students

Computer Recommendations for Engineering & CS Students [2026/27]

Choosing a laptop for university can be really challenging and this page is designed to provide you with some helpful suggestions based on my experience and observations as an engineering professor. Since 2020, I've tried to keep the recommendations up-to-date to reflect the current state of affairs. Between 2022 and 2024 I led the "minimum […]

Restructuring for all the wrong reasons

The York University community is hearing all kinds of messaging about restructuring these days and it's important to provide some context as to what is behind it and examples of other restructurings, like those that were forced on the City of Toronto by Mike Harris and Doug Ford that did not deliver on the promises […]