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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.
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.
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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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 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 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).
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