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- Research in Action (RIA) on the Canadian UX blog: "Research in Action at UofT"
- Research in Action (RIA) in the Varsity [November 2009]: "Geeks in action"
- SnowFlock project and RIA Showcase in itWorldCanada [November 2009]: "UofT 'SnowFlock' project tackles VM management"
- Greg Wilson's Government 2.0 class work in the Torontoist [November 2009]: "Toronto Exposes Its Data"
- Steve Easterbrook in the Economist's Democracy in America blog [October 2009]: "We believe the facts our politics tell us to believe"
- Greg Wilson in CIOL Developer [October 2009]: "Ingres joins US universities to promote Open Source"
- Ron Baecker and KMDI in Globe & Mail Technology [October 2009]: "Digital technology eyed in fight against Alzheimer's"
- Bianca Schroeder's research with Google in Computerworld [October 2009]: "Google: DRAMM error rates vastly higher than previously thought"
- Bianca Schroeder on Slashdot [October 2009]: "Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed"
- Steve Cook in The New York Times [October 2009]: "Solving the P-NP Puzzler"
- Steve Cook in The Manitoban [September 2009]: "Alan Turing"
- Undergraduate student Michael Dzamba in U of T Magazine [Autumn 2009]: "A World of Opportunity"
- Aaron Hertzmann and Ph.D. student Evangelos Kalogerakis in U of T Magazine [Autumn 2009]: "Computer Vision"
- Undergraduate Summer Research Poster Session in UofT Bulletin [August 2009, p. 5]: "Computer science undergraduate research poster day"
- Graduate student Stratis Ioannidis in News@UofT [August 2009]: "Social network research nets U of T student big prize"
- UG Summer Research Poster Session in UofT's eBulletin [August 2009]: "Computer Science Student Research"
- Greg Wilson and DCS course CSC2130 in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes [July 2009]: "Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes"
- Greg Wilson in U of T Research's Edge Magazine [July 2009]: "The Software Doctor is In"
- Graeme Hirst in The Guardian [April 2009]: "Study claims Agatha Christie had Alzheimer's"
- John DiMarco on CTV National News [March 2009]: "Conficker virus"
- Sven Dickinson in the Varsity [March 2009]: "More than meets the eye"
- Sven Dickinson, Graduate Students Kent Fenwick, Mike Massimi, Andrew Trusty, and Albert Angel on CIUT [March 2009]: Podcast
- Graeme Hirst on CBC News [February 2009]: "Facebook backs off changes to terms of service"
- Recent undergraduate Robert Beghian in the Toronto Star [February 2009]: "Rays of sunlight in economic gloom"
- Nick Koudas and Nilesh Bansal in the Toronto Star [January 2009]: "Tracking web chatter to uncover trends"
- Ron Baecker in U of T Research's Edge Magazine [December 2008]: "Technology that Cares and Teaches"
- Eugene Fiume in U of T's Research's Edge Magazine [December 2008]: "New Media"; related podcast
- BlogScope project in UofT Magazine [Winter 2009, p. 26]: "Up against Google"
- Graduate student Sami Siddique in The Mississauga News [December 2008]: "Mall shop while you chill"
- Seok-Hyung Bae in the SPACE channel's show The Circuit [December 2008]: "I Love Sketch"
- DCS in the web show Byte Club [November 2008]: "Episode 7 - Computer Science at UofT"
- Ryan Lilien in UofT's eBulletin [October 2008]: "Gates Foundation Funds Computer Science Professor"
- ILoveSketch project on Slashdot [October 2008]: "A 3D Curve Sketching System for Tablets"
- Ryan Lilien in itWorldCanada [October 2008]: "Software that could win the Stanley Cup"
- DCS Distinguished Lecture Series speaker Eric Brewer in The Varsity [October 2008]: "Changing lives with WiFi"
- IT Director John DiMarco in the Toronto Star [September 2008]: "The higher the tech, the greater our frustration"
- Undergraduate student Denis Pankratov in the Toronto Sun's Comment [September 2008]: "You have to give back"
- DCS project Snowflock in InfoWorld's Virtualization Report [September 2008]: "Universities announce virtual clusters project called Snowflock"
- Graduate student Jennifer Horkoff in the UofT Bulletin [September 2008, p. 6]: "School's In: Arts and science program focuses on building writing skills"
- Steve Engels in the UofT Bulletin [September 2008, p. 3]: "Nuit Blanche artists have drive"
- Karen Reid in the the newspaper [September 2008, p. 4]: "the guest editorial"
- Graduate student Christian Muise in Carleton's The Charlatan [August 2008]: "Opening Minds to Open Source"
