Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, located in Burnaby (the main campus), Surrey and Downtown Vancouver. The 170-hectare main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, 15 kilometres from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 37,000 students and 200,000 alumni. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada, and in 2025 it became the first university in Canada to adopt university-wide open scholarship principles. It is a member of multiple national and international higher education associations.
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Professor Emeritus in computing science at Simon Fraser University in Canada
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