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Welcome to CUTC 2006. All Keynote speakers will be presenting in the Main Banquet Hall, York A. For more information, please contact the Academic and Industry Relations team at air@cutc.ca
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Mike Lazaridis is President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, a company he founded while a student at the University of Waterloo, Canada. At RIM, Mike is responsible for product strategy, research and development, product development, and manufacturing. Mike is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator, and engineer of extraordinary talent. Since founding RIM he has earned more than thirty patents and dozens of industry and community awards for his innovations in wireless radio technology and software. Mike supports his community and country through generous philanthropic gifts made possible by his success in business. His most noted commitment established Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2000. In its short history, Perimeter has established itself as a leading centre for fundamental research and has attracted the attention of the world's scientific community. In recognition of his leadership and innovation Mike was named Canada's Nation Builder of the Year for 2002 by readers of The Globe and Mail. He holds an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and in June 2003 was named the University's 8th Chancellor. The Future of Search
The last ten years has led to the maturity of the search engine industry in both a technological and business sense. While there is ample room for improvement along every important dimension (relevancy, freshness, comprehensiveness, etc.), we will take a step back from these day-to-day efforts to consider the "big picture" themes and major breakthroughs in the field. In this context we will also speculate on what we believe will be the next important "phase shift" in search technology, and comment on Yahoo's efforts to realize this technology. Bradley Horowitz, director of technology development, is responsible for leading Yahoo!’s efforts in building innovative search technologies. Bradley’s expertise helps drive initiatives that enable the company to provide comprehensive and compelling offerings to customers. Previously he managed a portfolio of products for Yahoo!, including media search, desktop search and the Yahoo! Toolbar. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Bradley served as both the chief technical officer and the vice president of engineering for the Virage division of Autonomy, where he was responsible for the technical delivery of five major product lines. Prior to Autonomy, he founded Virage, the company widely recognized as the market creator and leader for advanced media indexing and analysis. Bradley helped grow the company from “a garage startup” through its NASDAQ IPO. Bradley was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences. Bradley holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Social Uses and Implications of New Media Technology
Hanna Cho is an MA candidate in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture between York and Ryerson Universities. Her research interests focus on the social impact of new technologies, such as mobile devices and wireless internet. She is currently conducting research on the development of the community wireless movement in Canada, and works locally with the non-profit wireless volunteer group, Wireless Toronto. She was also featured as a guest on the "Call for Help" show on G4 Tech TV The Changing Role of Technology
Mel Thompson is responsible for supporting clients who wish to streamline their document-intensive business processes. Thompson and his team provide tools and infrastructure to help clients cut costs and streamline their operations by making traditional document-intensive business processes digital-based and more efficient. In April 2005, Thompson’s role was expanded to include responsibility for the management of Xerox Canada’s largest accounts, and of Xerox’s internal programme for training personnel in dealing with global accounts. Thompson has been with Xerox Canada for 23 years and has held a variety of positions including director of learning and development and as quality officer for Xerox Canada. His field assignments include sales manager in Calgary, district manager in Atlantic Canada, and vice president and general manager Public Sector Industry Operations. Thompson has a bachelor’s degree from York University, a master’s degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Toronto. He is the past chair of the board of directors of the Alberta Excellence in Teaching Foundation and has served as co-chair of the National Council for Education and Communities in Schools. Thompson lives in Richmond Hill with his wife and their four children. Creativity, Human Values and Innovation: Looking Outward and Inward
