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iCORE’s proposal review processes are structured to ensure the unbiased review of all requests. The processes are tailored specifically for each grant program, and involve external peer review at different levels.

The External Review Committee meets electronically on an as required basis to process proposals for major chair and professor awards. To perform an external review, the ERC will solicit opinions from a number of non-Albertan referees. These referees must be experts in the proposed candidate’s field of research. The ERC will evaluate a candidate and produce a report and recommendation based on the candidate’s research and leadership record and the opinions of the referees. This ERC report is given to the IRC to assist in making a decision on an award.

The ERC is composed of three to five representatives from the international ICT research community. In order to be appointed to the committee, the individuals must have extensive academic and industry research experience within ICT.


Dr Pierre Belanger (Chair)
Pierre R. Belanger received his BEng (Engineering Physics) degree from McGill University in 1959. He received his SM and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1962 and 1964, respectively. In 1964-65, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, and then went on to work for the Foxboro Company in Foxboro MA. In 1967 he joined McGill University as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. He remained at McGill, teaching and doing research in Automatic Control, until he retired in 2002. He was Chair of the Department from 1978 to 1984, Dean of Engineering from 1984 to 1994, then Vice-Principal of Research at McGill from 1995 to 2002. He is now a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

During the 1980's, Belanger served as co-Vice-Chair of the National Advisory Board for Science and Technology, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He served on several NSERC committees, Industry Canada's University Committee and on committees at the provincial level. He was involved with CIAR, IRIS and Precarn committees and was an original member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Presently, he is a Conseiller scientifique for the Fonds quebecois de recherche sur la nature et les technologies.

 

Dr Eric Grimson
Eric Grimson is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering. He also holds a joint appointment as a Lecturer on Radiology at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Regina in 1975 and a PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1980. Prof, Grimson currently heads the Computer Vision Group of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which has pioneered state of the art systems for object recognition, image database indexing, image guided surgery, target recognition, site modeling and many other areas of computer vision. Recently, his group has been active in applying vision techniques in medicine: for image guided surgery, minimally invasive surgery and telemedicine.

 

Dr John Hollerbach
Dr John Hollerbach is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the University of Utah's School of Computing. Dr Hollerbach is also a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Editor of the International Journal of Robotics Research, and the Director of the Virtual Environments and Teleoperation (VETO) Lab at the University of Utah. Dr Hollerbach's areas of research are in virtual reality, teleoperation, robotics, and human motor control. In his spare time, he enjoys skiing.

 

Dr Gordon MacNabb
Gordon MacNabb is an Ontario native and graduated in Civil Engineering from Queen's University in 1954. Following graduation he worked in British Columbia with the federal government and started what proved to be a 40-year involvement with the negotiation and implementation of the Columbia River Treaty. He and his wife Lorna returned to the Ottawa area in late 1957 and, for an 11-year period starting in 1967, he was Assistant Deputy Minister and Deputy Minister of the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. In 1978 he became the founding President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada's largest research granting council. Gordon left government in 1986 to set up his own consulting practice and, in that capacity, founded and ran an industrial research consortium, PRECARN Associates Inc., to pursue collaborative research in robotics and intelligent systems. That consortium, with over 30 industrial members, has now managed a research program of well over $100 million. Gordon left the presidency of PRECARN in 1992 and continued his consulting practice from his Okanagan home for seven years and now from his residence in Appleton, Ontario.

In addition to being an Officer of the Order of Canada, Gordon is a founding Fellow and former President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was named as Canadian High Technology Person of the Year in 1986. He is the recipient of many other awards including honorary degrees from eleven Canadian universities.

 

Dr John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos is a computer science professor at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology at the University of Toronto. He is currently leading a number of research projects and is principal investigator of both a national and a provincial Centre of Excellence. His research interests include information modelling techniques, covering notations, implementation techniques and applications, knowledge based systems, semantic data models, information system design and requirements engineering. He leads a project on software evolution, leads a project on organizational analysis and design, works on a software migration project funded by IBM Canada and NSERC, and works with Ontario Hydro on a project intended to develop intelligent assistants for power plant operators. Professor Mylopoulos received his BEng degree from Brown University in 1966 and his PhD degree from Princeton in 1970, the year he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. Mylopoulos is the recipient of the first Outstanding Services Award given by the Canadian AI Society (CSCSI), a co-recipient of the best-paper award of the 1994 International Conference on Software Engineering, a fellow of the American Association for AI (AAAI) and an elected member of the VLDB Endowment Board. He has served on the editorial board of several international journals. He has also contributed to the organization of major international conferences, including program co-chair of the International Joint Conference of AI (1991), general chair of the Entity-Relationship conference (1994), and program chair of the International IEEE Symposium of Requirements Engineering (1997).

 

Dr Nicholas Pippenger
Nicholas Pippenger is Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1974. He worked for IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1973 to 1980,and at the San Jose Research Laboratory (later the Almaden Research Center) from 1980 to 1989. He was named an IBM Fellow in 1987. From 1988 to 2003 he was Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He was appointed Canada Research Chair in Computer Science in 2001. His research interests centre in theoretical computer science, but also extend into communication theory and mathematics. Dr Pippenger is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a member of the American Mathematical Association, the Mathematical Association of America and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is the author of Theories of Computability, published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.