AI Technology & Industry Review
RE•WORK organized the second Canadian edition of its RE•WORK Global DL Summit Series in Toronto on October 25 – 26. The event attracted over 600 attendees from more than 20 countries who joined conversations with leading AI and Deep Learning experts.
Chip giant Nvidia today announced the opening of its new AI research centre in Toronto.
Nvidia Director of AI Sanja Fidler will lead the AI Research Lab. The University of Toronto Assistant Professor previously worked at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago as a research assistant professor.
DeepMind’s 2018 AlphaGo Zero requires 300,000 times more computing power than AlexNet did in 2013. With larger-than-ever datasets and demandingContinue Reading
When the NBA’s Golden State Warriors decided to favour three-pointers over two-point shots in 2016, the winning strategy sent a shockwave through professional basketball. This was a “data-driven decision” based on higher score probability, explains Alex Martynov.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently joined the Canadian machine learning community to celebrate the country’s burgeoning AI ecosystem at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL).
Toronto’s Vector Institute announced today that it is adding 10 new faculty members, effectively doubling its size.
Canada is determined to build AI superclusters in Toronto-Waterloo, Montréal, and Edmonton.
Professor Bengio delivered the “Fundamentals of AI” masterclass to a cross-industry audience at C2 event in Montreal, Canada.
Canada unveiled a budget of $125 million to launch Pan-Canadian Al Strategy, a new independent institute for AI, Vector Institute.