/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8043/all en /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-teams-win-big-new-omics-cancer-competition-325933 <p>Earlier today, a Quebec based consortium of research institutes (GĆ©nome QuĆ©bec, Oncopole and IVADO) announced the winners of their first-ever ā€œOmics Data Against Cancerā€ competition, and ±«ÓćÖ±²„ research teams were dominant. In fact, of the five selected teams no less than four of them included professors from ±«ÓćÖ±²„.</p> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:41:24 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 246572 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nine-mcgill-researchers-selected-newest-round-canada-cifar-ai-chairs-303256 <p>CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from ±«ÓćÖ±²„, bringing the total number of ±«ÓćÖ±²„ researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the worldā€™s first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:09:29 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 190439 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/bengio-co-recipient-am-turing-award-295735 <p><em>by Daniel McCabe</em></p> <p>Congratulations to ±«ÓćÖ±²„ graduateĀ Yoshua Bengio, BEngā€™86, MScā€™88, PhDā€™91, on being named a co-recipient of the 2018Ā A.M. Turing Award. Frequently referred to as the ā€œNobel Prize of Computing,ā€ the Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizes individuals for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.Ā </p> Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:12:31 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 154298 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mila-inaugurates-its-new-premises-mile-ex-293864 <p>Mila ā€“ Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.</p> Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:54:15 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 137466 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ai-could-predict-cognitive-decline-leading-alzheimers-disease-next-5-years-290378 <p>A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline leading to Alzheimerā€™s disease.</p> Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:16:31 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 86748 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-google-duplex-ai-287133 <p>Googleā€™s AI fest offers an ominous glimpse of the robot future: Machines fooling humans into thinking they are people raise obvious ethical concerns (source: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/99635a6e-540b-11e8-b3ee-41e0209208ec">Financial Times</a>)</p> Thu, 10 May 2018 17:35:58 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 39770 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mit-ai-can-spot-signs-alzheimers-your-family-does-285990 <p>[ā€¦] AI is also finding use in helping physicians detect early signs of Alzheimerā€™s in the brain and understand how those physical changes unfold in different people. ā€œWhen a radiologist reads a scan, itā€™s impossible to tell whether a person will progress to Alzheimerā€™s disease,ā€ says Pedro Rosa-Neto, a neurologist at ±«ÓćÖ±²„ in Montreal.</p> <p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609236/ai-can-spot-signs-of-alzheimers-before-your-family-does/">MIT Tech Review</a></p> Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:30:14 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 34839 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/boost-artificial-intelligence-research-montreal-265193 <p><span>To help spur artificial-intelligence research in Montreal, Microsoft will provide a gift of $1 million to ±«ÓćÖ±²„.</span></p> Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:45:10 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26621 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-googles-ai-wins-game-over-go-champion-259562 <p><img src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/go_720x220.jpg" /></p> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:47:07 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25464 at /newsroom