Artificial Intelligence

Alumni banner on Convocation Hall
U of T's new CIFAR chairs in artificial intelligence (clockwise from top left): David Fleet, Bo Wang, Alán Aspuru-Guzik and Daniel Roy
“It’s very nice that the group of us have been recognized as having a big impact,” said Geoffrey Hinton about the A.M. Turing Award. “It’s sort of an acceptance by the computer science community that this stuff isn’t crazy.”
Saara and Ali Punjani are the brother and sister team behind Structura Biotechnology, a U of T startup that uses AI to create 3D visualizations of never-before-seen proteins for pharmaceutical companies.
An image
Markus Dubber, the head of U of T’s Centre for Ethics, is co-editing an Oxford Handbook on the Ethics of AI and will be holding a two-day workshop this week on the handbook’s progress.
Researchers at U of T used a computational approach, based on machine learning, to classify patients into seven distinct groups according to the patterns of swollen or painful joints in the body.
Geoffrey Hinton
Sanja Fidler at a presentation
Two medals from the order of Canada.

Pages