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CAIDA Director, Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown, is known for his work on AI & Game Theory: a sub-sector that uses artificial intelligence to provide a computational approach to analyze situations where there are competing factors and players with…
This year marks the 34th annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: a workshop and conference hosted by the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation that is more casually referred to as NeurIPS. While this year’s necessity to…
The thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) has selected 7 papers by CAIDA members for this year’s conference, occurring virtually from July 12th - 18th, 2020. Supported by the International Machine Learning Society, ICML…
CAIDA members Frank Wood (Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila), Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Alexandre Bouchard, and Trevor Campbell have been awarded the CIFAR Catalyst Grant for their project “Planning as Inference in Epidemiological Dynamics Models Collaborators…
Electronic Arts (EA) have partnered with researchers at UBC, including CAIDA member Michiel van de Panne, to use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed video game development and make visuals more lifelike. Usually, video game developers use motion…
UBC researchers, and CAIDA members, Dr. Robert Rohling, Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi, and Dr. Teresa Tsang, alongside Dr. Oron Frenkel, have integrated portable, handheld ultrasounds scanners with artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate COVID-19…
Lithium is a finite resource, but our need for it has never been greater. Lithium batteries are used in everything from your smart phones to electric vehicles. Unfortunately, the very high lithium purity required for batteries is challenging to…
A paper published today (May 13, 2020) in Science Advances ( https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/20/eaaz8867) presents Ada, the world’s first artificially-intelligent self-driving laboratory for the discovery of thin-film materials. Project Ada…
Reading this article and looking at its images may seem like a very simple act, but it’s actually a part of a very complex process: sight. It starts with nothing more than light hitting our eyes, but then information is extracted, our brain processes…
Dr. Alan Mackworth, the founding Director of CAIDA, has received the inaugural AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow Award. AGE-WELL (Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement and Long Life) uses technology and services…