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Conference City: Fredericton
Atlantic Canada's city of Fredericton is Canada's first city to
support a free urban high-speed wireless network. In 2004 the City of
Fredericton was recipient of the 2004 Canadian Information
Productivity Award, an award that offers Canada's highest form of
recognition for excellence in IT and innovation implementation. More
than 70% of the eastern province's knowledge industries are located
in Fredericton, the city with the largest per capita engineering
cluster in Canada. Fredericton is also home to two universities: St.
Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick. The University
of New Brunswick, founded in 1785, is one of the oldest public
universities in North America and home to Canada's first institution
to offer degrees in engineering and computer science.
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