SCAN and scansite.ca are about the people who make
up the advanced technology community in Ontario. Who you are. What you’re
doing. Your successes. Your try-agains.
Our community
Communications is at the very heart of community and community
is at the very heart of achievement. Ontario has adopted the cluster as a
method of concentrating talent and productive capabilities. We have a cluster
of software developers. Wireless. Photonics. Genomics. Artificial Intelligence.
Medical/Pharma. Nanotechnology. Bioinformatics. Fabless semiconductors,
Nuclear. And Ontario itself is a cluster of clusters, with 6,000 companies
and 250,000 workers engaged in creating and selling products, services and
systems based on advanced tech. When interests converge, as well as living
space, the dynamic can be thrilling. Lots to write about.
Our team
The team that will be doing this is led by Tony Patterson (tony@scansite.ca, 613-244-3396), who
was also founding editor of Silicon Valley NORTH, a position he relinquished
when he sold that publication in 2000. Tony is an experienced journalist
who has also had his boots to the fire in the tech sector as CEO of a microelectronics
integration firm. He is a former associate editor of Financial
Times of Canada, Canadian correspondent for New
Scientist and a widely published
magazine writer. He is the recipient of
journalism awards from the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and Ottawa
Life Sciences Council.
Brian Patterson (brian@scansite.ca, 819-563-1133), publisher, is a former
vice president of Megatrend Communications and was VP of sales and western
operations for Silicon Valley NORTH.
Greg Patterson (greg@scansite.ca) is senior writer. An alumnus of Silicon
Valley NORTH, he has been widely published in newspapers and magazines,
including Ottawa Magazine, The Gazette, The Citizen and Maisonneuve.
WHY SCAN?
Scan is a word that connects literacy with IT with biotech.
Its first meaning is to look at something intently or quickly.
When we use the word in connection with reading it refers to
picking out individual words and sentences, which is the reason
for highlighting in word files. It means to look about, in order
to recognize patterns, as in news scan or environmental scan.
There are computer scans for virus detection. We scan text and
images into digital formats. The scanning electron microscope
(partially developed in Canada at UofT) is a powerful scientific tool.
The reader we plug into a modern car's computer to diagnose its
electronic systems is called a scan tool. In the medical specialty
of bioscience we do CATscans, PETscans, MRIscans to detect cancers,
heart disease, brain malfunctions.
C'est le mot juste, the right word, for what we have in mind.
