Carolyn Watters, Chief Digital Research Officer of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and David MaGee, Vice-President of Research at the University of New Brunswick, celebrated the opening of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity-NRC Cybersecurity Collaboration Consortium (CNCCC) in Fredericton, New Brunswick. This innovative hub, established by the NRC and the University of New Brunswick’s Canadian … Read more
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains (Mississauga-Malton, Ont.) and Minister Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Ont.) announced an investment of 540 million dollars over five years to the National Research Council. The full statement is available online. Call 613-991-1431.
The National Research Council contributed to a measurement of Planck’s constant. Specialists from the NRC’s Metrology team contributed a value of Planck’s constant — a measure of action in quantum mechanics that determines mass — with the lowest uncertainty ever achieved: 9.1 parts per billion. The full release is available online. Call 613-991-1431.
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains (Mississauga-Malton, Ont.), joined by Liberal MP Majid Jowhari (Richmond Hill, Ont.), announced some of the first projects to benefit from the government’s Budget 2018 investment of $700 million over five years to National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program and a new and larger funding threshold … Read more
A National Research Council of Canada multidisciplinary team is studying human responses to the cabin environment and the impact of new design concepts and emerging technologies on air travellers and crew. The NRC is in the third year of a five-year research collaboration with the Research and Technology team at Airbus Americas Engineering to improve the … Read more
The National Research Council of Canada and the Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry hosted a panel discussion on the important roles mentorship and networking play in empowering women to succeed in their scientific careers. NRC’s Vice-President of Emerging Technologies, Dr. Geneviève Tanguay delivered a keynote address. The panel was moderated … Read more
Meet YiSi, a new machine translation teacher developed by the National Research Council of Canada. YiSi is an open-source software that examines sentences produced by machine translation and compares them against the original text or a human reference translation. YiSi assigns an accuracy score from 0 to 100 to each translated sentence, pinpointing problems in … Read more
Iain Stewart, President of the National Research Council of Canada, welcomed Dr. Donna Strickland, the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, back to the NRC. The full release is available online. Call 613-991-1431.
The National Research Council of Canada and Fives are developing an advanced profilometer that will provide faster and more accurate part inspection. Fives has already started the last testing stage of the next-generation profilometer with customers and expects to begin commercializing the technology before the end of 2019. The full release is available online. Call 613-991-1431.
The National Research Council of Canada and the NASA New Horizons team are celebrating the success of New Horizons’ extended mission to the Kuiper Belt – the belt is a ring of icy bodies just outside of Neptune’s orbit. The space probe, New Horizons, flew by and photographed Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, also known … Read more
