A 27-year-old University of Waterloo graduate is going toe-to-toe against Google and Apple this year over the best platform for wearable technology.
Eric Migicovsky was warmly received at his alma mater on Tuesday, where the smartwatch pioneer and founder of Pebble was a keynote speaker at the university's Innovation Summit. Read more.
The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus is excited to be an official hub for The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) Hackathon. CODE is the first national Open Data hackathon in Canada – a 48 hour competition where participants compete to build the best app utilizing federal government data from the Canadian Open Data Portal (http://www.data.gc.ca).
When: Friday, February 28, 2014 to Sunday March 2, 2014
Where: University of Waterloo Stratford Campus
Ontario Centres of Excellence’s annual Discovery conference
will again feature the popular Student Video Competition
Join us May 27 & 28
Picture yourself a winner!
Attention young innovators: It's your chance to broadcast your new technology, innovation or start-up idea to the movers and shakers of the science and technology industry, attracting invaluable advice on how to turn your concept into a reality.
Professor Yeow’s main research interests is inventing and developing tools for locating, examining and targeting micro-organisms lurking inside the human body and for providing unprecedented access into its cavities. He does this, he says, by designing devices that are “smaller, more portable, more power-efficient, more sensitive, and potentially longer lasting.” [Full story]