Toronto Life / en Geoffrey Hinton tops Toronto Life's list of most influential people /news/geoffrey-hinton-tops-toronto-life-s-list-most-influential-people <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Geoffrey Hinton tops Toronto Life's list of most influential people</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2023-11/UofT93635_2023-10-04-Geoffrey-Hinton-and-Fei-Fei-Li_Photo-Polina-Teif-20-crop.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=WUGq73KA 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2023-11/UofT93635_2023-10-04-Geoffrey-Hinton-and-Fei-Fei-Li_Photo-Polina-Teif-20-crop.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=fMfe3QdX 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2023-11/UofT93635_2023-10-04-Geoffrey-Hinton-and-Fei-Fei-Li_Photo-Polina-Teif-20-crop.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Q0LEht1i 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2023-11/UofT93635_2023-10-04-Geoffrey-Hinton-and-Fei-Fei-Li_Photo-Polina-Teif-20-crop.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=WUGq73KA" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-11-21T14:42:00-05:00" title="Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 14:42" class="datetime">Tue, 11/21/2023 - 14:42</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item"><p><em>(photo by Polina Teif)</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/scarborough-academy-medicine-and-integrated-health" hreflang="en">Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">茄子直播</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/artificial-intelligence" hreflang="en">Artificial Intelligence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/computer-science" hreflang="en">Computer Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; 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<strong>Gregg Lintern</strong>, retiring Toronto chief planner and 茄子直播 alumnus; <strong>Anita Anand</strong>, Treasury Board president and a professor in the Faculty of Law (on leave); <strong>James Maskalyk</strong>, an emergency doctor at St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital, Unity Health, and a faculty member in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine;&nbsp;<strong>Raquel Urtasun</strong>, CEO of self-driving truck startup Waabi and a professor of computer science; <strong>Leigh Chapman</strong>, Canada鈥檚 chief nursing officer and 茄子直播 alumna;&nbsp;<strong>Sam Ibrahim</strong>, an entrepreneur and philanthropist <a href="https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/partnership-will-boost-inclusive-entrepreneurship-and-innovation/">who is a major supporter of 茄子直播 Scarborough</a>; and <strong>Carlo Fidani</strong>, a businessman, philanthropist and <a href="/news/honorary-degree-recipient-carlo-fidani-made-lasting-impact-local-health-care">茄子直播 honorary degree-holder</a> who has supported the Mississauga Academy of Medicine at 茄子直播 Mississauga and whose Orlando Corporation has made a major investment in the&nbsp;<a href="https://defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/orlando-corporation-gift-to-scarborough/">Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health (SAMIH)</a>.</p> <p>Members of the 茄子直播 community were also featured in <a href="https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/toronto-rising-stars-2023/#:~:text=Dalia%20Ahmed%2C%2027%2C%0AAlexandra%20Assouad%2C%2025%2C%0Aand%20Akanksha%20Shelat%2C%2027">the magazine鈥檚 list of rising stars</a>, published in the same issue.</p> <h3><a href="https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/the-50-most-influential-torontonians-2023/">Read the full list in <em>Toronto Life</em></a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:42:00 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 304592 at 茄子直播 experts imagine the city in 50 years for Toronto Life anniversary issue /news/u-t-experts-imagine-city-50-years-toronto-life-anniversary-issue <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">茄子直播 experts imagine the city in 50 years for Toronto Life anniversary issue</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/Toronto%20skyline.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=tnqUyvVJ 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/Toronto%20skyline.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=6Iiv5reE 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/Toronto%20skyline.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=uEr_XpMw 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/Toronto%20skyline.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=tnqUyvVJ" alt="Photo of Toronto skyline in 50 years"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Romi Levine</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-10-21T09:02:40-04:00" title="Friday, October 21, 2016 - 09:02" class="datetime">Fri, 10/21/2016 - 09:02</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">This is what the Toronto skyline could look like in 50 years (rendering by Robert Koopsman and Scott Dickson/ Toronto Life)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/romi-levine" hreflang="en">Romi Levine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Romi Levine</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/toronto" hreflang="en">Toronto</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/shauna-brail" hreflang="en">Shauna Brail</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/meric-gertler" hreflang="en">Meric Gertler</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/housing" hreflang="en">Housing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/transportation" hreflang="en">Transportation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/toronto-life" hreflang="en">Toronto Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/martin-prosperity-institute" hreflang="en">Martin Prosperity Institute</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For the editors of&nbsp;<em>Toronto Life</em> magazine, their 50th anniversary issue was a chance to look back at how the city has grown and evolved over the last half-century&nbsp;鈥 and an opportunity to look forward.</p> <p>Where does one go for that kind of knowledge and insight? University of Toronto city-building experts.