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Aug 6th 2020
News
Canada’s national AI institutes come together for 16th annual CIFAR DLRL Summer School
DLRL brings together graduate students, post-docs and professionals to learn about deep learning and reinforcement learning. Learn about Amii's involvement at this year’s event.
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Jul 30th 2020
News
The Tea Time Talks 2020: Week Four
Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week four videos now, featuring Negar Hassanpour and Yangchen Pan.
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Jul 24th 2020
News
Lili Mou co-delivers tutorial on stylized text generation at ACL 2020
Lili Mou (Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii) & Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo) hosted a tutorial at this year’s ACL conference.
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Jul 24th 2020
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Recommended Reading: Amii researcher develops ML model to detect depression in text
Amii researcher Nawshad Farruque, a graduate student under the supervision of Amii Fellows Osmar Zaïane and Randy Goebel, has developed an ML model that can detect early signs of depression in text.
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Jul 22nd 2020
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The Tea Time Talks 2020: Week Three
Watch the 2020 Tea Time Talks week three videos now, featuring Kris De Asis, Andy Patterson, Junfeng Wen & Vincent Liu.
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Jul 20th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Neeraj Kumar on Computational Pathology
On July 10, 2020, Amii researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Greiner Lab (UAlberta) Neeraj Kumar presented on computational pathology.
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Jul 16th 2020
News
July @ Amii | Career Opportunities, Industry Milestones, and our Last Virtual AI Meetup of the Summer
Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
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Jul 15th 2020
News
Recommended Reading: UAlberta & Amii on Analytics Insight Top 10 Courses to Learn AI list
The UAlberta/Amii RL Specialization by Martha White & Adam White is included in the recent Analytics Insight article Top 10 Courses to Learn AI.
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Jul 13th 2020
News
Amii at ICML 2020: 17 Papers Accepted at Premier ML Conference
Amii is proud to feature the work of our researchers at the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
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Jul 9th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Kevin Leyton-Brown on AI for Social Impact
On June 19, 2020, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and UBC Professor Kevin Leyton-Brown presented “Making an Impact? A Tale of Two Projects”.
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Jul 7th 2020
News
Amii’s Virtual AI Meetup – July 16
Watch the July 2020 Virtual AI Meetup, featuring Nick Kalogirou (G2V Optics) & Shems Saleh (Vector Institute)!
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Jul 7th 2020
News
Congrats to our first cohort of ML technicians
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Jul 1st 2020
News
The Tea Time Talks 2020: Week Two
Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week two, featuring Roshan Shariff, Matt Taylor and Martin Müller.
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Jun 29th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Angel Chang on Grounding Natural Language to 3D
On June 12, 2020, Dr. Angel Xuan Chang, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University, presented “Grounding Natural Language to 3D”.
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Jun 25th 2020
News
June @ Amii | Career Opportunities, Inaugural AI in Health Event & More Research Funding
Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
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Jun 23rd 2020
News
ML Technician Certification – Fall 2020
We’re thrilled to announce our next ML Technician Certificate course begins on September 15, 2020.
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Jun 23rd 2020
News
AI in Health: the Future of Research and Application – June 25, 2020
On June 25, 2020, attendees of the inaugural AI in Health event heard from some of our province’s most talented medical professionals and leading AI researchers.
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Jun 23rd 2020
News
The Tea Time Talks 2020: Week One
Watch week one videos of the 2020 Tea Time Talks, featuring Rich Sutton, Csaba Szepesvári, Patrick Pilarski & Martha White.
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Jun 9th 2020
News
Amii & RLAI Lab host another year of the Tea Time Talks
As is tradition, the RLAI lab will be gathering at the end of summer days for short talks on technical topics, in a series called the Tea Time Talks, hosted by Amii’s Dr. Richard S. Sutton.
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Jun 8th 2020
News
Amii’s Virtual AI Meetup – June 18
Watch the July 2020 Virtual AI Meetup, featuring Abhishek Naik (RLAI Lab) & Quinn Boser (BLINC Lab).
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May 27th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Mark Schmidt on Faster Algorithms for Deep Learning
On May 22, 2020, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Mark Schmidt presented “Faster Algorithms for Deep Learning?”.
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May 15th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Scott Niekum on Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics
On April 24, 2020, Scott Niekum, Assistant Professor and Director of the Personal Autonomous Robotics Lab (PeARL) at UT Austin, presented Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics.
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May 14th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Lili Mou on Search-Based Unsupervised Text Generation
On April 17, 2020, Dr. Lili Mou — Amii Fellow, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta & and Canada CIFAR AI Chair — presented Search-Based Unsupervised Text Generation.
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May 8th 2020
News
Amii at AAMAS 2020: Accepted Papers
Amii is proud to feature the work of our researchers at the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
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