Outstanding Achievers

Louis-Guy Dicaire

Excellence in Projects Support Role within NRC-IIT/VIT.
By making significant contributions to the development of software associated with the operation of 3D sensors and to the development of data-analysis and data-processing tools, Louis-Guy has become a key player in the development of 3D technology within NRC-IIT. Specifically, over the past four years, Louis-Guy has played a leading role in developing portable 3D colour systems used at the Louvre, in Italy and here in Canada. The impact of his contribution can be summarized in very simple terms: basically, without it, NRC-IIT/VIT could not have successfully completed this work of such critical importance to the Strategic Initiative.

Top Row: George Foster, Akakpo Agbago, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson
Bottom Row: Roland Kuhn, Fatiha Sadat, Patrick Paul

PORTAGE Project Team

General Award
This is an extremely enthusiastic and competent team of researchers which, in only 14 months has been able to develop, test and demonstrate a new technology for statistical machine translation (SMT).  Having competed among well established systems and international competitors, the PORTAGE technology ranks above average – a remarkable feat for such an emerging system.  This technology’s success is further reinforced by the publication of several scientific papers, participation at key events and conferences, and a filed patent application.  Thanks to the PORTAGE technology, the NRC has recently been awarded $2.5M by the US government for its participation in a large natural language processing project called GALE, making the NRC the only Canadian participant in GALE.  These accomplishments mark the beginning of a very bright future for PORTAGE.

Marc-Alain Mallet

Regional and Community Innovation Award
Marc-Alain has played a critical role in fostering regional and community innovation, particularly through the development of the IPF, as well as building R&D labs in Fredericton. Marc-Alain has successfully attracted companies to the IPF, renting out all the space, maintained it in full capacity, and generating significant revenues over the last two years. His outreach efforts within academic, scientific and industry circles has helped fill the R&D resource gap in the community, thus enabling innovation and success for many institutions.

Top Row: Berry de Bruijn, Lynn Wei, Jeff Demaine, Julio Valdes, Youlian Pan, Alan Barton
Bottom Row: Junjun Ouyang, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Sieu Phan, Fazel Famili, Joel Martin, Darrell Ferguson, Ziying Liu
Missing: Sang-Ik Han, Zuojian Tang, Norm Vinson

BioMiner and LitMiner Projects

General Award
NRC-IIT's BioMiner and LitMiner technologies have contributed exponentially to current research efforts in genomics, proteomics and system biology. The integration of these two technologies has led to the ability to process and analyze vast quantities of information sources, allowing users to capture knowledge from data. These project teams have established strong collaborations with various institutes within NRC, as well as major Canadian and European research organizations. Their achievement is exemplary of NRC's partnership philosophy and it represents NRC-IIT's strategic directions, as well as a more integrated approach to research. Most importantly, the project is playing crucial role in the advancement of health care by providing tools that will potentially result in enhanced diagnosis and treatment of disease - creating significant impact for Canadians.