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Congratulations to @VectorInst’s Chief Scientific Advisor @geoffreyhinton on receiving the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, alongside @ylecun and Yoshua Bengio. bit.ly/2uui1Mz
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Congratulations to @VectorInst's Chief Scientific Advisor, Geoffrey Hinton on being named a Companion of the Order of Canada! 🇨🇦 gg.ca/en/media/news/2018/gov…
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It was incredible to have all three recent ACM A.M. Turing award recipients, @ylecun, Yoshua Bengio and Vector’s Chief Scientific Advisor @geoffreyhinton at Vector!
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Such a special evening! Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Richard Sutton share their honest advice with a room full of AI scientists at the @VectorInst AI Job & Data Fair. #dlrl2018 @AmiiThinks @MILAMontreal @CIFAR_News
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👏Exciting news! @roydanroy has been named the Vector Research Co-Director, leading the way in cutting-edge AI research along with current Research Director, Graham Taylor. Learn more about his appointment here: vectorinstitute.ai/dan-roy-n…
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Vector congratulates @UofT on receiving this historic gift from Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman, to help construct an innovation centre of AI and biomedical experts! Vector is also thrilled to be co-locating with the University of Toronto in this soon-to-be built centre!
Landmark $100-million gift to #UofT from Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman will power Canadian innovation & help researchers explore the intersection of technology & society utoronto.ca/news/landmark-10…
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Vector Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Advisor @geoffreyhinton has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Hinton shares this honour with John J. Hopfield “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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Geoff Hinton - The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed nyti.ms/2tWNIfb
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Vector Institute is offering scholarships to top candidates applying to AI Master’s Programs. Learn more vectorinstitute.ai/aimasters…
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Congratulations to Vector’s Associate Research Director- Health, Dr. Anna Goldenberg on being appointed as the Varma Family chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence! tgam.ca/2AOuqyo
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Geoffrey Hinton: "the trick is to always get graduate students who are smarter than you" #ElevateToronto @MaRSDD
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Applications are now open for the 2018 Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning Summer Schools! dlrlsummerschool.ca/ The deadline to apply is March 26 2018 at 3:59:59 PM EST
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“In 30 years we’re going to look back and say Geoff is Einstein—of AI, deep learning" @jsomers @techreview t.co/1NcruRkKBJ?amp=1
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Deep Learning Summer School Class of 2018! #dlrl2018 @CIFAR_News @VectorInst @AmiiThinks @MILAMontreal dlrlsummerschool.ca/
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It began when @DavidDuvenaud was working on a medical data project when he hit upon a major shortcoming in AI. “The result is really not even a network anymore” writes @_KarenHao @techreview. bit.ly/2zYC6xH
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Thrilled for Vector faculty member Sanja Fidler as she will be leading research at new NVIDIA AI Research Lab in Toronto! blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/0…
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We're very excited to have @wattpad sign on as a partner of the #VectorInstitute! Thank you for your support!
