Projects

UBC's CIC is a public-private collaboration between UBC and Amazon. A CIC tackles problems or opportunities that matter to the community, and provides subject matter expertise and CIC leadership to drive innovation and provide digital solutions. UBC’s CIC focuses on Community Health and Wellbeing.

Screenshot of a PDF displaying archival economic data in a tabular format.

Automating Large-Scale Data Extraction from Archival Documents: University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Economics

  1. Automating Large-Scale Data Extraction from Archival Documents: University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Economics

    Researchers at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of Economics build a database of trade information with the help of automatic data extraction. View Project

    View Project Dec 2020

CIC-NET : A platform for UBC CIC alumni students

  1. CIC-NET : A platform for UBC CIC alumni students

    Current and previous UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (UBC-CIC) student employees, with a passion for innovation, can now stay connected and up to date with CIC updates, challenges and events. The UBC-CIC has launched the Cloud Innovation Centre Network (CIC-NET), a platform designed to keep student alumni engaged with CIC challenges and activities after their co-op work term is over. View Project

    View Project Dec 2020

Automatic Zoom Transcriptions

  1. Automatic Zoom Transcriptions

    As classes transition online for the fall, universities are working to lessen the impact on students’ learning and the strain on instructors working to adapt to these new circumstances. Accessibility is one of the major areas disrupted by this change, and the UBC CIC investigated this challenge with the tools and solutions available to us. View Project

    View Project Nov 2020

BC Smart Access to Guide Emergency care

  1. BC Smart Access to Guide Emergency care

    The BC Smart Access to Guide Emergency Care (SAGE) is a result of a collaboration between the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia (RCCbc), the BC Emergency Medicine Network, and the UBC Cloud Innovation Centre. The purpose of SAGE BC is to provide emergency workers with important logistical, medical, and regional information when treating and transporting individuals in rural BC communities. This repository allows healthcare services in these communities to be delivered in a more efficient and time-effective manner. View Project

    View Project Oct 2020

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Vancouver Coastal Health MRI Project “CAN’T WAIT”

  1. Vancouver Coastal Health MRI Project “CAN’T WAIT”

    The Lower Mainland MRI Central Intake Advanced Neural Network for Triage and Waitlist Management of MRI Exam Scheduling. View Project

    View Project Aug 2020

Serratus: Ultra-high throughput discovery of new coronaviruses

An Open Science project for ultra-rapid discovery of known and unknown coronaviruses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by screening all public RNA-sequencing data. View Project

  1. Serratus: Ultra-high throughput discovery of new coronaviruses

    An Open Science project for ultra-rapid discovery of known and unknown coronaviruses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by screening all public RNA-sequencing data. View Project

    View Project Jun 2020

  2. Serratus: Ultra-high throughput discovery of new coronaviruses – Phase 2

    Serratus is an Open Science project for ultra-rapid discovery of known and unknown coronavirus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. View Project

    View Project Oct 2020