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DCS student Liam Kaufman in News@UofT [May 2012]: "Understanding understoodit.com "
DCS student Liam Kaufman in Yahoo! News [May 2012]: "Understoodit.com helps make lectures clearer for university students "
DCS student Liam Kaufman and Paul Gries in The Toronto Star [May 2012]: "‘Confusometer' app gets rave reviews from U of T computer science students "
Geoffrey Hinton in The Toronto Star [April 2012]: "Computer algorithms changing world of finance "
Geoffrey Hinton in The Globe in Mail [April 2012]: "Experts in economics, quantum physics among five of the Killam winners of $100,000 "
Geoffrey Hinton in The Toronto Star [April 2012]: " Toronto researcher wins prize for work on artificial brain "
Geoffrey Hinton in The National Post [March 2012]: "Build a better brain? Scientists keep trying, but many agree that it's all but impossible "
Daniel Wigdor in The Toronto Star [March 2012]: "Tradition trumps tech: Textbooks better than e-books when it comes to learning "
DCS student Anand Agarawala in Trend Hunter [March 2012]: "New Age Interfaces "
DCS student Danny Tarlow in Fast Company [March 2012]: "Who (or what's) best at predicting March Madness winners? "
Daniel Wigdor in the CBC News [March 2012]: "5 things to know when buying a tablet or smartphone "
Eugene Fiume in It's Alive in the Lab [February 2012]: "Autodesk Research and University of Toronto Receive Synergy Award for Innovation from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada "
Eugene Fiume in News@UofT [February 2012]: "UofT takes home a slate of NSERC awards "
DCS student Mike Massimi in News@UofT [February 2012]: "Death is new design consideration in technological age "
Charles Rackoff in IT World Canada [February 2012]: "Encryption tips from cryptos "
Recent DCS Alum Anatoly Kats in The Moscow News [February 2012]: "Enough considered by eye "
Stephen Cook in Communications of the ACM [January 2012 ] (NOTE: interview conducted in 2002): "An Interview with Stephen A. Cook"
Daniel Wigdor in CyberMedia [January 2012]: "Tabletop computer knows you by your shoes"
DCS student Mike Massimi in The Globe and Mail [January 2012]: "A social media update from beyond the grave"
Gerald Penn in The Toronto Star [January 2012]: "Twitter lashes out at Google search changes"
DCS student Uzma Khan in News@UofT [ January 2012]: "Video games at school"
TAGlab in The UofT Magazine [Winter 2012]: "Technologies for Aging Gracefully"
Steve Engels in The UofT Magazine [Winter 2012]: "Is that Mozart or a Machine?"
Daniel Wigdor in Channel 9 [December 2011]: "Kinect's power of gesture and speech as an education tool"
DCS student Julian Brooke in News@UofT [December 2011]: "Computer Science could shed new light on dark poem"
Ron Baecker and TAGlab in News@UofT [November 2011]: "e-Reading with Grandma"
Eyal de Lara in News@UofT [October 2011]: "What happened to my BlackBerry"
Steve Engels in Wheels.ca [October 2011]: "Forza 4 not the real thing, but close"
Eugene Fiume in UofT Research [October 2011]: "The legacy of Steve Jobs"
Craig Mundie's visit to DCS in The Varsity [October 2011]: "Gimme Mundie "
Craig Mundie's visit to DCS in News@UofT [October 2011]: " Of avatars and virtual meetings "
DCS student Sami Siddique in the National Post [July 2011]:" Harnessing the cloud for fun and profit"
DCS student Sami Siddique in the Toronto Star [July 2011]: "Cloud offers silver lining to firms"
Geoff Hinton in the Globe & Mail [June 2011]: "Why talking is so much tougher than math"
Geoff Hinton in the Globe & Mail [May 2011]: "'Humanizing' computers now less Hollywood, more practical"
Daniel Wigdor in DiscoveryNews [May 2011]: "Tech Turns Air Into a Multi-Touch Screen"
Paul Gries in News@UofT [April 2011]: "Top U of T teachers recognized by president, provost"
Graeme Hirst in the Toronto Observer [April 2011]: "Computer expert says parties' universal internet access policies look alike"
Research in Action in the eBulletin [April 2011]: "Mobile apps galore"
TAGLAB's MyVoice in the News
Karen Reid in the Bulletin [April 2011]: "2011 Awards of Excellence"
Kelly Gotlieb in Communications of the ACM [April 2011]: "The Chief Computer"
Steve Easterbrook in Nature [March 2011]: "Data on demand"
Kelly Gotlieb in CIPS B.C. [March 2011]: "CIPS joins in celebration for founder Kelly Gotlieb's 90th birthday"
Ron Baecker and Nick Koudas in the News@UofT [March 2011]: "Inventor of the year winners list 2011"
Fahiem Bacchus, et al. in the News@UofT [March 2011]: "Computer science from great beginnings"
Geoff Hinton in the Globe & Mail [February 2011]: "Artificial intelligence pioneer aims to make computers learn like brains"
Mark Braverman in News@UofT [February 2011]: "Two early-career scientists awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships"
Geoffrey Hinton
News@UofT [February 2011]: "UofT computer scientist wins Herzberg Canada gold medal "
DCS student Eran Henig in The Varsity [January 2011]: "U of T dominates national entrepreneurship conference"
Aaron Hertzmann in The Varsity [January 2011]: "Pixel Perfect"
