Engineering
students
at
the
University
of
Waterloo
will
apply
classroom
lessons
in
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
to
help
develop
new
uses
for
a
voice-activated
virtual
assistant
system
in
a
program
funded
by
Amazon.
Waterloo
is
one
of
just
four
North
American
universities
initially
selected
to
participate
in
the
Alexa
Fund
Fellowship,
which
comes
with
funding
for
instruction
and
supervision
of
student
design
projects
in
the
burgeoning
field
of
AI
and
the
Internet
of
Things
(IoT).
“It’s
evolving
at
incredible
speed,”
said
Fakhri
Karray,
director
of
the
Centre
for
Pattern
Analysis
and
Machine
Intelligence
and
a
professor
of
electrical
and
computer
engineering
at
Waterloo.
“These
are
very
exciting
times
for
researchers,
product
developers
and
customers.”
Read
the
full
story.
Thursday, March 2, 2017