In the early 19th century, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry reconfigured the state districts to guarantee the U.S. Senate election of Democratic-Republican candidates in opposition to the Federalists. It was said the new boundary of Essex County looked like a salamander, but an opponent quipped it looked more like a gerrymander.
The Computer Systems & Networks research group congratulates recent PhD alumni on their faculty appointments in Canada and the U.S.:
The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) Influential Paper Awards honour significant and influential papers published at least ten years earlier in a planning and scheduling conference.
Today, University of Toronto Assistant Professor of the departments of computer science and medicine, Marzyeh Ghassemi, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35 as a visionary. For over a decade, the global media company has recognized a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world.
In business and research, leaders help motivate others to navigate a clear path forward. To help prepare future computer scientists for these roles, University of Toronto’s department of computer science is inviting undergraduates entering the second-year of the major or specialist program to apply for the technology leadership initiative.
Established in 2017, the Developer 30 Under 30 is a new initiative dedicated to recognizing developers building the infrastructure behind Canada’s companies.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Rossman, jointly appointed to the departments of mathematics and computer science, is named this year's recipient of the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics.
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.
