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Donor Funding Helps Equip HATCH Makerspace (and detect neutrinos)
Many UBC tech-based startups progress through entrepreneurship@UBC (e@UBC) intake programs and graduate to the HATCH accelerator in the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). There they receive the mentorship, intern support, and investor access that helps them succeed. Now, thanks to the support of donors, they can refine their prototypes in a fully […]
Blockchain@UBC Launches Graduate Training Program
In January 2020, the ICICS research cluster Blockchain@UBC launched the Blockchain@UBC Graduate Training Pathway, funded by the NSERC CREATE program. This two-year, non-degree multidisciplinary training program offers existing master’s and doctoral students personalized learning in the blockchain field. The initial cohort of students hails from engineering, computer science, business, publc policy, and archival and information […]
ICICS Researchers Awarded Supercluster Project: Intelligent Network for Point-of-Care Ultrasound
January 20, 2020
Drs. Purang Abolmaesumi, Robert Rohling and Teresa Tsang have been awarded funding for their Intelligent Network for Point-of-Care Ultrasound project through Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster.
Turning Over A New Artificial Leaf
ICICS and the Clean Energy Research Centre co-hosted a talk by Professor Yimin Wu of the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Nanotechnology on December 9. Professor Wu described novel techniques pioneered in his lab that combine X-ray and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to understand 2-dimensional materials such as graphene at the atomic level, then modify […]
HATCH Accelerator 2019-20 Venture Cohort
The newest cohort of ventures joined HATCH in 2019. Here the founders describe some of the problems they are trying to solve.
Rogers 5G Edge Codeathon
Oct 29, 2019
UBC and Rogers Communications have partnered to set up the first 5G smart campus in Canada.
