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March 22, 2017

New funding for artificial intelligence research and support for the recruitment of established foreign scholars were among the highlights for…

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February 8, 2017

It’s official: Toronto is an AI hot spot and at the heart of this excitement is the University of Toronto. That's what The Globe and…

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December 5, 2016

U of T's Geoffrey Hinton is one of the world’s leading computer scientists, vice-president engineering fellow at Google, and the architect of an…

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November 16, 2016

“Hey Siri, how’s my hair?” Your smartphone may soon be able to give you an honest answer, thanks to a new machine learning algorithm designed by U…

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October 21, 2016

Canada’s largest bank is bolstering artificial intelligence and machine learning research at the University of Toronto – and…

April 1, 2016

Imagine you’re one of the 50,000 people in Ontario addicted to opioids. You have a panic attack in the middle of the night. You may live in a remote…

June 17, 2015

Twitter has scooped up a machine-learning startup called Whetlab, launched by several alumni and a PhD student from the University of…

June 4, 2015

  Atomwise, an alumni startup harnessing artificial intelligence for drug discovery in diseases ranging from malaria to multiple sclerosis, has…

November 5, 2014

The University of Toronto, Chematria and IBM are combining forces in a quest to find new treatments for the Ebola virus.  Using a virtual…