Patricia Pickett

Articles by Patricia Pickett

Lakehead opens Advanced Technology and Academic Centre

Thunder Bay, Ont.-based Lakehead University late last week unveiled its new high-tech teaching and learning facility, the Advanced Technology and Academic Centre.

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In health care, efficient communication of information can be a tricky thing

Number of female IT grads remains low

A recent survey of 10 universities by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) suggests the average number of women graduating from computer studies programs has not gone up since last year.

Talent forum attracts laid-off workers

After being out of work for two years, Roland Michaud feels like he is finally in "transition mode."

Strike deadline looms for public sector IT workers

Wednesday marks the last day the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) has left to negotiate contracts before some 15,000 provincial government workers

Closing the case on data integrity

Rene Hamel, senior manager of corporate investigation services in the computer forensics and business intelligence tools department at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), shares some crime-busting stories from his RCMP and KPMG days.

Gwava makes Linux move

SALT LAKE CITY - Montreal-based software vendor Gwava announced at this year

Air watchdog mulls biometrics

A federal Crown corporation responsible for aviation security services is in the process of testing biometric technology as part of its new restricted area identification card (RAIC) program.

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