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Matt Ratto leads CIFAR-funded AI safety project
A new Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) funded project led by Professor Matt Ratto will develop socially grounded approaches to AI safety by integrating causal reasoning with institutional and cultural context in large language models. This project addresses the risk of “sociologically naïve” AI systems that lack an understanding of cultural norms and institutional […]
Lecturer Profile: Hemant Sangwan, networker extraordinaire
When Hemant Sangwan moved from a fulltime career in business to teaching at a local community college, he brought with him a dedication to networking and its importance in the working world. Drawing on his years in industry and his ongoing consulting work in data analysis and marketing research, Sangwan is committed to ensuring his […]
Museum Studies in action: Capstone Projects 2025/2026
As the 2025/2026 Capstone Projects season concludes, students in the Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program are showcasing the results of year-long collaborations with cultural and heritage sector partners. Thirteen project teams worked collaborated with museums, archives, and related organizations cultural centres to develop and implement public-facing and behind-the-scenes initiatives projects responsive to institutional and […]
Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis releases Vol. 3 of Sankofa Currents journal
The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, led by Associate Professor SA Smythe, has released the latest issue of Sankofa Currents, volume 3: Octavia’s Seeds. Developed during North American Black History Month amid the deepening of “a global architecture of enclosure”, this issue sows the seeds of refusal from the intentional conditions of deliberate disorientation through reflections on Black […]
PhD candidate Hassan Asif spotlighted by the iSchools Organization
This story was originally published by iSchools News. Read the full article. Hello Hassan! Please tell us a bit about you! I am a PhD candidate in Information at the University of Toronto. I was born and raised in Pakistan and have spent most of my adult life moving between different cities and countries for […]
Faculty of Information keeps top-tier rating for library and information management: QS
The University of Toronto has been recognized as one of the world’s top universities in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, which evaluates over 1,900 institutions across 55 specific subjects grouped into five broad fields. Library and Information Management ranks 13th in the world this year, up from 15th in 2025. There are […]
Prof. Shion Guha brings AI insights to Children’s Aid work
Faculty of Information Professor Shion Guha supervises data science collaboration with Children’s Aid Society of Toronto With a legal mandate to protect children and youth from abuse and neglect, the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) does essential work to assess, reduce and eliminate the risk of harm. A collaboration through the Data Science’s Institute’s […]
Faculty of Information at CHI26: Top international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Faculty of Information professors and students had a strong presence at the 2026 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 took place in Barcelona, Spain from April 13 – 17, bringing together researchers, practitioners and industry leaders to showcase some of […]
New four-year Bachelor of Information degree launches!
Applications will open in fall 2026 for the new program, with students beginning their studies in September 2027 The new four-year Bachelor of Information (BI) degree is designed for students who want to understand both the technical and human dimensions of the digital world. The program prepares students to design, build, analyze and improve information […]
MMSt students reveal the costs of over consumption
When staff from the Pickering Library noticed the exhibition that Museum Studies students completed for an assignment in their “Museums and Cultural Heritage: Context and Critical Issues” course, they invited the students to re-install their exhibit at the library, where it is running from March 1 to April 30. This exhibit aims to explore the […]
Where computation meets the world
At a scholarly gathering in honour of the late Professor Brian Cantwell Smith, participants on the day’s final panel looked outward, discussing practice, institutions, and the world Smith’s ideas helped reshape. Framed around “emplaced practice” and moderated by Professor Vera Khovanskaya of the Faculty of Information, where Smith used to be dean, the session brought […]
Reimagining the Bissell Building
More than 50 years after its opening, the Bissell Building, an icon of Brutalist architecture and home to the Faculty of Information, is getting a second act Built to make a statement and stand out on the University of Toronto’s St. George campus, the Faculty of Information’s Bissell Building is slated for a major makeover that will prepare it for the […]
Prof Ebrahim Bagheri on regulating AI
Professor Ebrahim Bagheri spoke to CityNews about how AI companies react when they find troublesome behaviours. Theconversation covers both the need to respect privacy and what steps the Canadian government might take to prevent tragedies like the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting from ever happening again. Listen to the discussion.
Lecturer Profile: Sunita Guyadeen on filling the gaps in higher education
As a lecturer at the Faculty of Information, Sunita Guyadeen aims to provide an education for the “real world.”
Researchers decode 15th-century letter
A medieval missive crossed centuries and continents before University of Toronto researchers, including Faculty of Information alumni, made a royal discovery: it was a decree from France’s notorious “Spider King.” U of T’s Old Books New Science (OBNS) Lab has identified the faded strip of parchment as part of a 15th-century legal letter from the court of […]
Brian Cantwell Smith, a philosopher at heart
While the late Professor Brian Cantwell Smith had bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees in computer science from MIT, he was a philosopher at heart, according to longtime colleagues and friends. Speaking on a Metaphysics panel at a “Festschrift” celebration held in honour of the former Faculty of Information Dean, panelists also noted that Smith was well ahead of his time in his philosophical work on how humans relate to machines and artificial intelligence. […]
‘Not on the Exam’ with Prof Silvia Vong
In this ongoing series, we ask our professors not just about their work, but also to tell us about their favourite cuisine and whether they prefer cats or dogs. This latest installment features Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) Silvia Vong, who is also the Library and Information Science Concentration Coordinator. What courses are you teaching now? I am teaching three sections of INF1321. It’s quite a long title: Representing, Documenting, and Accessing the Cultural Record. That’s a compulsory course for Library and […]
Does AI ‘give a damn’?
“Does AI give a damn?” was the question of the day at a scholarly gathering held to commemorate the work of the late Professor Brian Cantwell Smith, who long maintained that artificial intelligence lacked a human element, and that while AI could “reckon,” it lacked the ability to judge. Echoing his friend, the late philosopher John Haugeland, Smith argued in his 2019 book, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence, that AI couldn’t make judgments because, unlike humans, it was incapable […]