We often think of technology in only one manner - 'as a tool for progression of science and the economy'. In fact, most 'technologists' are lost in the glory and fame that 'innovations and inventions in technology brings them. Prof. Karney's talk is about innovation, challenge and creativity in the larger context of humanity,society and planetary functions. More than a presentation, this keynote is an invitation to the audience to enter a larger world of ideas and significance than science and technology alone can provide, but which demands the very best of science and technology. Bryan W. Karney, Ph.D., P.Eng. is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he has worked since 1987. Dr. Karney completed his Ph.D. thesis in 1984 on the topic of the transient analysis of water distribution systems and has spoken and written widely on subjects related to water resource systems, hydrology, climate change and engineering education. He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering for the ASCE since 1993. Professor Karney was "Professor of the Year" in Civil Engineering in 2000 and 2003 and won the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Teaching Award in 2001-02. Dr. Karney has published over 100 papers and scientific contributions on topics ranging from water hammer, to flows of frazil ice and contributions of engineering education, and has been an invited key note speaker at five international conferences. Dr. Karney is an active participant in the Canadian Water Network (a federal NCE). How You Can Change the World through Software [And How I Hope to through Windows Live]
Brian Arbogast is corporate vice president of the MSN Communications Platform group in the MSN® and Personal Services Division at Microsoft. His teams are responsible for developing the core technology delivered across MSN communications services, including mail, calendar, contacts, instant messaging, and VOIP functionality. He is also responsible for extending MSN services to mobile devices through partnerships with mobile operators around the world. In addition, Arbogast serves as an executive sponsor for privacy, anti-spam and consumer safety issues at Microsoft, focusing on best practices and enabling technologies. He has more than 15 years of experience in leading teams that deliver innovative software solutions. Arbogast joined Microsoft in 1986 as a software developer. He was a technical lead on Access 1.0, after which he left Microsoft and traveled extensively. He returned 15 months later as the group manager for Access, and in 1996 built and led the team that delivered Visual InterDev® 1.0. He gained responsibility for Visual Studio® in 1997, Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) and Office Developer in 1998, and MSDN® in 1999. He was promoted to corporate vice president in early 2000 and has been helping Microsoft deliver compelling Web services to customers ever since. Arbogast holds a Bachelor’s of Mathematics degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. GE Innovations
Mr. Young is currently the Manager, GE-Aviation Research Programs at GE Global Research. He is also a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and is responsible for setting the long-term technology development strategy, the execution, and the transition to product of over $100M in GE technologies each year. Mr. Young was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, but grew up in south Florida. Following high school he recieved his Machinist Certification and worked briefly in the packaging industry. Mr. Young served in the U.S. Army Infantry and was awarded the Army's Green-to-Gold Scholarship. Upon leaving the Army, Mr. Young began studies at the University of Florida. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida and accepted a job at Pratt & Whitney's Government Engine and Space Propulsion business in West Palm Beach, Florida as a space shuttle performance systems engineer. In 1995, Mr. Young accepted a role as an design engineer at GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has served as a design engineer in combustion design, turbine airfoil design, product support engineering, field service engineering, and systems engineering. In 2000 he was named Manager, GE90 Combustion Design and was responsible for design of the GE90-115B engine combustion system design. In 2002, he was named Manager, Mechanical Systems for the CF34-10A engine which was selected to power the Chinese Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st century. In 2004, Mr. Young was named to his current role as Manager, GE-Aviation Research Programs for GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. Mr. Young will present an overview of technologies recently developed by GE, as well as those currently in the pipeline. The Graphics Revolution
Convergence, Key Technologies and Usage Models are enabling the 4th Generation of the Digital Revolution. How will the Digital Revolution be sustained? Some key areas will be discussed: convergence, visual media, mobility and connectivity. Adrian Hartog is Chief Technology Officer as well as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Business Unit, ATI Technologies Inc. Mr. Hartog is responsible for the overall management of ATI’s research and development as well as its consumer products business unit worldwide, including business operations, distribution and marketing. As head of all ATI research and development programs for the past 15 years, Mr. Hartog built ATI’s technical team from five to 850 engineers. During that time Mr. Hartog was responsible for designing and managing the design of complex application specific integrated circuits, including 2D and 3D graphics controllers, digital video devices, digital audio and communication system-on-chip (SOC) devices, and general purpose processors. Mr. Hartog was the chief architect of ATI’s first, second, and third generation graphics accelerators and is the holder of seven patents. From 1998 to 2000 he managed ATI’s semiconductor business and enabled ATI to become a world leader in the PC graphics market segment. Mr. Hartog holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Topic TBA
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
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