Since artificial intelligence will play a crucial role in our daily lives, it is important that, along with increased task performance, socially intelligent agents will be able to cooperate efficiently with humans. However, human social cognition is a recent evolutionary event that relies on an advanced cognitive architecture. While the unconscious brain, also referred to […]

In the modern era, online news and media platforms have grown significantly. It is hard for organizations to keep track of discussions or mentions on regulatory or legislative documents online. With the rapidly growing amount of information available online, it is important to have the ability to monitor and track news and media online in […]

After emerging as one of the top 5 finalists in the Acquahacking Lake Winnipeg Challenge 2020, https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2021-01/aquahacking-lake-winnipeg-2020.pdf, the current co-founders of the AbbaTek Group Inc. have been working assiduously to get the company off the ground. AbbaTek is a for-profit social enterprise in the sustainability and clean tech sector that is committed to contribute meaningfully […]

As Intelligent tutoring systems such as Coursera, Korbit become popular, a great way for students to learn is by receiving feedback for incorrect answers. Since manual feedback generation on large educational texts seems impracticable, an important goal is to create hint generation systems from student-teacher conversations. These systems can be deployed as chatbots giving hints […]

McIntosh Sand and Gravel Ltd. (McIntosh) is a Saskatoon based company that performs gravel crushing and processing for industry and municipalities throughout Saskatchewan. McIntosh’s mission is to disrupt the aggregate industry through the application of new technologies that will help decrease costs and streamline processes. Saskatchewan Polytechnic will work with McIntosh to develop a digital […]

Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SP)’s Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) and geological experts at Peter Lucas Project Management Inc. (PL) will collaborate on the development of a digital system to locate aggregate sources with a large gravel content. Gravel is a non-renewable resource that is used in almost every aspect of construction. The identification of sources […]

Kingston’s cultural heritage sector is a vibrant mixture of museums, libraries, galleries, archives and historic sites. The city of Kingston alone boasts over 24 museums & historic sites, as well as 3 art galleries. This sector is fundamental to the regional economy and community quality of life. The Kingston & Area Association of Museums, Art […]

In Deep Learning, one of the most important determinants of the performance of a model is the training procedure used. The ideal training method produces a model that is accurate and fast, it should work on models of various sizes and be flexible enough to allow users to specify conditions they want the model to […]

In recent years, there has been a rise in the development of interactive AI systems and applications where the user follows a procedure to complete a task, including (instructional) fitness and cooking apps to name a few examples. Most of these efforts focus around video question-answering (QA), where a system is built to answer questions […]

The general objective of this project is to identify what the existing practices and associated challenges that orchestrators face when coordinating and managing requirements in the software ecosystem, placing an emphasis on third-party integration partnerships. This includes investigating the relevant stakeholders including customers, third-party integrations, other successful software ecosystems, competitors, and the platform itself. The […]

Avondx developed a Voice Analytics solution to assist companies in enhancing Customer Engagement by monitoring Customer Service Agents (CSA) interaction with customers in the retail market. Avondx wants to improve its voice analytics solution that can determine the semantic similarity between many different phrases. We are looking for assistance with artificial intelligence and neural network […]

Celestica has partnered with 3 separate AI suppliers to analyze live manufacturing data and provide solutions that will replace human inspection. The role of QMIND will be to evaluate the three different AI/Machine Learning systems on how they perform on the optical inspection of the conformal coating of the PCBs.