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In September 2007 Prof. Yang received the Manning Award of Distinction, sponsored by CanWest Global, for his inventive solutions for data compression. The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation has been recognizing and encouraging innovation in Canada since 1982. It grants awards to Canadians who have demonstrated recent innovative talent in developing and successfully marketing a new concept, process or procedure.
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In April 2007 Prof. Yang received Premier's Catalyst Award from the hands of Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty. More details, along with a short video, can be found here.
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The 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory was held on the campus of University of Waterloo, from May 18th to 21st, 2003. This Workshop provides an opportunity for Canadian as well as international researchers in Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work.
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The success story of Prof. En-hui Yang, a Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Multimedia Compression, has been posted on the Innovation Strategies' website. Please click here for the complete story.
- On June 6, 2002, the Leitch Technology Corporation and the University of Waterloo officially announced their commitment of support to the Leitch-University of Waterloo Multimedia Communications Laboratory, which will provide leading-edge computing and testing facilities to support research in multimedia communications. The official announcement was made at a ceremony attended by university and community dignitaries at the University Club. (more...)
- On May 23, 2002, Prof. En-hui Yang, the director of the Multimedia Communcations Laboratory and the Canada Research Chair in electrical and electronic engineering, was honoured as the federal "innovation summit" takes place at the J. R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall. (more...)
- In the year of 2001, Prof. En-hui Yang was appointed as a Canada Research Chair in the discipline of electrical and electronic engineering for his outstanding and novel contribution to the field of data compression and information theory. (more...)
