One of ten Canadians will experience trauma at least once in their lives and will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many people cannot access PTSD care because of the high cost, long-waiting time, stigma and other barriers etc. Amygdala (deep brain) is important to traumatic emotions and memories. One way to access these memories is […]

Over the past few years, the abilities and performances of deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) have evolved dramatically. A main reason for those improvements is the scaling of the number of parameters in models to tens or hundreds of billions. However, it also becomes impractical to deploy those models in production as the computation cost […]

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are receiving significant attention in many communities, including academia, industry, and consumer electronics. SOTI is the world’s most trusted provider of mobile and IoT management solutions and its new aerospace division, SOTI Aerospace is focusing on hardware and software systems to support self-navigating situationally aware aerial drones. This project belongs […]

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are computer programs powered by artificial intelligence that can automate the tutoring process. They have the potential to provide low cost and highly scalable one-on-one tutoring to students around the globe in real-time. Their continued improvement is exciting for the future of education, and should be encouraged. Recent years have seen […]

With quantum computers which are just starting to hit the market, today’s encryption methods will soon become obsolete. In order to ensure an unconditionally secure data storage/encryption, communications will have to rely on a technology making use of the laws of quantum mechanics. The present MITACS application proposes to build the prototype of an optical […]

This study builds upon work to define the decision process firms use in deciding to move their IT Services work to less urban regions such as Atlantic Canada. This Mitacs project seeks to build upon this work and analyze the ancillary benefits of such projects within the community (beyond the direct economic benefits). Policy objectives […]

Currently, data analytics services are not only expensive, but also often require days of delay for the data analytics report to be generated. The project focuses on making use of a user’s voice query as an input to create a data analytics response by aggregating data from a database. The successful implementation of the project […]

The existing approach to building Machine Learning models includes gathering all the data from customers in one place and then running the training procedure using it. However, there are no guarantees personal data won’t be leaked by the one training the model. So, the customers face a difficult decision of either allowing companies to gather […]

This proposal details an approach for evaluating a planned project led by SII called Participatory Cities: a new inclusive, system-based approach to stimulating and supporting dense networks of practical ‘participation culture’ in cities around the world. With proof of concept developed and tested in London, UK, by the Participatory City Foundation, the model will now […]

Dans un monde de plus en plus connecté, les stations de ski en Amérique du Nord et à travers le monde désirent s’impliquer davantage auprès de leur clientèle pendant qu’elle est sur les pentes où dans leurs infrastructures. Favoriser l’expérience de ski et améliorer les revenus connexes sont deux motivations importantes dans le contexte actuel […]

Ce projet s’inscrit dans la grande famille des projets de systèmes de recommandation, où un algorithme doit recommander aux utilisateurs des produits ou des documents qui seraient intéressants pour eux, basé sur ce que nous connaissons de l’utilisateur et sur sa session de recherche actuelle. Coveo a déjà des modèles de recommandation en place, dans […]

The use of barcodes to store alphanumeric information has spread from supermarkets to department stores, the health industry and even on the back of our drivers’ license. Recent years have also seen demand to increase the density of information encoded in barcodes. A Drivers’ License has its personal data encoded in the barcode on the […]