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Today we're announcing 10 new faculty members with expertise in machine and deep learning! vectorinstitute.ai/#people bit.ly/2xGkcfR
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Here we go! Graham Taylor kicking off the 2018 Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning Summer School here in Toronto with @CIFAR_News @AmiiThinks @MILAMontreal @VectorInst. We can't wait to see what our speakers have in store! #dlrl2018
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Congratulations to @geoffreyhinton on receiving tonight's Toronto Region Builder Award @TorontoRBOT. Speaking about Dr. Hinton's impact, Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau said it "continues and will continue here." #CANADAI
📸 @TorontoRBOT
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Excited to announce our new 3-year strategy! Built around 4 key pillars, it aims to bolster Canada’s place as a premier hub of AI talent & research, increase AI adoption in industry & health care, and support high-level talent development. Learn more: bit.ly/2BieHuD
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240 cutting edge GPUs already purchased by @VectorInst and on their way to Toronto will be re-purposed towards Ontario's New Health Data Platform to Help Defeat COVID-19. Learn more: vectorinstitute.ai/2020/04/1…
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“If we can understand the connection between symptoms and outcomes, we might be able to predict the onset of diseases.” – Anna Goldenberg, Vector’s Associate Research Director and Varma Family Chair @sickkids. Check our Anna’s Q&A in @torontolife, here: bit.ly/2HYZLDO
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Way to go! New Vector faculty member @MarzyehGhassemi is featured in MIT Tech Review's latest list of 35 Innovators Under 35 bit.ly/2Iz0vv2
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Thanks to @VladMnih of @DeepMindAI for joining us @FieldsInstitute yesterday and giving a talk on Efficient Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning. If you missed it, check back for the video here: fields.utoronto.ca/video-arc…
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“Over time, a handful of fellow deep learning believers gravitated to him…” We hope you enjoyed the story about Geoffrey Hinton as much as we did. @torontolife @katrinaonstad torontolife.com/tech/ai-supe…
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"The Future of AI" magazine, published right here in Toronto by @MaRSDD is here! It kicks off with insight from @VectorInst's research director, Richard Zemel, on why Toronto is "The intelligent choice". magazine.marsdd.com/how-dive…
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“The most satisfying part of research in machine learning is that it helps us understand how and when knowledge is possible, for humans or machines,” says Vector Faculty member @DavidDuvenaud in the @globeandmail’s Report on Business magazine. tgam.ca/2IEdC3A
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Vector is proud to announce the first Toronto Health Hackathon, bringing together machine learning experts, data scientists, and clinicians to work towards solving clinical questions impacting patient's lives. For more info and to apply click here: bit.ly/2MJosXh
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We are excited to publish our first annual report! Thanks to our partners who joined us on this incredible journey to get to where we are today! We look forward to continuing to build on our work in the upcoming year. Read all about Vector's progress: bit.ly/2DsBZOt
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Big congrats to Vector grad student @coolboi95 and Vector research scientist Richard Zemel on their paper "A Divergence Minimization Perspective on Imitation Learning Methods" (tinyurl.com/y5jmtp4d) winning the Best Paper Award at @CoRl2019 robot-learning.org/
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🏆 Another HUGE win! Vector Faculty Affiliate @DaveLindell and his students won Best Student Paper at @CVPR 2025 for "Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light" - the first system to render light propagation from multi-view videos!
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We're thrilled to welcome @A_Aspuru_Guzik to @VectorInst's growing team of faculty! As #Canada150 Research Chair @UofT and faculty member @VectorInst, Alán and his team will combine chemistry with machine learning and quantum computing. Welcome to Canada! vectorinstitute.ai/2018/03/2…
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Kicking off our Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium! @geoffreyhinton delivers his Turing lecture & @UofT announces plans with @VectorInst to recruit 3 new faculty in deep learning in recognition of Dr. Hinton’s contributions to the field. #AINorth bit.ly/2Bj57UZ
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📢 We are launching a fully-funded 6-week machine learning (#ML) course for mothers and caregivers! Still figuring out sleep cycles or feeding options? That’s ok, we want you in the program!
📄Applications close Feb 28, apply now!
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Congratulations to Vector co-founder @RaquelUrtasun who raised $83.5 million for her self-driving startup @Waabi_ai. theglobeandmail.com/business…
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There's An #AI Revolution Underway And It's Happening In Canada forbes.com/sites/bijankhosra…
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Ever wonder what Canadian AI can do for your organization? We've published "Canadian AI is Working"! A pitch book with all the answers. Published by @CIFAR_News @AmiiThinks @EdmontonGlobal @MILAMontreal @MTLINTL @VectorInst @Toronto_Global Check it out! bit.ly/2zUIg1Q
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'For the first time in human history, our ability to collect data on our biology has outpaced our ability to interpret and act on it' - Brendan Frey, Vector co-founder and CEO @deepgenomics. Read the full story here: bit.ly/2WLg22J
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“The things that are actually driving the industry today are things Geoff (@Geoffreyhinton) created back in the 80s. It really took a long time for the hardware and the availability of data to actually catch up.”-Cameron Schuler (CCO and VP, Vector) bit.ly/2os1Jo4
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It was great to have Kevin Murphy of @GoogleAI stop by Vector today after giving a talk in the Vector Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar @FieldsInstitute.
