Research

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The NRC Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) conducts research in software and systems technologies — including algorithms, methodologies and software engineering — as well as some applied research.

The following broad areas of investigation provide the framework for NRC-IIT's research portfolio:

• Knowledge from Data
• People-Oriented Systems
• E-business

Between 50% and 85% of the research NRC-IIT conducts is "foundational"; that is, research activities undertaken to identify subsequent strategic initiatives — or "super projects" — in areas with the potential for having the greatest impact. The remaining 15% to 50% of the research at NRC-IIT consists of the execution of these super projects.

Currently, NRC-IIT conducts foundational research in the following fields of inquiry:

• knowledge discovery
• visual processing
• pervasive computing
• software systems development
• security and privacy
• broadband communication
• grid computing
• collaborative computing
• e-business, including e-learning, e-health and e-government/e-citizen

Information is available on each of NRC-IIT's research programs, as well as on the research programs in each of the Institute's locations.