Spring 2024

Kevin Leyton-Brown stands against a grey wall, wearing a dark blue suit.

A UBC prof is cautiously optimistic.

A person with short black hair and dark skin sits on a wall made of filled, upright sacks.

A tech-enabled strategy for beating poverty.

Raymond Ng is using NLP to streamline complex processes and improve patient outcomes.

An illustration of two hands, with a string attached to each finger, puppeteering the inside of a person's head.

How do we make artificial intelligence accountable to the people who use it?

A graphic of a red satellite juxtaposed on a black-and-white photo of a planet

There are no easy answers, but satellite images and machine learning could help show us a way.

A smiling Mario holds an orange and blue robot to his chest against an orange background.

Researchers are exploring the pitfalls and potential of human-robot bonding.

A black and white photo of students pushing each other up a wall.

There’s no getting around it – you just have to get over it.

A photo of Saba Farmand standing on a greenery-lined sidewalk, wearing an orange collared jacket.

How boulevard gardens can cultivate community.

A photo of Cole Walliser with long, curly black hair and a gold watch sitting on the ground

From the Pit Pub to the red carpet.