Intelligent machines learn about the world through the filters of human language and historical behaviour – meaning they can just as easily absorb humanity’s worst values as they can its best. Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi and Professor Emeritus Ronald Baecker talk about the risks and needs.

Associate Professor Bianca Schroeder and Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi are two of 56 U of T faculty members supported by the Canada Research Chairs program

Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Michelle Craig’s work to improve and enhance learning materials in computer science has been internationally recognized.

The new U of T chairs – Alán Aspuru-Guzik, David Fleet, Daniel Roy and Bo Wang – join another eight at U of T who were named among the inaugural group last fall and are all associated with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton has been named one of three recipients of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award – dubbed by some “the Nobel Prize of computing” – for his decades-long work advancing the field of artificial intelligence.

President Meric Gertler, Geoffrey Hinton of Computer Science and donors Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz describe the future of the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.

The Association of Computer Machinery, with a membership of more than 100,000, named Toniann Pitassi of the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science as one of 56 fellows for 2018.

The startup Structura received support from UTEST and the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab, or DCSIL, and is benefitting from being based at the nexus of the Toronto’s burgeoning innovation ecosystem.