Dr Brian Unger has been appointed chair of Inno-centre Alberta’s advanced technology selection committee, of which he is already a member. A computer science professor at the Univ of Calgary, Unger is president and CEO of the Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) and founding president of Netera Alliance....
The Univ of Toronto may be about to lose its president. Media reports say that Dr Robert Birgeneau will become chancellor at Univ of California, Berkeley. He came to the U of T exactly four years ago from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he served as dean of science for 10 years....