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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 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 26th 2020
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The Competition on Legal Information Extraction and Entailment (COLIEE) is seeking participants for this year’s event, produced in association with the 14th International Workshop on Juris-informatics 2020.
Jun 25th 2020
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Amii has launched a 13-week certificate focused on growing technical skills in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Jun 25th 2020
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Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
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 23rd 2020
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On June 25, 2020, attendees of the inaugural AI in Health event heard from some of our province’s most talented medical professionals and leading AI researchers.
Jun 23rd 2020
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We’re thrilled to announce our next ML Technician Certificate course begins on September 15, 2020.
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.
Jun 8th 2020
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Watch the July 2020 Virtual AI Meetup, featuring Abhishek Naik (RLAI Lab) & Quinn Boser (BLINC Lab).
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 14th 2020
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On April 17, 2020, Dr. Lili Mou — Amii Fellow, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta & and Canada CIFAR AI Chair — presented Search-Based Unsupervised Text Generation.
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 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 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).
May 6th 2020
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Amii Machine Learning Advisor Hossein Shahandeh, also a Fellow of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL), recently spoke to a crowd of nearly 60 attendees at the “Five Big Ideas for Alberta’s Economic Recovery” virtual conference.
Apr 30th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is proud to be a supporter of high-impact, community-driven initiatives like CODEVID-19.
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 15th 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has welcomed Cam Linke to the role of Chief Executive Officer.
Apr 15th 2020
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2020 holds incredible promise for Amii. We’re focused on inspiring world-changing machine intelligence, for good and for all, through research, advisement, and education.
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.
Apr 8th 2020
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Amii has joined forces with CIFAR, Mila and the Vector Institute to offer a coordinated national approach to the fight against COVID-19.
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