NVIDIA Announces AI Research Centre in Toronto

Brace yourself for one you haven't heard before--a huge name in the technology industry is opening up an AI centre in Canada. To be more specific, Toronto--and that massive name is NVIDIA who today announced a brand new AI research lab to accompany the tech company's office that opened in 2015 after acquiring TransGaming. Sanja Fidler will lead NVIDIA's Toronto lab, drawing form her expertise in computer science as a professor at the University of Toronto. Fidler is also a member of the Vector Institute, which NVIDIA name-dropped in their announcement as reasoning for Toronto becoming a thriving AI hub. Fidler's main research goals involve deep learning and computer vision, with a bit of natural language processing thrown in.