{"id":402,"date":"2008-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-165-president-and-ceo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:57","slug":"innovation-anthology-165-president-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/09\/02\/innovation-anthology-165-president-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #165: President and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 165.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2008, even a six year old can navigate around Facebook and YouTube.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut until just fifteen years ago, the only people who had access to the internet were scientists and the military.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was only in November of 1992, its American creators opened the internet to commercial use.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAn early adopter was the Alberta Research Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWalt Neilsen seized the opportunity.  As ARC\u2019s former Manager of Information, he convinced the Council to provide internet service to the public and to Alberta\u2019s business community.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nWALT NIELSEN:<\/b><em>   And what I saw when the internet was coming forward and expanding was an opportunity to take networks out of the realm of being individual networks, private networks inside organizations to being a public network which would then open lots of doors in terms of communications.  Then sometime in the mid 1990\u2019s there was an explosion of software which allowed individuals to use the internet very easily.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOver the last 15 years, Walt Neilsen has witnessed the internet blossom into a truly important and vital means of personal communication.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to the <b>Alberta Research Council.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/em><br \/>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>David Bailey, PhD, <\/h3>\n<h4>Genome Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.ab.ca\">Alberta Research Council<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEstablished as the first provincial research organization in Canada, the Alberta Research Council is 85 years old. The Alberta Research Council (ARC) develops and commercializes technologies to give customers a competitive advantage. A leader in innovation, ARC provides solutions globally to the energy, life sciences, agriculture, environment, forestry and manufacturing sectors.<br \/>\nARC performs about five per cent of the roughly $1.5 billion in R&amp;D done in Alberta each year, and generates revenues of approximately $84 million per year.  ARC operates from five sites across the province in Edmonton, Calgary, Vegreville and Devon and employs more than 600 highly-skilled people.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In January 2010, under the new Alberta Innovation Framework, the Alberta Research Council was restructured and incorporated into the new provincial agency  Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/ARC2006_logo_with_-0004_12050.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-09-02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, even a six year old can navigate around Facebook and YouTube.   But until just fifteen years ago, the only people who had access to the internet were scientists and the military.    It wa only in November of 1992, its American creators opened the internet to commercial use.   An early adopter was the Alberta Research Council. <em> (Alberta Research Council)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-research-council","category-information-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}