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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 […]

REP is an athlete development platform for building better, and healthier athletes. Inside the REP platform are computer algorithms that can “see” how people move, and the accurately estimate how they are moving in three dimensions. The REP platform can then compare models of how you move, to models of how experts move. This comparison […]

Think Tank Innovations Ltd is a company active in the healthcare domain. The company is interested in expanding their current working system Sharesmart application by benefiting from advanced technology to develop an integrated environment for healthcare solutions in order to better service a wider community locally and globally. Students to be involved in this project […]

IOT technology is a brand new, and rapidly growing field. Currently, there are no best practices published in the design of real-time, dynamic network displays. Our project focuses on developing and testing new business processes, user personas, and design-guidelines associated with these types of displays in a real-world environment. The findings from this work will […]