The Globe and Mail: For truckers, sitting at the border means lost money
A couple of weeks ago, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland took a tour of trucking company Bison Transport’s headquarters in Winnipeg. With media cameras flashing and yellow safety vest donned, she checked out a truck driving simulator and sat down with a few drivers to get their take on the reality of hauling freight in North America.
Vubble and Seneca launch innovative Video Categorization Project
Vubble, Canada's online leading video discovery and distribution company, announces ground-breaking, AI-driven video categorization partnerships with SOSCIP and Seneca College.
Request for Proposals: AI Insights into Regulations
The Treasury Board of Canada has announced an RFP for Artificial Intelligence Insights into Regulatory Data. The deadline is August 31, 2018 at 3 p.m. EDT.
SOSCIP launches Fast Forward
Now Available: Fast Forward is a collection of impact stories from across SOSCIP's network. Each of the stories recognize technological innovation and data science excellence important to supporting athriving economy in Ontario and Canada.
Call for Code – June 18 – August 31, 2018
Call for Code is more than a global challenge, it’s an opportunity for your developers to make a lasting change for social good. Unlike other hackathons and code challenges, the code is just the beginning.
U of T startup raises US$45 million to build AI-powered drug discovery business
Atomwise, a U of T start-up and one of SOSCIP's early projects, announced US $54 million in funding to support drug discovery through artificial intelligence.
Message from the Executive Director
SOSCIP's Executive Director shares important updates about new projects, industry partners and upcoming news and events.
SOSCIP announces Dr. Jennifer MacLean as Executive Director
SOSCIP is thrilled to announce Dr. Jennifer MacLean as Executive Director
Big data research to make accurate predictions of wait times for trucks
Big data research collaboration to develop real-time, smart approach to predicting cross-border wait times for transportation and logistics industry
SOSCIP IBM Watson Information Sessions: Open to all members of the SOSCIP community
The Centre for Advanced Computing (CAC), SOSCIP and IBM are hosting a SOSCIP IBM Watson Lunch & Learn in Toronto and Ottawa (see below for full details).
SOSCIP launches GPU-Accelerated platform
SOSCIP is pleased to announce the installation of our new GPU-Accelerated Platform, made possible through our funding from FedDev Ontario.This state-of-the art platform brings much-needed GPU-acceleration to SOSCIP for the first time.The system will enable SOSCIP researchers and their partnered companies to undertake machine learning/deep learning approaches as well as significant acceleration of other scientific and engineering applications, including materials science, astronomy, geophysics and computational chemistry.
Toronto-based startup accelerator, Next AI accepting applications
NextAI is aimed at entrepreneurs, students, professionals and scientists looking to commercialize research and launch AI-enabled ventures. Applications open Sept.20 and individual applications close Nov. 12.
UofT researchers among 50 Canadians engaged in CHIME
University of Toronto researchers are among the 50 Canadian scientists involved in the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a revolutionary new Canadian radio telescope that will map out the history of the universe's expansion.
Contract awarded SOSCIP researcher to develop new software for radiation testing
SOSCIP researcher Joan Knoll and industry partner, London-based Cytognomix Inc., was awarded a $263,713 contract to work with Health Canada on software to test for radiation in human chromosomes — a technology that is a major departure from current testing methods.
Students from McMaster and Western talk “Impact”
Omar Boursalie and Kimberley Adamek share their insights and experiences on the importance of presenting research impact.