Online communities abound today, arising on social networking sites, on the websites of real-world communities like schools or clubs, on web discussion forums, on the discussion boards of videogames, and even on the comment pages of news sites and blogs. Some of these communities are “healthy” and foster polite discussion between respectful members, but others […]

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In the telecommunications industry, many schemas exist to cap or limit bandwidth at certain levels for clients. However, there are no real options available to allow clients to intelligently utilize spare bandwidth above their committed purchase rates. We propose to design, implement and evaluate novel bandwidth allocation mechanisms for high speed networks like the Cybera […]

Web computing, in which the world-wide web is itself employed as a distributed computing platform, is entering a stage of rapid expansion with the advent of Open Web Platform so that programs that once worked only a native environment on desktop, tablets or phones can now work from within a browser itself. There is therefore […]

In collaboration with Western Canada Realty, we aim to develop a real-estate valuation online service for the Alberta real-estate market, especially for Edmonton. The product resembles Trulia and Zillow on a high level, which are real-estate price estimation web services in U.S. The system requires a backend that takes as input house pricing information from […]

We aim to develop a video surveillance system that detects and reports events of interest to users. Traditional way is to use RGB cameras to operate in constantly and evenly illuminated areas to detect simple events. The challenge is that visual characteristics of an unconstrained scene are unstable due to illumination variations. In this project, […]

A Place to Reflect and For Every Second in Time are a pair of interactive art installations that will make use of projection technology and interactivity. A Place to Reflect will debut at the Nuit Blanche contemporary arts festival in Toronto and For Every Second in Time is slated for Toronto in 2012. Through the […]

Atlantic Lottery Corporation is owned by four Atlantic provinces. The profits generated by the corporation go back to the provincial general funds for the betterment of the community. A primary goal of the project is to improve the profits of the corporation through suggesting more efficient logistical planning. The corporation’s data mining and knowledge discovery […]

Ensuring data security in large data repositories is a challenging task as the volume and the nature of the data to secure constantly evolves. Large repositories are mostly composed of documents expressed in natural language and as a result they are a rich source of information. Given the importance of personal data protection, this proposal […]

The intern will be involved in the research of state of the art detection of activity from common devices that scales with the sensor capabilities of these devices (i.e. the most basic being accelerometers moving up towards camera detection of physical activity). The intern will strive to create algorithms preventing false positives from occurring and […]