Two new faculty members of the Computer Science Department have been appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chairs through the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. Drs. Mijung…
UBC Computer Science welcomes Associate Professor Dr. Jeff Clune to the department. Jeff started in January 2021, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic…
AI Expert and UBC Computer Science Professor Jeff Clune was interviewed and quoted by the MIT Technology Review about his research on getting AI to create…
When a renowned professor who is expert in her field of research wins a significant achievement award, one could presume she’s had a lifelong love for that area…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded UBC computer scientist Dr. Margo Seltzer, Mike Olson, formerly of Cloudera; and Keith Bostic , MongoDB…
Computer science professor, Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown , joins eight other UBC faculty this year (including two others from the Faculty of Science) to receive the…
It was July 2017 when UBC Professor Laks V.S. Lakshmanan was invited by his colleague abroad — Professor Reynold Cheng — to visit the University of Hong Kong…
Data, data, data. We use it for just about everything. Today’s world is often interpreted and improved upon by recording and analyzing data. For example…
According to a 2018 whitepaper by the International Data Corporation of Canada (IDC), by 2025 every connected person in the world will, on average, engage with…
While voice user interface agents (VUIs) like Siri and Alexa are now commonplace, their designers are still striving to make them sound more natural and…
