Wendy Philpott

When the organizers of a violence prevention program for children and youth invited Dr. Adam Ellis to contribute a recorded lecture to their array of teaching resources, he wasn’t all that keen. Instead, he pitched a hip hop song. “From a communication standpoint, it was really important for me to get the message out this way,” says Ellis, an assistant professor in the

Dr. Lai-Tze Fan wants to make a more equitable AI. Critical approaches to advancing artificial intelligence are urgent, she says. “We tend to want AI to do more and more tasks for us and not be involved ourselves. But if that tendency continues, critical thinking in the process of generation is going to collapse in on itself and we won't have a responsible role in the

Under the hotly debated impacts of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) lies the deeper problem of biased data that trains AI systems. With growing numbers of people and organizations turning to tools such as ChatGPT to write their essays, legal briefs, or make critical decisions, the challenge of algorithmic bias and injustice built into AI is urgent.

Dr. Carla Fehr and multidisciplinary colleagues explore ways to include principles of fairness and justice in Artificial Intelligence

Iuliia Nesterova PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts Our very human tendency to want to “keep up with the Joneses” is as apparent today as ever. In fact, research shows that over the past decade, conspicuous consumption has intensified in developed economies. While the impacts of economic inequality are complex, a negative social impact identified by a Waterloo graduate student is

Whether you’re old or young, memory can be a challenge for all kinds of reasons, and most of us would welcome strategies to help improve our memory. Waterloo’s researchers in psychology have been helping with this area of cognition for years — and the impact of their research on what we know about m…

While her high school education in Hong Kong nurtured her strengths in sciences, Gigi Chan (MPS ’22) explored her interest in social and political issues as an undergraduate student in Canada. Working on a housing policy capstone project at the University of Toronto, she discovered that public polic…

Nobody wants to think about the next pandemic. But we need to be prepared, and a critical step in prevention is early detection and intervention. That’s why GoodLabs Studio, a company with strong ties to the University of Waterloo, is advancing the power of machine learning and artificial intelligen…

The International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project at the University of Waterloo has been awarded one of six Governor General’s Innovation Awards for 2021. Celebrating excellence in innovation that makes a positive impact on quality of life in Canada, the honour is awarded jointly to the interdisciplinary ITC team including Faculty of Arts’ Geoffrey Fong (Psychology), Faculty of

What’s the name for the largest part of the human brain? Are you pulling out your smartphone to get the answer from a search engine? If you are - odds are you could be a lazy thinker and new research from the University of Waterloo indicates there’s an association between heavy smartphone use and lower intelligence. The research, published in the journal Computers in Human