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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.
Jun 9th 2021
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Five new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs will advance fundamental AI research and boost industry innovation.
May 31st 2021
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Russ Greiner has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC) -- the highest honour bestowed by the organization.
May 20th 2021
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Dr. Osmar Zaïane (Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Fellow at Amii and UAlberta Professor) will deliver a keynote speech at the 34th Canadian AI Conference, happening online from May 25 to 28.
May 20th 2021
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On May 13, Amii joined MDA alongside the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) for a webinar and panel discussion.
May 18th 2021
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On May 14, 2021, Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian (Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo and Postgraduate Affiliate at the Vector Institute) presented “Recent Advances in Mean-Field Reinforcement Learning Methods” at the AI Seminar.
May 13th 2021
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Amii is proud to celebrate Matthew E. Taylor for being elected General Co-Chair of the 2022 AAMAS Conference and winning a Best Paper Award at the 2021 AAMAS!
Apr 30th 2021
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The ninth annual ICLR is taking place May 3-7 online this year! We are proud to share that the work of our researchers are being included in the proceedings.
Apr 29th 2021
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Amii is proud to share the work of our researchers at the 20th annual International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).
Apr 28th 2021
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Attabotics partners with AltaML and Amii to bolster artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for supply chains. The new collaboration will support the growth of Calgary as an innovation hub for emerging technologies.
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 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 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 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 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 5th 2021
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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.
Jan 22nd 2021
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On Jan 8, 2021, UAlberta Professor Finlay McAlister presented "Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support Unit - Health Research Opportunities for Computer Scientists".
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