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On October 26, 2022, 1,800 graduating students will cross the stage at ۲ݮƵ University’s Fall 2022 convocation ceremonies. They will celebrate with family and friends at Place des Arts, 175 St. Catherine Street West.

As part of the ceremonies, ۲ݮƵ will continue its tradition of conferring honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for its community of students, professors, researchers, and staff.

At the Fall 2022 ceremonies, the university will confer its highest honours upon two accomplished ۲ݮƵ alumni:

Classified as: graduates, honorary doctorate, Convocation, Graduation, Fall, 2022, Alan Emtage, Neville Poy
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Published on: 3 Oct 2022

In 1989, ۲ݮƵ University graduate student and systems administrator Alan Emtage needed an efficient way to find files spread across multiple servers. He created a program to hunt through the servers for specific content he requested. Emtage’s personal timesaver got a big promotion when his boss recognized its potential. The ۲ݮƵ team expanded the program — known as Archie, a shortened form of “archive” — into the world’s first search engine.

Classified as: Alan Emtage, archie
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Published on: 14 Feb 2018
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