As low carbon technologies become more pervasive, distribution network operators are looking to support the expected changes in the demands on the low voltage networks through the smarter control of storage devices. Accurate forecasts of demand at the individual household-level, or of small...

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.

Health spending, the largest component of provincial government spending, has risen significantly over the past decade. It has been asserted that larger health expenditures have caused provincial governments to spend less on other types of government services. Using a panel of province-level...

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...

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...