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 […]
U of T Leads in National Science Awards
University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented Feb. 27 in Ottawa. Among them are U of T Engineering professors Warren Chan (IBBME), Paul Santerre (IBBME, Director) and Yu Sun (MIE), as well […]
U of T Spinoff Company Gets $1-million Federal Backing
Xagenic Inc., a healthcare diagnostics company founded by U of T Engineering Professor Ted Sargent (ECE), Vice-Dean, Research, and Pharmacy Professor Shana Kelley, is receiving almost $1 million from the federal government’s Investing in Business Innovation initiative. “Infectious disease is an enormous burden on the health care system, and with increasing levels of virulent infections […]
The Potential and Perils of Wearable Technology
Internet-connected eyeglasses and similar technologies will soon be on the market, but their benefits and dangers are little understood. Professor Steve Mann (ECE) hopes to change that at a groundbreaking conference at U of T in June 2013. Professor Mann, a pioneering researcher in the fields of wearable computing and ‘augmediated reality’ (AR), is bringing […]
U of T Engineering Makes Toronto Hydro a Little Smarter
Toronto’s electrical system is a little smarter now, thanks in part to a U of T team led by Professor Reza Iravani (ECE). Toronto Hydro has installed a 250-kW, 48-module battery storage unit at the Roding Arena and Community Centre in North York. The battery system can power a small street for one hour. But what […]
Bionym: Software that Gets to the Heart of Computer Security
Passwords are the bane of 21st century life. But Bionym, a Toronto-based tech start-up founded by Foteini Agrafioti (ElecE MASc 0T9 PhD 1T1) and Karl Martin (ElecE BASc 0T1 MASc 0T3 PhD 1T0), promises to change that. The company develops biometric software. Its latest project may change the way we secure our digital information in […]
Ted Sargent Talks Steacie Prize Win with CBC
Professor Ted Sargent (ECE), Vice-Dean, Research, was recently awarded the 2012 Steacie Prize, an honour given each year to one person 40 years of age or less who has made notable contributions to research in Canada. And he’s not the first in his family to win the prestigious award – his wife Shana Kelley, a professor in U […]
