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- How to build a research lab: Read Graham Taylor's @VectorInst @uofg interview with Yoshua Bengio @MILAMontreal @UMontreal ow.ly/tY6P30lhRl9
- Congratulations to CIFAR Program Co-Director Yoshua Bengio on being named @RadioCanadaInfo's Scientist of the Year!
- Today at #AICan we are announcing the first cohort of 29 Canada-CIFAR Chairs in Artificial Intelligence. These top academic researchers will help maintain Canada’s leadership in artificial intelligence research. cifar.ca/ai/pan-canadia…
- Congratulations to Konrad Kording @KordingLab, new co-director of the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program alongside Yoshua Bengio. Our deep thanks to @ylecun for his long tenure in this role as he moves to program advisor.
- Quantum technologies: will they live up to their potential to advance the field of computation? #CIFARVirtualTalk with @dabacon (@IonQ_Inc) & Stephanie Simmons (@TeamPhotonic @SFU), both fellows in our Quantum Information Science program. 📅 July 20, 1 pm ET
- CIFAR congratulates Senior Fellow Joelle Pineau on her one-year anniversary as head of the Facebook AI Research lab in Montreal!
- For #ThrowbackThursday, how about this blast from the past: @geoffreyhinton solving equations at a whiteboard, date unknown. #tbt Image credit: Tammy O'Dwyer @VectorInst @UofT
- When AI meets consciousness science, it's not all about building ‘conscious robots.’ Join CIFAR fellows Blake Richards (@tyrell_turing @Mila_Quebec) & @anilkseth (@SussexUni) who will discuss what’s really going on. #CIFARVirtualTalk 📆June 8, 1 pm ET cifar.ca/events/cifar-v…
- CIFAR researcher @chrmanning has been awarded the 2024 @IEEEAwards John von Neumann Medal for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology. Learn more about his career and life-long love of language: engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/layin…
- Applications have launched for the 11th annual Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Summer School! Submit your application by Feb 15 and learn alongside the next generation of the world’s top #AI talent. Apply today! dlrlsummerschool.ca/apply/
- Is the fungal kingdom harbouring our next biologic enemy? 🍄 Join our #CIFARVirtualTalk with Leah Cowen @CowenLab @researchuoft & Mat Fisher @fisher_mat @imperialcollege, of CIFAR's Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities program. 📅May 11, 1 pm ET bit.ly/3elmrx9
- For #WorldBookDay, a selection of our favourite reads by our fellows and friends from across the physical and social sciences:
- Replying to @CIFAR_NewsDoina Precup is an expert on reinforcement learning with high uncertainty. She is a CCAI Chair, a Senior Fellow in the Learning in Machines and Brains program, Associate Prof @McGillU, leader of @DeepMindAI in #mtl and faculty @MILAMontreal. #WomenInSTEM cifar.ca/bio/doina-prec…
