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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.
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.
Aug 18th 2020
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On July 31, 2020, Amii researcher (under the supervision of Amii Fellow and UAlberta Professor of Computing Science Greg Kondrak) Yixing Luan presented Leveraging Translations for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Aug 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 five videos now.
Aug 14th 2020
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Popular Science recently shone a light on game-playing AI, as well as Amii researchers' contributions, in their article "How computers beat us at our own games".
Jul 30th 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 four videos now, featuring Negar Hassanpour and Yangchen Pan.
Jul 24th 2020
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Amii researcher Nawshad Farruque, a graduate student under the supervision of Amii Fellows Osmar Zaïane and Randy Goebel, has developed an ML model that can detect early signs of depression in text.
Jul 24th 2020
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Lili Mou (Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii) & Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo) hosted a tutorial at this year’s ACL conference.
Jul 22nd 2020
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Watch the 2020 Tea Time Talks week three videos now, featuring Kris De Asis, Andy Patterson, Junfeng Wen & Vincent Liu.
Jul 20th 2020
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On July 10, 2020, Amii researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Greiner Lab (UAlberta) Neeraj Kumar presented on computational pathology.
Jul 16th 2020
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Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, Alona Fyshe, spoke recently with CTV about her work tracking mental health during the pandemic.
Jul 13th 2020
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Amii is proud to feature the work of our researchers at the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
Jul 9th 2020
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On June 19, 2020, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and UBC Professor Kevin Leyton-Brown presented “Making an Impact? A Tale of Two Projects”.
Jul 1st 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 two, featuring Roshan Shariff, Matt Taylor and Martin Müller.
Jun 29th 2020
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On June 12, 2020, Dr. Angel Xuan Chang, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University, presented “Grounding Natural Language to 3D”.
Jun 23rd 2020
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Watch week one videos of the 2020 Tea Time Talks, featuring Rich Sutton, Csaba Szepesvári, Patrick Pilarski & Martha White.
Jun 9th 2020
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As is tradition, the RLAI lab will be gathering at the end of summer days for short talks on technical topics, in a series called the Tea Time Talks, hosted by Amii’s Dr. Richard S. Sutton.
May 27th 2020
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On May 22, 2020, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Mark Schmidt presented “Faster Algorithms for Deep Learning?”.
May 21st 2020
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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been named a co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant to study literacy in a digital and multicultural world.
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.
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