Laptop U

Nathan Heller

Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past. At seventy, he has owlish eyes, a flared Hungarian nose, and a tendency to gesture broadly with the flat palms of his hands. He wears the crisp white shirts and dark blazers that have replaced tweed as the raiment of the academic caste.

Innovator: Stephen Lake's Muscle-Reading Remote Control

Olga Kharif

Over microbrews last April at a pub near Ontario’s University of Waterloo, engineering student Stephen Lake, 23, and two friends discussed using wearable devices to improve motion-sensitive computer interfaces. Nintendo’s wireless Wii remote offers ways to play using hand gestures, but like similar gadgets requires stationary sensors and loses accuracy beyond a certain range. For more freedom of movement, Lake wondered, why not track users’ electrical impulses, wherever they’re standing?

Ontario’s EdTech Innovation Ecosystem

Vicki Saunders

Startup Genome placed Toronto as the 4th best place to start a new tech company behind Silicon Valley, New York, and London shattering Canada’s reputation as a risk-averse, low innovation economy. Area startups, who provides profiles, rankings and data on 25,000 startups in 25 cities lists more than 660 startups in Toronto alone .

Ontario’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is booming.