Dr Alan George

Dr Alan George has been appointed to the board of the Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario (ORANO), the owner of ORION, Ontario's high speed research and education network. George is associate provost, information systems and technology and interim dean of graduate studies at the Univ of Waterloo. He is a pioneer in the application of computing in scientific research and is best known for work in the field of numerical linear algebra which has found application in the design of aircraft and fuel efficient cars….