Congratulations to
@VectorInst
’s Chief Scientific Advisor
@geoffreyhinton
on receiving the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, alongside
@ylecun
and Yoshua Bengio.
It was incredible to have all three recent ACM A.M. Turing award recipients,
@ylecun
, Yoshua Bengio and Vector’s Chief Scientific Advisor
@geoffreyhinton
at Vector!
Vector congratulates
@UofT
on receiving this historic gift from Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman, to help construct an innovation centre of AI and biomedical experts! Vector is also thrilled to be co-locating with the University of Toronto in this soon-to-be built centre!
Landmark $100-million gift to
#UofT
from Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman will power Canadian innovation & help researchers explore the intersection of technology & society
👏Exciting news!
@roydanroy
has been named the Vector Research Co-Director, leading the way in cutting-edge AI research along with current Research Director, Graham Taylor. Learn more about his appointment here:
Congratulations to Vector’s Associate Research Director- Health, Dr. Anna Goldenberg on being appointed as the Varma Family chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence!
It began when
@DavidDuvenaud
was working on a medical data project when he hit upon a major shortcoming in AI. “The result is really not even a network anymore” writes
@_KarenHao
@techreview
.
Excited to announce our new 3-year strategy! Built around 4 key pillars, it aims to bolster Canada’s place as a premier hub of AI talent & research, increase AI adoption in industry & health care, and support high-level talent development. Learn more:
240 cutting edge GPUs already purchased by
@VectorInst
and on their way to Toronto will be re-purposed towards Ontario's New Health Data Platform to Help Defeat COVID-19. Learn more:
“If we can understand the connection between symptoms and outcomes, we might be able to predict the onset of diseases.” – Anna Goldenberg, Vector’s Associate Research Director and Varma Family Chair
@sickkids
. Check our Anna’s Q&A in
@torontolife
, here:
Thanks to
@VladMnih
of
@DeepMindAI
for joining us
@FieldsInstitute
yesterday and giving a talk on Efficient Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning. If you missed it, check back for the video here:
“Over time, a handful of fellow deep learning believers gravitated to him…” We hope you enjoyed the story about Geoffrey Hinton as much as we did.
@torontolife
@katrinaonstad
"The Future of AI" magazine, published right here in Toronto by
@MaRSDD
is here! It kicks off with insight from
@VectorInst
's research director, Richard Zemel, on why Toronto is "The intelligent choice".
“The most satisfying part of research in machine learning is that it helps us understand how and when knowledge is possible, for humans or machines,” says Vector Faculty member
@DavidDuvenaud
in the
@globeandmail
’s Report on Business magazine.
Vector is proud to announce the first Toronto Health Hackathon, bringing together machine learning experts, data scientists, and clinicians to work towards solving clinical questions impacting patient's lives. For more info and to apply click here:
Big congrats to Vector grad student
@coolboi95
and Vector research scientist Richard Zemel on their paper "A Divergence Minimization Perspective on Imitation Learning Methods" () winning the Best Paper Award at
@CoRl2019
We are excited to publish our first annual report! Thanks to our partners who joined us on this incredible journey to get to where we are today! We look forward to continuing to build on our work in the upcoming year. Read all about Vector's progress:
We're thrilled to welcome
@A_Aspuru_Guzik
to
@VectorInst
's growing team of faculty! As
#Canada150
Research Chair
@UofT
and faculty member
@VectorInst
, Alán and his team will combine chemistry with machine learning and quantum computing. Welcome to Canada!
Kicking off our Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium!
@geoffreyhinton
delivers his Turing lecture &
@UofT
announces plans with
@VectorInst
to recruit 3 new faculty in deep learning in recognition of Dr. Hinton’s contributions to the field.
#AINorth
📢 We are launching a fully-funded 6-week machine learning (
#ML
) course for mothers and caregivers! Still figuring out sleep cycles or feeding options? That’s ok, we want you in the program!
📄Applications close Feb 28, apply now!
'For the first time in human history, our ability to collect data on our biology has outpaced our ability to interpret and act on it' - Brendan Frey, Vector co-founder and CEO
@deepgenomics
. Read the full story here:
It was great to have Kevin Murphy of
@GoogleAI
stop by Vector today after giving a talk in the Vector Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar
@FieldsInstitute
.
