It is often said that Canada lags behind in entrepreneurship. That has not been my experience. This blog profiles two successful Canadian entrepreneurs who work in the GRAND space: Greg Wolfond and Kunal Gupta.

The Order of Canada, one of Canada's highest civilian honours, recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation.

TAGlab founder and GRAND researcher Ron Baecker along with students Xavier Snelgrove and Mike Massimi are profiled in this article about their innovative apps geared towards an older demographic. Read about their Talking e-Book, My Voice and Communicating Picture Frame products that improve the lives of older adults.

SIGGRAPH, the world's premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, will return to Vancouver in 2014.

Read his blog to stay informed on the SOPA/PIPA protests as well as IP, copyright, digital labour and privacy issues.

GRAND NCE will be represented at the Global Game Jam Vancouver running from January 27-29, 2012.

GRAND catches up with the SFU SIAT graduate and entrepreneur about his new endeavour.

The Sonic Cradle, created by GRAND's Jay Vidyarthi, will appear at TEDActive. (Links to archive.org)

An excellent example of judicial law-making is the recent case of Jones v. Tsige, when the Ontario Court of Appeal created a right to sue for invasion of privacy.

The NSERC Synergy Awards recognize partnerships in natural science and engineering research and development between universities and Canadian industry. Congratulations to GRAND's Eugene Fiume (University of Toronto) and Gord Kurtenbach (Autodesk)!

A GRAND and SFU grad student project that melds music, meditation and technology landed a rare spot as an exhibit at TEDActive 2012 in Palm Springs, Calif., Feb. 27-March 2.

Local researchers find potential market for their ideas at University of Alberta workshop. (Links to archive.org)

GRAND PhD Candidate Noreen Kamal shares her experience as a Panelist at SXSW Interactive.

Visual Analytics researchers promote international cooperation at the inaugural BRAVA workshop in Brazil. GRAND, The Boeing Company, Mitacs and UFSCar in attendance.

GRAND NCE, in cooperation with Funcom, invites post-secondary students and recent graduates to apply to the 2012 GRAND/Funcom Games Initiative.

GRAND opens up university research labs to help new businesses find their way to market.

With the convergence of telecommunications and information technology, the adaptation of old media products to the digital world and the development of competing new media products, lawyers who advised the old media players need to adapt to meet the needs of their morphing clients.

The conductive "smart fur" touch sensor developed by Anna Flagg and Karon MacLean at UBC was featured as one of New York Times Magazine's "32 Innovations that Will Change Your Tomorrow".

More than 70 Canadian humanities and social science associations meet under the annual Congress conference umbrella. Every year, GRAND has a large presence, with this year being no exception.

FatFonts is a new way to view large numeric data sets. With FatFonts, the amount of ink used for each digit is related to the value of the digit it represents. So, individual data values are represented along with an overview.

GRAND Ph.D Candidate Claude Fortin reviews the 2012 Computer Human Interaction Mentoring (CHIMe) Workshop, a discipline-specific workshop for mentoring underrepresented students in HCI.

GRAND congratulates Dr. Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, for receiving a SSHRC Partnership Grant. Her “Learning environments across disciplines” (LEADS) study will advance the understanding of technology-rich learning processes across a broad range of fields.

GRAND researcher Jason Lewis at Concordia University creates a series of poems written and designed for touch devices

CBC's Robert Harris has prepared a brilliant, five-part documentary on the history of the recording business. GRAND's Ian Kyer talks about copyright issues in Parts 4 and 5.

Joue Le Jeu / Play Along is a completely playable exhibition drawing rave reviews. The show runs June 20 to August 19 at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.

GRAND researcher Luanne Freund at UBC's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) shares her experience at the 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.

The creative start-up will apply GRAND technology, which is at the core of the company's proposed augmented reality game for mobile devices.

Funding has been secured for a new business incubator dedicated to the building and selling of video games.

Jason Della Rocca, founder of Perimeter Partners and member of the GRAND Research Management Committee, will be the CEO and co-founder of the yet-to-be-named incubator.

The 10th Annual Oxford Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Program (OII SDP) brought together doctoral students from around the world to share their work and learn from leading academics in the field.

GRAND doctoral student Elizabeth Shaffer (University of British Columbia) answers a few questions about her participation.

Researchers at the University of Alberta have teamed up with colleagues in one of the world’s leading centres on electronic gaming to form a network that will help close the gap between academia and the gaming industry.

On August 13th, the GRAND community gathered once again for the 3rd event in GRAND Café series.

Elections B.C. has appointed five people to its independent panel on Internet voting, including GRAND researcher Konstantin Beznosov.

Concordia PhD student and GRAND HQP Adam van Sertima talks about the Bizarro Game Controller workshop at Montreal's first ever Mini Maker Faire.

Five GRAND doctoral students representing universities across the country were selected to attend the Summer Social Webshop, a 4-day interdisciplinary workshop hosted by the University of Maryland, College Park.

GRAND researcher Jeremy Cooperstock of the Shared Reality Lab at McGill University placed first in the "Brainstorming Round" of the Mozilla Ignite Challenge, presented by Mozilla and the National Science Foundation.

Developers are now invited to make this and other big ideas a reality.

Led by Kellogg Booth, the GRAND network is helping transform Canada's digital media research landscape.

This summer, 10 students and recent graduates were tasked with using their technical skill and creative flair to produce a working videogame prototype as part of the 2012 GRAND-Funcom Games Initiative.

The catch? They only had 10 weeks to go from the original Funcom concept to a high-quality prototype of the game, titled Dungeons of Londree.

Extolling the benefits of getting kids hooked on video games may seem counterintuitive, but Darcy Fehlings makes a convincing case.

Researchers Gather at Dalhousie to Discuss Measuring Influence on Social Media

The Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship, awarded annually, is designed to foster original and creative information science research that has the potential to make a practical and theoretical contribution to the field.

Simon Fraser University, with the City of Vancouver, has won the competition to host the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in 2015.

New indie game developer, co-founded by GRAND RMC member Jason Della Rocca, will support emerging Canadian mobile game studios with $1.4M in funding.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired a selection of 14 video games, including "Pac-Man" and "Myst", to lay the foundation for a new collection that will ultimately include 40 titles.

GRAND researcher Kim Sawchuk is developing a mobile application for GPS-enabled smartphones that will allow people to discover historical and geographical landmarks concealed by years of development.

Join us in Toronto for the fourth annual GRAND conference, May 14-16, 2013.

Registration and Call for Participation now open!

Graduate students create interactive online story map and a web-based game that Edmontonians will be able to use to explore the library’s history and engage with its services.

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GRAND PNI Barry Wellman and CBC's Nora Young discuss why networked individualism is the new social operating system.