CANARIE invests $4 million in software research

CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, has announced a $4-million investment to create 9 software projects at PSE and research institutions across Canada. The projects, which were chosen from CANARIE’s call for proposals in June 2013, involve the development of software tools and services that will allow researchers to “access, process, manipulate, visualize, and share immense volumes of digital data, and accelerate the progression of this data from collection to discovery and ultimately, to breakthroughs that enrich the lives of Canadians.” The projects are being led by researchers from the University of Victoria, the University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, Western University, McGill University, Ocean Networks Canada and the Computer Research Institute of Montreal. CANARIE News Release