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Cutting-edge technology detects nanoplastics in water – instantly

webfull — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:50:18 +0000

A ��ֱ��-led research team has developed the first real-time, on-site technology capable of detecting and deciphering nanoplastics from all other particles in water, a capacity akin to being able to find a needle in a haystack within milliseconds.

Microplastic pieces are between 1 micrometre and 5 millimetres, roughly equivalent to a grain of rice. Nanoplastics are far tinier - a single nanometre is just 0.000001 millimetres. For comparison, a human hair is approximately 80,000–100,000 nanometers wide.

Published: 4 July 2024

New and renewed ��ֱ�� CIFAR AI chairs turn focus on neglected research topics

webfull — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:44:40 +0000

Professor David Ifeoluwa Adelani (School of Computer Science) is ��ֱ��’s newest Chair, as Professors Joelle Pineau and Reihaneh Rabbany have their appointments renewed

Published: 13 February 2024

Making AI a partner in neuroscientific discovery

webfull — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:55:25 +0000

New paper argues that Large Language Models can reveal breakthroughs humans alone cannot

Published: 9 February 2024

Expert: Myths and preconceptions of privacy in the age of AI

webfull — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:04:31 +0000

Protecting people from their personal information being used against them is more important every day as our lives become increasingly interconnected through data-driven products and services. In his new book, Ignacio Cofone challenges us to reevaluate conventional wisdom about data, showing how many of the rules that govern the information economy are outdated in today’s social and economic reality.

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Published: 11 December 2023

Assessing unintended consequences in AI-based neurosurgical training

webfull — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:02:28 +0000

Machine learning tutors affect learners in unforeseen ways, both positive and negative

Virtual reality simulators can help learners improve their technical skills faster and with no risk to patients. In the field of neurosurgery, they allow medical students to practice complex operations before using a scalpel on a real patient. When combined with artificial intelligence, these tutoring systems can offer tailored feedback like a human instructor, identifying areas where the students need to improve and making suggestions on how to achieve expert performance.

Published: 19 September 2023

Joint Chair aims to leverage AI and IoT to improve animal welfare in Canadian dairy farms

webfull — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:56:18 +0000

��ֱ�� and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) announced today the creation of the Research and Innovation Chair in Animal Welfare and Artificial Intelligence (WELL-E). The five-year, $5 million Chair will carry out a major research project funded by a grant from NSERC Alliance and PROMPT, fiduciary of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy. Important contributions have also been made by industrial partners Novalait, Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), Les Producteurs de Lait du Québec (PLQ), and Lactanet.

Published: 19 April 2023

��ֱ�� researchers’ studies offer promise for lung and brain cancer treatment

webfull — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:20:00 +0000

Two seminal studies from ��ֱ��, investigating immune landscapes of lung and brain tumours, were published today in Nature. This work was led by Logan Walsh, Daniela Quail and Peter Siegel, researchers at the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute and Philippe Joubert from Université Laval. The studies used innovative highly multiplexed imaging to create sophisticated immune atlases of lung and brain tumours and demonstrate how big data and artificial intelligence are the future of cancer research and clinical care.

Published: 2 February 2023

What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

webfull — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:17:18 +0000

AI can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see. Researchers from ��ֱ�� got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from CBC articles as prompts. They then compared the simulated news coverage to the actual reporting at the time and found that CBC coverage was less focused on the medical emergency and more positively focused on personalities and geo-politics.

Published: 6 December 2022

Seawater: memory keeper, energy source, and pollution tracking

webfull — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:46:19 +0000

Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid

What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?

Published: 21 October 2022

AI that can learn patterns of human language

webfull — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:27:33 +0000

Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But researchers from ��ֱ��, MIT, and Cornell University have taken a step in this direction. They have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own.

Published: 12 October 2022

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