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The Faculty of Information was founded as the University of Toronto Library School within the Ontario College of Education in 1928 and was housed at 315 Bloor Street. [2] In 1965, the school was designated as an independent unit within the university and became known as the School of Library Science and thus moved it quarters to 167 College Street and 256 McCaul Street. [3]
Christoph Becker is a Professor of Information and Director of the Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto.His research focuses on the design of just and sustainable information and software systems, judgment and decision-making in systems design, social responsibility in computing, and digital curation.
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College , the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada .
Alex Krizhevsky is a Ukrainian-born Canadian computer scientist most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning.In 2012, Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and their PhD advisor Geoffrey Hinton, at the University of Toronto, [1] developed a powerful visual-recognition network AlexNet using only two GeForce NVIDIA GPU cards. [2]
Yee-Whye Teh is a professor of statistical machine learning in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. [4] [5] Prior to 2012 he was a reader at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation computational neuroscience unit at University College London. [6] His work is primarily in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics and computer ...
The following is a partial list of University of Toronto faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at University of Toronto. To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on the list of alumni, and do not appear on this list of faculty.
Brendan John Frey FRSC [1] (born 29 August 1968) is a Canadian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and engineer. He is Founder and CEO of Deep Genomics, [7] Cofounder of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence [7] and Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Toronto. [8]
The first iSchools Caucus was formed in 1988 by Syracuse, [1] Pittsburgh, and Drexel and was called the Gang of Three (sometimes gang of four with Rutgers). [2] [3] Syracuse renamed the School of Library Science as the School of Information Studies in 1974, and is considered as the first “iSchool” in history.