</p> <p>鈥淔ifty years ago, the city was pretty uniform,"&nbsp;says&nbsp;<strong>Emily Landau</strong>, 茄子直播 alumna and senior editor at <em>Toronto Life</em>, which began publishing in 1966.&nbsp;"It wasn鈥檛 very diverse. It was very quiet. It was very low 鈥 there weren鈥檛 a lot of skyscrapers. There weren鈥檛 a lot of people living in the downtown.&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淪ince then, everything鈥檚 changed. We鈥檙e a very diverse city. We have a swagger and confidence, an&nbsp;identity, and a place on the world landscape.鈥</p> <p>For its anniversary issue, the&nbsp;magazine partnered with 茄子直播's Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) to&nbsp;explore&nbsp;what Toronto will look like in 50 years for an 11-page feature &nbsp;that imagines the Toronto of 2066.</p> <h2><a href="http://torontolife.com/city/will-want-live-toronto-2066/">See Toronto of Tomorrow&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</h2> <p>And what will the city look like 50 years from now?</p> <p><em>Toronto Life</em>&nbsp;and MPI paint&nbsp;a picture of Toronto&nbsp;in 2066 as a region that becomes even more dense and diverse.</p> <p>The piece predicts that the population of the GTA will reach 13.1 million and&nbsp;almost half&nbsp;鈥&nbsp;47 per cent&nbsp;of residents 鈥&nbsp;will be from somewhere else. Their numbers&nbsp;will hit about&nbsp;6.6 million,&nbsp;triple the current level.&nbsp;Most of the newcomers will be from Africa and the Middle East, followed by Asia and Australia.</p> <p>鈥淸MPI experts]&nbsp;hooked us up with a lot of great professors and faculty who were able to help us dream up what the city might look like,鈥 says Landau.&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淭here were a lot of great conversations where we just riffed and talked, and imagined as well as looked at research and reports and forecasts and projections.鈥</p> <p><em>Toronto Life</em>&nbsp;consulted numerous city building experts at 茄子直播 including President&nbsp;<strong>Meric Gertler</strong>;&nbsp;<strong>Shauna Brail</strong>, urban affairs adviser to the president and director of the urban studies program and an&nbsp;associate professor in the&nbsp;teaching stream;&nbsp;<strong>Gabriel Eidelman</strong>, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy &amp;&nbsp;Governance; and&nbsp;<strong>Enid Slack</strong>, director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2284 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="500" src="/sites/default/files/Toronto%20Life%20graphic.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"></p> <p>(<em>Graphic courtesy of Toronto Life</em>)</p> <p><strong>Vass Bednar</strong>, associate director,&nbsp;cities&nbsp;at MPI, says researchers used existing data to forecast Toronto鈥檚 future.&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淔or each indicator they were looking for, we averaged the rate of change over time for the last 50 years and we smoothed out all those changes,鈥 she says.&nbsp;</p> <p>As one might imagine, one of the indicators they paid close attention to was&nbsp;the future price of real estate.</p> <p>Hold on to your seats for this one: the article predicts&nbsp;that the price of a house in Toronto rises to a whopping $4.4 million (in 2016 dollars) in 50 years.</p> <p>鈥淥bviously we don鈥檛 have a crystal ball," Landau says. "We can鈥檛 know how things are going to go. We can鈥檛 know what kind of corrections are going to be made, but based historically on how housing prices have been rising, that鈥檚 where we鈥檙e headed."&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淥ne of the things that could create is the idea that owning property becomes something that鈥檚 restricted to very wealthy people 鈥 the plutocratic class 鈥 and most people will be renters.鈥</p> <p><strong>Mark Fox</strong>, 茄子直播 distinguished professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, also contributed his expertise to the article. Fox says he expects&nbsp;dwellings, especially condos and skyscrapers,&nbsp;will likely be more self-sustainable in the future, thanks to concerns about density and the environment.</p> <p>鈥淚 think cities have to be creative in terms of how they think about scaling their infrastructure up in order to deal with the influx of people,鈥 he says.&nbsp;</p> <p>(In the clip below, Fox talks with cities reporter Romi Levine about the importance of planning ahead when it comes to cities. Note: we reached Professor Fox by phone. Some of the audio is uneven.)</p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289167967&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p>What else did the <em>Toronto Life</em>&nbsp;piece foresee for&nbsp;the city's future?</p> <ul> <li>Women will outearn men by&nbsp;29 per cent.</li> <li>Self-driving cars will have saturated the Toronto automobile market by 2035, with&nbsp;709,000 autonomous vehicles&nbsp;on the road 鈥 that鈥檚 according to a study by 茄子直播鈥檚 Transportation Research Institute.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Landau said 茄子直播 experts helped give the magazine the big picture.</p> <p>鈥淭hey鈥檙e able to rise 30,000 feet in the air and look at the way systems interact, the way systems work, and the way populations grow,&nbsp;shrink and diversify,鈥 says Landau.</p> <p>鈥淭hey also have really incredible imaginations and optimism. They were very open to being whimsical and dreaming, and getting a sense of what they want to see as well as what they鈥檒l think they鈥檒l see.鈥</p> <p>The article also features 茄子直播 students who are planning careers in fields such as&nbsp;renewable energy and robotics.&nbsp;</p> <h2><a href="http://torontolife.com/city/business/torontos-workforce-will-like-50-years/">Read about the "futuristic career paths" of five 茄子直播 students</a></h2> <p>鈥淭here are few places more diverse in terms of what people are studying and what people are doing than 茄子直播,鈥 Landau says.&nbsp;</p> <p>Landau looks forward to seeing how it all plays out.</p> <p>鈥淚鈥檓 really grateful to the Martin Prosperity Institute and the team over there as well as all of the students and faculty for helping us execute this project. It was quite an undertaking and we鈥檒l see if we鈥檙e right,鈥 she says.&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:02:40 +0000 Romi Levine 101494 at