Institute for Optical Sciences

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On Friday Nov. 23 the Toronto Board of Trade, in partnership with the University of Toronto will present a Distinguished Speaker Series on the importance of developing undergraduate entrepreneurs.

“The university is about top-notch knowledge and we are very interested in making sure that this gets out to the world,” says Professor Cynthia Goh, director of the Institute of Optical Sciences which focuses on developing technology-based entrepreneurship ventures.

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Your friends are chatting but the subway car is so crowded you can’t make out what anyone’s saying. Wish you were in on the joke?

CogniWave is working on a solution.

The start-up - one of 15 companies to emerge from the University of Toronto’s Technopreneurship program this summer - has designed a product to help people who have difficulties separating single voices from multiple in crowded social situations.

Technopreneurship, or Techno, as participants call it, is organized by U of T’s Institute for Optical Sciences (IOS).

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The sciences often fail to capture the attention of young students – particularly in areas of the world where education resources are scarce. Even in low-resource countries that teach the sciences, many classes focus on rote memorization instead of interactive, hands-on demonstrations.