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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.

Michael Bowling, Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Also a Professor at the University of Alberta, Bowling is recognized for his contributions and leadership in the field of AI, including his work producing theoretical advancements in the world of imperfect (or hidden) information games and for playing an instrumental role in establishing the field of deep reinforcement learning.

We’re seeking broad perspectives to better understand what technical and business skills gaps exist toward AI adoption.

Amii is looking to gain insight into the gaps that are being identified within businesses and to learn what steps companies are taking to increase their AI adoption.

As part of the January 2021 AICan, Amii is pleased to welcome 15 new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs into our research community.

Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada) launched today the Roche AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), the first such collaborative centre to combine the expertise of all three national AI institutes under the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy - Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute.

The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is now accepting applications for participation in the Agriculture Spring 2021 cohort of the previously announced REMI (Reducing Emissions through Machine Intelligence) Program.

We are proud to share that this year, Amii Fellow, University of Alberta Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been awarded a spot in the Top 40 Under 40.

Microsoft and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) have teamed up to put forward $200,000 in scholarships in Amii’s Machine Learning Technician Certification I.

Amii Fellow-in-residence Russ Greiner (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) is seeking potential projects this semester for students in his course on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) at the University of Alberta.

Researchers from Amii are part of a team that works at the intersection of computing science and psychiatry in a field called computational psychiatry. This area uses computational tools – such as machine learning – to better understand psychiatric disorders through developing data-driven tools and methods to aid clinicians with diagnosis and symptom assessments.

Researchers at Amii are developing ANA (Automated Nursing Agent), a conversational software agent (also known as a chatbot) designed to converse with elderly individuals who are living at home.

Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, Alona Fyshe, spoke recently with CTV about her work tracking mental health during the pandemic.

The Competition on Legal Information Extraction and Entailment (COLIEE) is seeking participants for this year’s event, produced in association with the 14th International Workshop on Juris-informatics 2020.

Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been named a co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant to study literacy in a digital and multicultural world.

Five Amii Fellows were awarded research grants as part of CIFAR’s AI and COVID Catalyst Grants initiative. The CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants Program is intended to catalyze new research areas and collaborations in machine learning, providing funding for innovative, high-risk, high-reward ideas and projects.

The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is proud to be a supporter of high-impact, community-driven initiatives like CODEVID-19. 

Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Csaba Szepesvári has teamed up other researchers to launch the RL Theory Seminar series, a series of online talks geared at increasing knowledge-sharing in the rapidly growing field of reinforcement learning.

The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has welcomed Cam Linke to the role of Chief Executive Officer.

The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is contributing artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge and expertise to boost three high-impact initiatives and meet global challenges presented by COVID-19.

The international AI/ML community has answered the call to mitigate the current and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amii is committed to leveraging our resources, expertise, and community to serve this world-wide effort.

We are pleased to take another step forward in encouraging gender diversity in artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement of a two-week pilot of the AI4Good Summer Lab, an initiative originally launched in Montréal in 2017.

Classes are now in session at the CIFAR Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL Summer School).

Amii and the Hong Kong AI Lab (HKAI Lab) are pleased to announce an ongoing collaborative relationship between the two AI-focused institutes.