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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 2020
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is contributing artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge and expertise to boost three high-impact initiatives and meet global challenges presented by COVID-19.
Apr 3rd 2020
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The international AI/ML community has answered the call to mitigate the current and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amii is committed to leveraging our resources, expertise, and community to serve this world-wide effort.
Apr 3rd 2020
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As the world continues to adjust to the realities of COVID-19, Amii is offering our expertise as part of the Roche Data Science Coalition.
Mar 25th 2020
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Amii has joined the fight against COVID-19 by lending our support and expertise to CODEVID-19. This globally-focused hackathon encourages the rapid creation of tools and solutions specifically for solving new problems arising as the world adapts to the COVID-19 pandemic
Jan 30th 2020
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We are pleased to take another step forward in encouraging gender diversity in artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement of a two-week pilot of the AI4Good Summer Lab, an initiative originally launched in Montréal in 2017.
Oct 18th 2019
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From October 21 to 25, 2019, attend workshops, socials, and events geared towards building momentum and opportunity around Edmonton’s unique entrepreneurial identity, startup community and culture of innovation.
Aug 16th 2019
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This amazing and inspiring two weeks brought together the world’s brightest graduate students, post-docs and professionals to cover the foundational research, new developments and real-world applications of deep learning and reinforcement learning.
Jul 24th 2019
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Classes are now in session at the CIFAR Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL Summer School).
Jun 20th 2019
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By building a community of practice regarding legal information processing and textual entailment, COLIEE has been able to steadily advance the understanding of the process of applying AI to legal reasoning.
Jun 4th 2019
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This “unconference,” held from June 5-7 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, joins together entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, researchers and thought leaders to discover and share the latest in innovation.
Mar 22nd 2019
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Summer Institute brings together experts, grad students and researchers of all backgrounds to explore the societal, governmental, and ethical implications of AI. Read our interview with one of the co-organizers, UCLA School of Law professor Edward Parson.
Mar 11th 2019
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What will Artificial Intelligence (AI) mean for society? That’s the question scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore during the inaugural Summer Institute on AI and Society.
Mar 8th 2019
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We are fortunate to have many fascinating and talented women to celebrate in the Amii office, including Anna Koop, Managing Director of Applied Science. We spoke with Anna about what led her to her current position, and how her gender has affected her journey.
Feb 1st 2019
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Get a taste of what to expect at this year’s DLRL Summer School! Three of last year’s attendees tell us about their experiences and what they found valuable.
Jan 14th 2019
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Amii has launched applications for the 11th annual Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School, happening July 24 – August 2, 2019 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Jul 5th 2017
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In an historic move for the AI community, one of the world’s leading AI research companies, DeepMind, will open its first international research base outside the United Kingdom later this month in Edmonton.
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