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New partnership between Nissan and U of T will accelerate research at the intersection of EVs and electric grids

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U of T students tackle lithium-ion battery safety through smarter storage

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Professor Moshovos and his team. Front row, left to right: Zissis Poulos, Dylan Malone Stuart, Professor Andreas Moshovos; back row, left to right: Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam, Kevin Siu, Mostafa Mahmoud, Patrick Judd, Alberto Delmas Lascorz, Milos Nikolic. (Credit: Tyler Irving)

Building the computing engines that will power the machine learning revolution

Smart cities professor Mark Fox.

It takes a village to build a smart city: Mark Fox on culture of collaboration at School of Cities

On the left of each quadrant is a real X-ray image of a patient’s chest and beside it, the syntheisized X-ray formulated by the DCGAN. Under the X-ray images are corresponding heatmaps, which is how the machine learning system sees the images (Image courtesy of: Hojjat Salehinejad/MIMLab).

Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays

Two Iron Dragons crews, boats #4 and #6, race in the University Division finals at a regatta on Toronto Island in June 2018. Boat #4 placed first, and boat #6 placed third. This summer the national champions are flying to Szeged, Hungary to compete at the dragon boating world championships. (Credit: Laura Pedersen)

Iron Dragons take on the world