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Inmar Givoni

For the time being, I am still involved in a variety of professional activities such as mentoring new ventures, supporting women in tech, sitting on advisory boards, AI consulting, and organizing events for the tech community.
I also still give presentations about machine learning, algorithms, big …

Kathy Nicolay

Kathy Nicolay is originally from Vancouver, Canada. She received a B.A. in cultural anthropology at Simon Fraser University in 1999 and has studied and worked abroad in Thailand, the Czech Republic, and India. In 2003, she completed a postgraduate  certificate in international project management.
In 2014, …

Machine Learning for Indoor Positioning

XAVIER N. FERNANDO, (Senior Member, IEEE)
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto
Accurate real time positioning is the key to enable location-based services (LBS). Although the global positioning system (GPS) is widely used for localization in outdoors, the GPS usability is not satisfactory …

Xavier N. Fernando

XAVIER N. FERNANDO was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1965. He received B. Sc.  Eng. (First Class Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1992 and Master’s degree in Telecommunications at the Asian Institute of Technology, …

Student Research: Capstone Projects Showcase-Sheridan College

Ameera Al-Karkhi
Each year, over 35 student teams work together to design, build and showcase their projects that include advanced technologies such as Additive Manufacturing, Energy, Robotics, Automation, the Internet of Things and Advanced Electrical Devices. The Capstone projects provides the students with Hands-on learning transferable …

Bruno Di Stefano

Bruno Di Stefano is a Professional Engineer (PEO), Life Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of Engineers Canada, with more than 45 years of professional experience. He practiced in electronics, computer, and software engineering, in product development and management …

Artificial Intelligence vs Computational Intelligence

Bruno Di Stefano
One can hardly scan through newspapers and magazines without finding the term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). For instance, The Economist, a very respected and reliable magazine focused on world events, politics and business, but also on science and technology, has published plenty of in …

Patient Self-Service Protection of Their Healthcare Data Using Blockchain

Steven Delaney and Doug Schmidt
A patient centric unified view of a patient’s healthcare data promises to lower healthcare costs which averages 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of most developed countries. Rapid access to a patient’s healthcare history can be used to improve patient …

Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

Dr. Maryam Davoudpour received the MASc and PhD degrees from the Moscow State Technical University of Bauman in Information Technology and Control Complex Systems. She also completed a NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. She is a member of the DMZ (Digital Media Zone) at Ryerson University. Dr. …