If you missed his talk today, stay tuned. It will be posted soon.
“The things that are actually driving the industry today are things Geoff (
@Geoffreyhinton
) created back in the 80s. It really took a long time for the hardware and the availability of data to actually catch up.”-Cameron Schuler (CCO and VP, Vector)
Thank you to the Government of Canada & Deputy Prime Minister
@cafreeland
for your investment in the future of AI across Canada. This isn't just a win for the Vector Institute; it's a step forward for the Canadian AI community.
We're very excited for you to meet Amir-massoud Farahmand, our newest Faculty Member who specializes in reinforcement learning!
Read what he has to say about his decision to pursue his research
@VectorInst
in Toronto:
@SoloGen
Congrats to Vector faculty member Graham Taylor, who has been named a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 award for 2018! See story for more details:
An ML model from Vector &
@Apple
researchers can create 3D environments w/o reference images. GSNs can “hallucinate" new environments when unconstrained. Researchers see potential apps in video games and construction in particular.
Yesterday we heard from
@geoffreyhinton
's collaborators Radford Neal and George Dahl. Today we continue our celebration of Dr. Hinton’s career and achievements with talks by Terry Sejnowski, Max Welling, and Ilya Sutskever.
Apply now for the DLRL Summer School, one of the foremost international training programs for advanced
#ML
. Available to grad students, postdocs, & early-career researchers in quantitative disciplines with knowledge of ML, DL, & RL. Sign up now:
Congrats & welcome to the 72 new & returning members of the 2020 Vector Faculty Affiliates Program!
The program expands the research community’s expertise. Members form an integral part of the Vector community, engaged in research & community activities.
"Vector is an organization that fosters talent. Canada is ahead right now - in deep learning and reinforcement learning. The rest of the world is noticing. We need to hold on and stay ahead." - Dr. Garth Gibson, President & CEO,
@VectorInst
@OCEinnovation
#OCEdiscovery
Starting tomorrow AI experts from over 30 countries convene on Alberta for the annual Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School
#DLRLSS
hosted this year by
@CIFAR_News
and
@AmiiThinks
.
How do we train neural networks to be faster and more efficient? Canada
@CIFAR_News
AI Chair & Vector Faculty Member
@RogerGrosse
is helping machines to better predict and adapt to different situations
#realbrains
Thrilled to see Toronto being recognized as one of the fastest growing tech hubs in North America!
This wouldn't be possible without the fantastic research community & everyone who is a part of this brilliant ecosystem. Kudos!
@newyorktimes
@CadeMetz
Vector is proud to partner with University Health Network (
@UHN
),
@UWaterloo
and Vector Faculty Affiliate Dr. H.R. Tizhoosh (
@HamidRTizhoosh
) to work towards enhancing radiology diagnoses with AI.
In two weeks, Vector’s new ARTificial Intelligence: AI and Creativity distinguished lecture series will be starting! Our first speaker David Rokeby will be discussing Making Art in the Age of AI. For more information and to register:
Vector Faculty members
@animesh_garg
(UofT),
@angelaschoellig
(UofT), Gennady Pekhimenko (UofT), and Yaoliang Yu (UWaterloo) are speaking at
@FieldsInstitute
tomorrow at noon as part of the 2019-20 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar.
Registration Now Open: Introduction to Deep Learning 1: Neural Networks & Supervised Learning, created by Vector Faculty member and Canada CIFAR Research Chair,
@RogerGrosse
and taught by Vector Faculty. Learn more and register: .
The 2018-2019 Vector Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar Series
@FieldsInstitute
is starting back up this Thursday with Kevin Murphy
@GoogleAI
! Tune in to the livestream here: . Also, check out the full schedule here:
Want to learn about NLP research and practical applications? Join us on September 15th and 16th for Vector's NLP Symposium featuring presentations and hands-on workshops, delivered by the project participants and Vector researchers. Learn more:
Vector’s CEO Garth Gibson and Tomi Poutanen of
@TD_Canada
@Layer6AI
welcome
@EricSchmidt
and
@geoffreyhinton
to the stage to wrap up our first day of celebrations at the Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium. Tomorrow we continue on our four-decade tour of Dr. Hinton’s career!
