“The University of Waterloo is another university among the top computer science programs, globally. It’s become a hot spot on the PanCanadian AI Strategy map and known as Toronto’s “AI twin” devoted to applied research.”
Fewer than half of 100 machine-learning patents developed in Canada remain here: CIGI study
In its push to develop Artificial Intelligence, Canada could become a major player in a technology that will be crucial to the global balance of power.
Waterloo.AI Institute partnership with Microsoft Canada was highlighted in an article by Jean-Philippe Courtois, EVP and President, Microsoft Global Sales,Marketing & Operations at Microsoft .
University of Waterloo has hit the headlines again! The university was recently was named as one of the Americas' 5 most innovative universities for AI and robotics!
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
2. Carnegie Mellon University, USA
3. University of Southern California (USC), USA
4. University of Waterloo, Canada
5. University of São Paulo, Brazil
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is making it possible to discover new drugs faster, cheaper and more efficiently.
Waterloo chemists have introduced AI to interpret the results acquired by the differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) technique to predict drug properties. This could reduce in principle the time between concept and coming to market of new drugs by years and decrease production costs by $100s of million.
Alexander Wong, a Canada Research Chair in the field of Artificial Intelligence and an associate professor in the Department of Systems Deign Engineering, is interviewed in The O'Reilly Data Show on his research on designing a human-in-the-loop platform for building deep neural networks with efficient network architectures.
Unlike with traditional software, we don't always have an exact idea of how AI works. And in numerous scenarios, the opacity of deep-learning algorithms has caused larger troubles.
Using AI to understand AI is a topic explored by Prof. Alexander Wong of the System Design Engineering department in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prof. Wong is the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging. He is also a co-founder of DarwinAI along with Sheldon Fernandez. DarwinAI is a startup located in Waterloo Ontario.
The First Bi-Annual Industrial Partners Meeting of the Waterloo AI Institute, has been an excellent success as per the testimony of a number of the attendees, whether industrial partners, faculty members or students.
British Columbia experienced a state of emergency this summer when wildfires burned across the province, destroying more area than in any other season on record. The fire currently raging in California has become the deadliest wildfire in the state's modern history.
With climate scientists predicting warmer, drier weather in many regions across Canada, finding solutions to combat the devastation of forest fires has never been more pressing.