YooName’s creator honored at 2008 OCRI awards

OTTAWA, Canada, April 3, 2008 – OCRI, Ottawa’s economic development agency honoured Ottawa’s best and brightest companies, executives and students for their innovative work and contributions to the city’s knowledge-based sector at the 13th annual OCRI Awards gala.

David Nadeau from the University of Ottawa received the Student Researcher of the Year award for inspired research resulting in a more intelligent on-line search engine and his commercialization efforts which launched YooName.com last November.

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