Breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and treatment generate a significant and increasing portion of healthcare cost in Canada. Detection of a potential BC by mammogram screening triggers a confirmatory biopsy. When a BC is confirmed, additional tests are performed on the biopsy material to guide therapy. Since 2015 a new expansive (~ 5000.00 CAD per patient) […]

Lifeguard.org (URL: www.joinlifeguard.org) is a unique ESG venture that represents the first ever effort to provide the infrastructure, collaboration tools, and incentives needed to enable and encourage peer-reviewed science, focused on complex public health and environmental issues, on a massive scale. Our vision is to create a world where multi-disciplinary teams of scientists and subject-matter […]

The project investigates how to design and implement high quality user experiences for extended reality (XR) applications that are deployed over 5G networks. Interns will elicit high level quality of experience requirements for such applications, determine appropriate metrics to reach these goals and micro-service based software architectures to build such applications. We are in particular […]

Everybody Loves Language (ELL) is a language learning solution which provides all the necessary tools and features for organizations to deliver a complete language program to inspire learners at home, in schools, and workplaces around the world. Today, one of the active and student-centered teaching methods is gamification-based learning which is the result of scientific […]

After about a decade’s wait, persistent memory (such as Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory) has recently become commercially available in 2019. These devices fundamentally change the way database systems are built: they are both byte-addressable like normal DRAM memory and persistent like flash memory and disks. They also exhibit memory-like properties and performance (albeit slower), […]

Digital Integration Centre of Excellence Technology Access Centre (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SaskPoly) and Globex Management Corp. (Globex) will collaborate on the research and development of an Intelligent Restaurant Management System (IRMS). Globex is a hospitality-based organization that has developed a software platform to build detailed menus for food service organizations. Globex wishes to extend […]

Data visualization is an important approach to help people understand data by graphic representation of data. Along with the development of various electronic devices and sensors, big data era is coming to us. Data visualization plays an increasingly important role in this era. However, research indicated that it’s hard for non visualization experts to author […]

To discover how art connects us to our cultural heritage is to understand the world and our place in it. Our content platform, Cilia, is designed to allow visitors to use artificial intelligence (A.I.) based object recognition in order to obtain content about an artwork or artifact. A prototype has been successfully tested with visitors, […]

Peritus.ai, a leading company in community knowledge for developer success, offers a search engine specialized in technical questions about cloud native technologies, and analytics to help vendors augment the health and efficiency of their online community. With the academic partners from Polytechnique Montreal, Peritus.ai wants to leverage public data from technical forum questions and answers, […]

This project is focused on the development of import modules to bring publicly available corporate communications within the Cometrics database. This project will help deliver consistent and correct ESG Theme information to subscribers and partners.

Currently in Canada, 8 out of 10 Canadians have ongoing musculoskeletal pain preventing from doing regular day to day activity, and looking for solutions for their pain. The proposed research is aimed to create a conversational chatbot that can engage in empathetic conversation to examine the effect of empathic conversation in engagement and pain management […]

This Mitacs project will create a custom-built survey tool and a recommendation system that generates alerts where an individual’s unmet physical, mental, social or spiritual needs are detected. A personal report with feedback on possible steps to reduce unmet needs or make progress on achieving goals that are aligned with personal preferences and interests is […]