more information about applied research opportunities at the University of Winnipeg, please contact:

Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies
Room 4CM05
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 2E9

Phone: 204-786-9179
Website: www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/research-index


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