The Arts & Science community was saddened to learn of the death this week of Professor Emeritus Calvin “Kelly” Gotlieb. The “Father of Computing in Canada,” Gotlieb was part of the first Canadian design team to construct a digital computer. He also established Canada's first undergraduate and graduate courses in computing, and he worked on the desi…

Steve Batiuk, a Research Associate in the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations and the Archaeology Centre, discusses the role wine and wine-making played in the played in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia 8,000 years ago. And he also makes a few suggestions for contemporary Georgian wines you might want to try. For full transcript:…

Scott Schieman, the chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, discusses work – why we love our work, why we hate it, and how stress and our level of workplace engagement impacts not only our job performance but our personal lives as well.See here for full transcript: http://alumni.artsci.utoronto.ca/planet-artsci-episode-14…

Kumar Murty, the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at U of T, explores how mathematics is inescapable – it’s a part of everything around us, kind of like The Matrix – and that we shouldn’t be afraid. In fact, math is about more than numbers and letters strung together like alien hieroglyphics. Math is music, it’s art, it’s philosophy, it’s rom…