In Quebec City, Canada, Andriy Burkov works as a machine learning specialist. He earned his doctorate in artificial intelligence eleven years ago, and for the past eight years, he has been in charge of a group of machine learning engineers at Gartner. The study of natural language is his area of expertise. His team uses shallow learning and deep learning techniques to develop cutting-edge multilingual text extraction and normalization systems for production. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Yearning is an excellent textbook for practitioners. It is similar to "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book" in its comprehensive coverage of machine learning and its application to AI but is written more in a comment-to style. The book is also written in a logical order that closely mimics the typical process that a data scientist or machine learning engineer would follow when working on an end-to-end machine learning project, along with discussing key considerations and trade-offs. The book has 4.3 ratings with over 40 reviews on Goodreads.com.

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW . The Canadian subsidiary of SAS has been in operation since 1988. Headquartered in Toronto, SAS employs more than 300 people across the country at its Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montréal offices.

The Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Facebook's 10 Year Challenge is Just a Harmless Meme - Right? Recommended by Simon Légaré from Quebec City. Kate O'Neill on Wired Tweeted, "Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram. Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train facial recognition". Counterpoint - People already have access to your face from profile pictures (aren't private and time stamped). Point - If you were doing a study, you could mine the information looking for timestamps (not always taken near the date posted, sometimes profile pictures are not even human) or you could just ask people to do it for you.

This was the second meeting of the GroupSight workshop to be held at the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP). It was also the first time the workshop and conference were colocated with the ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology. The workshop was held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on October 24, 2017. The workshop featured two keynote speakers in humancomputer interaction (HCI) doing research on crowdsourced image analysis. The Workshop Was Held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

More than a school, Universite Laval is an entire community in the heart of Quebec City, a complete university recognized for its leadership and its culture of excellence both in teaching and research. Valuing diversity, Université Laval encourages all qualified individuals to apply--particularly women, visible and ethnic minorities, aboriginal persons, and persons with disabilities--but priority will be given to Canadians and Canadian permanent residents.

SpaceX's CRS-15 Dragon cargo resupply ship has been attached to the International Space Station. the spacecraft rendezvoused with the orbiting outpost in the early-morning hours of July 2, 2018, and is expected to remain berthed for about a month. Capture took place at 6:54 a.m. EDT (10:54 GMT) by the 57.7-foot (17.6-meter) Canadian-built robotic Canadarm2, which was under the control of Expedition 56 NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel at the robotics work station in the station's cupola window. The vehicle was grappled while the station was flying 256 miles (412 kilometers) over Quebec City. "Looking forward to some really exciting weeks ahead as we unload the science and get started on some great experiments," Arnold said.

A drone crashed into a commercial plane in Canada on Thursday, renewing the aviation industry's worries about the growing number of small hobbyist aircraft taking to the skies. A landing Skyjet flight was less than two miles from Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City when a drone struck the aircraft, according to CTV News. The plane landed successfully and "only sustained minor damage," according to a Sunday statement from Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau. "This should not have happened," Garneau told reporters, according to CTV News. "The drone should not have been there."

QUEBEC – A Canadian passenger plane landed safely after it was hit by a drone in the first case of its kind in the country, a Cabinet minister said Sunday. With increasing numbers of unmanned aerial devices in the skies, collisions are still rare, but authorities around the world are looking at ways to keep jetliners out of harm's way. The Canadian incident happened last Thursday when a drone collided with a domestic Skyjet plane approaching Jean-Lesage International Airport in Quebec City, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement. "This is the first time a drone has hit a commercial aircraft in Canada and I am extremely relieved that the aircraft only sustained minor damage and was able to land safely," said the minister, a former astronaut. The aircraft, carrying six passengers and two crew, was struck on its right wing at an altitude of about 1,500 feet (450 meters) and roughly 2 miles (3 km) from the airport, according to Le Journal de Quebec newspaper.

French industrial giant Thales SA has become the latest in a slew of foreign multinationals to open an artificial intelligence research lab in Montreal. The company, which employs 1,800 people in Canada, is announcing Tuesday it will open a lab in Montreal early next year in collaboration with the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), with plans to hire 50 AI scientists by mid-2019. Thales' AI-related research is concentrated in Paris, where it employs 120 AI research scientists and developers. The company currently employs 15 AI professionals at its operations in Toronto and Quebec City. "We want to create new technologies based on AI that we can industrialize in our verticals and sell to the world," said Siegfried Usal, vice-president of strategy, research and technology with Thales' Canadian operation, which generates $500-million in annual revenue from such ventures as building mass transit signalling technology and control systems for business jets.

Québec and Ontario held their seventh joint meeting of cabinet ministers in Québec City today, building on a long history of productive partnership between them. The meeting was an opportunity to continue the governments' progress in the areas of innovation, economic growth and climate change. A new step in accelerating the growth of information and communications technology was taken today as Premier Philippe Couillard and Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a new Memorandum of Understanding that will see Québec and Ontario strengthen their cooperation in the development of Artificial Intelligence. Building on existing investments, the agreement will boost the provinces' competitive advantage in the field of AI by expanding opportunities for collaboration in research, talent attraction, skills development and business growth. Together, Ontario and Québec will support advancements in the design and commercialization of innovative technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, speech recognition, fraud detection, and medical imaging and diagnosis.