Associate Professor Raquel Urtasun envisions the city becoming a world leader in AI thanks in large part to the research and talent at U of T.
U of T artificial intelligence startups make big splash at Elevate tech fest
Professor Brendan Frey revealed Deep Genomics’ cutting-edge AI drug discovery platform has identified a genetic mutation linked to Wilson disease and honed in on a molecule that holds treatment potential. Also Assistant Professor Periklis Andritsos and Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos announced that AI-powered customer analytics platform ODAIA has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.
U of T researchers, entrepreneurs to showcase work at Elevate 2019 tech festival
Researchers and entrepreneurs from the University of Toronto are set to showcase their innovative work to a global audience during Elevate 2019, Canada’s largest technology and innovation festival. Professor Brendan Frey, Associate Professor Raquel Urtasun and Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos are scheduled to give a talk.
U of T's Geoffrey Hinton, pioneer in deep learning, wins 2019 Honda Prize
Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and a vice-president and engineering fellow at Google, has been awarded the distinguished 2019 Honda Prize for his pioneering work in the field of deep learning in artificial intelligence (AI) and for his contributions to applying that technology to the broader world.
President Gertler welcomes university leaders to U of T next year to discuss ‘the power of place’
Rescuing crops, reframing history and researching MMIW: 2019 Connaught New Researcher Award winners announced
Framework stresses responsible machine learning: “Healthcare is not immune to pernicious bias”
'We have really ambitious plans': Robotics research gears up at U of T Mississauga
Computer science student shows he has the right stuff in NASA internship
There are internships. And then there are internships like the one Georges Kanaan was accepted into at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland — an institution that played a pivotal role in putting Apollo astronauts on the moon as well as other historic missions like the New Horizons probe to Pluto, the Curiosity Mars rover and the Hubble Space Telescope.
U of T Scarborough students join forces with IBM Watson to create the first globally collaborative financial technology (FinTech) chatbot
“What is Canada’s leading city for AI? Who are the top women in FinTech in Canada? How does Ontario help start-ups export to new markets? Robust answers to these questions and more will be accessible 24/7 to anyone using our chatbot website or app anywhere in the world,” said Adjunct Professor Mario Grech, director and co-founder of DCSIL.
