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I was invited to share an update on 2i2c’s progress to date and to suggest ways the organization could collaborate with Berkeley. …

Open Toolchain Canadian Open Data Society Board meeting 2021-08-27 Idea People, with the right data, tools and resources, can do good things working together. James Colliander Professor of Mathematics: UBC Cofounder: 2i2c, Callysto, Syzygy, Crowdmark Past Director (2016-2021): PIMS

James Colliander (Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical sciences) launched Canada’s national JupyterHub …

(Invited post on Jupyter blog: https://blog.jupyter.org/national-scale-interactive-computing-2c104455e062) This is an invited post from Jim Colliander, Professor of Mathematics at UBC and Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.¹ In 2017, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), in partnership with Compute Canada and Cybera, launched Syzygy, a cloud-hosted interactive computing platform that delivers JupyterHub deployments for universities across Canada.

The computing infrastructure as a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) may have originally been conceived as a resource to support their own electronic commerce business but other striking applications emerged.

My former colleague Larry Guth (now at MIT) visited us recently and gave a beautiful colloquium talk. The Department has recently deployed a video streaming service so we are able to share Larry’s talk with the world.

Suppose you’ve recorded a one hour lecture onto video and taken digital photographs of each blackboard used during the presentation. The video and photograph files contain metadata with time stamps: we know the time when each frame of video and photograph was captured.

UTORvpn Members of the University of Toronto have access to a fantastic library. There are great resources like the Oxford English Dictionary, MathSciNet and Web of Knowledge and a whole lot more.

Overview UTL has built, and is in the process of expanding, a suite of web-based tools that have the potential to revolutionize the research driven by scholars at the University of Toronto.