Technology

University of Toronto launches new centre to support commercialization of research

Author: 
Laurie Stephens
Picture: 
Wess Lovell

The University of Toronto today launched the Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a new pre-incubation hub for discovery, innovation and commercialization.

Located in the historic Banting and Best buildings on College Street in downtown Toronto, the Centre provides business mentorship opportunities and cross-disciplinary collaborations for U of T faculty and students developing early-stage enterprises and spin-off companies.

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Entrepreneurs launch 15 startups through Techno 2012

Author: 
Gavin Au-Yeung
Picture: 
photo of Techno 2012 participants

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).

Posted Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Toronto: Canada's startup and entrepreneurial capital

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U of T plays key role in Canada's high-tech hub
Author: 
Anjum Nayyar
Picture: 
Photo of Toronto at night

Entrepreneurs don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to become the next great business success story. Toronto now ranks fourth among the world’s top 25 start-up ecosystems, according to Start-up Genome, a project that maps the success rates of start-ups. Toronto ranks just behind Silicon Valley, New York City and London.

Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2012

U of T wins four new Canada Research Chairs

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Fourteen researchers receive renewals
Author: 
Jenny Hall
Picture: 
Joyce Poon

How much power does your computer use? If you unplugged it, you probably wouldn’t notice a difference in your hydro bills. But did you know that massive data centres that store lots of the data you access with your computer — or your phone — are eating up billions of dollars in power every year?

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Research that offers 10 ways to improve society, the economy and the environment

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NSERC strategic project grants support environmentally-friendly plastic and light sources that make computers 1,000 times faster
Author: 
Paul Fraumeni
Picture: 
Sean Thomas

University of Toronto research with a direct impact on improving life on Earth – and the planet itself -- got a huge boost Feb. 13 with $4.2 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).

The funding comes through NSERC’s Strategic Project Grants (SPG) program, which is designed to enhance Canada’s economy, society and environment in the next 10 years. 

Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Digital Technology Savvy

New communications tools not just for twenty-somethings

By Anjum Nayyar

While digital technology may not have been part of the lives of faculty and staff back in the 1990s, it is definitely a part of work life today and many long-time employees have had to adapt.

U of T faculty honoured by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Both theoretical research and commercial innovation recognized
Author: 
Kelly Rankin
Picture: 
laboratory scene

Ten University of Toronto researchers have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest science society and publisher of the prestigious journal, Science.

Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Professor Ron Baecker, Arts & Science

Prof. Ron Baecker of computer science was honoured as a 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow.

Posted Friday, December 9, 2011

Harnessing technology for better teaching and learning

Sub-title: 
Arts and science staff members evaluate tools that will aid students
Author: 
Jessica Lewis
Picture: 
Kenneth Berry and Lena Paulo Kushnir

Technology and the way we use it is always changing in all fields including postsecondary education. That's why the Teaching and Technology Support (TTS) office in the Faculty of Arts & Science is looking at effective ways to harness technology to help students learn.

Through research projects, instructional sheets, departmental presentations and Blackboard teaching sessions, manager Lena Paulo Kushnir and her colleague Kenneth Berry are guiding faculty in the most reasonable and accessible directions for teaching today's students.

Posted Thursday, December 8, 2011
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