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Bell
Canada is one of a growing number of corporations tapping into MITACS –
a national network of mathematical experts who specialize in developing
practical solutions for real-world problems.
Bell is one of MITACS' biggest champions, and one of its biggest beneficiaries.
It has been collaborating with the network since it was established in
1999.
"We were there from the beginning," says Alan Bernardi, General
Manager of Bell University Labs, and a member of the MITACS Research Management
Committee. "Having the best mathematical researchers in the country
working together to help Bell solve real-world challenges is a real asset
for our company."
Bell Canada
- 2005 R&D Spending Ranking: #2
- R&D Expenditures: $1.74 billion
Source: Canada's Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders
2006, RE$EARCH Infosource Inc. |
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Through its Bell University Laboratories program, the company partners
with 41 Canadian universities on more than 80 research projects, including
five MITACS projects in the areas of quantum information processing, commodity
pricing, data mining, communication network efficiency and circuit optimization.
Such industry-academia partnerships are helping to maintain Canada's global
leadership in information and communications technologies.
Today, research advances from Bell-MITACS projects have been leveraged
and are delivering positive results for Bell . For example, new algorithms
developed in the project "Statistical Learning of Complex Data with
Complex Distribution" led by Dr. Yoshua Bengio at the Université
de Montréal are being used by Bell. "Based on the results
from Dr. Bengio's team, our interaction has become more strategic,
more sophisticated and more relevant to our clients," says Bernardi.
In another MITACS project, Bell is working with Dr. Paul Van Oorschot
at Carleton University to study computer worms and other malicious software
and network intrusions.
The mathematics community is also benefiting from the partnership. Bell
offers both researchers and graduate students an opportunity to apply
their theories and concepts to day-to-day industrial problems. While Mr. Bernardi
admits they're not always the easiest problems to solve, they are "real
problems with real constraints."
Bell Canada's longstanding relationship with MITACS and the country's
academic community has raised awareness of the value sophisticated mathematical
tools can deliver to business at all levels in the organization. "The
ability to showcase real-world examples of how math can be applied to
identify and solve business problems continues to drive the success of
our efforts."
Bell-MITACS Projects
Researcher: Dr. Yoshua Bengio, Université
de Montréal
Project: Statistical Learning of Complex Data with Complex
Distributions
Researchers: Tamas Terlaky, Dr. Henry Wolkowicz,
University of Waterloo
Project: High Performance Optimization: Theory, Algorithm
Design and Engineering Applications
Researcher: Dr. Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton
University
Project: Understanding and Mitigating Malicious Computer Network
Activity
Researchers: Dr. Patrice Marcotte, l'Université
de Montréal; Gilles Savard, École Polytechnique
de Montréal
Project: Optimal Pricing via Mathematical and Bilevel Programming
Researcher: Dr. George Karakostas,
McMaster University
Project: Game-Theoretical Study of Large Data and Communication
Networks |
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