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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. …

A Non-Intrusive Technique for Asserting User Identity in Internet of Things

Ameera Al-Karkhi
Internet of Things environments are an exciting new computing scene due to the recent advances in wireless communications and digital electronics. These environments are small smart worlds that have many advantages, such as continuous and distributed interaction with people using a variety of wireless …

Sahar Rahmani

Senior Director JSOC Analytics, Global Cyber Security, RBC

I am Sahar Rahmani, a PhD in science, an immigrant, a wife and a parent.  Currently, I am the Director of a Data Science team at the Global Cyber Security (GCS) group at RBC. My role involves leading a team …

Mehrdad Rostami

Managing Editor IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter

Mehrdad Rostami, has more than 30 years of engineering experience in utility and industry. He authored or co-authored more than 70 papers in engineering journals and conferences. As a senior member of IEEE and holding Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Mehrdad …

Sustainable Wireless Sensing and Communications

Xavier Fernando
Wireless access technologies have become ubiquitous and it is no-longer about just voice or data or even video communications. Myriad of new value-added wireless services, from wireless sensing based IoT systems to low latency autonomous vehicle guiding, appear every day that has transformed our …

Dennis Cecic & Trent Cecic

Let’s meet members of the Cecic family serving IEEE Toronto for two generations.
Dennis Cecic, Chair of the Computer Chapter

Dennis is a Senior Technical Training Engineer with Microchip Technology Inc. He is both a subject matter expert in 8, 16 and 32-bit Microcontrollers, Embedded Firmware and …

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Bruno Di Stefano
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is an 100 year old organization within IEEE, that develops global standards in the range of industries within the IEEE sphere of interest. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) is a young society and was born in …