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Portrait of Julian Posada on U of T campus

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 […]

Portrait of alumnus Nick Cheung

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 […]

Elizabeth Reid (left) and Marilyn Hernandez with former Faculty of Information Dean Seamus Ross at an Alumni Reunion event in 2015.

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 […]

Lynne Howarth with her student Research Assistants Rossini Yue, Maeghan Jerry, and Emily Meikle (left to right).

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 […]