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Profs Kuzminykh and Tang lead global AI research project
The University of Toronto has partnered with South Korean powerhouse tech company Naver Corp. and its recently acquired subsidiary, Toronto-based Wattpad. The partnership will focus on AI research connecting technology and human creativity. “This partnership is multi-disciplinary, multi-party and multi-year. It is a great testament to the power of comprehensive expertise – something that U […]
Co-op thrives at Faculty of Information
For its popular and growing co-op program, introduced in 2016, the Faculty of Information partners with a wide range of employers in the public and private sectors When Ariana Cuvin was looking to study user experience design, she was immediately drawn to the Master of Information program at the Faculty of Information by its co-op […]
Museum Studies alumna wins fellowship at Smithsonian
Having been encouraged to think big by her Museum Studies professors, Emily Berg (class of 2018) decided to take a chance earlier this year and apply for the competitive Kress Interpretive Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. She was not only granted an initial interview, but made it to the […]
Investigating human-powered AI
PhD student Julian Posada’s research into the human workers behind the Artificial Intelligence industry has landed him a tenure track position at Yale Before the pandemic struck, Julian Posada planned to travel to Venezuela to interview the people who do outsourced artificial intelligence work for foreign companies. But disappointed as he was to have to […]
Alumni Profile: Nick Cheung, CEO Morningstar Asia, Class of 2000
From Employee number one to CEO, Nick Cheung has applied the knowledge he gained at the Faculty of Information to build Morningstar Asia from the ground up When Nick Cheung first interviewed for a role at Morningstar Asia back in 2000, he had several other job offers. What distinguished the investment research company, Morningstar, from […]
A new GLAM Incubator supports its first seedling projects
The Faculty of Information’s GLAM incubator aims to connect Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM is the acronym used in the trade) with industry partners, cutting-edge technologies, and university researchers. A collaboration between the Faculty and the Knowledge Media Design Institute, the new incubator is part research hub and part seed fund. It can provide […]
Alumnae fund timely new scholarship in health and biomedical information
Twin sisters with a lifelong interest in health and science give back to inspire future leaders in health information While the timing may make it look like the Faculty of Information’s newest scholarship, the Elizabeth Reid and Marilyn Hernandez Graduate Scholarship in Biomedical/Health Information, was inspired by the global pandemic, the award was actually in […]
The Mysteries of Memory: Professor Lynne Howarth’s research
For Professor Lynne Howarth, who retires at the end of this month, her last decade on the job has been marked by her research into memory and objects. As a first step, she set out to discover whether certain objects would cue the memories of people with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). “Sometimes they […]
Dean’s Statement on Anti-Asian Racism
Dear Faculty of Information community, We mourn the murder of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, on Tuesday, March 16 in Atlanta, Georgia: Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, and Yong Yue. We reaffirm our commitments to people of Asian descent, […]
2017 Grad co-founds healthcare start-up
The first thing you see when you go to the website of Hypercare, the start-up co-founded by Faculty of Information alumnus Albert Tai, is its sales pitch to health care administrators: “No more pagers. No more phone tag.” Tai says people who don’t work in the healthcare sector are often stunned to find out that the old-fashioned pager remains […]
Obituary: Clare Beghtol (1942 – 2018)
When Clare Beghtol transitioned from Professor at the Faculty of Information to Professor Emeritus in 2009, the journal Knowledge Organization put out a special issue — or festschrift, as academics call it — in her honour. Beghtol was a scholar of classification theory and one of the top theorists worldwide. “It can be said that […]