Starting Friday, 500 developers – or hackers – will be at the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre for Information Technology for 36 hours of code and community.
After completing his undergraduate and master’s degree in computer graphics at the University of Toronto, Ivan Neulander left his Toronto home to take a job with a visual effects company based in Los Angeles.
The startup was co-founded in 2016 by two U of T alumni, including computer science alumnus Maksims Volkovs (PhD 2013), and a local lawyer and entrepreneur.
The Microsoft Research PhD Fellows represent the best and the brightest from North America. The 2018-19 recipients receive two years of tuition and an annual stipend.
In the mastery-based format, the course is broken down into nine modules, with a particular set of topics in each. At the end of each module, students will take a mastery quiz.