Engineering Profs to Speak at TEDx Toronto 2013
Two of the 12 speakers chosen to present at TEDxToronto this fall are U of T Engineering professors. Professor Steve Mann (ECE), widely recognized as the father of wearable computing and inventor of the concept of ‘sousveillance’, will speak about his quest to “understand the world in more than one way” through technology. For more than 35 years Mann […]
U of T Awards Prestigious Quantum Mechanics Prize to Pioneering Physicists
U of T’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) has announced Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf, both of Yale University, as winners of the prestigious John Stewart Bell Prize for their enormous contributions to the field of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the theory physicists believe describes everything in nature, according to ECE […]
SAVI Demonstrates New Testbed at 2nd Annual General Meeting
What’s smarter than the Internet? It just might be the network demonstrated at the SAVI testbed workshop and annual general meeting, held Thursday and Friday in the Bahen Centre at U of T. “Keep in mind, the Internet itself was a testbed 50 years ago,” said Hadi Bannazadeh, SAVI’s testbed platform architect. “In 20 to […]
ECE Student’s Poster is One of the Best at Broadcom Competition
ECE PhD student Kevin Banovic’s poster was one of the top 12 posters from around the world in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition last month. Banovic’s poster, “Mixed-Signal Architectures for Spectrum Sensing,” was presented at a poster session at Broadcom’s annual Technical Conference June 5-6. The finalists shared insights into their engineering research and how […]
Students Show Off Apps to Change Your Life
New mobile applications developed by U of T Electrical Engineering students could change the way we treat addiction, teach kindergartners and even how we experience a night at the theatre. Students from Professor Parham Aarabi’s Mobile Applications Lab and Professor Jonathan Rose’s interdisciplinary app design class demonstrated nine new Android and iPhone apps at a showcase […]
Robots Help Celebrate the Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics
The appetizers may have been organic, but the server was mechanical at a reception held April 15 to celebrate the University of Toronto Engineering’s Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics. The reception was held to celebrate the Institute, which was established in 2010 to bring focus on research and education in the fields of robotics and […]
Got a Question? ECE Grad’s New Website Taps Professors and Other Experts for the Answers
How can we forgive people who commit atrocities? Is China the new model for state-run capitalism? Do the humanities matter anymore? For the answers to these and other questions, check out Vidoyen, a new interactive website created by ECE alumnus Arshia Tabrizi (CompE 9T5). Tabrizi, a technology lawyer and former software engineer, started Vidoyen because he felt there […]
Professor Steve Mann Shares a Glimpse Inside his ‘Augmediated’ Life
ECE Professor and father of ‘wearable computing’ Steve Mann has granted readers a rare glimpse behind the glass in a feature article for IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert. In the profile, titled ‘Steve Mann: My Augmediated’ Life,’ Mann addresses the pros and pitfalls of embracing mediated reality, and what he’s learned over his 35 solid years of field testing. As […]
New Technique Promises More Efficient Solar Cells, Say U of T Engineering Researchers
A new technique developed by Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor Ted Sargent , Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells, according to a recent paper published in the journal Nano Letters. The paper, “Jointly-tuned plasmonic-excitonic photovoltaics using nanoshells,” describes a new technique to improve efficiency in […]
