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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.
Apr 15th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has welcomed Cam Linke to the role of Chief Executive Officer.
Apr 15th 2020
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2020 holds incredible promise for Amii. We’re focused on inspiring world-changing machine intelligence, for good and for all, through research, advisement, and education.
Apr 9th 2020
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Richard S. Sutton, Chief Scientific Advisor at Amii, recently took the opportunity to sit down with Craig S. Smith of the New York Times as part of their Artificial Intelligence special report.
Apr 8th 2020
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Amii has joined forces with CIFAR, Mila and the Vector Institute to offer a coordinated national approach to the fight against COVID-19.
Apr 7th 2020
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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.
Apr 3rd 2020
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As the world continues to adjust to the realities of COVID-19, Amii is offering our expertise as part of the Roche Data Science Coalition.
Apr 3rd 2020
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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.
Mar 25th 2020
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Amii has joined the fight against COVID-19 by lending our support and expertise to CODEVID-19. This globally-focused hackathon encourages the rapid creation of tools and solutions specifically for solving new problems arising as the world adapts to the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar 11th 2020
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With two AlbertaWomen.AI sessions now complete, we sat down with Program Coordinator Destani Engel to see how it’s going and what the future could hold for the program.
Jan 30th 2020
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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.
Jan 14th 2020
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Part three in the series on the ML Process Lifecycle (MLPL), a process framework adapted by the Amii team to describe the timing of ML project work to employers or clients.
Dec 16th 2019
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In keeping with our goal to grow machine intelligence literacy in Alberta, Amii is pleased to announce the launch of our Machine Learning Technician Certification!
Dec 9th 2019
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Amii and UAlberta are pleased to welcome five new Canada CIFAR Chairs in AI to our family: Rupam Mahmood, Lili Mou, Nathan Sturtevant, Csaba Szepesvári and Adam White.
Nov 27th 2019
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Osmar Zaïane, Amii Fellow at the University of Alberta, is leading a team to improve elder care using machine intelligence; Ana is a chatbot designed to converse with elderly individuals living at home.
Nov 26th 2019
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Part two in the series on the ML Process Lifecycle (MLPL), a process framework adapted by the Amii team to describe the timing of ML project work to employers or clients.
Nov 6th 2019
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Part one in the series on the ML Process Lifecycle (MLPL), a process framework adapted by the Amii team to describe the timing of ML project work to employers or clients.
Oct 18th 2019
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From October 21 to 25, 2019, attend workshops, socials, and events geared towards building momentum and opportunity around Edmonton’s unique entrepreneurial identity, startup community and culture of innovation.
Oct 17th 2019
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Together, API and Amii will explore opportunities to collaborate on an ongoing basis and support each other’s efforts in the development of a broader innovation ecosystem.
Sep 27th 2019
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Amii and Imperial have announced a two-year agreement to collaborate on the development of Imperial’s in-house machine learning capabilities, which will enable a range of applied artificial intelligence (AI) projects.
Sep 12th 2019
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Amii is pleased to announce the launch of Amii Innovates, a program which guides teams and businesses on the path to AI adoption.
Aug 16th 2019
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This amazing and inspiring two weeks brought together the world’s brightest graduate students, post-docs and professionals to cover the foundational research, new developments and real-world applications of deep learning and reinforcement learning.
Aug 15th 2019
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Amii is pleased to announce the launch of two massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Coursera! Take top-tier AI courses taught by leaders in the field.
Jul 24th 2019
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Classes are now in session at the CIFAR Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL Summer School).
Jun 20th 2019
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By building a community of practice regarding legal information processing and textual entailment, COLIEE has been able to steadily advance the understanding of the process of applying AI to legal reasoning.
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