November 2020 Opportunities

Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Computers, Science, and Engineering - Florida Polytechnic University
$25,000 USD for four months
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Research Areas: Computer science; Computer engineering; Mechanical engineering; Industrial engineering operations research; Health informatics and big data; Autonomous vehicles.

Call For Applications: $10,000 Seed Grants For Projects Related To The Ai4society And Energy Systems Signature Areas
AI4 Society and Energy Systems Signature Areas encourage and facilitate innovative new directions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy. We are offering up to four joint seed grants, valued at $10,000 each, to teams that have a viable project that would lead to grant proposals to NSERC, SSHRC, or other funding body, that can combine research from our two signature areas into creative projects that can obtain external funding.
Deadline for applications: 18 November 2020

University Of Alberta and Edmonton Police Services Seed Grant Program
The Office of the Vice-President (Research and Innovation) (OVPRI), the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), and the AI4Society Signature Area (AI4S) at the University of Alberta, in partnership with the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), are pleased to announce a new seed grant program designed to encourage the co-development of research collaborations between the entities. A total funding commitment of the program - $30,000 each year for three years ($90,000) - will be made available to fund projects arising from this collaboration.
Deadline for applications: 24 November 2020

Coming Up

If you are interested in applying to the UoA/EPS call above, consider joining a presentation by Dan Jones (of EPS) Friday, November 6⋅12:00 – 1:00pm
Please email ai4s@ualberta.ca for an invitation.

Recordings of Past Events

• Matthew Taylor, on Visioning Canada: Matthew Taylor, interviewed by Kris Jensen from Scotia Wealth Management, talks about AI, specifically reinforcement learning, covering topics like self-driving cars, smart home devices, and reducing oil and gas emissions through machine intelligence.
• The recording of Yoshua Bengio’s October 2 presentation for CS-Can|Info-Can, entitled "Deep Learning: Past and Future Challenges, Including the Societal Challenges", is now available for viewing here.

• The videos of the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility conference presentations (held on September 28, 2020) can be found here.

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