The many (inter)faces of information technology at U of T
By Susan Murley

The age of the solitary computer geek, typing unintelligible code in an isolated cubicle, is over. In the last 50 years, computers have transformed from devices used solely for scientific calculations to pervasive vehicles of human communication and interaction. Over the last 10 years, who is using technology is becoming as important as what new information technology (IT) is being developed. The human being has entered the picture.

"Computing and communications have become almost indistinguishable, and that is what caused the revolution," says Professor Safwat Zaky, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. "All kinds of things started to happen that we hadn't imagined before, and the Internet is at the centre of it.
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