NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Mobile First Technology

在新不伦瑞克，就像在加拿大其他地区一样，移动计算领域蕴藏着巨大的机遇。风险投资家玛丽·米克尔在2012年5月发布的互联网趋势年度报告中指出，互联网增长依然强劲，移动设备的普及仍处于早期阶段。全球11亿移动3G用户只占潜在市场的18%，但每年以37%的速度快速增长。这一增长在可预见的未来为创新和经济发展提供了巨大的机会。新不伦瑞克建立了一个重要的信息和通信技术部门(相对于其规模)，由高度创新和独立拥有的公司主导，这些公司已成为各自领域的行业领先者，如Radian6、Spielo International、Mariner Partners和J.D.Irving Limited。新不伦瑞克社区学院(NBCC)将通过其Mobile First计划支持移动计算的这种增长，包括创建Mobile First技术的工业研究教席。在这个新兴的移动计算领域，存在着两个需要解决的挑战。首先，创新者需要帮助谈判主流移动计算平台(如黑莓10、iOS、安卓和Windows Phone 8)的“围墙花园”，这些平台要求公司就多种软件和安全标准进行谈判，以将解决方案推向市场。第二个挑战是创建一个有效的创新生态系统，以支持移动技术的广泛潜在创新者，从新不伦瑞克的传统小型初创公司到老牌公司，所有这些公司都希望通过在这些不同的平台上部署应用程序来接触尽可能多的受众。NBCC的主席候选人William McIver博士是一名计算机科学家，最近担任国家研究主席的新兴技术部门的高级研究官员。作为Mobile First的负责人

In New Brunswick, as in the rest of Canada, there is great opportunity in mobile computing. Venture capitalist Mary Meeker, in her annual report on Internet trends in May 2012 stated Internet growth remains robust and mobile adoption is still in its early stages. The world's 1.1 billion mobile 3G subscribers are only 18 per cent of the potential market, but it is growing rapidly at a rate of 37 per cent year over year. This growth presents tremendous opportunities for innovation and economic development for the foreseeable future. New Brunswick has built a significant information and communications technology sector (relative to its size), dominated by highly innovative and independently-owned companies that have become industry leaders in their respective domains, such as Radian6, Spielo International, Mariner Partners and J. D. Irving Limited. The New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) will support this growth in mobile computing with its Mobile First initiative, including the creation of an Industrial Research Chair in Mobile First Technology. Within this emerging mobile computing sector lies two challenges that need to be resolved. First, innovators need help negotiating the 'walled gardens' of the major mobile computing platforms (e.g., Blackberry 10, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8), which require companies to negotiate multiple software and security standards to bring solutions to market. Second, is the challenge to create an effective ecosystem of innovation that is supportive of the broad range of potential innovators of mobile technologies, from New Brunswick's traditional small start-ups to established corporations, all of which want to reach the largest audience possible by deploying apps across these different platforms. NBCC's chair nominee, Dr. William McIver, is a computer scientist and most recently was the senior research officer of the National Research Chair's emerging technologies division. As the head of the Mobile First