Alberta Government Gives CA$9 Million in Funding to Edmonton-based AI Institute Amii
The Alberta government announced a CA$9 million grant for Edmonton-based Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
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EU and Canada Ministerial Meeting Reveals New AI Schemes for Global COVID-19 Recovery
The EU and Canada are collaborating to explore how to explicitly leverage artificial intelligence to help the international community respond to, and recover from, COVID-19.
Bengio-Backed Startup Korbit Introduces STEM Intelligent Tutoring System
Canadian education technology startup Korbit Technologies has introduced a personalized AI-powered learning experience that it says can help all students learn faster and better in a cost-effective way.
Herring, Not Herring: Deep Learning Accelerates Detection and Classification of Underwater Species
The collaboration produced a deep learning framework for the automatic detection of schools of herring from echograms that outperforms traditional hand-crafted machine learning algorithms on precision, recall, and F1-score metrics.
Visiting the SOSP 2019 AI System Workshop
The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) has a long history and a great reputation in Operating Systems (OS) research. This year SOSP was held in Huntsville, a charming town located in lake country, some 200km north of Toronto.
Masters Will Share Insights at First Toronto Kaggle Days Meetup
Synced would like to invite Toronto AI and data science students and researchers to join representatives of the world’s largest data science community for an evening of networking, discussions, and refreshments!
Sidewalk Labs Releases $900 Million Blueprint for Toronto’s Tomorrow; Autonomous Vehicle Enterprises Explore New Roads
Synced Global AI Weekly June 30th
Yoshua Bengio to Lead New Canadian Advisory Council on AI
At the G7 Digital Ministers gathering in Paris yesterday Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains announced the launch of the Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence.
NeurIPS 2018 Through the Eyes of First-Timers
First-timers to NeurIPS — the world’s most prestigious machine learning conference — can explore and enjoy a tech environment full of energy, innovations, and mind-blowing discussions among people studying and working in AI.
Vancouver Named NeurIPS 2019 & 2020 Host as Visa Issues Continue to Plague the AI Conference
The 2018 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is in full swing in Montréal. According to a booklet distributed to attendees, both NeurIPS 2019 and 2020 will take place in Vancouver, making Canada the host country three years in a row. NIPS/NeurIPS has already been held in Montreal and Vancouver a combined 13 times since the world’s leading AI conference left its Denver base in 2001.
NeurIPS 2018 Opens; Best Papers Announced
The 2018 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) kicked off today in Montréal. In their opening remarks this afternoon the NeurIPS organizing committee announced the conference’s major best paper selections and other awards. Four submissions shared top honors in the best paper category.
RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit in Toronto
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.
Can a Canadian AI Startup Challenge Google in AutoML?
Enter DarwinAI, a Waterloo, Ontario based AI startup which recently released a beta version of an automated machine learning solution it says can generate models ten times more efficiently than comparable state-of-the-art solutions.
NIPS Tickets Sell Out in Less Than 12 Minutes
Registration opened at 8:00 a.m. PDT today for December’s NIPS 2018 (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) in Montreal. The early birds were the fortunate ones this year — as tickets for the main conference were all snapped up less than a dozen minutes later.
ICLR 2018 Kicks Off in Vancouver
AI researchers are gathering in Vancouver, Canada for the sixth annual ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations). The event starts today and runs to May 3rd at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
AI-Powered Hockey Analytics: A Game Changer
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.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Feb W 4 – Mar W 1
Capillary Technologies is a cloud-based SaaS company serving over 300 large enterprises and 500 small or medium businesses in over 30 countries. It improves retailers’ engagement with customers through analytics.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from February (Pt 1)
The staffless Amazon Go opens to the public in downtown Seattle. Just like a normal convenience store, this intelligent store sells pre-cooked food, snacks, drinks , etc. — but there’s no cashier scanning the goods.
AI Biweekly News Roundup
Myntra Applies AI to Clothing Design; San Jose Negotiates With Partners to Deploy Autonomous Vehicle Transit; Can Google Street View Images See the Future?; Ctrip and Baidu Launch AI Pocket Chinese-English Translator; Canada To Use AI to Track Suicide Trends on Social Media