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Monday, May 6, 2019

The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Our very own Waterloo.ai academic member, Professor Mark Crowley will be a panelist at this upcoming event hosted by Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society on May 15th.

The panel discussion will feature Avi Goldfarb, Andrew Bailey, Carla Fehr and Mark Crowley, with moderation from Centre for Security Governance Executive Director Mark Sedra.

For more information and registration, please click here.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Machine-learning earnings: Novel approach triples investment success

University of Waterloo researchers have developed a new framework that increases the probability of meeting your investment target by threefold.

The data-driven approach, which is enhanced by machine learning, significantly outperforms traditional methods used by investors and people saving for retirement.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Why are Canada’s scientists getting political?

For Canadian researchers whose fields have been selected as priorities for government largesse, such as artificial intelligence, Canada feels a comfortable place to be. Peter van Beek, co-director of the AI Institute at the University of Waterloo, says that the roughly Can$350 million provided in the 2017 federal budget for the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy and the Scale AI cluster (part of a business-led supercluster initiative) has been “a total game changer”.

Click here to read more from Peter van Beek and others.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Bedtime stories led to helping companies program for Alexa

Canadian company Voiceflow is one example of the kinds of possibilities the growing field of voice technology opens up

Voice-based assistants, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, are growing in popularity, to such an extent that market research company eMarketer predicts there will be 5.8 million such smart speakers in use in Canadian households this year.

Read the full story at The Globe and Mail

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Waterloo - Bordeaux Workshop on AI and Public Health

Fourteen members of the AI Institute will be at the University of Bordeaux on April 8-10 for a joint workshop on the topic of AI and Public Health. The goal of the workshop is to establish and deepen research partnerships by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, mobile health technology, population health, surveillance, incentivizing healthy behaviour, and health informatics.