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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 26th 2024
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Apply now for AI4Good Lab’s summer program, open for women & gender-diverse people seeking knowledge & skills to build ML projects.
Jan 23rd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Jan 23rd 2024
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When Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Mike Bowling and his colleagues started using old Atari video games from the 1980s to test his reinforcement learning (RL) agents, he didn’t know it would eventually become a benchmark used by researchers worldwide.
Jan 22nd 2024
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Marlos C. Machado, Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair delivered his presentation "Flying Balloons in the Stratosphere of AI” at the Jasper Dark Festival, an annual festival celebrating solar wonder and stellar delights in Jasper National Park. Here Machado reflects on his experience at the festival, connects stratospheric balloons to space science, and reinforces the interdisciplinary nature of science.
Jan 17th 2024
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On December 1, Dr. David Radke — Senior Research Scientist with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) — presented “Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics" at the AI Seminar.
Jan 16th 2024
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Congratulations to Amii Alum Roberto Vega, research supervisor Russ Greiner (Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair), and collaborator Leonardo Flores who were recently awarded the Forecasting 2022 Best Paper Award for their paper, “SIMLR: Machine Learning inside the SIR Model for Covid-19 forecasting”.
Jan 15th 2024
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Amii is thrilled to launch Approximately Correct: An AI Podcast from Amii. The podcast invites listeners to go beyond the buzzwords and hear the stories behind the science, meet the people advancing technology and learn about AI’s potential to transform our world from the people on the ground.
Jan 3rd 2024
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On November 24, Kenny Young — PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “The Benefits of Model-Based Generalization in Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Dec 31st 2023
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Amii's media highlights for 2023.
Dec 20th 2023
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On November 10, Oliver Schulte — Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University — presented “Ranking and Representing Hockey Players with Deep Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Dec 20th 2023
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MSc. graduate Revan MacQueen shares his three favourite insights from the conference.
Dec 18th 2023
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Learn how Amii and Telus are teaming up to strengthen Canada's communication network and more of the latest news from the world of AI
Dec 15th 2023
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How can you help your child prepare for an AI-enabled future? Amii experts weigh in on how you can engage your child through conversations and activities.
Dec 13th 2023
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Learn more about the research and work of Bailey Kacsmar, one of the latest Fellows to join Amii’s team of world-class researchers. Hear Bailey talk about the importance of human-centred privacy in machine learning, and tackling the "privacy paradox."
Dec 7th 2023
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Take a look at the leading-edge work being presented by Amii researchers at the thirty-seventh annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference in New Orleans this week,
Dec 6th 2023
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On October 27, Amii & University of Alberta PhD student Gautham Vasan presented "Learning Sparse-Reward Tasks on Real Robots From Scratch" at the AI Seminar.
Dec 4th 2023
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Learn more about the research and work of Geoffrey Rockwell, one of the latest Fellows to join Amii’s team of world-class researchers. Geoffrey is a professor in both Media Tech Studies and in the philosophy department at the University of Alberta.
Nov 22nd 2023
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On October 20, Eric Graves, from the University of Alberta, presented “Balancing Bias and Variance in Emphatic Off-policy Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 22nd 2023
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On October 17, Dr. Deepa Krishnaswamy, from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, presented “AI-derived annotations for lung cancer collections using NCI Imaging Data Commons" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 16th 2023
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Thinking of pursuing a PhD? Amii researcher Alona Fyshe explores how undertaking a PhD is like training for the Olympics, and how you can develop an Olympian state of mind.
Nov 16th 2023
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Read our November monthly update on Alberta’s AI ecosystem. Featured this month: Impact Report & New U of A Faculty Positions.
Nov 14th 2023
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Check out one of Amii's latest Fellows talking about her groundbreaking work in visual anomaly detection, how to use AI for healthcare while maintaining patient privacy, and her thoughts on the future of AI models in medicine.
Nov 9th 2023
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A partnership between Amii and Canada's National Research Council explores how AI and machine learning can help feed a growing global population. Learn how machine learning is being used to advance our understanding of plant genomics.
Nov 8th 2023
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On October 6, Ali Salman from Lawtiq.com presented “Empowering Investment Decisions: The AI Revolution at Lawtiq.com" at the AI Seminar.
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