Michael Kolios
@MichaelKolios
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Associate Dean Research Innovation External Partnerships, Science, Toronto Metropolitan U / Professor / Research in Biomed Ultrasound & Optics / Espresso addict
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined April 2011
I see every day, walking to my office, the iconic frames of "The Horse in Motion" @TorontoMet 's The Image Centre: capturing movement once invisible to the human eye (reminded also of the bet businessman Leland Stanford wanted to settle! ) Today, we use high-speed microbubble
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Fun fact. Voyager 1, currently over 15 billions miles away (roughly 2.5 light hours), still operates using 69 KB of memory, 8 track tape and Fortran code written in 1977.
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Scientists used a powerful acoustic field to float a liquid droplet in the air, and by changing the frequency they were able to make it star-shaped. Frequencies create waves that surround us.
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What Toronto looked like the last time the Blue Jays headed the World Series 🇨🇦 1993 2025
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Close to average human pain threshold (~110dB). But the pleasure was palpable. #springerdinger @BlueJays
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The conflict in Ukraine shows that wars are usually not self interested, as @sapinker explains: "For Putin, it was very clear...that he just had a historic vision of Russia's greatness and also rectifying the humiliation of the dissolution of the Soviet Union...I think it is
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Geoffrey Hinton says AIs may already have subjective experiences, but don't realize it because their sense of self is built from our mistaken beliefs about consciousness.
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Congratulations to @TorontoMet professor Daolun Chen on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (@src_rsc), and to professor Miranda Kirby on being named a Member of the RSC’s College. Read more: https://t.co/41aPp4lSvN
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I love Frosh Week - always brings the cycle of life into focus. New students flow in, new dreams take root, & the lifeblood of the University renews itself. Each generation carries forward the legacy, while shaping its own. And this year, with the @tmu_medicine inaugural class.
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Teaching AI to 'behave' does resemble raising a child in some ways. Both processes require patience, clear guidance & an evolving understanding of context & values. But AI learns through data rather than empathy, & without a moral compass unless we explicitly provide one. Ethical
"Making these systems behave in a reasonable way is much like making a child behave in a reasonable way." 2024 physics laureate and pioneer in artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, discusses the question currently captivating society – what are the potential implications
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The Department of Physics @TorontoMet is recruiting a world-leading scientist for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Medical Imaging. Steps from leading hospitals in Toronto & at the heart of Canada’s AI revolution, explore the possibilities 👇 https://t.co/4R5tHS1SV6
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#OnThisDay - July 11, 1980 - Toronto, ON Terry ran along University Avenue to Nathan Phillips Square where he was met by his family and 10,000 cheering supporters. Register and fundraise today for #TerryFoxRun on September 14. https://t.co/bg3aaIAzaF Photo by Gail Harvey
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#OnThisDay - June 28, 1981 The day family, friends, and all of Canada lost Terry Fox to cancer. Terry started a marathon against cancer. Together, we can finish it. Donate or join us for the #TerryFoxRun on September 14 and start fundraising today: https://t.co/bg3aaIAzaF
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19 years, more than 4,000 shows, 19,000 guests, and 250,000,000 views later, @TheAgenda signs off. Thank you, Ontario. And I'll see you again soon. #media #television @tvo #Ontario #journalism
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🎊 Congrats to Dr. Farshad Moradi Kashkooli on receiving the Polanyi prize for his revolutionary cancer research!🏅Dr. Kashkooli uses sound wave nanotherapy as a safer innovative alternative to chemotherapy. Learn more in this week’s GRAD+Postdoc News: https://t.co/X03awitBf0
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Congratulations to Physics postdoctoral researcher, Farshad Moradi Kashkooli, for receiving the 2024 Polanyi Prize in Physics for developing a new cancer treatment. 🏅 Read more: https://t.co/EIlkkaFoqM
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From #networking opportunities to advances in health care using #AI and digital technologies to trainee research presentations, the 2025 iBEST Symposium offered something for everyone. Read more here: https://t.co/z0p8MeXtcy
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