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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 23rd 2022
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On April 8, PhD candidate at Stanford University, presented “Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent States," at the AI Seminar.
Jun 23rd 2022
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On April 1, Greg Coulombe & Horace Chan of Intuit Edmonton presented “Conversational AI at Intuit" at the AI Seminar.
Jun 23rd 2022
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On Jan 20, Shibhansh Dohare —a PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “Maintaining Plasticity in Deep Continual Learning," at the AI Seminar.
Jun 22nd 2022
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The Government of Canada has announced the next phase in the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, reaffirming its commitment to Canada’s global leadership in the business and science of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The strategy, which was first reported in Budget 2021, is backed by an investment of more than $443 million across the country.
Jun 7th 2022
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AI Week brought together more than 2,100 AI enthusiasts and professionals to connect across nearly 60 unique events, including business-focused panels and discussions, academic sessions, networking socials and celebrations.
Jun 2nd 2022
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On March 4, Roberto Vega — a Ph.D. student in the Statistical Machine Learning program at the University of Alberta — presented "SIMLR, Machine Learning inside an SIR model for COVID-19 forecasting" at the AI Seminar
Jun 2nd 2022
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On March 25, Bill Gordon of Electronic Arts Orlando & Alex Lucas of Bioware Edmonton presented "Machine Learning at Electronic Arts" at the AI Seminar.
May 12th 2022
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The April 2022 edition of AI Meetup was all about the AI & Video Games, featuring Amii’s Levi Lelis & Bioware’s Devon Sigurdson.
May 4th 2022
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Check out the contributions of Amii researchers to this year'd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, held virtually
Apr 14th 2022
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Amii has announced speakers for AI Week, May 24-27, including keynotes from Richard S. Sutton, Alona Fyshe, Martha White and Dornoosh Zoonobi & Jacob Jaremko.
Mar 14th 2022
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Registration for AI Week is officially open! Buy your ticket now and be a part of this four-day celebration of Alberta’s rich history of AI Innovation.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On April 22, Elham Parhizkar presented "Efficient and Robust Methods for Computing Trust in Multi-Agent Systems" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On March 18, Amir Hossein, a Ph. D. student at the Unversity of Alberta – presented "GPEX, A Framework For Interpreting Artificial Neural Networks" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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n July 8, 2022, Ali Zamani, computer science MSc at the University of Alberta, presented "Developing a Mental Health Virtual Assistance (Chatbot) for Healthcare Workers" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On April 22, Elham Parhizkar presented "Efficient and Robust Methods for Computing Trust in Multi-Agent Systems" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On Dec. 23, Ning Shi, a PhD student at the University of Alberta, presented "Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On March 18, Amir Hossein, a Ph. D. student at the Unversity of Alberta – presented "GPEX, A Framework For Interpreting Artificial Neural Networks" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On April 29, Alessandro Ingrosso, from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, presented "Data-Driven Emergence of Convolutional Structure in Neural Networks" at the AI Seminar.
Feb 23rd 2022
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On Feb. 23rd, Yi Wan – a Master's student in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta – presented "Towards Adaptive Model-Based Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Feb 17th 2022
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In anticipation of AI Week, May 24 - 27, 2022, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) announced the first $100,000 in travel bursaries for emerging researchers and applied artificial intelligence (AI) professionals globally. The Global Talent Bursary program will facilitate upwards of 500 guests to attend AI Week in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Feb 16th 2022
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On Feb. 11, Richard S. Sutton presented “The Increasing Role of Sensorimotor Experience in Artificial Intelligence” at the AI Seminar.
Feb 10th 2022
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Read the Amii and Microsoft white paper, the AI Skill Gap, which sets out to uncover: what skills gaps must be addressed toward AI adoption across sectors to speed Alberta's recovery from economic downturn?
Jan 24th 2022
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On Dec. 10 2021, Geoffrey Shmigelsky, co-founder of OneCupAI, presented “Commercialization & Using AI in Livestock ID and Monitoring” at the AI Seminar.
Jan 21st 2022
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On Jan 21, Binghshan Hu – an Amii Postdoctoral Fellow– presented "(Near)-optimal Regret Bound for Differentially Private Thompson Sampling" at the AI Seminar.
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