WATERLOO, ON, June 19, 2018 /CNW/ - Manulife today asserted its plans to further strengthen its leadership position in the Canadian insurance market. A key component of this plan is the launch of its Manulife Par participating whole life insurance product and an artificial intelligence algorithm that will transform the underwriting process. The whole life insurance market represents over half of all insurance sales in Canada*. By launching Manulife Par, satisfying advisor and client demand, and relying on Manulife's well-established network of advisors, the Company is confident it will gain market share. "Manulife has a proud 130-year history of innovation and leadership in insurance," said Alex Lucas, Head of Individual Insurance, Manulife.

AI'2004 was held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario from May 17 to May 19, 2004. The conference was held jointly with the Computer and Robot Vision and Graphics Interface conferences. The three conferences attracted more than 200 attendees. Three workshops and a graduate symposium were held in conjunction with the technical sessions. Three preconference workshops were affiliated with AI'2004: The Third Business Agents and the Semantic Web workshop, organized by Harold Boley, Scott Buffett, Bruce Spencer (National Research Council), Ali Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick), and Said Tabet (Macgregor Inc.); the First Agent Meets Robot workshop, organized by Hamada Ghenniwa, (University of Western Ontario), Weiming Shen (National Research Council) and Mohamed Kamel (University of Waterloo); and the First Causality and Causal Discovery workshop, organized by Kamran Karimi (University of Regina).

Response to this questionnaire was somewhat better. Although the number of short questionnaires we received was substantial, we nevertheless mdertook a telephone campaign in a third attempt to reach members who did not fill out thil questionnaire. The telephone campaign paid handsome dividends and we were able to contact an additional 21 members. During the process of collating results from the questionnaire we made additional telephone calls to respondcnts and others to clarify possible misinterpretations. A CSCSI/SCEIO report summarizing all of the questionnaire responses is available by writing to any of the CSCSI/SCEIO executives (see Appendix 2).