Dr Christopher Baker has been appointed the first chair holder of the Innovatia Research Chair at the Univ of New Brunswick. The chair is a partnership between Bell Aliant subsidiary Innovatia (next generation solutions), UNB and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Franklin — an expert on semantic technologies — will head up research projects while serving as principal scientific researcher with Innovatia. He previously headed the semantic technology group in the data mining department at Singapore's Institute for Inforcom Research….