- DCS student Jini Kim in the Toronto Star [August 2008]: "Urban legend: That fan could be the death of you"
- Steve Engels in the Town Crier Online - Leaside/Rosedale [July 2008]: "Video gamers jump off the couch"
- Michelle Craig in the CSTA Voice [June 2008, pg. 6]: "Equity Initiatives: Gr8 Designs for Gr8 Girls"
- Craig Boutilier in Canada.com [June 2008]: "IT industry strives for "sexier" image"
- DCS project Astrometry.net in Nature News [May 2008]: "No star left behind"
- Graduate student Wael Abouelsaadat in the Toronto Star [May 2008]: "Prayer rug links high-tech, spiritual worlds"
- Eugene Fiume in Canada.com's games news & reviews [May 2008]: "Virtual world disputes landing in real-world courts"
- Craig Boutilier in the Toronto Sun's JobBoom [April 2008]: "Demand for IT Workers Won't Meet Supply"
- Graduate Student Dan Vogel in ERCIM News Online Edition [April 2008]: "RubberEdge: Improved Interaction with Mobile Devices via Elastic-Edged Touchpads"
- Greg Wilson in Dr. Dobb's Portal [March 2008]: "Jolt Award Winners Announced"
- Faculty member Michael Brudno in Genome Technology [March 2008, p. 21-22]: "A Virtual World"
- Professor Emeritus Kelly Gotlieb in the Toronto Star [February 2008]: "60 years, for better or for verse"
- Sam Roweis and Dustin Lang in the IEEE Spectrum [January 2008]: "Searching the Sky"
- Craig Boutilier in the Globe & Mail [January 2008]: "Industry feels pinch as numbers of IT grads plummet"
- Faculty members Craig Boutilier and Steve Engels in the UofT Bulletin [January 2008, p. 8-9]: "Computer Science: From X-Box to World Stage"
- Faculty member Sam Roweis in CIFAR's E-News [Winter 2007]: "Get to Know Our Researchers, Spotlight on: Sam Roweis"
- Faculty member Sheila McIlraith in NSERC's e-newsletter Contact [Dec 2007]: "Toronto artificial intelligence expert prepares base for next-generation World Wide Web"
- Faculty member Steve Engels and Undergraduate student Rhys Causey in the UofT eBulletin [Dec 2007]: "Game Time"
- Michael Brudno, Eugene Fiume, Karan Singh and the DCS archives in the latest issue of the Faculty of Arts & Science's idea&s Magazine [November 2007]: "Going Digital"
- Faculty member Eugene Fiume on CTV.ca [November 2007]: "Internet Slowdown on the horizon"
- Faculty member Stefan Saroiu in UofT Research's Edge Magazine [Fall 2007]: "Phisher king"
- DCS Machine Learning Group's Quest for the Netflix Prize in UofT Magazine [Autumn 2007]: "Million-Dollar Baby"
- Undergraduate Students Rhys Causey, Brendan Reilly and James Vaughan in the UofT Bulletin [September 2007, p. 5]: "Students key members of ePresence development team"
- PhD student Dustin Lang in the Toronto Star [August 2007]: "Star mapping has universal appeal"
- PhD student Daniel Wigdor in the MIT Technology Review [August 2007]: "Two-Sided Touch Screen"
- ePresence 4.0 in News@UofT [August 2007]: "University launches ePresence Interactive Media 4.0"
- PhD student Dustin Lang in the UofT Bulletin [June 2007, p. 5]: "Computer program makes sky searchable"
- PhD student Chris Collins in the Toronto Star [June 2007]: "You are looking at an open book"
- Friend of the faculty Dr. Judea Pearl Given Honorary Degree by UofT, story in the Toronto Star [June 2007]: "'Fog of fear' hides truth"
- Undergraduate student Andrey Petrov and others in the UofT Bulletin [June 2007, p. 5]: "Students Update Online Marking Tool"
- PhD student Stavros Vassos interviewed for Manufacturing AUTOMATION Magazine [June 2007]: "Giving robots the ability to think and reason in an industrial environment"
- PhD student Shengdong Zhao in MIT Technology Review [May 2007]: "Audio Menus for iPods"
- PhD student Abhishek Ranjan and Faculty members Karan Singh and Ravin Balakrishnan in the Globe&Mail/ReportonBusiness.com [May 2007]: "Quick on the draw"
- PhD student Dan Vogel in InfoWorld [May 2007]: "MS Research project solves mobile touch screen problems"
- Faculty member Khai Truong in the National Post story [May 2007]: "In future, everything will be a computer"
- Faculty member Stefan Saroiu in ITWorldCanada [May 2007]: "Application software the 'Achilles heel' of enterprise security"
- Faculty member Michelle Craig in the UofT Bulletin [May 2007, p. 7]: "Girls get glimpse of Computer Science Careers"
- Faculty member Karan Singh in UofT Research's Edge Magazine [Fall 2006]: "Creative suggestions"