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Sep 28th 2020
News
Recommended Reading: LIDI Project To Lower Legal Data Barriers, Help NLP Training
As reported by Artificial Lawyer in their recent article LIDI Project To Lower Legal Data Barriers, Help NLP Training, the freshly launched Legal Innovation Data Institute (LIDI) project aims to increase access to legal data.
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Sep 23rd 2020
News
Amii’s Virtual AI Meetup Recap – Sept 17, 2020
On September 17, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Mohammad Motallebi (Amii researcher at the xAI Lab) & Matthew E. Taylor (Amii Fellow & Associate Professor at UAlberta).
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Sep 22nd 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Craig Sherstan on Representation and General Value Functions
On August 28, 2020, Research Scientist at Sony AI and Amii alumnus Craig Sherstan gave a presentation on Representation and General Value Functions (GVFs).
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Sep 18th 2020
News
Government of Alberta affirms commitment to investment $9M in Amii & Alberta AI
In an announcement at the Amii office in downtown Edmonton today, the Government of Alberta affirmed its support for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Sep 17th 2020
News
The Tea Time Talks 2020: Week Six
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 six videos now.
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Sep 15th 2020
News
September @ Amii | REMI Program launched & our new digital home
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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Sep 15th 2020
News
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Martha White receives competitive Killam Award
Amii is proud to announce that Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Martha White (Assistant Professor, University of Alberta) is a recipient of the 2020 Killam Accelerator Research Award.
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Aug 31st 2020
Case Study
OKAKI uses AI to address the opioid crisis
Read about how Amii helped public health informatics company OKAKI plan and execute an AI project for opioid risk prediction.
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Aug 31st 2020
Case Study
ML Technician I Certification teaches students how to apply AI to real-world projects
Read about how Amii taught its first cohort of ML Technician I Certification students how to apply AI to real-world projects.
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Aug 27th 2020
News
Interactive Machine Learning course: Study Online with Amii Fellow Matthew E. Taylor starting Sept 1
A course taught by Amii Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Matthew E. Taylor will soon be made available to anyone with an internet connection.
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Aug 25th 2020
News
Alona Fyshe to moderate a panel at the 2020 Women in AI Global Summit
Amii Fellow Alona Fyshe will be moderating a panel discussion of Canadian female tech leaders in the upcoming Women in AI (WAI) Global Summit.
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Aug 18th 2020
News
AI Seminar Series 2020: Yixing Luan on Word Sense Disambiguation
On July 31, 2020, Amii researcher (under the supervision of Amii Fellow and UAlberta Professor of Computing Science Greg Kondrak) Yixing Luan presented Leveraging Translations for Word Sense Disambiguation.
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Aug 17th 2020
News
The Tea Time Talks 2020: Week Five
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 five videos now.
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Aug 14th 2020
News
Recommended Reading: How computers beat us at our own games
Popular Science recently shone a light on game-playing AI, as well as Amii researchers' contributions, in their article "How computers beat us at our own games".
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Aug 11th 2020
News
August @ Amii | Funding Announcement & A New Training Opportunity for Business Leaders
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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Aug 7th 2020
News
FunnelAI & Amii announce partnership
In a media release published on August 7, 2020, FunnelAI and Amii have announced a partnership to expedite FunnelAI’s high-tech innovation and growth to fuel their complex AI solutions for global expansion.
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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
News
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
News
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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