Wilder Penfield Lecture - Standing on the Edge of Error: Science in the Age of AI

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 16:00to17:00

The Penfield Lecture was inaugurated in 1985 to honour Wilder Penfield, pioneering neurosurgeon and founder of The Neuro. A cocktail reception will follow.3801 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A...

McGill teams win big in new ‘Omics’ cancer competition

Published: 5 November 2020

Earlier today, a Quebec based consortium of research institutes (Génome Québec, Oncopole and IVADO) announced the winners of their first-ever “Omics Data Against Cancer” competition, and McGill...

Nine McGill researchers selected in newest round of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs

Published: 9 December 2019

CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from McGill University, bringing the total number of McGill researchers named to the program to 17...

Mila inaugurates its new premises in Mile-Ex

Published: 30 January 2019

Mila – Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the...

AI Could Predict Cognitive Decline Leading to Alzheimer’s Disease in the Next 5 Years

Published: 4 October 2018

A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease.

Expert: Google Duplex / AI

Published: 10 May 2018

Google’s AI fest offers an ominous glimpse of the robot future: Machines fooling humans into thinking they are people raise obvious ethical concerns (source: Financial Times)

MIT | AI can spot signs of Alzheimer’s before your family does

Published: 20 March 2018

[…] AI is also finding use in helping physicians detect early signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain and understand how those physical changes unfold in different people. “When a radiologist reads a...

A boost for artificial-intelligence research in Montreal

Published: 18 January 2017

To help spur artificial-intelligence research in Montreal, Microsoft will provide a gift of $1 million to McGill University.

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