NSERC strategic grant

March 01, 2008 -- The following SITE researchers were awarded an NSERC strategic project grant: Dr. E. Petriu, Scientific Collaborator at Larus, and N. D. Georganas for their project entitled 'GEMINI: GEstural Multimodal INteraction for Intelligent networked building environments', to the amount of $95,000 per year for two years.  Larus Technologies participates on the project as a supporting organization.

NSERC strategic grant

March 01, 2008 -- The following SITE researchers were awarded an NSERC strategic project grant: Dr. M. Bolic and Dr. V. Groza for their project entitled 'Modular Design of Configurable/Reconfigurable systems', to the amount of $97,000 per year for two years.  Larus Technologies participates on the project as a supporting organization.

University of Ottawa

May 2008 -- Peter Farkas, Hardware Engineer, participated as an instructor with the University of Ottawa sponsored Mini Enrichments course entitled "Robotics: Intelligent Connection of the Perception to Action." This course is offered to students in grades 8 to 12 who demonstrated excellent academic performance, and have an interest robotics.  The goal of the course is to discuss robotics as an intelligent connection of perception to action, and explain how robots work.  The students get to have hands on experience with a variety of robots in a fun and educational environment.

IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition

May 25, 2008 -- Larus Technologies proudly supports the IEEE 6th Annual Ottawa Robotics Competition, as the program event Gold Sponsor. The Competition aims at bringing engineering awareness to students in grades 7 and 8 by presenting a fun and instructive approach to problem solving. The event is being held on Sunday May 25th, 2008 at the SITE Building of the University of Ottawa. Dr. Rami Abielmona, VP Research & Engineering at Larus, currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition Committee.

University of Toronto Presentation

May 21, 2008 -- Dr. Rami Abielmona, VP Research & Engineering at Larus, presents "Sensor Networks in Two Keywords: In-Network Processing for Data-Centric Applications" at the University of Toronto. This talk will present current research and development in sensor networking and discuss applications of data fusion being developed at Larus Technologies Corporation.

SCAN article publication

April 2008 -- Dr. Rami Abielmona, VP Research & Engineering at Larus, discusses the state of robotics in the Ottawa region in the article "Here a robot, there a robot" authored by Dr. James Bowen, which appeared in the April 2008 issue of the National Capital SCAN.

ORF project

February 11, 2008 -- Dr. Emil Petriu, Scientific Collaborator at Larus, receives $2 million from Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation for his research in 'Developing Next-generation Public Safety And Security Systems Multimodal-Surveillance System for Security-Related Applications'.

IEEE Activites

March 18, 2008 -- Dr. Moufid Harb, Research Scientist at Larus, presents "Neural Networks for Environment Recognition and Local Navigation of a Mobile Robot" at the University of Ottawa.

January 8, 2008 -- Dr. Rami Abielmona, VP Research & Engineering at Larus, has been acclaimed to the position of Chair at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Educational Activities Committee for 2008.

December 19, 2007 -- Dr. Moufid Harb, Research Scientist at Larus, has been acclaimed to the position of Vice-Chair at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Ottawa Chapter for 2008.

OCE Award

December 17, 2007 -- Larus Technologies Corp. announces its receipt of an Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) First Job award, awarded to Peter Farkas, Hardware Engineer, for his expertise in the field of embedded system design.

Larus Announces NRC-IRAP Support

November 11, 2007 -- Larus Technologies Corp. announces its contribution from the National Research Council''s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) for the development of decision-support systems and embedded distributed fusion architectures.

Invited Panelist

September 9, 2007 -- The CATAWIT forum is pleased to present Gail DiCintio, VP Operations Larus Technologies, as part of a panel discussing the key strengths women need to exhibit in order to advance their careers. Click here.