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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.
May 15th 2020
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On April 24, 2020, Scott Niekum, Assistant Professor and Director of the Personal Autonomous Robotics Lab (PeARL) at UT Austin, presented Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics.
May 14th 2020
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On April 17, 2020, Dr. Lili Mou — Amii Fellow, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta & and Canada CIFAR AI Chair — presented Search-Based Unsupervised Text Generation.
May 12th 2020
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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.
May 12th 2020
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Amii Fellow Alona Fyshe has received a research grant to leverage ML and social media to better understand the drivers of mental health during a pandemic.
May 8th 2020
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Amii is proud to feature the work of our researchers at the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
May 6th 2020
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Amii Machine Learning Advisor Hossein Shahandeh, also a Fellow of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL), recently spoke to a crowd of nearly 60 attendees at the “Five Big Ideas for Alberta’s Economic Recovery” virtual conference.
Apr 30th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is proud to be a supporter of high-impact, community-driven initiatives like CODEVID-19.
Apr 29th 2020
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Amii is proud of our researchers' work being featured at ICLR 2020, running online this year from April 26 to May 1. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of AI called representation learning, also referred to as deep learning.
Apr 22nd 2020
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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.
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 15th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has welcomed Cam Linke to the role of Chief Executive Officer.
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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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.
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.
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.
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