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…
Cristina Conati will be an invited speaker at the Global Forum on AI for Humanity (GFAIH), an international and multidisciplinary event, organized under the auspices of the French government, that aims to ensure that the progression of AI is focused…
NeurIPS 2019 This year marks the 33 rd 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. The accepted…
Cristina Conati has been awarded funding (~40K) from the CIFAR AI and Society Initiative to run a workshop on Trust in AI Systems with three co-organizers (see short summary below). This is a joint initiative among CIFAR, France's Centre national de…
Four UBC computer scientists have been appointed to chairs as part of an expansion of the Canada-CIFAR AI research program (see the UBC press release, on which this news item is based.) The AI program, funded by the Federal government with $86.5…
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence awards this status to recognize members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. Cristina is one of ten researchers honored as a AAAI…