Thales Student Innovation Championship 2018
Thales is organizing its second annual Student Innovation Championship at CortAIx, its AI center based in Montréal, on November 2 and 3. The contest invites university and graduate students to take on a specific case for the possibility of winning up to 20 000 $. This competition is intended to give 3rd and 4th-year undergraduate and...
Forum international Science et société
L’événement Depuis l’an 2000, le Forum international Science et société réunit le temps d'une fin de semaine quelques 250 étudiants québécois, 30 professeurs de cégep accompagnateurs et 18 chercheurs du Québec et de France. Dans un contexte convivial, les participants discutent d'enjeux de science et société, tels les changements climatiques, l'agriculture verte, le développement urbain...
IVADO/RALI NLP School (in French)
Les techniques informatiques en analyse et traitement automatique du langage naturel évoluent rapidement. Ces techniques ont permis l’émergence d’une multitude d’outils utilisés entre autres pour la recherche et l’extraction d’information à partir de documents, de traduction automatique, d’analyse de sentiments et d’agents conversationnels (i.e. chatbot). Ces outils sont en train de révolutionner nos façons de faire...
NIPS
The Thirty-second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a multi-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Following the conference, there are workshops which provide a less formal setting. The meeting has sold out. Add yourself to the waitlist....
WiML 2018
The 13th annual Women in Machine Learning workshop will be colocated with NIPS 2018 in Montreal, Canada in December 2018. See the workshop website for details! Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science research. Search engines, text mining, social media analytics, face recognition, DNA sequence analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, healthcare analytics are...
AI for Social Good workshop
NIPS2018 Workshop The AI for Social Good workshop will focus on social problems for which artificial intelligence has the potential to offer meaningful solutions. The problems we chose to focus on are inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of seventeen objectives that must be addressed in order to bring the...
Fin-ML/IVADO finance and insurance workshop
Summary The Fin-ML/IVADO Workshop is a one-week practical training in machine learning, applied to concrete problems in finance and insurance. This workshop will consist of theory in the morning, followed by problem-solving workshops in finance and insurance in the afternoon. The workshop will be held in English. Participants will have to bring their laptops for...
Fourth international conference on health care systems engineering (HCSE 2019)
HCSE 2019 provides an opportunity to discuss operations management issues in health care delivery systems. Scientists and practitioners will have the opportunity to discuss about new ideas, methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations. The event will take place in the mother and child university hospital CHU Saint-Justine of Montréal (with...
IVADO-Mila Summer School on Bias in AI
Algorithms, and the data they process, play an increasingly important role in decisions with significant consequences for human welfare. While algorithmic decision-making processes have the potential to lead to fairer and more objective decisions, emerging research suggests that they can also lead to unequal and unfair treatments and outcomes for certain groups or individuals. This...
Salon International de la Femme Noire
The Salon International de la Femme Noire is a Montreal platform whose mission is to celebrate Black women and their influence over time and generations. This major event will instill self-esteem, and give the impetus for self-improvement that every Black woman needs to fulfill her ambitions. It’s an interactive space: To discover the universe of...