Two of Canada's top artificial intelligence experts are joining Facebook Inc., the latest in a string of renowned Canadian academics in the hot technology field to go to work for Silicon Valley giants. Joelle Pineau, associate professor of computer science at 香蕉视频 and co-director of its Reasoning and Learning Lab, will lead a new Montreal-based AI lab for the Internet giant, which employs 105 researchers at similar labs in Paris, New York and Silicon Valley.
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Published on: 15 Sep 2017
鈥淭his is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you have to say something that鈥檚 worthwhile rather than just recycling the usual liberal clich茅s,鈥� he said. 鈥淎s for that first sentence, I chose it deliberately. This whole experience has been deeply humbling. I see it as a gift of acceptance, part of the work in progress of becoming a Canadian.鈥� - Payam Akhavan
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Published on: 14 Sep 2017
Op-ed by听S茅bastien Jodoin, assistant professor in the Faculty of Law听and听Hamish van der Ven,听assistant professor in the School of Environment and the Department of Political Science at 香蕉视频.听
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Published on: 14 Sep 2017
Karl Moore on Bombardier-Boeing dispute.听
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Published on: 13 Sep 2017
Because of its large collecting area, wide observational bandwidth and cylindrical design, CHIME can see some thousand times more sky at any given moment, Victoria Kaspi, an astrophysicist and director of 香蕉视频鈥檚 Space Institute in Montreal, told me. 鈥淥nce CHIME is fully operational, it can do this 24/7, whereas other telescopes have many different observing programs,鈥� said Kaspi.
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Published on: 12 Sep 2017
The discovery was made using radio telescopes at听the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands.听Ziggy听Pleunis, co-author of the findings published in听The Astrophysical Journal Letters, who is now a PhD student at听McGill听University, told CBC News.
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Published on: 11 Sep 2017
The radio telescope is a joint project of scientists from Canadian universities including the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, McGill听University and the National Research Council of Canada. The large structure is nestled in the mountains of B.C. at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton.
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Published on: 8 Sep 2017
"New scientific developments may explain your friend's irritating British accent she picked up after studying abroad in London. 香蕉视频 linguist Morgan Sonderegger and colleagues Max Bane and Peter Graff published听a new study听in the journal听Language听that examines how accents can change in a group of people living in a confined environment over three months."
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Published on: 7 Sep 2017
It's all been choreographed by Jim Wallman and Prof Rex Brynen, of 香蕉视频, in Montreal, who has also done these kind of games with the US military. Prof Brynen says in recent years there's been a "major resurgence of war gaming as a serious analytical and training tool in both the US and UK".
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Published on: 7 Sep 2017
Science and Museums
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The details:听Partnering with the Redpath Museum in Montreal, students explore natural history collections, and learn how they are created, maintained and used in scientific research.
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Published on: 6 Sep 2017
Article by Jacob T. Levy
"We can take seriously the communal goods of democratic government without seeking to symbolically collapse our subnational and transnational connections and interdependences鈥攖hrough the market as well as through civil society鈥攊nto a hypertrophied sense of the importance of political membership and provision."听
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Published on: 6 Sep 2017
"In America鈥檚 collective imagination, Canada is not associated with slavery. That perception will be challenged at Harvard University this fall, where McGill professor Charmaine Nelson will be teaching about the black diaspora as the听William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies."听
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Published on: 5 Sep 2017
As a child growing up in and out of听the Ontario foster care system, Arisha Khan never thought she'd attend a university. "As a former youth in care I wouldn't think that I have the capacity to go to McGill," she told CBC's听Daybreak. But that's just what she did. Now going into her fourth year in 香蕉视频's International Development and Social Entrepreneurship program, Khan had to overcome a lot to get to where she is.
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Published on: 5 Sep 2017
"I talked to Anthony Ricciardi, Professor of Invasion Ecology at 香蕉视频, in Montreal. Ricciardi, a biologist, grew up on the banks of Lake Saint-Louis, which bulges out from the St. Lawrence River鈥攖he route through which the mussels metastasized to the Great Lakes."听
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Published on: 5 Sep 2017
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Published on: 31 Aug 2017
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