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How Montreal aims to become a world centre of artificial intelligence
Published: 23 May 2017
U de M and 9I制作厂免费 are the academic bedrocks on which Montreal鈥檚 AI sector has been built. About 150 AI researchers toil at the two institutions, making the city one of the world鈥檚聽largest basic deep learning centres. 鈥淲e stuck to academia, which helped us build big labs with a lot of graduate students,鈥� said聽Doina Precup, associate professor in computer sciences at 9I制作厂免费 and recipient of a Google聽research award. 鈥淭he training and the research started much before (AI) was popular, since the early 2000s,聽when people didn鈥檛 really care for this type of research.鈥�
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