Leading within Digital Worlds explores the challenges for data scientists in leading technical R&D groups, both private sector companies and in public R&D, and also for non-specialists in leading roles in data science groups.

Business innovation is viewed by many as a solution to Canada's ailing productivity performance. One of the more troubling aspects of Canada's innovation track record is that businesses spend relatively little on research and development (R&D) despite having access to some of the world's most...

Parallel hardware is now mainstream, but parallel software is not. While all consumer CPUs are now multi-core, software is still designed as mainly sequential. The "parallelisation" of legacy code is very expensive and requires developers with skills in both computer architecture and application...

Over the years computing has evolved to 'nearly always on' web-based mobile computing devices. In the near future we can expect that hardware will become a commodity and the value will be in the software to drive it and the data it generates. The data deluge will require an infrastructure that...