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Geoffrey Hinton, ‘godfather of AI’, and John Hopfield honoured for work on artificial neural networks

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

University of Toronto president Meric Gertler details how staff, students and alumni have pulled together to tackle environmental challenges on campus and beyond – from reducing its carbon footprint to focusing on real-world sustainability problems

Kang Lee, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, has studied thousands of children to ascertain how they learn to lie, and how this fits into their development of social and moral understanding

Since graduating from the University of Toronto, Nuha Siddiqui and Kritika Tyagi co-founded a climate tech company that creates transformative biomaterials in a bid to help create a plastic free future

As artificial intelligence thrusts itself further into our lives, researchers at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society are investigating ways to bring it in line with human values

More than half of the Mexican population lacks access to clean drinking water. Now, a team from the University of Toronto is looking to find solutions and help bring relief to some of the country’s most water-stressed communities

The researchers analyzed the impact of digital switching on boredom and found that the habit of watching only short snippets of videos or frequently fast-forwarding through them can actually increase feelings of boredom.

State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies and technical aspects

Students at Canadian universities say the strong-arm tactics to quash protests have only strengthened their resolve.

A new chapter has been written regarding how protest encampments come to an end. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted an injunction to the University of Toronto on July 2, which provides a justification for police action. University officials gave protesters until 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3 to…