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Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.

Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.
Jan 22nd 2021
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Amii has teamed up with Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to make available a new dataset for machine learning researchers and practitioners for modelling movement of the Canadarm3 on the Lunar Gateway. This marks the first public dataset produced by MDA’s Training AI Laboratory (TRAIL).
Jan 22nd 2021
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On Jan 8, 2021, UAlberta Professor Finlay McAlister presented "Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support Unit - Health Research Opportunities for Computer Scientists".
Jan 15th 2021
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Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
Jan 14th 2021
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On Jan 8, 2021, Simon Fraser University Assistant Professor Mo Chen presented "Optimal Control and Machine Learning in Robotics".
Dec 21st 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Product Owner - Training to drive product excellence for technical and executive training programs.
Dec 21st 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Program
Dec 21st 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Program Coordinator - Startups.
Dec 18th 2020
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On December 17, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Rajiur Rahman & Craig McKeown (LRT Operations and Maintenance with the City of Edmonton) and Payam Mousavi (MDA).
Dec 18th 2020
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On Dec 4, 2020, professor at Duke University Cynthia Rudin presented “Simpler Models Exist and How Can We Find Them?”
Dec 18th 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring an Investment and Partnerships Associate to deliver excellent customer service to prospective and current Amii customers and partners.
Dec 18th 2020
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This 13-week fully online course (6-9 hours per week) will help you prepare to meet the growing demand, combining your domain expertise with technical ML skills to unleash unlimited opportunities for your future!
Dec 16th 2020
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Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
Dec 14th 2020
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On Nov 27, 2020, research scientist at Google Brain (Montreal) and Amii alumnus Marlos C. Machado presented “An operator view of policy gradient methods”
Dec 9th 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Machine Learning Scientist to direct the research and development efforts of Amii Industry Partners and Clients.
Dec 8th 2020
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On Nov 20, 2020, University of Lille researcher Emilie Kaufmann presented on learning good policies with and without rewards.
Dec 3rd 2020
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The recent Forbes article "The 7 Most Promising Government Led AI Solutions" profiles Canadian AI leadership.
Dec 2nd 2020
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Two online Specializations presented by the University of Alberta and Amii have reached more than 110,000 enrolments since first launching in August 2019. The MOOCs seek to grow knowledge and skills in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to prepare learners for future careers in the field.
Dec 1st 2020
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The AI Pathways Partnership unites industry partners to train learners and retain graduates for Alberta’s dynamic AI and ML industry.
Nov 30th 2020
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Amii is proud to share the efforts and achievements of our researchers at the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), running online this year Dec 6 - 12.
Nov 26th 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Program Scientist to support industry partners in development of a pilot project for reducing emissions in the energy industry.
Nov 25th 2020
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On November 19, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Nirav Raiyani (Research Engineer - Process & Machine Learning at Ntwist) and Jasmine Wang (Founder & CEO of copysmith.ai).
Nov 23rd 2020
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Masaf Dawood & Sindhu Adini from SpringML and Chloe Tottem from Google Cloud presented “Compute and Data at Your Fingertips” at the AI Seminar on Nov 13, 2020.
Nov 19th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has launched applications for Supply Chain AI West, an eight-month accelerator focused on empowering startups and early-stage founders to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies toward creating AI-powered supply chains.
Nov 18th 2020
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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.
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