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Before driving on our roads, each autonomous car will have to obtain a certification from Transport Canada, a step that’s only possible if cars are shielded from computer attacks. (Photo: Eschenzweig, license CC BY-SA 4.0). By putting in-car artificial ...
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Assistant Professor Samuel Yniesta, (Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering), has received the Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). ...
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Full Professor Foutse Khomh and his team from Polytechnique Montréal's Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering has been awarded a Canada-CIFAR Chair in IA. ...
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At a ceremony held with the presence of Danielle McCann, Québec’s Minister of Higher Education, Polytechnique Montréal’s university executive presented the seventh Order of the White Rose Scholarship to Willow Dew, a graduate of the University of Alberta& ...
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Thirty-two years have passed since the anti-women attack that took the lives of 14 young women and injured 13 other individuals on December 6, 1989, at Polytechnique Montréal. To honour the memory of the victims of this tragedy, several commemorative acti ...
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Adam Schachner received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – Masters, at the eleventh annual ceremony of the national innovation body. ...
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For the training of artificial intelligence tools developed by HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal, images of disasters used- including those generated by the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the West Indies in 2016. (PHOTO: Haiti Hit by Hurricane Ma ...
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How should you talk to journalists? What mistakes should you avoid, and above all, how can you ensure you're being understood? Viviane Lalande, an adept at making science accessible, offers answers to these and many more queries in a series of capsul ...
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Awarded in the “Two or More Companies” category, Full Professor Martinu and Associate Professor Sapieha received one of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council- NSERC's most prestigious honours, the Synergy Awards for Innovation. ...
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By pairing a biosensor- like this one- with a bioreactor filled with cultured cells, Professor De Crescenzo wants to ensure that the quality of antibodies is monitored during the manufacturing process, rather than after its been completed. (Photo: Marti ...
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Full Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy (Department of Engineering Physics), received the latter distinction in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of industrial and applied physics. ...
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In the Far North, melting permafrost is disrupting the lives of thousands in their communities. (PHOTO: Wojtek Gajek, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) At a time when the world is attempting to curb carbon emissions, the inhabitants o ...
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By exposing a gas to electric field, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is created. (Photo: Sean Watson) In a greenhouse on Montréal's North Shore, Stephan Reuter will soon be testing a device likely to accelerate plant growth, assist plants to ...
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Polytechnique Montréal’s Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Professor Gilles Savard as Acting President for a term beginning October 1, 2021, and ending January 7, 2022. Thereafter, he will become Interim President (as of January 8, 202 ...
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Full Professor Pierre G. Lafleur, from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Bureau de l’amélioration continue des programmes at Polytechnique, was recently elected Chair of the CEAP because of his extensive knowledge of accreditation ...
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PhD student Maissaloun El-Jakl, who works in Professor Louis Laberge Lebel's laboratory, is developing part of a mass production-oriented braiding and pultrusion process for composite hockey stick handles. (Photo: Martin Primeau) Braided hockey sti ...
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Full Professor Catherine Beaudry from the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, is the first Polytechnique Montréal woman faculty member be elected to the Royal Society of Canada- and the institution's first professor to become a memb ...
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Thanks to a protocol developed by Professor Julien Cohen-Adad and his collaborators, it's now possible to use AI to read spinal cord MRI data. (Photo : NeuroPoly) Not content with just one, two articles penned by Cohen-Adad and his team have just b ...
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Full Professor Andrea Lodi (Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering) receives the 2021 Farkas Award for his contributions to the field of optimization. ...
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Professor Olivier Henry's brand new bioreactors were quickly put to work to produce billions of copies of the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19. (Photo: Martin Primeau) In the bioreactors in his lab in the J-Armand Bombardier (JAB) pa ...
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