- Event: Changing Times: Innovators Change Everything
- Date: Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2000
- Time: Registration: 11:45 a.m. Lunch and speakers: 12
noon -1 p.m. - Place: Shaughnessy Salon, Delta Pinnacle Hotel, 1128
W. Hastings St. - Parking: Available at the hotel. Enter off Hastings St.
University of British Columbia President Martha Piper and Computer
Sciences Prof. Gregor Kiczales will focus on how university innovation
contributes to the B.C. economy in a presentation to the Vancouver
Board of Trade on Tuesday, Oct. 31. The event will take place from
12 noon to 1 p.m. in Vancouver’s Delta Pinnacle Hotel at 1128 W.
Hastings St.
Kiczales–who is a leading software researcher and holds the university’s
first research chair in Software Design –will discuss his decision
to leave the Silicon Valley to create a Software Practices Lab at
UBC in a presentation called Changing Times: Innovators Change Everything.
Piper will report on how UBC innovators have contributed to the
implementation of Trek 2000, the university’s vision document.
Highlights include new facilities for high technology and biotechnology
enterprises such as the Michael Smith Biotechnology Laboratory as
well as a new research resource for B.C.’s wine industry.
UBC’s annual report is available on the Web at www.ubc.ca/annualreport.
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