The Canadian ICT sector contributed 242 billion in revenue and 104.5 billion in GDP (Canadian ICT Sector Profile 2021) – 5.3% of national revenue and 15.3% of national GDP growth.
Alberta -- 4th largest provincial ICT contributor to Canadian revenue and GDP at 10% of the total (percentage from 2020 – Statista) ~ 24 billion in revenue and ~10.4 billion in GDP
Economic Impact: The ICT sector creates important economic and employment impacts within the economy. each direct job in the ICT sector supports an additional 1.3 jobs within the Canadian economy and each $1 million of direct GDP generated within the ICT sector leads to an additional $862,000 in GDP generated for Canada. (Canadian ICT Sector Profile 2021 (canada.ca)
Alberta has 12 'sector' companies in Globe and Mail, Report on Business top growing companies Canada’s top growing companies 2021 - The Globe and Mail
5 Alberta companies in top 100 Solutions Providers Channel Daily News
Alberta has:
THREE top research universities in Canada (2021)
ELEVEN Canada Research Chairs
TWELVE Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
SEVEN Industrial Research Chairs
THREE Endowed Chairs and Professorships
Research
Researchers at Alberta Universities authored over 1000 research papers in computer science, computer/software engineering and geomatics in 2020
(go to Learning page for file listing Research)
"ICT" researchers at Alberta universities receive 35 grants (2021)
University of Alberta:
UofA professor/CTO Quantum Silicon wins AVS Nanoscale Science and Technology Division Nanotechnology Recognition Award.
UofA graduate student named Student of the Year by IBM Canada
Alberta student 1st Canadian to win $500K Canadian international science competition
Dr. Jonathon Schaeffer (UofA, Computing Science) received a lifetime achievement award from CS-Can | Info-Can. -- work in AI (2021)
Dr. Richard S. Sutton (UofA, Computing Science) named Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)
U of A has one of Canada’s first computing science programs.
The Government of Canada invested $125 million to build on and grow AI strengths resident at the UofA, Universities of Toronto and Montreal.
University of Alberta – Computing Science
AMII (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) researchers, based out of the University of Alberta are world-leaders in a number of subfields of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
University of Calgary
Rogers/University of Calgary Internet of Things Chair
NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Prairies)
Dr. Carey Williamson (UofC, Computer Science) awarded the CS-Can|Info-Can Distinguished Service Award (2021)
Haskayne School of Business (UofC) Business Technology Management is the # 1 business research program in Canada focusing on quantitative information systems modelling (including Artificial Intelligence) and economics of information systems modelling (e.g. empirical and game theoretic closed-form analytic models).
The University of Calgary had 200 graduates in computer science (2019/20)
Alberta -- 4th largest provincial ICT contributor to Canadian revenue and GDP at 10% of the total (percentage from 2020 – Statista) ~ 24 billion in revenue and ~10.4 billion in GDP
Economic Impact: The ICT sector creates important economic and employment impacts within the economy. each direct job in the ICT sector supports an additional 1.3 jobs within the Canadian economy and each $1 million of direct GDP generated within the ICT sector leads to an additional $862,000 in GDP generated for Canada. (Canadian ICT Sector Profile 2021 (canada.ca)
Alberta has 12 'sector' companies in Globe and Mail, Report on Business top growing companies Canada’s top growing companies 2021 - The Globe and Mail
5 Alberta companies in top 100 Solutions Providers Channel Daily News
Alberta has:
THREE top research universities in Canada (2021)
- 5th -- University of Calgary
- 6th -- University of Alberta
- 37th -- University of Lethbridge
ELEVEN Canada Research Chairs
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Geographic Engineering
- Information Technology
TWELVE Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
SEVEN Industrial Research Chairs
- Computer Science
THREE Endowed Chairs and Professorships
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Computing Science/AI (DeepMInd)
- Land Tenure and Cadastral Systems
Research
Researchers at Alberta Universities authored over 1000 research papers in computer science, computer/software engineering and geomatics in 2020
(go to Learning page for file listing Research)
"ICT" researchers at Alberta universities receive 35 grants (2021)
University of Alberta:
UofA professor/CTO Quantum Silicon wins AVS Nanoscale Science and Technology Division Nanotechnology Recognition Award.
UofA graduate student named Student of the Year by IBM Canada
Alberta student 1st Canadian to win $500K Canadian international science competition
Dr. Jonathon Schaeffer (UofA, Computing Science) received a lifetime achievement award from CS-Can | Info-Can. -- work in AI (2021)
Dr. Richard S. Sutton (UofA, Computing Science) named Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)
U of A has one of Canada’s first computing science programs.
The Government of Canada invested $125 million to build on and grow AI strengths resident at the UofA, Universities of Toronto and Montreal.
University of Alberta – Computing Science
- solved checkers
- won the Supercomputing Cluster Challenge
- earned the IBM research group of the year award
- placed highly in the ACM programming competition
- won the first man-machine poker tournament
AMII (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) researchers, based out of the University of Alberta are world-leaders in a number of subfields of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
University of Calgary
Rogers/University of Calgary Internet of Things Chair
NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Prairies)
Dr. Carey Williamson (UofC, Computer Science) awarded the CS-Can|Info-Can Distinguished Service Award (2021)
Haskayne School of Business (UofC) Business Technology Management is the # 1 business research program in Canada focusing on quantitative information systems modelling (including Artificial Intelligence) and economics of information systems modelling (e.g. empirical and game theoretic closed-form analytic models).
The University of Calgary had 200 graduates in computer science (2019/20)
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