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York displays leadership in artificial intelligence with YU AURA platform
York University has launched an in-house artificial intelligence (AI), called YU AURA (Automated University Resource Assistants) designed to provide the community with access to cutting-edge technology that represents the University’s ongoing comittment to socially responsible AI.
AI startup NLPatent secures first place at YSpace Technology Accelerator Demo Day
YSpace, York’s pan-University entrepreneurship hub, held one of its flagship events, the YSpace Technology Accelerator Demo Day, Sep. 29 where the top three startups in the accelerator program were recognized.
Award for research paper on how external shocks affect online voting
A paper by a research group including York University Associate Professor Zachary Spicer that examines the impact of exogenous shocks on online voting has earned the award for Best Paper at the International E-Vote Conference in Austria.
World’s tiniest lecture hall presents big thinking on environmental threat
Lassonde School of Engineering Assistant Professor Shooka Karimpour reflects on her experience delivering a micro-lecture in the world’s tiniest lecture hall about our world’s growing problem of microplastics.
York University endowed with US$250,000 prestigious fellowship from Meta
Meta has endowed York University with a fellowship of US$250,000. This new endowment establishes the first-ever corporate-sponsored graduate fund for sustaining vision research at York.
Lassonde students place second in 2022 ECCE App Challenge
The Lassonde team designed YorkU Soteria, an app designed to work with official emergency authorities to keep its users safe and informed during and after a major emergency takes place.
Immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis
Cinema and Media Arts Professor Brenda Longfellow at the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design has been working with Darkfield, a U.K. theatre company specializing in immersive audio and Crackdown, a monthly podcast covering the drug war through the eyes of drug user activists, to produce Intravene.
Ernest C. Mercier Lecture in Entrepreneurial Science awakes to the thrill of chocolate
York alumnus Dan Tzotzis (BBA’02, MBA ’10), co-founder of AWAKE Chocolate, will present the 2022 Ernest C. Mercier Lecture in Entrepreneurial Science, on Thursday, March 24.
York Capstone Day celebrates innovation and creativity
York Capstone Network’s annual York Capstone Day event will take place virtually on Friday, April 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.