A self-driving vehicle has to detect objects, track them over time, and predict where they will be in the future in order to plan a safe manoeuvre. These tasks are typically trained independently from one another, which could result in disasters should any one task fail.

James Cameron's 3D film Avatar sought to revolutionize the movie-going experience when it was first released in 2009, creating an immersive world for viewers. But what if you also wanted to feel the heat and the wind, while flying on a banshee, direct from your cinema seat?

Graphics chip giant Nvidia Corp. is launching a new artificial intelligence research lab in Toronto to be headed by the University of Toronto’s Sanja Fidler, making it the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to tap the city’s rich vein of AI research.

The University of Central Asia will establish its first computer science curriculum with the support of the University of Toronto’s department of computer science.

Applied computing graduates Juliana De La Vega and David Acuna are featured.

MLPerf, a consortium of industry and academic partners including Google, Intel, Baidu, Harvard University, Stanford University and U of T (Assistant Professor Gennady Pekhimenko), are working together to offer a new benchmark suite to evaluate machine learning performance, from speed to system cost and power efficiency.

U of T computer scientists and Autodesk researchers are looking to take artistic vision from 2D to 3D with augmented reality technology.

50 Canadian women celebrated on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Monday as part of an "Inspiring Fifty" group of women in the Canadian tech and innovation sectors.

Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who is joining the departments of chemistry and computer science this summer, believes the mix of AI and chemistry could be even more important.

Assistant Professor Roger Grosse named Canada Research Chair in Probabilistic Inference and Deep Learning.

PhD student David Madras says many of today's algorithms are good at making accurate predictions, but don't know how to handle uncertainty well.