Samsung launches AI centre in Toronto

Samsung Research America (SRA) is going to launch a new artificial intelligence centre at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. The new AI centre will be Samsung's second in North America, with the other in Mountain View, Cali. It also comes shortly after the announcement of two newly established AI centres in Cambridge, U.K. and Moscow, Russia. The Toronto centre will be led by Dr. Sven Dickinson, professor on leave and past chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Dickinson is an expert in computer vision technologies.