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Pearl Sullivan, former Dean of Engineering at Waterloo and one of the greatest supporters for the AI Institute has passed Saturday, November 28, 2020. The Waterloo AI Institute mourns her passing as she was among the first who recognized the importance of launching the Institute jointly with the faculty of Math and with participation from other faculties at the University.

Pearl Sullivan, former Dean of Engineering at Waterloo and one of the greatest supporters for the AI Institute has passed Saturday, November 28, 2020. The Waterloo AI Institute mourns her passing as she was among the first who recognized the importance of launching the Institute jointly with the faculty of Math and with participation from other faculties at the University.

Dean Pearl has been a great visionary and has made a tremendous impact on various engineering programs at Waterloo. The following article which appeared in Waterloo Daily Bulletin yesterday summarizes her major achievements at Waterloo.

The Waterloo AI team is proud to announce the official launch of our LinkedIn page! 

Our goal is to provide our followers with updates on the Institute's events, webinars, and news. We believe that through utilizing this platform, we can keep you more informed. 

The Waterloo AI team is proud to announce the official launch of our LinkedIn page! 

Our goal is to provide our followers with updates on the Institute's events, webinars, and news. We believe that through utilizing this platform, we can keep you more informed. 

Follow our LinkedIn page here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waterloo-artificial-intelligence-institute

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.