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Latest · October 12, 2026
Stories tagged “UNB” — tech coverage from New Brunswick, Canada.
Fredericton blockchain-intelligence firm Gray Wolf Analytics presented on scam detection, AI, AML and crypto/cyber defence at an RBC Lunch & Learn hosted by UNB's J. Herbert Smith Centre.
Science dean Sanjeev Seahra will lead UNB's slice of Concordia's WxAlliance: using AI to sharpen cheap, low-resolution runs so Atlantic storms are not a blur.
CBC filmed Sys-MoDEL's MARV, a one-fifth-scale research vehicle with independent steering, torque, and brakes. Kush Bubbar says the control tech could reach production ATVs within five years.
Amisha Parikh spoke at UNB's Aug. 20 cybersecurity summit, sat on a panel with CIC and the NRC, and walked the Mastercard-CIC IoT laboratory the company has backed since 2022.
Craig MacEachern takes the McCain- and FCC-backed chair with a brief to make precision ag work on New Brunswick's shallow-bedrock, irregularly shaped fields — starting with cold storage and abandoned farmland.
The Faculty of Computer Science wrapped two July weeks of Adventures in Computing for grades 6–8 — the same kids walking into Policy 311 classrooms this September.
The summer alumni-magazine Q&A is sharpest on mimicry, chatbot liability, and the productivity paradox — and thinnest when it turns into a campus brochure.
A $97,026 Canada Foundation for Innovation award will help Scott Bateman's team build privacy-preserving synthetic health data — part of $397,026 across three UNB projects announced August 20.
Lucy Thompson and Catherine O'Connell-Cooper ran Curiosity's Canadian APXS instrument on a field of bright stones in Gale crater. The Science cover story: they are elemental sulfur, not sulfate.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster examines MCP, A2A, Agora, and ANP agent protocols end-to-end, showing how identity ambiguity could let an agent grab the right tool from the wrong provider.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster uses real TLS traffic data and system dependency maps to turn cryptographic discovery into a staged post-quantum migration plan.
Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity research pits PRG masking against RLWE homomorphic encoding for secure aggregation, finding post-quantum resilience and an 8x local encoding speedup — plus a client-side privacy trade-off.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster pairs specialized AI agents that read structure, semantics, and behaviour to catch anomalies in IEC 61850 substation traffic that single detectors miss.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster pairs adversarial training with a nine-expert Mixture-of-Experts architecture that holds up better than prior MoE defences against FGSM and PGD attacks.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster connects graph-neural-network malware verdicts to known benign and malicious behaviour patterns, keeping detection strong while making it interpretable.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster introduces quadratic separators based on invariant subspaces to cut redundant search in symmetric integer programming — the class of problem behind scheduling and logistics.
A Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity poster proposes a per-response risk snapshot for enterprise LLM pipelines, flagging unreliable retrieval, sensitive-data exposure, risky tool use, and weak factual support.
PST Cybersecurity Summit 2026 brings speakers from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Public Safety Canada, DND/CAF Cyber Command, Scotiabank, TD and Mastercard to the Fredericton Convention Centre on Aug. 20 — alongside eight UNB research posters on adversarial AI, malware explainability, agent-protocol security and post-quantum migration.
UNB was the only Canadian university picked to help track Artemis II — the April mission that carried CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly to the Moon, farther from Earth than any human has ever travelled. Two UNB researchers also sit on the Curiosity rover science team.
A new deal with national nonprofit TICAN will match MTME students and postdocs to New Brunswick companies in mobility, biomanufacturing, clean growth, microelectronics, and ICT.
Eleven Student Digital Mentors are running free workshops and drop-ins across New Brunswick — resetting passwords, spotting scams, and proving the digital divide is a people problem.
The UNB professor and founding director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity is one of ten New Brunswickers receiving the province’s highest honour in 2026.
The pilot reached more than 150 students on the days New Brunswick classrooms sit empty — and the Dieppe session sent the adaptive switches and toys it built to the Stan Cassidy Centre.
The UNB-rooted startup is piloting seaweed biochar with the City of Fredericton through Planet Hatch's MERGE program — testing whether ocean minerals and better moisture retention can cut municipal watering.
The new Network for Entrepreneurship and Innovation puts seven campus programs under one roof, with Dhirendra Shukla as inaugural executive director and a claimed $125.5M spinoff impact.
Maryjoe Udochi and Daniel Ifebueme’s credit-intelligence startup won the July 16 demo day as Safe Mail, SYNRAAH, and Little Halo also launched from the Wu Centre stage.
Safe Mail, SYNRAAH, Little Halo, and Creduman take the Wu Centre stage July 16 — cybersecurity, ergonomics hardware, newcomer childcare, and credit intelligence.
From the J. Herbert Smith Centre and Energia Ventures to Picketa Systems and Potential Motors, the University of New Brunswick has quietly become one of Canada's most productive campus startup factories.
From NBTel's first-in-North-America digital network and McKenna's information highway to IBM's Q1 Labs acquisition and UNB's Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity — how a university city became one of Canada's security clusters.
The department that helped wire the province — and staff its phone company, its security cluster, and its startup pipeline — marks a hundred years of graduates.
The student venture fund's 2025 picks show where the next UNB startup vintage is pointing — spatial tech, financial planning software, and diagnostics.
Born inside UNB's TME centre in 2019, the startup applies AI to blockchain analytics so banks and exchanges can spot criminal money before it touches them.
Launched in 2021 with $5 million from the former premier and a plan to raise $50 million more, UNB's McKenna Institute has grown into the province's most ambitious bet on digital skills — reaching from kindergarten classrooms to research chairs.
