Dr Norman Beaulieu has been appointed the first chair of the Univ of Alberta's new Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Wireless Communications Laboratory. Beaulieu will lead research on the physical network needed to permit increased transmission rates and connectivity to the telephone network and the Internet. Beaulieu joined the U of A's engineering faculty last year, moving from Queen's Univ, where he was associate head of its electrical and computer engineering department....