• CRC made presentations to several foreign delegations from Australia, Chile, China, Japan, India, Korea, Spain, Thailand and other countries, as well as to private companies from Canada and abroad.
  
• Two students from the Technical University of Catalonia met with CRC's Broadband and Optical Networks team in March 2004 to discuss how CRC's network control strategy, developed with the University of Ottawa under CANARIE' program, could be adapted to manage the network elements of Spain's optical network testbed, i2CAT (UCLP Project).
  
• In October 2003, eight journalists and editors from Europe's top wireless and electronics publications toured CRC's facilities. In February 2004, CRC welcomed another group of 15 technology journalists, representing 11 European countries.
  
• Along with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Industry Canada and Canadian Digital Television, CRC welcomed a large Korean delegation to discuss the future of DTV and digital multimedia broadcasting in Korea and Canada.
  
• Spain's AD Telecom visited CRC for assistance in adapting its DTV technologies and products to the North American market. The company has expressed interest in collaborating on DTV datacasting.
  
• Namho Hur, a visiting scientist from ETRI in Korea, joined CRC for a year to work on view interpolation for Multiview 3D video systems.
  
• Professor Jong-Soo Seo, Director of the new Centre for Advanced Broadcasting Technology at Yonsei University in South Korea, spent one month at CRC to learn about broadcasting technologies from an established and recognized research organization.
  

CRC's Engine of Expertise

CRC's people form an engine of expertise that shares knowledge and technical advice in areas relevant to the Canadian and world economies. Numerous researchers have won awards for their publications and innovations leading to technology transfer and commercialization. Many have shared their expertise through conference and workshop presentations, technology demonstrations, and information sessions.

Awards

• Dr. Stephen Mihailov won the Under 40 Award for Researchers in Photonics from the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications for furthering the development of fibre Bragg grating components. He was presented with the award at the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation Awards Dinner on April 7, 2004
  
• Barry Felstead was the first Canadian and the first non-American to receive the 2003 IEEE MILCOM Technical Achievement Award for significant technical contributions in military communications.
  
• CRC received two awards at the 2003 IEEE Broadcast Symposium, including the Scott Helt Memorial Award for the best paper published in the IEEE's Transaction on Broadcasting.
  
• Executive Vice-President Veena Rawat received the prestigious "Woman of the Year" award from Canadian Women in Communications in February 2004 for her outstanding leadership and support of the advancement of women.
  
• CRC's Technology Transfer Office won a Leadership Award from the Federal Partners in Technology Transfer in May 2003 for its achievements in protecting and commercializing CRC's intellectual property.
  

Events

• Louis Thibault, Research Manager for CRC's Advanced Audio Systems group, demonstrated the latest research in DAB and DTV at the International Broadcast Convention in Amsterdam, September 2003.
  
• Collaboration between CRC, CBC, Telesat and CDTV resulted in the first HDTV transmission of a hockey game over the air in Ottawa.
  
• CRC demonstrated CRC-COVLITE at the Western Association of Broadcast Engineers annual conference in Edmonton.