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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.
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.
May 12th 2020
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Five Amii Fellows were awarded research grants as part of CIFAR’s AI and COVID Catalyst Grants initiative. The CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants Program is intended to catalyze new research areas and collaborations in machine learning, providing funding for innovative, high-risk, high-reward ideas and projects.
May 12th 2020
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Amii Fellow Alona Fyshe has received a research grant to leverage ML and social media to better understand the drivers of mental health during a pandemic.
May 8th 2020
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Amii is proud to feature the work of our researchers at the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
Apr 29th 2020
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Amii is proud of our researchers' work being featured at ICLR 2020, running online this year from April 26 to May 1. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of AI called representation learning, also referred to as deep learning.
Apr 22nd 2020
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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Csaba Szepesvári has teamed up other researchers to launch the RL Theory Seminar series, a series of online talks geared at increasing knowledge-sharing in the rapidly growing field of reinforcement learning.
Apr 9th 2020
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Richard S. Sutton, Chief Scientific Advisor at Amii, recently took the opportunity to sit down with Craig S. Smith of the New York Times as part of their Artificial Intelligence special report.
Dec 9th 2019
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Amii and UAlberta are pleased to welcome five new Canada CIFAR Chairs in AI to our family: Rupam Mahmood, Lili Mou, Nathan Sturtevant, Csaba Szepesvári and Adam White.
Nov 27th 2019
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Osmar Zaïane, Amii Fellow at the University of Alberta, is leading a team to improve elder care using machine intelligence; Ana is a chatbot designed to converse with elderly individuals living at home.
Apr 9th 2019
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Together with the University of British Columbia, Amii is pleased to welcome two additional Canada CIFAR AI Chairs to our family: Mark Schmidt and Kevin Leyton-Brown.
Dec 3rd 2018
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Together with UAlberta and Simon Fraser University, Amii is pleased to welcome four new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs to our family: Angel Chang, Alona Fyshe, Martha White and James Wright.
Jul 21st 2017
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IBM scientists and UAlberta have published new data in Nature‘s partner journal, Schizophrenia, demonstrating that AI and ML algorithms helped predict instances of schizophrenia with 74% accuracy.
Mar 23rd 2017
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In a move that will boost artificial intelligence (AI) research across the country, the Government of Canada announced Wednesday the funding of a pan-Canadian AI Strategy to enhance research and recruit talent.
Mar 2nd 2017
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The UAlberta’s Computer Poker Research Group has developed an AI system called DeepStack, the first computer program to outplay professional poker players. The landmark findings are published in Science, one of the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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