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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 14th 2021
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On July 9, Lana Cuthbertson, CEO and Founder of Areto Labs, presented “Using AI to make digital communities more positive and inclusive at Areto Labs" at the AI Seminar
Jul 13th 2021
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Video games have long been a domain explored by AI researchers, and researchers from Amii have a rich history producing advancements that can help across all aspects of game design, development and delivery.
Jul 5th 2021
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Video games have long been a domain explored by AI researchers, and researchers from Amii have a rich history producing advancements that can help across all aspects of game design, development and delivery.
Jun 28th 2021
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On June 25, Devika Subramanian, professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Rice University since 1996, presented "Big data and Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities" at the AI Seminar.
Jun 28th 2021
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Amii is now accepting applications for the Machine Learning Technician Certification, which runs from September 21 to November 18, 2021!
Jun 14th 2021
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On June 4, Myrna Bittner (CEO and Co-Founder of RWI Synthetics) presented "RWI’s Story of Calculating Impact with Scenario-based Intelligence and De-risking in Single Synthetic Environments”.
Jun 7th 2021
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On May 28, Bruce Matichuk (Co-Founder and CTO of Health Gauge) presented "GPT-3 & Health Coach” at the AI Seminar.
May 21st 2021
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On May 21, Amii's Alaa Eddin Alchalabi, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, presented “Fair Server Selection in Edge Computing with Q-Value-Normalized Action-Suppressed Quadruple Q-Learning" at the AI Seminar.
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 April 30, Ismail Ben Ayed (Associate Professor at ETS, Montreal (Université du Québec)) presented "Few-Shot Learning: Are We Making Progress?”
May 11th 2021
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On April 29, Bill Leslie and Barrett Monchka presented "Automated Vertebral Fracture Recognition from Clinical Images."
May 6th 2021
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On April 23, Harvard's Milind Tambe presented "Multiagent reasoning for social impact: Results from deployments for public health and conservation."
May 4th 2021
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The AI Seminar is a weekly meeting at the University of Alberta where researchers interested in artificial intelligence (AI) can share their research. Presenters include both local speakers from the University of Alberta and visitors from other institutions.
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 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 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 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 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).
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