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The Government of Canada announced  that it has selected SCALE.AI, the AI-powered supply chain consortium, as one of five winning industry-led proposals in its Innovation Superclusters Initiative.

Nearly 120 industrial partners, enabling organizations, and world-class research institutions have joined forces to create this innovation consortium under Canadian industry leadership. Altogether, partners have already committed $700 million in support of the ground-breaking initiative.

The University of Waterloo will be a key partner with leading Canadian companies and sectors chosen to help grow our country’s global competitiveness through significant investments in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced manufacturing.

As part of the Government of Canada’s $950 million Innovation Supercluster Initiative, Waterloo will take a leading research role in two of the five winning bids announced today. The effort will see researchers and innovators from Waterloo become key contributors in industry-led consortia.

CIFAR is pleased to announce the appointment of the distinguished members of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

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If you can swipe right and find a mate, why not a mid-century modern house in Leaside? That’s the premise of Keith McSpurren’s re-boot of web-based real estate brokerage TheRedPin. He wants to harness technology to transform the traditional real estate industry.

Machine learning and software won’t replace agents, but they will standardize and streamline the property search and they will sharpen the industry’s tools, says the 47 year old, who has two decades of experience as a start-up guy and corporate turnaround man. 

A management sciences professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded US $80,000 in cash and services by tech giant Amazon to pursue research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze customer product reviews. Olga Vechtomova was the sole Canadian granted funding through the Amazon Research Awards program for faculty members at academic institutions in North America and Europe.

Self-driving cars could revolutionize the transportation industry, but as our cities and vehicles become more autonomous, how much control will we truly have? In the second episode of FLUX, host Anthony Morgan sits down with University of Waterloo Professor Fakhri Karray to discuss what we’ll gain and what we’ll lose in this new era of transportation.

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EMAGIN Inc. is pleased to announce that it was selected as the winner of the Innovate@IWS Industrial award at the International Water Summit (IWS) which took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from January 15-18.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving researchers at the University of Waterloo new insights to help reduce wear-and-tear injuries and boost the productivity of skilled construction workers.

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At the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) Prof. Alexander Wong (Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems) and his PhD student Devinder Kumar won the Best Paper Award from the Transparent and Interpretable Machine Learning in Safety Critical Environments workshop.  NIPS is the premiere conference in machine learning hosting over 6000 machine learning experts and industrial participants from top organizations including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, and Tesla.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have made a breakthrough in artificial intelligence(AI). New machine learning algorithms, along with compact computer chips small enough to fit on a mobile phone, have allowed for an AI to run independent of the Internet.

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