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UBC Professor Kevin Leyton-Brown honoured with major international computer science award for contributions to AI and machine learning This story was originally published in the Computer Science Department news , written by Sonja Soo. The Association…
A new campus-wide 100-level course, and separate degree option in computer science, are designed to help UBC students succeed in an AI-driven future. This story was originally published in the Faculty of Science news , written by Chris Balma This…
A collaborative event hosted by UBC and SFU’s Computer Science departments sparked discussions on how to advance AI in BC’s industries On a Thursday evening at SFU’s Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver, conversation was buzzing and the excitement in…
We're excited to announce the submission of a new book, " Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning" by Martin Puterman and Tim Chan (to Cambridge University Press for publication). The book blends foundational theory with modern…
In August 2021 CAIDA was successfully awarded the Faculty of Science Hiring Cluster Grant, resulting in the formation of a new interdisciplinary hiring cluster in the Faculty of Science, named "Artificial Intelligence Methods for Scientific Impact”…
Have you ever picked up a closed box and moved it around or lightly shaken it to try and identify what was hidden inside? Well, thanks to AIM-SI hire Peter Yichen Chen and colleagues, this is no longer a skill exclusive to humans. Peter Yichen Chen…
AIM-SI hire Dr. Peter Yichen Chen is a co-organizer for an upcoming SIGGRAPH course titled "Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts." Inspired by AIM-SI itself, this course explores how graphics techniques have revolutionized…
The Dorothy Killam Fellowships support scholars of exceptional quality by granting them time to pursue their research projects that have broad significance in the areas of the humanities, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, or research…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” carries a $1 million prize with financial support provided by Google, Inc. The award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British…
CAIDA members Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and Laks V. S. Lakshmanan have recently had a very exciting article published in Nature Communications. You can find the article here. Authors: Xiang Zhang, Tianze Ling, Zhi Jin, Sheng Xu, Zhiqiang Gao, Boyan Sun…