On the cusp of the future
If you’re daily commute around the U of M campus involves walking past or across the skating rink on the Quad, you may have recently…
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Predicting the future
Don’t take my word for it, check out this list of some of world’s worst predictions, courtesy of theweek.com: “The growing gentleness of mankind will…
How to have F-35s and a functioning country
In August of last year — possibly in an effort to pay for F-35 fighter jets, mega-prisons and long distance fees for crank calls to…
Google’s new privacy policy
ST JOHN’S (CUP) — Late last month, Google announced its plans to amalgamate their many privacy policies into one unified document starting March 1. The…
UK government ignores Turing’s ‘moral innocence’
WATERLOO (CUP) — Alan Turing, an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, is considered by many to be the father of computer science and…
University of Alberta draws fire for honouring Nestlé chairman with degree
EDMONTON (CUP) — The University of Alberta has sparked controversy with its recent decision to award three individuals honorary degrees for their groundbreaking work in…
Western election hacker confesses, faces charges
TORONTO (CUP) — The person behind the hacking of a Western University student union voting website has came forward, and now likely faces a criminal…
McGill under fire for corporate-funded asbestos research
MONTREAL (CUP) — The research work of professor John Corbett McDonald, an emeritus professor in the department of epidemiology, biostatistics and occupational health at McGill,…
Saving Caribou From Extinction
The federal government is asking Canadians what they think about its proposed strategy to prevent threatened woodland caribou from continuing down the path to extinction….
U of M home to hockey robot
Programmers working at the Autonomous Agents Laboratory may have developed the world’s first humanoid-robot ice-hockey player. Chris Iverach-Brereton, a computer science graduate student at the…