A team of five MI students, going by the name of MVP Makers, took home the Food Sustainability & Hackathon Grand Prize at the Seneca Hackathon held last month. According to the judges, the team’s groundbreaking project stood out for its creativity, feasibility, and potential impact on food sustainability challenges.”This is a first for the Faculty of Information, as it’s only our second year participating,” said Velian Pandeliev, the students’ professor for INF2191 User Interface Design. “Credit is entirely to the students on the team, of course, as they did the hackathon while managing a lot of other deadlines and without assistance.”
Victorious team members are Aisharja Chowdhury, Jifan Li, Kristin Xie, Kex Zhang and Vera Zheng.
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Archives as Data: Envisioning the Future
A project led by Assistant Professor Jessica Lapp has been chosen as one of four initiatives to receive funding from a new institutional partnership between the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois System. Entitled “Envisioning Critical Futures for Archives as Data,” the project will be co-led by an Assistant Professor Emily Maemura of […]
A delicious victory for UXD students
Victorious team members are Aisharja Chowdhury, Jifan Li, Kristin Xie, Kex Zhang and Vera Zheng.
Announcing the 2025 I.P. Sharp Lecture
As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, urgent questions arise about whose knowledge systems shape its design and whose are excluded. The Faculty of Information’s 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture will bring together two distinguished speakers to explore how AI can be shaped with respect, relationality, and responsibility, rooted in Indigenous ethical frameworks.
Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy
Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy is the theme for two issues of the Canadian Journal of Communication’s Policy Portal, edited by Professor Leslie Regan Shade of the Faculty of Information and Tamara Shepherd of the University of Calgary. The first issue, which has just been published, focuses on Intersectional Critiques of AI Governance and includes contributions from Faculty […]