Ron Baecker in the News@UofT [January 2011]: "Computer science course teaches entrepreneurship basics"
DCS students, Eran Henig and Ke Li
News @ The University of Toronto [January 2011]: "UofT students finalists in national entrepreneurship program"
Gerald Penn in The UofT Magazine [December 2010]: "Computers that understand speech"
DCS student Ilya Sutskever in The UofT Magaizine [December 2010]: "A neural network for a new millennium"
Eyal de Lara on Spark from CBC Radio [December 2010]:
Aaron Hertzmann in the News@UofT [December 2010]: "U of T computer scientist wins Steacie Prize"
Aaron Hertzmann in the CBC News [December 2010]:
Eugene Fiume in the Vancouver Sun [December 2010]: " DCS Student Dustin Freeman on Spark from CBC Radio [October 2010]: "Brain Tweets, Better Buses, and Paper"
DCS Student Ilya Sutskever in The Varsity [October 2010]: "Neural Networking"
Stephen Cook in The Varsity [September 2010]: "Prove It"
Stephen Cook in The Globe and Mail [August 2010]: "The problem of P versus NP"
Allan Borodin in IT World Canada [August 2010]: "U of T to offer computer science program for elite grads this fall"
Allan Borodin in The eBulletin [August 2010]: "U of T offers two new master's degree programs"
Martin DeLasa, Igor Mordatch and Aaron Hertzman in The New Scientist [August 2010]: "Virtual walkers lead the way for robots"
DCS students Alexander Lee, Dejana Bajic, Akhil Mathur and Tyler de Witt in The eBulletin [July 2010]: "Project developed by computer science students means never having to wait in line again"
DCS student Ilya Sutskever in The eBulletin [July 2010]: "U of T PhD student first Canadian student to receive a Google fellowship"
DCS student Ilya Sutskever in The Toronto Sun [July 2010]: "Toronto student to get Google Fellowship"
Nick Koudas in Marketing [July 2010]: "Marketwire buys social media firm Sysomos"
Bill Buxton in The UofT Magazine [June 2010]: "The Outlaw"
Marsha Chechik in The Bulletin [June 2010]: "12 U of T researchers win NSERC grants"
Steve Engels in News@UofT
DCS student Sean McIntyre in The Bulletin [May 2010]: "Move Over ROSI - UofT Students are Developing Their Own Resources"
Sara Burns in The University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science News [May 2010]: "Sara Burns of Computer Science Wins Outstanding Achievement Award for Distinguished Service "
Nikos Koudas in The University of Toronto Scarborough Annual Review [May 2010]: "Keeping up with the Bloggers "
Bianca Schroeder in The University of Toronto Scarborough Annual Review [May 2010]: "Call Them Unreliable"
Alumnus Anand Agarawala in The Toronto Star [May 2010]: "Google buys Toronto touch-screen company" Globe & Mail [May 2010]: "Google buys Canadian tech startup" Alumnus Anand Agarawala in the Toronto Sun [May 2010]: "Google acquires Toronto startup"
Brendan Frey in Science Daily [May 2010]: "Researchers Crack 'Splicing Code,' Solve a Mystery Underlying Biological Complexity"
Steve Engels in The University of Toronto HR News [May 2010]: "Reporting on...Taking our Daughters and Sons to Work"
Alumnus, Anand Agarawala in The Globe and Mail [May 2010]: "Google buys Canadian tech startup Gr8 Designs for Gr8 Girls in The Toronto Star [April 2010]: "Girls warm to science and technology"
Graeme Hirst in The Hill Times [April 2010]: "Social scientists, humanists helping Canada harness the power of technology"
DCS Staff, Arcady Genkin in The Bulletin [April 2010]: "Photo Contest Winner: Travel"
Graeme Hirst in the Toronto Star [March 2010]: "High-tech copy machines a gold mine for data thieves"
Ron Baecker in the New York Times [March 2010]: "a Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory"
Undergraduate student Jennifer Fernick in Article Ant [March 2010]: "Undergraduate Research Fair has something for everyone"
Mike Brudno in News at UofT [February 2010]: "Five U of T scientists awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships"
Graeme Hirst in the Newmarket Banner - York Region [January 2010]: "Canadians need not fret about Problem 2016"
Graeme Hirst in the Toronto Star [January 2010]: "An Agatha Christie mystery"
Greg Wilson's Software Carpentry interview on IT Conversations : podcast
Graeme Hirst in U of T Magazine [Winter 2010]: "At a Loss for Words"
Eugene Fiume in Canada.com [December 2009]: "Virtual world disputes landing in real-world courts"
Graduate student Jing Su in the Globe & Mail [December 2009]: "Smart Phones Give Disabled Users Help on the Go"
Geoff Hinton and Ryan Lilien in News@UofT [December 2009]: "CFI awards U of T more than $3 million"
Graeme Hirst in News@UofT [December 2009]: "U of T research tops N.Y. Times' 2009 Ideas List"
Graeme Hirst in The New York Times Magazine [December 2009]: "Literary Alzheimer's"
Eugene Fiume in University of Saskatchewan's The Sheaf [November 2009]: "Smartphones push the boundaries of connectivity"
Graeme Hirst in the Globe & Mail [November 2009]: "Researchers look to perfect 'Babel fish' universal translator"
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 "
