Anand Agarawala and Mike Jurka can thank a chance encounter in the Department of Computer Science’s Dynamic Graphics Project Lab (DGP) for a lifelong friendship and business partnership.
David Lin, a University of Toronto alumnus and former JP Morgan executive, founded Linvest21.ai, a fintech startup offering an autonomous investment platform powered by AI.
U of T CS alum Bill Reeves has brought some of pop culture’s most famous characters to life as a founding member of Pixar Animation Studios in the 1980s.
U of T Computer Science alumnus Ed Lazowska has made incalculable contributions in both computer science research and securing critical funding for the field.
Computer Science professor Robert Soden co-led the first-ever session of the Toronto Climate Summer School. During the intensive six-week course, second- and third-year students examined the climate crisis from the perspective of a city like Toronto.
U of T’s Department of Computer Science celebrates 60 years of groundbreaking contributions that span personal computing, theoretical computer science, software systems, graphic design, artificial intelligence and beyond.
A startup co-founded and led by Associate Professor Gennady Pekhimenko helps companies optimize the performance and cost-efficiency of machine learning models.
CS alumnus Alex Lu works as a senior researcher on the Microsoft New England Research and Development team. His research focuses on using novel machine learning methods to generate hypotheses in biology.
Graduating student Varun Lodayareflects on studying computer science at the University of Toronto and how he found his calling in machine learning and artificial intelligence in his first year.
U of T’s A&S News spoke with Assistant Professor Ashton Anderson and other experts from the Faculty of Arts & Science for their insights on generative AI tools amid the ongoing discourse about the technology’s perceived benefits and risks.
University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton was honoured by the Royal Society for his “pioneering work” that has led to “a transformation of the international information technology industry.”
