Work at U of T is already demonstrating how advances in machine learning can accelerate gains in health, education, communication and quality of life, as well as the importance of educating students to think about the ethics of the technology.
"What I like to tell my students is: Computer science is really the study of how you go from being just the user of technology to creators of technology," says award recipient David Liu, an assistant professor, teaching stream.
Nick Frosst, a researcher at Google Brain in downtown Toronto, didn’t require a master’s degree or PhD to launch a career in artificial intelligence research – all he needed was a chance meeting at a bar in Koreatown.
Assistant Professor Joseph Jay Williams investigates how people learn by explaining 'why?', as well as applying statistics and machine learning to modeling how people think.
Professor Easterbrook is a passionate educator, and has developed and taught a number of innovative new courses related to computing and the environment.
