Senior Fellow and former Fulbright Research Chair in Science and Society ISSP, uOttawa
We’ve all observed the halting and surprisingly diverse approaches of governments around the planet to the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 - the official name of the virus causing the coronavirus disease COVID-19. (And yes, it would help all of us if WHO could take the advice of the weather services and come up with simple names for these things.)
Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Ottawa
Adapted from a Keynote Speech, CN-Tellier Forum on Business and Public Policy: “Working Together to Improve Canada’s Competitiveness”
I arrived in Ottawa in 1972. My first task was to evaluate the industrial R&D promotion programs of the then Industry Trade and Commerce and Defence departments.
Artificial Intelligence has skyrocketed into public attention with stories of promise and peril for humanity. This is the second instalment of a blog post in two parts that discusses AI’s origins and evolution to the present day.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has suddenly appeared from ‘erewhon’. What is it? Where did it come from? Why is it important? This blog post in two parts will provide context and answers to these questions.
Inaugural Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society, Winter/Spring 2015, ISSP, University of Ottawa.
Current President of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, of the Office of the United Nations Commissioner on Human Rights will hold a general discussion on article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in Geneva on 9 October 2018. This blog continues the discussion on the “right to science” begun in the first blog installment on this topic.
The Ottawa Business Journal article, discussing the Faculty Affiliate of the ISSP and uOttawa Professor Andrew Pelling's lab, where students experiment in "biohacking".
This month, we continue our Covid19 special blog posts and we are featuring the ISSP collaboration with other uOttawa institutes on two future research projects.
Pandemics are far from new in the history of science fiction. Which is why familiar novels such as The Stand (1978) by Stephen King and movies such as Contagion (2011) by Steven Soderbergh were sought as references when lockdowns began.