If you missed his talk today, stay tuned. It will be posted soon.
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Thank you to the Government of Canada & Deputy Prime Minister @cafreeland for your investment in the future of AI across Canada. This isn't just a win for the Vector Institute; it's a step forward for the Canadian AI community.
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Applications are now open for the Vector Postgraduate Affiliates Program 2018-2019! For more information click here: vectorinstitute.ai/news-post…
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We're very excited for you to meet Amir-massoud Farahmand, our newest Faculty Member who specializes in reinforcement learning!
Read what he has to say about his decision to pursue his research @VectorInst in Toronto:
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🥳Congratulations to Vector Faculty Member @NicolasPapernot for having the highest number of papers accepted at #NeurIPS2022 amongst Vector faculty! #VectorAtNeurIPS
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Congrats to Vector faculty member Graham Taylor, who has been named a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 award for 2018! See story for more details: bit.ly/2MYgPct
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An ML model from Vector & @Apple researchers can create 3D environments w/o reference images. GSNs can “hallucinate" new environments when unconstrained. Researchers see potential apps in video games and construction in particular.
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It's a full house for @A_Aspuru_Guzik's first talk on materials discovery with AI here @VectorInst!
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Yesterday we heard from @geoffreyhinton's collaborators Radford Neal and George Dahl. Today we continue our celebration of Dr. Hinton’s career and achievements with talks by Terry Sejnowski, Max Welling, and Ilya Sutskever.
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Canada looks to develop a new resource: Artificial intelligence wsj.com/articles/canada-look… via @WSJ . @vectorinst #vectorinstitute
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After a week of deep learning, it's time for some reinforcement learning! Here's our RLSS 2018 Class Photo! @CIFAR_News @VectorInst @AmiiThinks @MILAMontreal #dlrl2018
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Geoffrey Hinton talks about "What's wrong with convolutional neural nets". Standing in for @ilyasut @FieldsInstitute #vectorinstitute
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Apply now for the DLRL Summer School, one of the foremost international training programs for advanced #ML. Available to grad students, postdocs, & early-career researchers in quantitative disciplines with knowledge of ML, DL, & RL. Sign up now: is.gd/NquBDG
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"Vector is an organization that fosters talent. Canada is ahead right now - in deep learning and reinforcement learning. The rest of the world is noticing. We need to hold on and stay ahead." - Dr. Garth Gibson, President & CEO, @VectorInst @OCEinnovation #OCEdiscovery
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Starting tomorrow AI experts from over 30 countries convene on Alberta for the annual Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School #DLRLSS hosted this year by @CIFAR_News and @AmiiThinks. bit.ly/2Sz2Zk1
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We're excited to help launch @canadadotai, a new hub for Canadian AI news, events and organizations. Check it out or submit content ideas! #TechTO
Thrilled to be launching @canadadotai at #TechTO with great community champs incl. @BorealisAI @VectorInst @element_ai @Next_Canada @CIFAR_News @AmiiThinks #CanadaAI
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Congrats & welcome to the 72 new & returning members of the 2020 Vector Faculty Affiliates Program!
The program expands the research community’s expertise. Members form an integral part of the Vector community, engaged in research & community activities.
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Congratulations to @VectorInst faculty members Anna Goldenberg & @DavidDuvenaud on their Canada Research Chair awards! chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-m…
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How do we train neural networks to be faster and more efficient? Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair & Vector Faculty Member @RogerGrosse is helping machines to better predict and adapt to different situations #realbrains ow.ly/OjzQ50xaa6c
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New York Times: A New Way for Machines to See, Taking Shape in Toronto nyti.ms/2id7T8i
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We can't wait to welcome @MarzyehGhassemi!
