New CEO promises to move Alberta’s Cybera to the next level

February 17, 2010

CALGARY, AB, Feb. 17, 2010/ Troy Media/ — Cybera, a non-profit university-based organization set up to extend Alberta’s cyber infrastruture, has a new president and CEO.

He is Robin Winsor, whose mandate is to move Cybera to the next level – into the business community. Winsor worked in the research department at Gulf before using his knowledge of geophysics and artificial intelligence to develop the world’s first direct digital x-ray system.

Robin Winsor

Among Cybera’s services ares cyberinfrastructure-related project management and consultation services, cloud computing, social networking platforms, high performance computing, and data management. Researchers and companies work with Cybera to investigate, develop, and test new technologies, or to launch their products in effective innovative ways.

Cybera currently operates cyber ports at the University of Alberta. “There are similar facilities in Calgary, Lethbridge and, by extension, through networking all over the world,” Winsor says. Cybera’s facilities can be used to hold video conferences with any part of the world. “And this is just a small part of the services that Cybera offers,” he adds.

Winsor is particularly keen on making Alberta’s energy sector aware of the Cybera and how it can make use of the cyber facilities.

Although current access to the cyber network is somewhat limited, Winsor says Cybera’s goal is make access as pervasive and ubiquitous as that of the telephone.

Cheryl Croucher

Channels: The Calgary Beacon, February 19, 2010