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We’re thrilled to introduce you to Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, a world-leading team of machine intelligence researchers housed at the University of Alberta and other post-secondary institutions.
We originally started in 2002 as AICML (the Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning), specializing in advanced research and development in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, together called machine intelligence.
As a research institute launched out of the Department of Computing Science, we push the bounds of academic knowledge and develop innovative solutions for some of the toughest challenges facing Alberta and beyond.
With the launch of our new brand, we are reaffirming our commitment to creating and discovering the future of machine intelligence.
Our team of researchers conduct advanced research in areas such as reinforcement learning, algorithmic game theory, data science and health informatics, among others.
Many will recognize our team’s contributions to the varied field of machine intelligence.
In 2007, we solved checkers, a long-standing challenge problem for AI researchers, and in 2015, we produced the first AI agent capable of playing an essentially-perfect game of heads-up limit hold’em poker. Through the Arcade Learning Environment, we’ve encouraged researchers around the world to adopt a new challenge problem focused on Atari 2600 games.
Outside of AI challenge problems, we’ve also produced leading-edge innovations toward the diagnosis of tuberculosis and ADHD, and we work to enhance the lives of people with upper-body amputations through intelligent artificial limbs.
Through these and a number of other projects, we continue to push forward fundamental understanding of machine intelligence algorithms, architectures and applications.
In launching our new website, www.amii.ca, we’re also stepping up our efforts to deliver innovative applications of machine intelligence to businesses in Alberta and beyond.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your business, enable scientific discovery or understand the next wave of advanced computing, Amii can help.
Learn more on our Industry Solutions page.
Apr 7th 2021
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On March 26, Amii's Dustin Morrill, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alberta, presented “Hindsight Rationality and Deviation Types in EFGs.”
Apr 1st 2021
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On March 12, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor at the Computing Science & Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, presented “New Case-Studies in Inferential and Differential Privacy.”
Mar 23rd 2021
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The AI CoE is collaborating with Answer ALS and EverythingALS to launch an initiative called the End ALS Challenge, with the support of ALS Society of Canada, Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) and NetraMark Corp. The goal is to surface insights through an open data competition that connects the global AI and neuroscience communities to better understand the overall biology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and improve diagnosis and drug discovery for ALS patients.
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