Exciting news! Maclean’s Magazine Power List 2024 is out, featuring top CIFAR community members. 👏

Kudos to Yoshua Bengio, Gillian Hadfield, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Stephanie Simmons and daleymaths for being recognized for their remarkable contributions to AI & Tech!

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Early experiences in an animal's life can have a significant impact on its capacity to thrive, even years or decades later, according to a new study co-authoured by CIFAR researcher Jenny Tung.

Learn more: sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/…

Congratulations to Prof. Meghan Azad, PhD, a Fellow in our Humans & the Microbiome program, for receiving the 2024 Canada Gairdner Momentum Award (@GairdnerAwards) for her research on understanding how human breast milk contributes to shaping the infant microbiome and lifelong health!

We are pleased to welcome Mathieu Denis to CIFAR as the Executive Director, Research & Partnerships this July.

Mathieu brings a host of experience, including as founder and head of the International Science Council’s Centre for Centre for Science Futures.

Recognizing the importance of preparing their workforce for the age of AI, Sun Life has partnered with CIFAR in support of Destination AI / Objectif IA—a free online course introducing AI literacy for all Canadians.
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CIFAR’s new Strategy focuses on the opportunity to explore boldly, transform the world around us and make meaningful impact in our communities.

Read our new framework and how it will direct the organization in the coming years: cifar.ca/strategy/

New research suggests that the brain can actually create memories before the age of three, but we can’t consciously access them.

CIFAR's Tomás Ryan and Paul Frankland speak to Science Magazine about their research into “infantile amnesia”:

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.Covariant, a robotics startup co-founded by our Learning in Machine & Brains Program Advisor Pieter Abbeel, is designing technology that lets robots learn skills like chatbots do.

Learn more about this innovative work:

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People who attain higher education levels experience slower aging and have longer lifespans compared to those who don't advance educationally, according to a new study co-authored by CIFAR researcher Daniel Belsky.

Learn more: scitechdaily.com/new-columbia-r…

Elissa Strome, ED of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy at CIFAR, recently appeared on #TheFeed with @AmberMac and Michael Bancroft to discuss recent Google investments in Canada’s AI ecosystem.

🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/you…

What are the possibilities for Canada in 2080? What kind of Canada do we want to live in? The Imagine 2080 podcast looks at the research, possibilities, and ambitions that could steer Canada forward.

🎧 Listen: lnkfi.re/imagine2080

A new paper, authored by Hannah Landecker, part of the Future Flourishing program, introduces a new way of understanding how human knowledge and industrial activities have shaped living organisms and processes since the 20th century.

Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

An underinvestment in computing power is threatening Canada’s AI advantage, The Globe and Mail reports.

Elissa Strome, Executive Director of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy at CIFAR and Yoshua Bengio, Canada CIFAR AI Chair MilaQuebec, offer their insights:

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Great to see SRI researchers Laura Rosella and Jennifer Gibson meeting with their CIFAR Solution Networks colleagues and collaborators to develop targeted AI solutions that will improve the health and health systems of Canadians.

As climate change intensifies, fungal pathogens are becoming prevalent and causing widespread concern among experts.

CIFAR's Arturo Casadevall joins USA TODAY’s podcast The Excerpt, to discuss what’s causing this explosion in disease-causing fungi.

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