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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 19th 2021
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As part of the January 2021 AICan, Amii is pleased to welcome 15 new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs into our research community.
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 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 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.
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 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 9th 2020
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Amii commends the involvement of our researchers in this year’s conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), taking place November 16-20.
Nov 5th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week twelve videos now.
Nov 2nd 2020
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On October 20, 2020, Amii Fellow and Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta Randy Goebel gave an online presentation as part of the Applied AI Summit (AISUM).
Oct 27th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week eleven videos now.
Oct 20th 2020
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On October 15, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Patrick Pilarski (Amii Fellow & Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Machine Intelligence for Rehabilitation – Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta) and Luke Kumar (Machine Learning Scientist at Amii).
Oct 19th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week ten videos now.
Oct 16th 2020
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Amii applauds the involvement of Amii researchers at the 16th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2020).
Oct 12th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week nine videos now.
Oct 5th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week eight videos now.
Sep 28th 2020
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As reported by Artificial Lawyer in their recent article LIDI Project To Lower Legal Data Barriers, Help NLP Training, the freshly launched Legal Innovation Data Institute (LIDI) project aims to increase access to legal data.
Sep 24th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week seven videos now.
Sep 22nd 2020
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On August 28, 2020, Research Scientist at Sony AI and Amii alumnus Craig Sherstan gave a presentation on Representation and General Value Functions (GVFs).
Sep 17th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week six videos now.
Sep 15th 2020
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Amii is proud to announce that Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Martha White (Assistant Professor, University of Alberta) is a recipient of the 2020 Killam Accelerator Research Award.
Sep 10th 2020
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Amii Fellow-in-residence Russ Greiner (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) is seeking potential projects this semester for students in his course on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) at the University of Alberta.
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