Artificial Intelligence at the U of A
We Are relentless in our pursuit to positively impact humankind.
More inclusivity in more places.
Environmental stewardship.
Safer roads.
Better patient care.
And to think it all started with a game of chess.
The artificial intelligence investment making history
Twenty new faculty members will weave together their expertise to start solving our world's most complex problems — cementing Alberta as a global leader in AI.
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What are we doing at the U of A?
- We help make autonomous vehicles make better decisions, faster
We are change makers.
- We are building a model to help prevent opioid use disorder
We are change makers.
- We are building a model to help prevent opioid use disorder
We are truth tellers.
- We are pushing AI to be better and inclusive
We are truth tellers.
- We are pushing AI to be better and inclusive
We are community builders.
- We used AI to decipher a 4000 year-old manuscript
We are community builders.
- We used AI to decipher a 4000 year-old manuscript
We are world shapers.
- How are AI Robots helping us learn
We are world shapers.
- How are AI Robots helping us learn
We are leading with purpose.
- We help make autonomous vehicles make better decisions, faster
We Are
#3 in the world for AI research
Some of the people behind the breakthroughs:
Our Partners
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii): Created in 2002 with significant investment from the Alberta government. Amii was named one of the three national institutes in Canada’s AI strategy in 2017. As part of that strategy, the U of A spun out a not-for-profit arm of Amii to translate scientific developments into industry applications and to help organizations harness AI to increase growth and competitiveness.
Launch of the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (later: Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning), predecessor of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Richard Sutton founds the Reinforcement Learning & Artificial Intelligence Lab.
AAAI computer poker competitions. U of A team wins 23 of the 39 events over its first ten years.
Polaris poker bot beats human professionals at heads-up limit hold’em poker.
Drugbank spins out of the University of Alberta.
Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved.
AlphaGo (led by U of A alumnus David Silver) beats top Go player.
Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning becomes Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
DeepStack becomes first system to beat human professionals at heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em poker.
Richard Sutton named a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Renewal of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
University Commons project launched, using AI to reduce energy use, emissions and operating costs.
Where will the U of A take AI in the future? More importantly - will you be there with us?
Launch of the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (later: Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning), predecessor of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Richard Sutton founds the Reinforcement Learning & Artificial Intelligence Lab.
AAAI computer poker competitions. U of A team wins 23 of the 39 events over its first ten years.
Polaris poker bot beats human professionals at heads-up limit hold’em poker.
Drugbank spins out of the University of Alberta.
Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved.
Where will the U of A take AI in the future? More importantly - will you be there with us?
Ranked 2nd
in North America for AI
$100 million
in AI funding since 2017
24
Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
We Are
the 1st Computing Science
department in Canada
Our Research Goes Deep
We create AI. We apply AI. Always at the forefront of the field, the U of A continues to drive research in reinforcement learning while harnessing AI in new technologies for cancer detection, wildfire prediction, decision making and so much more.
Board Games Research Group
Specializing in high performance search algorithms and game playing programs, the group created the first Go program to beat a top human player in 9x9 Go.
Games Research Group
The team designs, analyzes, and implements artificial intelligence for use in high-performance game-playing programs.
Intelligent Reasoning Critiquing and Learning Group
Focusing on AI research in real-time heuristic search, interactive story-telling and cognitive modelling, this group also has several special collaborations with other field leaders.
Medical Informatics Group
Collaborating medical researchers and clinicians, this group team works for more accurate predictions about future patients — covering cancers, transplant, diabetes, stroke and depression.
We Are
1 of 3 national AI hubs
of excellence in Canada
LEADING THE WAY IN AI EDUCATION
The University of Alberta is home to the oldest and one of the largest computing science departments in Canada, with an international reputation for contributing to both the foundations and applications of computing. Our commitment to AI education has us harnessing data to make new strides in almost every field — including finance, agriculture, health and beyond.