This fall @MarzyehGhassemi PhD '17 will join @UofT and @VectorInst to test her machine-learning algorithms for turning messy clinical data into applicable predictions bit.ly/2L91jZY #TR35 #InnovatorsUnder35
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Thanks Geoff. Great video by @Bloomberg 🍁bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
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In two weeks, Vector’s new ARTificial Intelligence: AI and Creativity distinguished lecture series will be starting! Our first speaker David Rokeby will be discussing Making Art in the Age of AI. For more information and to register: bit.ly/2UDxWaR
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Vector is proud to partner with University Health Network (@UHN), @UWaterloo and Vector Faculty Affiliate Dr. H.R. Tizhoosh (@HamidRTizhoosh) to work towards enhancing radiology diagnoses with AI. bit.ly/2y0i3hb
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Thrilled to see Toronto being recognized as one of the fastest growing tech hubs in North America!
This wouldn't be possible without the fantastic research community & everyone who is a part of this brilliant ecosystem. Kudos!
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Vector Faculty members @animesh_garg (UofT), @angelaschoellig (UofT), Gennady Pekhimenko (UofT), and Yaoliang Yu (UWaterloo) are speaking at @FieldsInstitute tomorrow at noon as part of the 2019-20 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar.
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It’s time to make the Canadian AI ecosystem bloom /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/report-o…
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The 2018-2019 Vector Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar Series @FieldsInstitute is starting back up this Thursday with Kevin Murphy @GoogleAI! Tune in to the livestream here: bit.ly/1y0ZplJ. Also, check out the full schedule here: bit.ly/2CLIs6I
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Registration Now Open: Introduction to Deep Learning 1: Neural Networks & Supervised Learning, created by Vector Faculty member and Canada CIFAR Research Chair, @RogerGrosse and taught by Vector Faculty. Learn more and register: bit.ly/2PdDF31.
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Congrats to Vector Faculty & students who claimed TWO of FOUR Best Paper awards and Best Student Paper @ #NeurIPS2018! @DavidDuvenaud, Shai Ben-David, @jessebett, @rtqichen, @YuliaRubanova, @wgrathwohl, Hassan Ashtiani Check out our blog! bit.ly/2zRzsKj
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Want to learn about NLP research and practical applications? Join us on September 15th and 16th for Vector's NLP Symposium featuring presentations and hands-on workshops, delivered by the project participants and Vector researchers. Learn more: bit.ly/2F2pYRI
ALT Vector's NLP Symposium featuring presentations and hands-on workshops, delivered by the project participants and Vector researchers.
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Applications are now open for the Vector Postgraduate Affiliate Program! The Program is designed to foster collaboration and contributions among researchers with expertise in DL and ML and AI more broadly. Apply here: vectorinstitute.ai/news-post…
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Vector’s CEO Garth Gibson and Tomi Poutanen of @TD_Canada @Layer6AI welcome @EricSchmidt and @geoffreyhinton to the stage to wrap up our first day of celebrations at the Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium. Tomorrow we continue on our four-decade tour of Dr. Hinton’s career!
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Congrats to Vector faculty Graham Taylor (@uoguelph_mlrg) and @RogerGrosse on being awarded Canada Research Chairs! Read more about it here: vectorinstitute.ai/#blog
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Yesterday Vector’s President and CEO, Dr. Garth Gibson was at @CollisionHQ discussing the rapid acceleration of machine learning and how Vector and our partners are working to build a strong Canadian AI ecosystem through collaboration between industry and academics #AINORTH
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There are many reasons to study AI in Ontario including the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence! Learn how to apply here: vectorinstitute.ai/aimasters…
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Congratulations to all the Faculty Members here at the Vector Institute, @AmiiThinks and @MILAMontreal in the second cohort of Canada-CIFAR AI Chairs, which recognizes top academic AI researchers! Read more about this here: bit.ly/2VxBCrg
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Wherever you are in the world, we invite you to pause for a moment of silence at 1:00PM EST today as we grieve the friends and colleagues from our extended community whose lives were lost in the devastating crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752.
