Artificial intelligence and the Waterloo-Toronto tech supercluster

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Professor Alex Wong speaking at Toronto panel on tech supercluster
University of Waterloo will play important role with applied AI solutions for everything from healthcare to finance and transportation.

The huge potential of artificial intelligence got much of the attention as a University of Waterloo researcher joined other academics and business leaders for a panel discussion on growing the Waterloo-Toronto technology corridor into a global supercluster.

Alex Wong, a professor of systems design engineering who specializes in AI, was one of seven panelists at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who explored why the idea should be aggressively pursued and how to make it a reality.

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