Research Talk: Partial Perspectives in Information Systems – Adventures in Wikipedia, News, and Speech AI
Farhan Samir, Postdoctoral Fellow at U of T’s Department of Computer Science, explores how representational imbalances emerge within large information systems.
Research Talk: Sensing Bread: Food, Neuroscience, and Design Research
Maciej Chmara, designer and researcher, explores how a simple cultural technique like bread-making can become a site for scientific inquiry, therapeutic innovation, and philosophical reflection.
Book Talk: Digital Queers and High Tech Gays
In her forthcoming book, Digital Queers and High Tech Gays, Dr. Alex D. Ketchum explores how queer communities have long shaped internet culture by organizing, sharing knowledge, and preserving their own histories.
Research Talk: Making a Cyberfeminist Index
The internet has always been feminist, just rarely archived that way. Mindy Seu presents Cyberfeminism Index, a collaborative, crowd-sourced project that gathers decades of feminist tech activism, art, and theory while challenging who gets remembered online and how digital histories are written.
Research Talk: Making a Cyberfeminist Index
The internet has always been feminist, just rarely archived that way. Mindy Seu presents Cyberfeminism Index, a collaborative, crowd-sourced project that gathers decades of feminist tech activism, art, and theory while challenging who gets remembered online and how digital histories are written.
Research Talk: Emulators, Editions, and the Literary Forms of Game Design
Join us for a research talk to explore the literary and design dimensions of early web-based interactive fiction through the case of ApertureScience.com. Learn how emulators open new pathways for preserving and understanding born-digital artifacts.
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
Far from a distant or hypothetical force, the Rewiring Democracy demonstrates that AI is already influencing the drafting of legislation, regulatory enforcement, judicial rulings, and public discourse.
Ethics in Translation: AI Across Borders
Artificial Intelligence ethics is often framed in universal terms — but what happens when we look beyond the Western contexts that shape those frameworks?
Join Professor Ishtiaque Ahmed for an ABC Seminar exploring how AI systems extend colonial legacies and how community practices across the Global South reveal alternative ethical perspectives.
UofT Critical Computing G2G: Cross-Lab Gathering
This gathering brings together research groups working at the intersections of computing, design, and society — a chance to hear what others are exploring, share what you’re working on, and discover points of overlap or collaboration. Each presenter will have five minutes to introduce their work, followed by a short Q&A. We’ll wrap up with pizza and informal networking to keep the conversations going.
Research Talk: Game Engine Speculation
In recent years, tools like Unreal Engine have transformed how we imagine and build digital worlds. These “game engines” are more than creative software