A research group at Waterloo Engineering is the first Canadian academic member of a global organization dedicated to studying and formulating best practices on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
The Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab in systems design engineering was announced yesterday as one of 10 new organizations in the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society.
Led
by
professors
David
Clausi,
Paul
Fieguth,
Alexander
Wong
and
John
Zelek,
the
VIP
lab
is
focused
on
pushing
the
boundaries
of
AI
by
tackling
the
key
operational
challenges
surrounding
its
widespread
adoption
and
enabling
it
to
become
empowering
technology
for
everyone.
Two key areas of research in the lab involve scalable AI, and transparent and responsible AI.
The Partnership on AI was established in 2016 by a group of researchers representing six leading technology companies – Apple, Amazon, DeepMind and Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.
Now boasting more than 80 members in 13 countries, it also seeks to advance the public’s understanding of AI and provide a platform for open collaboration between all those involved in, and affected by, the development and deployment of AI technologies. [Read more]