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Two SFU professors receive $300,000 grants from Innovate BC

Written by: Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Two SFU professors have been awarded $300,000 each in grant money through Innovate BC’s Ignite Program, out of four total winners. Dr. Martin Ester, a computing science professor, won the award for his collaboration with Terramera on a new computer platform to design greener, more efficient treatments for crop disease. In an email interview with The Peak, Ester stated that through his project, Canada could achieve better farming productivity while remaining environmentally friendly — an effect that could ripple globally.  “We will develop machine learning methods that learn from data about the effectiveness of…

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