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The IMI BIGDataAIHUB Seminar Series covers a range of topics related to big data and artificial intelligence. Students, staff, faculty, alumni and members of the broader community are welcome!
In this talk, Suresh Venkatasubramanian will dissect the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, discuss what its authors were trying to achieve, illustrate the difficult issues of technology and policy that had to be resolved, and expand on where this effort is going.
The IMI BIGDataAIHUB Seminar Series covers a range of topics related to big data and artificial intelligence. Students, staff, faculty, alumni and members of the broader community are welcome!
This session will provide all staff with key resources, tips and techniques to support the embedding of universal design principles in all aspects of their work. Participants will be introduced to the concepts and principles of universal design, provided with guidance on what spaces, built and not, universal design has been applied, and given advice on what aspects of university administration and services can be designed using this concept.
This session aims to give a foundation or refresher for website content editors on web accessibility fundamentals. Participants will learn about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) and how they apply to the AODA, what this means for their role at the University and provide a foundation for discussion of web accessibility with different types of stakeholders.
In this talk, Ariel D. Stern will explore how the rapid innovations of digital technology are changing definitions and approaches towards healthcare by practitioners, institutions, and users, and why these changes require new and innovative approaches towards policy and regulation.
Through this event, ARCDO hopes to deepen knowledge and advance the ongoing institutional work around faith, anti-racism and educational strategies, that is aligned with (but not limited to) the work of the Anti-Racism Strategic Tables.
Join us for an interactive panel discussion that will cover aspects of Technology Law as a means to protecting your Intellectual Property.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Kobbi Nissim, the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and an affiliate professor at Georgetown Law. Nissim’s research works towards establishing rigorous practices for privacy in computation. He is particularly interested in intersection points between privacy and various disciplines within and outside computer science, including cryptography, machine learning, game theory, complexity theory, algorithmics, statistics, databases, and more recently privacy law and policy.
The Women in AI speaker series, a collaboration between the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Deloitte, welcomes Sophia Ananiadou, a professor of computer science at the University of Manchester, and director of UK National Centre for Text Mining, which provides tools, resources, systems and infrastructure for biomedicine.
In this session, David G. Rand explores the role of political polarization in the sharing and belief of misinformation, suggesting that it is possible to supplement forms of professional fact-checking by harnessing the wisdom of crowds. Presenting data from survey experiments, Rand will demonstrate that successful crowdsourcing of misinformation identification may succeed because of, rather than in spite of, polarization and political motivations.
In this session, Sven Nyholm will discuss “responsibility gaps” and asymmetries regarding praise and blame for outcomes produced by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Using contemporary examples such as text produced by large language models, accidents caused by self-driving cars, and medical diagnoses and treatment, Nyholm will demonstrate how praise for good outcomes produced by AI is typically harder to deserve than blame for bad outcomes.
In this talk, Maren Bennewitz will explore her solutions work utilizing convolutional neural networks and reinforcement learning to enable service robots to act with foresight when navigating human environments.
Learning objectives of the event includes explore and discuss the historical and current-day realities of anti-Asian racism; Deepen understanding of how anti-Asian racism interacts with other forms of discrimination; Share strategies and resources to identify and address anti-Asian racism in working and learning environments.
The Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS) in collaboration with Academic & Collaborative Technologies (ACT) is hosting REDCap Office Hours. This will provide an avenue for a one-on-one consultation with a REDCap expert to answer questions and address issues related to your REDCap projects.
This is a virtual art therapy workshop with a focus on marginalization, racism, inner strength, restoration, and solidarity for the Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community and its allies at the University of Toronto.
The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings happen every month on the second Wednesday and involve a techtalk (a hybrid in-person/online webinar) on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community.
In about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.
In this workshop, you will learn advanced MPI techniques such as MPI Datatypes, application topology and MPI-IO in the context of a scientific MPI example.
In this workshop, you will learn advanced MPI techniques such as MPI Datatypes, application topology and MPI-IO in the context of a scientific MPI example.
In this workshop, you will learn advanced MPI techniques such as MPI Datatypes, application topology and MPI-IO in the context of a scientific MPI example.
The Anti-Racism & Cultural Diversity Office (ARCDO) invites you to register for our upcoming May programming in celebration and recognition of Asian Heritage Month. Some of the events objectives include: Deepen awareness of various manifestations of anti-Asian racism experienced by Asian and Asian Canadian communities, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS) in collaboration with Academic & Collaborative Technologies (ACT) is hosting REDCap Office Hours. This will provide an avenue for a one-on-one consultation with a REDCap expert to answer questions and address issues related to your REDCap projects.
This 1-hour restorative movement session is done at a slow to medium pace. Blending Indian classical dance gestures, breath and self-reflexology, this class is designed to bring participants to a state of balance, deep relaxation and allow their mind and body to restore. Participants will leave feeling a sense of renewal, release and restoration.
The Hart House, Family Care Office, QUTE, and Positive Space invite the U of T community and their families to a Pride month celebration of families! Children (and adults!) will have the opportunity to create artistic representations of their families.
The Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS) in collaboration with Academic & Collaborative Technologies (ACT) is hosting REDCap Office Hours. This will provide an avenue for a one-on-one consultation with a REDCap expert to answer questions and address issues related to your REDCap projects.
The purpose of this workshop is to allow colleagues to present work—whether in progress or finished—which explores the use of technology for public purposes. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers from any discipline.
We invite you to join us on Tuesday, June 13 as U of T’s three campuses celebrate Pride Month and U of T Pride with the annual #DisplayYourPride event!
In about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.
In this session, curators Tony Gray (Director, Strategic Research, Office of the President) and Aurora Mendelsohn (Director, Research Analytics, VPRI) discuss their new exhibit Emerging Patterns: Data Visualization Throughout History on view 22 May -18 August 2023 at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
