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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.
Apr 7th 2021
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On March 26, Amii's Dustin Morrill, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alberta, presented “Hindsight Rationality and Deviation Types in EFGs.”
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.”
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 22nd 2021
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On February 12, UAlberta Professor Denise Campbell-Scherer presented “Using Anthrocomplexity and Sensemaking to Understand and Mitigate the impacts of COVID-19: Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration”.
Feb 16th 2021
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On February 5, UAlberta Computing Science alumna Karen Willsey presented AI in Action - The WeStretch Story.
Feb 9th 2021
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Jan 27th 2021
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On January 21, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Crys Vanier (ISAIC) and Brittany F. Davis (Washington State University).
Jan 26th 2021
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We’re seeking broad perspectives to better understand what technical and business skills gaps exist toward AI adoption.
Amii is looking to gain insight into the gaps that are being identified within businesses and to learn what steps companies are taking to increase their AI adoption.
Jan 22nd 2021
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Amii has teamed up with Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to make available a new dataset for machine learning researchers and practitioners for modelling movement of the Canadarm3 on the Lunar Gateway. This marks the first public dataset produced by MDA’s Training AI Laboratory (TRAIL).
Dec 18th 2020
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On December 17, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Rajiur Rahman & Craig McKeown (LRT Operations and Maintenance with the City of Edmonton) and Payam Mousavi (MDA).
Nov 25th 2020
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On November 19, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Nirav Raiyani (Research Engineer - Process & Machine Learning at Ntwist) and Jasmine Wang (Founder & CEO of copysmith.ai).
Nov 19th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has launched applications for Supply Chain AI West, an eight-month accelerator focused on empowering startups and early-stage founders to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies toward creating AI-powered supply chains.
Oct 30th 2020
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On October 21, 2020, members of the AI and health communities came together for an exciting conversation on Learning Health Systems.
Jan 14th 2020
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Part three in the series on the ML Process Lifecycle (MLPL), a process framework adapted by the Amii team to describe the timing of ML project work to employers or clients.
Nov 26th 2019
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Part two in the series on the ML Process Lifecycle (MLPL), a process framework adapted by the Amii team to describe the timing of ML project work to employers or clients.
Nov 6th 2019
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Part one in the series on the ML Process Lifecycle (MLPL), a process framework adapted by the Amii team to describe the timing of ML project work to employers or clients.
Dec 26th 2016
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This post examines the principles underlying DQN’s impressive performance by introducing a fixed linear representation that achieves DQN-level performance in the Arcade Learning Environment.
Nov 21st 2016
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What is Machine Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Learn the definitions and differences in this post.
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