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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 27th 2021
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Amii’s Matthew E. Taylor co-authored an article for the Harvard Business Review on Why AI That Teaches Itself to Achieve a Goal Is the Next Big Thing.
Apr 26th 2021
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We’re looking for a driven Director of Marketing Operations to lead, plan and execute on all facets of marketing operations, product marketing and brand management! This opportunity is a full-time, permanent position.
Apr 23rd 2021
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Program Coordinator to create exceptional experiences for Amii’s clients and program participants.
Apr 20th 2021
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On April 9, Amii's Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Alberta, presented “Marginal Utility for Planning in Continuous and Large Discrete Action Spaces”.
Apr 20th 2021
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Machine Learning Intern with a solid knowledge of machine learning and experience working with time-series data.
Apr 7th 2021
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On March 26, Amii's Dustin Morrill, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alberta, presented “Hindsight Rationality and Deviation Types in EFGs.”
Apr 1st 2021
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On March 12, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor at the Computing Science & Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, presented “New Case-Studies in Inferential and Differential Privacy.”
Mar 23rd 2021
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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.
Mar 22nd 2021
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On March 18, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Reg Ouellette & Alex Trad (Chata.ai) and Salome Perez (University of Nebraska - Lincoln).
Mar 16th 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!
Mar 15th 2021
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On February 26, Dr. Kiri L. Wagstaff (NASA) presented “Autonomous Novelty-Based Exploration of Mars.”
Mar 3rd 2021
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Machine Learning Intern with a strong knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ML for a Summer 2021 opportunity!
Feb 24th 2021
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On February 18, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring George Varkey (Amii) and Wayne Madhlangobe & Farnoush Farnia (Intelius AI).
Feb 23rd 2021
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Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Russ Greiner (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) made media headlines after recently co-publishing research that highlights the development of an artificial intelligence tool to predict schizophrenia by analyzing brain scans.
Feb 23rd 2021
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On January 28, Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Michael Bowling (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) presented "Hindsight Rationality: Alternatives to Nash" as the inaugural talk in the COMARL Seminar Series.
Feb 22nd 2021
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On February 19, 2021, Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Csaba Szepesvári presented "Hardness of MDP planning with linear function approximation".
Feb 22nd 2021
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On February 12, UAlberta Professor Denise Campbell-Scherer presented “Using Anthrocomplexity and Sensemaking to Understand and Mitigate the impacts of COVID-19: Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration”.
Feb 16th 2021
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On February 5, UAlberta Computing Science alumna Karen Willsey presented AI in Action - The WeStretch Story.
Feb 9th 2021
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Feb 9th 2021
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Feb 4th 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 29th 2021
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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.
Jan 29th 2021
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On January 22, 2021, DeepMind Alberta research scientist Marlos C. Machado presented on autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning.
Jan 28th 2021
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Amii is proud to share the work of our researchers being featured at the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, running online this year from February 2 to 9.
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