REMINDER: President Meric Gertler is inviting the #UofT community to join a national moment of silence today at 1pm in memory of those who died in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in Iran last week. uoft.me/56V
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Congratulations to @VectorInst's Chief Scientific Advisor, Geoffrey Hinton, on making it onto the #Bloomberg50 list of people who changed the world this year bloomberg.com/features/2017-… via @business
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Construction begins on @UofT Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre - Vector is very much looking forward to moving in when completed. via @Urban_Toronto
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Applications for Vector Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open.
Vector Postdoctoral Fellows are junior researchers with the potential to become world-class researchers. They carry out state-of-the-art research and publish internationally.
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Incredible announcement today from @NavdeepSBains! Announcing a $52.4 million investment in @Communitech, @MaRSDD and @Invest_Ottawa to continue growing the innovation network along the Waterloo–Toronto–Ottawa corridor.
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau meets with local innovators at @Communitech before announcing #FedDevOntario funding to create a new scale-up partnership with @MaRSDD and @Invest_Ottawa bit.ly/2v5zhYR
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A recent breakthrough in #coronavirus research was achieved with the help of software developed by researchers from @UofT and Vector.
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ICYMI Congratulations to Vector Faculty Member and #machinelearning #ML researcher @RogerGrosse on 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship! Grosse is advancing #AI science in deep neural networks (DNN) used for language processing, vision systems & e-commerce. is.gd/VectorFaculty
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Vector researchers are working on AI solutions to fight COVID-19 and our industry partners are on standby to help. Check out list of projects & tools for AI researchers that want to help: vectorinstitute.ai/covid-19-…
Students at U. Toronto have a website flatten.ca/
for people in the Greater Toronto Area to report symptoms of COVID-19. The reported numbers of likely positive cases and vulnerable individuals are displayed for each region defined by the first half of the postcode.
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Defining a health-data governance framework that safeguards privacy without stymieing the development of life-saving technologies is a critical public policy challenge and @VectorInst wants to help solve it. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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ICYMI: Here is the video recording of Dr. @geoffreyhinton & Dr. @ylecun presenting their Turing Lectures yesterday at ACM FCRC.
#ACMTuringAward recipients Yan Lecun and Geoffrey Hinton are about to discuss the #DeepLearning revolution in their joint Turing Lecture at ACM FCRC in Phoenix.
Watch the livestream here: bit.ly/2WU3t9L
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Canada’s AI explosion: Visit three labs where machines are being taught to think like people /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/report-o…
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Reinforcement Learning starting today with Richard Sutton from @AmiiThinks!! @CIFAR_News @MILAMontreal #DLRL2018
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Great read about Graham Taylor and his work championing AI innovation & entrepreneurship @VectorInst @CIFAR_News @_NextAI @uofg cifar.ca/assets/graham-taylo…
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Vector congratulates all members of the 2018 cohort of Vector Institute Faculty Affiliates! Check out the list of Faculty Affiliates here: bit.ly/2PZVkbE
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Congratulations to Vector Faculty Affiliate Gillian Hadfield (@ghadfield) on being named the inaugural director of @UofT’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology, helping to ensure technological innovation is implemented fairly and equitably in society! bit.ly/31aNt0v
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To wrap up our Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium, industry lab leaders Foteini Agrafioti (@RBC @BorealisAI) and Raquel Urtasun (@UberATG) join @geoffreyhinton's former students Andrew Brown (@CIBC) and Graham Taylor for a panel on how deep learning is transforming industry.
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🥳🏅🎉 We are thrilled that “Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding,” co-authored by Vector Faculty Member @fleet_dj, was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at #NeurIPS2022 #VectorAtNeurIPS (1/2) 🧵
Read it below👇
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Garth Gibson, Richard Zemel and @DavidDuvenaud are kicking off @VectorInst's first ever Research Symposium and Job Fair! A day celebrating and showcasing top tier machine learning research and applications.
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It was a great day yesterday at the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Unconference discussing the future of AI and its adoption in medical care! With presentations by @laussen_peter, @geoffreyhinton and a panel on the innovative ways AI is being used in healthcare #ML4Health
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Vector Faculty Member @A_Aspuru_Guzik is part of the team behind the world's first "self-driving lab" for thin-film materials. Their first paper was recently published in @ScienceAdvances
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