Kaufman, who co-founded WinterLight with fellow computer science researchers Maria Yancheva, Katie Fraser and Assistant Professor Frank Rudzicz, says the startup benefited immensely from its ongoing association with Toronto’s growing innovation community.

Nearly 60 startups and companies took part in the program’s internship fair over three days.

The University of Toronto is among the top five best global universities for fostering startups, says UBI Global, a Stockholm-based research and advisory firm that ranks top business incubators and accelerators.

Assistant Professor Frank Rudzicz will receive funding for "Automatic remote screening of speech features associated with Alzheimer's disease."

Weedoo, a startup co-founded by U of T alumni, may play a key role in building a link between India and the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab (DCSIL).

"If you look at the history of a word, meanings of that word tend to shift or extend over time," says Yang Xu, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and University College’s cognitive science program.

Assistant Professor Ashton Anderson (UTSC) and Etan Green, an assistant professor in operations, information and decisions at Wharton, have published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Assistant Professor (status only) Frank Rudzicz's project is one of nine sharing almost $820,000 in funding this year from the Connaught Innovation Awards.

U of T News went beyond the numbers by speaking to four PhD graduates, including alumna Inmar Givoni, an autonomy engineering manager at Uber in Toronto.

The profile, in this week’s issue, offers an intimate look into the life of the "godfather" of deep learning, a branch of AI that seeks to mimic how the human brain works.

Professor Richard Zemel has been named NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Machine Learning, effective August 1, 2018 for a renewable five-year term.

Helen Kontozopoulos' rare mix of technological know-how and real-world experience is woven into the very fabric of DCSIL, which she co-founded in 2015 with Adjunct Professor Mario Grech and Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Paul Gries.

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.