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Hey there,
We’ve had a pretty busy month here at Amii: we started it off with big news on the future of artificial intelligence research in Alberta.
Amii is investing $30 million into expanding our research program, which will help recruit 20 new AI researchers at the University of Alberta. This money will deepen our collaboration with our partners at the U of A, and take advantage of their existing strengths to further AI research that will greatly impact our world.
With this announcement, we're focusing on AI research that will tackle the major problems facing the world today — things like climate change, healthcare and food insecurity. We want to use AI to push the boundaries of what's possible in other fields like physics, land use, and Indigenous leadership.
This announcement is just the start. Now we begin a worldwide search to find the right people for these positions and bring their expertise to Edmonton.
This is an excellent opportunity to grow our already strong AI research community in Alberta, and we'll be sure to keep you updated as things progress.
See you soon,
Feb. 17, 2023
Presenter: Ehsan Imani, University of Alberta
Title: Representation Alignment in Neural Networks
The University of Alberta Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seminar is a weekly meeting where researchers (including students, developers, and professors) interested in AI can share their current research. Presenters include local speakers from the University of Alberta and industry as well as other institutions. The seminars discuss a wide range of topics related in any way to Artificial Intelligence, from foundational theoretical work to innovative applications of AI techniques to new fields and problems of interest. Learn more at the AI Seminar website and by subscribing to the mailing list!
February 21, 2023
Gather with the brightest minds in the AI community from Alberta and beyond at Amii’s Virtual AI Meetup!
Learn about the latest tools and techniques in machine learning, and explore topics that researchers and industry professionals are thinking about or working on.
This month's meetup is a panel discussion on the topic of tackling healthcare projects using federated learning. Moderated by Payam Mousavi, Amii's Applied Research Scientist, the panel features three Amii co-authors of Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection, a paper recently published in Nature. Featuring panellists Ross Mitchell (Amii Fellow), Ruchika (Amii Associate Machine Learning Scientist) and Neeraj Kumar (Amii Machine Learning Educator)
March 11, 2023
Science FUNday is our annual science exhibition, brought to you in partnership by Science FUNdamentals and the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta. We feature over 100 interactive demonstrations, presentations and tours. We are ideal for families and tailor towards elementary children!
We present a variety of engaging demos including DNA extractions from strawberries, flying tea bags, giant dry ice bubbles, colour-changing lollipops, a Rube Goldberg machine, and much more!
March 17 - March 18, 2023
On March 17-18, 2023, over 700 people will join YYC Data Con, a data convention organized by the YYC Data Society for the data community.
Amii's very own Associate Machine Learning Scientist, Atefeh Shahroudnejad will be speaking about computer vision and medical imaging.
YYC Data Con's experts will be sharing their years of knowledge, strategies and insight. Whether you're tuning state-of-the-art deep learning models or just wondering how AI will transform your industry, our experts have the answers you're looking for.
Sep 27th 2024
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In the latest episode of Approximately Correct, Andrew Butcher, co-founder of Artificial Agency, joins hosts Alona Fyshe and Scott Lilwall to discuss how his company is pushing the boundaries of AI in game development.
Sep 25th 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Sep 18th 2024
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Amii partners with Visionstate, a facility management solutions company, to tackle the complexities of staff and task scheduling in dynamic facility management. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.
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