The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Céline Castets-Renard has earned an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a four-year project entitled “Droit de l'intelligence artificielle au Canada : étude comparative avec l'Union européenne et les États-Unis” (Artificial intelligence law in Canada:...
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Céline Castets-Renard has earned an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a four-year project entitled “Droit de l'intelligence artificielle au Canada : étude...
Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan approaches cybercrime defence from a "zero-victim" standpoint: he looks for ways to detect cyber-attacks as soon as they occur, and ideally before they can do any damage.
Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan approaches cybercrime defence from a "zero-victim" standpoint: he looks for ways to detect cyber-attacks as soon as they occur, and ideally before they can do any damage.
The Advanced Medical Research Centre (AMRC) will add major velocity to the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine's efforts to address the great scientific challenges of the 21st century.
The Advanced Medical Research Centre (AMRC) will add major velocity to the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine's efforts to address the great scientific challenges of the 21st century.
Precision agriculture is so-called because people believe that farmers’ management decisions will be optimized and made more precise if they are informed by the results of self-learning algorithms which mine large volumes of data (or big data). It is now indisputably known that industrial, chemical-intensive farming contributes significant greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural chemicals have know...
Precision agriculture is so-called because people believe that farmers’ management decisions will be optimized and made more precise if they are informed by the results of self-learning algorithms which mine large volumes of data (or big data). It is now indisputably known that industrial, chemical-...
Professor Tricia McGuire-Adams of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education has received $511,380 in funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to create a lab that will conduct innovative research on the knowledge and well-being of Indigenous peoples.
Professor Tricia McGuire-Adams of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education has received $511,380 in funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to create a lab that will conduct innovative research on the knowledge and well-being of Indigenous peoples.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Co-Director (interim) and Faculty member Dr. Valerie Steeves has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Surveillance Studies Network, a prize given to distinguished scholars who have made major contributions to the field of surveillance studies.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Co-Director (interim) and Faculty member Dr. Valerie Steeves has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Surveillance Studies Network, a prize given to distinguished scholars who have made major contributions to t...
Venezuela has a growing academic diaspora throughout the world, as part of the massive emigration that the country has faced in recent years. According to estimates by sociologist Tomás Páez of the Venezuelan Diaspora Observatory, some 7.2 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2003. Of those millions of people, many are professors and students, some located in universities and research c...
Venezuela has a growing academic diaspora throughout the world, as part of the massive emigration that the country has faced in recent years. According to estimates by sociologist Tomás Páez of the Venezuelan Diaspora Observatory, some 7.2 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2003. Of tho...
Welcome to this first blog of the ISSP’s 2022-2023 academic year. In it, I give a preview of key research, teaching and outreach activities in the coming months. All of them speak to the ISSP’s five-year strategic vision: helping Canada transform decision-making to meet the grand challenges of our time by strengthening science-society-policy relations within and among the academic, public, private...
Welcome to this first blog of the ISSP’s 2022-2023 academic year. In it, I give a preview of key research, teaching and outreach activities in the coming months. All of them speak to the ISSP’s five-year strategic vision: helping Canada transform decision-making to meet the grand challenges of our t...
“If we understand how the acquisition of motor skills is regulated in the brain then perhaps one day we can help patients with stroke or Parkinson’s disease regain those skills during the rehabilitation process." - Dr. Simon Chen
“If we understand how the acquisition of motor skills is regulated in the brain then perhaps one day we can help patients with stroke or Parkinson’s disease regain those skills during the rehabilitation process." - Dr. Simon Chen