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Please join us with Gartner Distinguished Vice President Paul Proctor for this upcoming session designed to help you treat cybersecurity as a business investment for better outcomes.
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.
Join Connect+Learn for an overview of some recent changes. Updates discussed will include: delete chats from your chat list, more reactions at your fingertips, send your messages later, and delete people to chat with @mention.
Join us for an update on the changing landscape of accessibility standards in Ontario higher education as a new set of provincial recommendations have been drafted to address continuing barriers and improve access for all. Guidance from the Access for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) office will be shared, including a draft outline of U of T’s new proactive framework for discussion.
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.
Join Connect+Learn for a session on Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow). A service that helps you create automated workflows for repetitive business processes. Power Automate can send reminders on past due tasks, move business data between systems on a schedule, talk to many data sources.
Join Connect+Learn for a session on getting started with Power BI. The session will include use cases for demo, Power BI demo and resources.
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.
Join Connect+Learn for a session on tools for writing collaboratively as a team. The session will describe the tools available to staff to use to effectively for writing done by a team.
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.
Attend the upcoming Thursday@3 webinar for an early overview of the "Security Awareness & Training – Foundations" project launched by the Information and Technology Services – Information Security Team in April 2023.
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.
Join Connect+Learn for a session on introduction to PowerApps.
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.
This workshop is intended to provide a basic overview of Data Management Plans (DMPs), a tool often used to lay a foundation for good research data management practices through the life of a research project and beyond.
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.
CANHEIT is the only national conference for IT professionals in higher education in Canada. Each year, IT professionals from universities across the country come together to share ideas, showcase best practices and learn from each other. It’s a great professional development opportunity and a chance to work with colleagues at U of T and other schools.
Connecting technical researchers, social scientists, and humanists, Absolutely Interdisciplinary fosters new ways of thinking about the challenges presented by AI and other powerful technologies to build a future that promotes human well-being—for everyone.
Join Connect+Learn on a session on DocuSign. It is a service to provide departments within the university community an ability to manage electronic agreements easily with extended benefits to other stages of the agreement process, such as preparing, acting on, and managing agreements.
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.
We invite you to join this Connect+Learn session to gain an overview of the latest features and improvements of Stream (SharePoint).
We invite you to join this Connect+Learn session to gain an overview of the latest features and improvements of Stream (SharePoint).
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 session focuses on accessible content creation practices. Techniques for conceptualizing, creating, and maintaining accessible documents will be discussed, along with how to build these into department wide processes. A heavy emphasis is placed on why those techniques are important, and the ramifications of formatting decisions.
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.
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 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.
Please join this Connect+Learn session to learn how to export all of your Power Platform flows and Power Apps from the legacy environment to the new default environment .
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.
