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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).

The Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo.ai) organized the  2019 Manulife Day, held Friday, October 25, 2019, on the University of Waterloo campus. This year’s event consisted of presentations by Manulife executives and research scientists and the University of Waterloo researchers. A Panel on AI and Finances was also organized during the same event and involved UW researchers and executives from Manulife.

Alexander Wong, the Waterloo professor, who has studied biases within ImageNet, says the inattention was likely in part because, at the time the database was made, researchers were focused on the basics of getting their object detection algorithms to work. The enormous success of deep learning took the field by surprise. “We’re now getting to a point where AI is usable, and now people are looking at the social ramifications,” he says.

A Waterloo startup has partnered with a German automotive giant to demonstrate how its artificial intelligence technology can potentially accelerate the development of the electronic brain behind autonomous vehicles.

DarwinAI's chief scientist Alexander Wong, a professor at the University of Waterloo and a Canada Research Chair in artificial intelligence, is a member of The Partnership on AI.

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have unearthed inherent gender and age biases buried in a popular image dataset used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems around the world.

The discovery will help researchers find ways to rebalance the data so it better reflects demographic diversity, ultimately paving the way for more accurate AI models.

The Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute and the National Center for High Performance Computing of National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This MOU will further collaborative research in a broad range of Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Canada has a problem.

We play an outsized role in the world as drivers of artificial intelligence knowledge and advancement, but we aren’t seeing it pay off on the global stage–not in the headlines, and not yet in the marketplace. Even as Canada cements its role as the big thinkers behind one of the world’s most dynamic and disruptive technologies, companies are having a difficult time capitalizing on that advantage.

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