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‘These opportunities are precious’: How U of T Engineering students are gaining global experience abroad

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Inspired by nature, temperature-responsive building facades could help reduce energy use from heating and cooling

Large Language Models (LLMs) have high electricity and water consumption due to the resource requirements of serving them to millions of users. This footprint can be reduced using methods developed by Professor Samin Aref (MIE) and his team, which produce smaller LLMs through quantizing their parameters. (image generated by ChatGPT)

How ‘slimmed-down’ large language models can reduce AI’s environmental and energy footprint

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U of T Engineering students bring design solutions to challenges in Toronto communities

April 15, 2016

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U of T Engineering honours 10 faculty and staff at the 9th annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence event

April 15, 2016

Professors Peter Herman and Milica Radisic have both received prestigious Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). (Credit: Michael T (left) and <a />Neil Ta</a> (right))

Two CREATE grants boost U of T Engineering research into optical technology and lab-grown human tissues

April 14, 2016

The explosion of connected sensors and objects, dubbed the Internet of Things, is just one application driving future Internet architectures capable of handling massive quantities of data at ultra-high speeds. Designing the next Internet is just one project U of T engineers are working on in collaboration with Huawei: a new agreement between the parties will spark new multidisciplinary partnerships in areas such as biomedical engineering, materials science and more. (Photo: Creative Commons).

New industry partnership with Huawei fosters collaborations on next-generation technologies

April 12, 2016

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