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When you look at a scenic mountain photo typically everything in the distance is in sharp focus. But this scene might be even more captivating if something striking were in the foreground, perhaps a field of wild flowers in peak bloom. The problem is if the flowers are close to the lens relative to the mountains it’s impossible for all elements in the photo to be in perfect focus — if the flowers are sharp, the distant mountains will be blurry and vice versa.

��ݮ��Ƶ’s Faculty of Mathematics has been awarded a silver medal from the for a video submitted to the fundraising for a campaign category.

When an election is held we often employ a peculiar kind of logic. As we mull over the candidates we may have a top choice, but if we think our preferred candidate isn’t going to win we might vote for our second choice. Or maybe we cast a ballot for our second choice because we want to make sure that a frontrunner who doesn’t represent our view loses.

The Faculty Association of the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ’s Equity Committee has awarded a 2018 Equity and Inclusivity Award to  — a group of dedicated undergrad students, graduate students and faculty members that promotes women who are interested in studying computer science and who are pursuing careers in computing.

The following is excerpted from an article by Simona Chiose, published in the Globe and Mail on April 16, 2018

When Joanne Atlee was an undergraduate student in computer science, more than a third of her class was made up of women. In graduate school, those ranks began to thin out, a decline that has continued through much of her career as a professor at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. 

“All of a sudden I am an instructor at ��ݮ��Ƶ and 10 per cent of the class is female and it’s ‘Oh no, what happened?’”