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SRI Seminar Series: Sven Nyholm, “AI, responsibility gaps, and asymmetries between praise and blame”

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.

Connect+Learn: Update on Microsoft Teams

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.

Next Generation Accessibility – AODA | Thursday@3

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.

Women in AI: Maren Bennewitz, University of Bonn

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.

Connect+Learn: Introduction to Power Automate

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.

Disrupting anti-Asian racism: Tools for change

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.

REDCap summer 2023 virtual hours

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.

SciNet User Group Meeting

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.

Intro to SciNet, Niagara and Mist

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.

Understanding anti-Asian racism: Conversations and strategies for change in higher education

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.

REDCap summer 2023 virtual hours

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.

Rejuv Movement Session

Multi-Faith Centre Main Activity Hall, 2nd Floor, Room KP208, 569 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

U of T Family Pride PA Day

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.

REDCap summer 2023 virtual hours

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.

Toronto Public Tech Workshop 2023

Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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.

Display Your Pride 2023

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!

Intro to SciNet, Niagara and Mist

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.

Drawing Across the Disciplines: Data Visualization

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 120 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

What is a Data Management Plan and Why Do I Need One?

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.

REDCap summer 2023 virtual hours

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 2023

U of T St. George campus and virtual

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.

Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2023

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.