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• City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering

  - 2008-05-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. SAN JOY BANERJEE has been named Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering. He earned a bachelor's from the India Institute of Technology and a doctorate from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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• Zecotek's New CW Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser Selected by University of Waterloo.

  - 2007-11-15

  VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Nov 15, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Zecotek Medical Systems Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I) today announced the selection of its CW Ti: Sapphire laser, model TIS-FD-08/A-scan-WV, by the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada. The laser is the latest ultra-wide tunable laser...

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• Keith Peiris.(Distinction)(Canada's Top 20 Under 20)(Brief article)(Thumbnail biography)

  - 2006-10-01

  Keith Peiris, a nanotechnology engineering student at the University of Waterloo UW, is one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20[TM]. Peiris was just 11 years old when he started his company, Cyberteks Design, which provides Web development, e-commerce, and multimedia solutions. Since its start in 1999,...

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• W.B. Pearson.(In Memoriam)

  - 2005-10-01

  W.B. Pearson, long-time member of the TMS Committee on Alloy Phases, authored several books and many scientific papers on low-temperatures physics, physical metallography, Fermi surface, the chemistry of semiconductors, and crystallography while working at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada (1952-69) and the University ...

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• Why Cell Phones Will Dominate The Future Internet

  BNET - 2005-04-14

  Quick! What does the Internet look like? Chances are pretty good that you're thinking of desktop computers on a LAN connected to servers, middleboxes, and other LAN-based desktops by routers and local and long-distance point-to-point links. Although substantially true few years ago, the author will argue that the picture is...

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• E-Mobile's RF Tune, Inc. Should Benefit Materially from 42 Percent Growth of Wi-Fi Chipset Market to $1 Billion, According to Unstrung Insider, a Wi-Fi Industry Publication

  - 2004-09-20

  PLANO, Texas -- RF Tune, Inc. believes its new chipset designs for Wi-Fi applications in laptop computers and PDA's will participate significantly in the positive industry growth trends. Their smart antenna chips can increase network capacity, enhance the quality of voice and data services, expand cell phone communication range, and...

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• How to get profs to be practical.

  - 2001-10-08

  * Two centuries ago, Pennsylvania Mennonites and European Germans opened homesteads around Kitchener. In 1957, their descendants--hardworking and prudent as ever--established the University of Waterloo with an emphasis on technology. From the outset, the U of W adopted an innovative rule: professors could retain the commercial...

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• Betacom's New Technology Enables Legally-Blind People to See

  - 2001-10-01

  Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 1, 2001 A new medical device that promises to return sight to those who are classified as legally blind is being introduced this month by a small Toronto-based company, Betacom Corporation. Called the VisAble Video TelescopeTM, this product looks like a purple...

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• Betacom engages Dr. Richard I. Hornsey, a world re-known leader in CMOS technology to develop low cost micro-cameras for its proprietary low vision enhancement solutions for the Visually Impaired@ Video Optics to enhance useable sight.

  - 2000-10-20

  TORONTO, Oct 20, 2000 Betacom Corporation Inc., (CDNX, symbol YCA) an innovator in life enhancement technologies for disabled and elderly individuals, announced that it has retained Dr. Richard I. Hornsey of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, to ...

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