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Students are at the forefront of the University of Toronto’s efforts – now entering the implementation phase – to make itself a global leader in…
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With more than 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, how many of these would you expect to be Canadian? Six thousand? One…
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Facial recognition technology. Algorithms that decide who is a good candidate for a loan or medical procedure. Interactive robots in workplaces and…
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A summer history course at University of Toronto Mississauga is challenging students to consider how everyday products fit into capitalist…
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When it comes to how people view the group size of a collaboration, new University of Toronto research finds there’s such a thing as too many –…
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Amid rapid technological advancements and a constantly changing job market, universities, companies and governments are working together to create…
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CAMiLoD doesn’t have horses, knights or kings, but the new state-of-the-art imaging facility at the University of Toronto could nevertheless give rise…
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The University of Toronto's Daisy Singla is leading a study in Canada and the U.S. that will test whether nurses can provide talk therapy for new…
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Lee Maracle, a sessional instructor in Indigenous studies at the University of Toronto, is among nine finalists for one of the most prestigious…
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More than half of the top-grossing movies in Ontario in the past 16 years featured smoking, according to University of Toronto researchers with the…
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In human beings, intelligence is no inoculation against bias and bigotry. The same holds true for computers. Intelligent machines learn about the…
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With the anniversary of the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act this week, David Pettinicchio of the University of Toronto Mississauga has called…