/newsroom/taxonomy/term/4586/all en /newsroom/channels/news/mila-inaugurates-its-new-premises-mile-ex-293864 <p>Mila – Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.</p> Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:54:15 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 137466 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/six-mcgill-researchers-named-canada-cifar-ai-ccai-chairs-292261 <p>The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) today announced the inaugural cohort of 29 Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chairs, including six from ƻ����Ժ. These top academic researchers—including Doina Precup and Joëlle  Pineau—are named as part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, and will help maintain Canada’s leadership in artificial intelligence research. The CCAI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities across the country.  </p> Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:36:06 +0000 jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca 110236 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/joelle-pineau-awarded-nsercs-steacie-memorial-fellowship-286949 <p>By Meaghan Thurston</p> <p>For Joelle Pineau, becoming a medical doctor was—in her words—not in the cards. However, this Associate Professor from ƻ����Ժ`s School of Computer Science is now the driving force behind promising research whose aim is to use AI to improve the treatment of cancer and heart disease.</p> Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:57:33 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 38807 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/science-artificial-intelligence-faces-reproducibility-crisis-285180 <p>At the AAAI meeting, <strong>Peter Henderson</strong>, a computer scientist at ƻ����Ժ in Montreal, showed that the performance of AIs designed to learn by trial and error is highly sensitive not only to the exact code used, but also to the random numbers generated to kick off training, and to “hyperparameters”—settings that are not core to the algorithm but that affect how quickly it learns.<br /> <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/725.summary">Science</a></p> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:08:44 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32975 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/gazette-rbc-eyes-ai-opportunities-montreal-banking-market-changes-284614 <p>First launched in Toronto and Edmonton in 2016, Borealis AI is RBC’s AI research lab. The Montreal location will be at the corner of St-Urbain and St-Zotique Sts, where an area formerly dominated by textile factories is being turned into an AI hub. The bank has partnered with <strong>Jackie Cheung</strong>, a ƻ����Ժ professor, who will serve as its academic adviser.</p> <p><a href="http://montrealgazette.com/business/for-rbcs-new-quebec-president-its-all-about-people">Montreal Gazette</a></p> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:51:07 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32944 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researcher-head-facebooks-new-montreal-ai-lab-270309 <p><span>Facebook is opening a new Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Montreal — FAIR Montreal. This is the company’s first research and development investment in Canada, and only its fourth AI research lab in all. Prof. Joelle Pineau, from the School of Computer Science and co-director of ƻ����Ժ’s Reasoning & Learning Lab, will head the new Montreal AI lab while maintaining her academic position at the university.</span></p> Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:49:12 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32290 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/artificial-intelligence-predicts-dementia-onset-symptoms-269722 <p>Imagine if doctors could determine, many years in advance, who is likely to develop dementia. Such prognostic capabilities would give patients and their families time to plan and manage treatment and care. Thanks to artificial intelligence research conducted at ƻ����Ժ, this kind of predictive power could soon be available to clinicians everywhere.</p> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:16:47 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 32189 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/boost-artificial-intelligence-research-montreal-265193 <p><span>To help spur artificial-intelligence research in Montreal, Microsoft will provide a gift of $1 million to ƻ����Ժ.</span></p> Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:45:10 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26621 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-googles-ai-wins-game-over-go-champion-259562 <p><img src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/go_720x220.jpg" /></p> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:47:07 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25464 at /newsroom