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Photo of Geoffrey Hinton
December 5, 2016

U of T's Geoffrey Hinton is one of the world’s leading computer scientists, vice-president engineering fellow at Google, and the architect of an…

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December 5, 2016

Know your Gruyere from Beaufort? And should it come with a splash of Tuscan Sangiovese or Syrah? Don’t panic. This app will turn you into a bon vivant…

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December 5, 2016

Buddhist studies scholar Frances Garrett has been appointed as the inaugural director of the newly launched Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre…

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December 5, 2016

The University of Toronto has launched The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies on its downtown Toronto campus,…

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December 4, 2016

Faculty of Arts & Science professor Ron Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab, a “hacktivist hothouse” that is internationally renowned for…

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December 2, 2016

Every person on this planet needs clean water to survive. Yet the World Bank estimates that 1.6 billion people – that’s more than one in five…

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December 2, 2016

Audrey Rochette and Atik Bird worked hard in university to excel and give back to their Indigenous communities. Now they hope to inspire others by…

December 2, 2016

Bright lights, bigger city — much, much bigger. Already, more than half the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas, and estimates place that…

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December 2, 2016

Two researchers who are leading efforts to transform the Canadian social work landscape for children and youth are among 25 new Canada Research Chairs…

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December 1, 2016

Machine learning is used today for everything from detecting fraud and sorting spam in Google to recommending movies on Netflix.  Now a team…

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December 1, 2016

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab published a report today that reveals how WeChat, the most popular chat app in…