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The University of Waterloo’s Artificial Intelligence Institute expands AI for Good partnership with Microsoft Canada

Apple's voice-activated assistant Siri, lags behind its competitors, Alexa and Google Assistant. In efforts to close the gap between Apple's two competitors, the corporation bought Inductiv Inc., a recent AI startup in Waterloo. 

ECE Professor, Fakhri Karray, has been named an IEEE Fellow.  He is being recognized for "Contributions to Intelligent Systems."

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation.

They capture one of the most basic functions in the human body — blood flow through the arteries, and then back to the heart through the veins — but in a mind-blowingly sophisticated way.

Congratulations to AI Institute members Laura Middleton (AHS), Edith Law (Math), Anindya Sen (Arts), Plinio Morita (AHS), and Omar Ramahi (Engineering) on being awarded research grants from a fund established by the University of Waterloo and the University of Bordeaux to support collaborative projects between the two campuses. Several of the collaborative projects arose out of a workshop on AI and Health held at the University of Bordeaux in April of this year that was co-organized by Waterloo AI Institute and the University of Bordeaux.

Combining the University's world-renowned research and BlackBerry's proven ability in delivering impactful products and services, the two organizations will work together to develop a plan for continuous joint innovation, with the goal of creating a joint lab that will fast track the development of research and technology into products that can ultimately be taken to market.

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On October 25, a delegation from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), an independent agency of the Government of Canada that is the regulator of the banks and insurance companies in Canada, visited the Waterloo AI Institute. The aim of the visit was to discuss and understand the uses, development and deployment of AI/ML models, with the end goal of issuing guidance to the financial institutions that they oversee.

The regional newspaper "The Record" is publishing a multi-part series tackling research in AI done in the Waterloo Region, and specifically at UW and research labs affiliated with its AI Institute. The articles highlight recent exciting research done by faculty members and research scientists in various fields of applied and theoretical development of AI.

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The Waterloo AI Institute has organized from the 17th to 19th of October 2019 its second reverse co-op event involving industrial partners and sponsors of the Institute. The event was preceded by the annual partner meeting day on October 16th, which highlighted progress on research undertaken by Waterloo AI Institute members with funding from the industrial partners. The reverse co-op activity of the event was spread over three days and included presentations made by experts in the field of Natural Language Understanding (theory and applications).