Applications are now open for the Vector Postgraduate Affiliate Program! The Program is designed to foster collaboration and contributions among researchers with expertise in DL and ML and AI more broadly. Apply here:
Yesterday Vector’s President and CEO, Dr. Garth Gibson was at
@CollisionHQ
discussing the rapid acceleration of machine learning and how Vector and our partners are working to build a strong Canadian AI ecosystem through collaboration between industry and academics
#AINORTH
Congratulations to all the Faculty Members here at the Vector Institute,
@AmiiThinks
and
@MILAMontreal
in the second cohort of Canada-CIFAR AI Chairs, which recognizes top academic AI researchers! Read more about this here:
Applications for Vector Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open.
Vector Postdoctoral Fellows are junior researchers with the potential to become world-class researchers. They carry out state-of-the-art research and publish internationally.
Wherever you are in the world, we invite you to pause for a moment of silence at 1:00PM EST today as we grieve the friends and colleagues from our extended community whose lives were lost in the devastating crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752.
REMINDER: President Meric Gertler is inviting the
#UofT
community to join a national moment of silence today at 1pm in memory of those who died in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in Iran last week.
Congratulations to
@VectorInst
's Chief Scientific Advisor, Geoffrey Hinton, on making it onto the
#Bloomberg50
list of people who changed the world this year via
@business
Incredible announcement today from
@NavdeepSBains
! Announcing a $52.4 million investment in
@Communitech
,
@MaRSDD
and
@Invest_Ottawa
to continue growing the innovation network along the Waterloo–Toronto–Ottawa corridor.
Vector researchers are working on AI solutions to fight COVID-19 and our industry partners are on standby to help. Check out list of projects & tools for AI researchers that want to help:
Students at U. Toronto have a website
for people in the Greater Toronto Area to report symptoms of COVID-19. The reported numbers of likely positive cases and vulnerable individuals are displayed for each region defined by the first half of the postcode.
ICYMI Congratulations to Vector Faculty Member and
#machinelearning
#ML
researcher
@RogerGrosse
on 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship! Grosse is advancing
#AI
science in deep neural networks (DNN) used for language processing, vision systems & e-commerce.
Defining a health-data governance framework that safeguards privacy without stymieing the development of life-saving technologies is a critical public policy challenge and
@VectorInst
wants to help solve it.
#ACMTuringAward
recipients Yan Lecun and Geoffrey Hinton are about to discuss the
#DeepLearning
revolution in their joint Turing Lecture at ACM FCRC in Phoenix.
Watch the livestream here:
To wrap up our Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium, industry lab leaders Foteini Agrafioti (
@RBC
@BorealisAI
) and Raquel Urtasun (
@UberATG
) join
@geoffreyhinton
's former students Andrew Brown (
@CIBC
) and Graham Taylor for a panel on how deep learning is transforming industry.
Congratulations to Vector Faculty Affiliate Gillian Hadfield (
@ghadfield
) on being named the inaugural director of
@UofT
’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology, helping to ensure technological innovation is implemented fairly and equitably in society!
It was a great day yesterday at the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Unconference discussing the future of AI and its adoption in medical care! With presentations by
@laussen_peter
,
@geoffreyhinton
and a panel on the innovative ways AI is being used in healthcare
#ML4Health
Garth Gibson, Richard Zemel and
@DavidDuvenaud
are kicking off
@VectorInst
's first ever Research Symposium and Job Fair! A day celebrating and showcasing top tier machine learning research and applications.
🥳🏅🎉 We are thrilled that “Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding,” co-authored by Vector Faculty Member
@fleet_dj
, was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at
#NeurIPS2022
#VectorAtNeurIPS
(1/2) 🧵
Read it below👇
Are you a jr. researcher w/ the potential to become a world-class ML scientist? If so, Vector is currently hiring postdocs
Applicants must have a primary contact BEFORE applying – see for our faculty list. Deadline is June 12, 2020.