Posts Tagged: Steve Mann

U of T Engineering-mentored student wins Canada-Wide Science Fair

Ten. That’s how many iterations 15-year-old Maya Burhanpurkar went through to design an experimental apparatus that demonstrates a previously elusive physics concept – winning the Platinum Award at last week’s Canada-Wide Science Fair. Burhanpurkar’s project, titled “Time-Integral of Distance: Uncovering…

TEDx Toronto Talks Provoke, Stimulate, Engage

Preserving food. The changing demographics of Canadian society. Horizontal enlightenment through meditation. These were just some of the topics attendees learned about at the fifth annual TEDxToronto conference last week. The University of Toronto co-sponsored the event, and U of…

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…
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