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Microsoft Azure Training Day: Fundamentals
Thursday 05 March 2020 @ 08:00
Joignez-vous à nous lors du jour de formation gratuite sur "Microsoft Azure : Principes de base" afin d’améliorer votre compréhension des concepts infonuagiques et d’acquérir les connaissances nécessaires pour obtenir la certification sur les principes de base de Microsoft Azure.

Journée internationale de la femme: Atelier sur l’Intelligence Artificielle
Friday 06 March 2020 @ 08:30
Participez à la journée d’apprentissage de l’AI Business School de Microsoft, un événement exclusif et gratuit pendant lequel vous développerez vos compétences en IA et commencerez votre parcours d’apprentissage pour parfaire vos aptitudes. Toutes les personnes qui s’intéressent à l’IA sont les bienvenues!

Virtual Meetup - Zero-code development of blockchain smart contracts
Tuesday 10 March 2020 @ 13:00
Join us to learn how to develop and deploy Hyperledger Fabric chaincode and blockchain client apps using visual development tools in the TIBCO Cloud.

Demo Day Datapreneur 2019-2020
Tuesday 10 March 2020 @ 17:30
L'équipe du Centre d'entrepreneuriat Poly-UdeM a le plaisir de vous inviter au Demo Day de la 2e cohorte de Datapreneur! Datapreneur, c'est un parcours qui vise à créer, à déployer et à soutenir des startups en science des données et en intelligence artificielle.

Meetup: Aldo’s application integration with Talend Cloud API Service and AWS
Wednesday 11 March 2020 @ 17:30
We are excited to have Kenny Dumaine, Integration Lead at Aldo, join us to share with us their experience and some key takeaways about their Talend ESB API platform on AWS.

AI Mornings - Maintenance prédictive grâce à l'IA chez Pratt & Whitney Canada
Thursday 12 March 2020 @ 07:15
Prédire le moment où une pièce d'équipement a besoin de maintenance relevait, il n'y a pas si longtemps, de la science fiction. Tashi Drapeau, directeur stratégique principal au VP service à la clientèle et Roxana Zangor, directrice associée science de données et analytique, présenteront un cas de maintenance prédictive grâce à l'intelligence artificielle qui a été réalisé chez Pratt & Whitney Canada en 2019.

Meetup: SQL Server coding malpractices
Tuesday 17 March 2020 @ 18:30
In this presentation I will talk about "what not to do" when coding with SQL Server and T-SQL. Worst practices to avoid with SQL Server either on-premises and cloud, with some exciting examples. Speaker: Michelle Gutzait

Données, environnement et développement durable
Wednesday 18 March 2020 @ 17:00
Venez rencontrer 4 Montréalaises et Montréalais inspirants qui se servent de la science des données et de l’intelligence artificielle pour poursuivre leurs missions. Lors d’un panel de discussion passionnant, ils vous livreront leurs projets et leur vision pour l’avenir.

World Summit AI Americas
Wednesday 25 March 2020 @ 08:30
The World Summit AI Americas is returning to Montreal on 25th-26th March 2020, bringing together major global influencers in AI from enterprise, big tech, startups, academia, law, government and investment for two full days of mind-boggling innovation, heated discussions on AI policy, ethics and regulation, applied solutions for enterprise, hands-on workshops and the development of plans for advancing the application of AI in the coming year.

Articles, nouvelles et annonces

AWS Data Ingestion Cost Comparison: Kinesis, AWS IOT, & S3
"One question we often face at Trek10 as we design Serverless AWS architectures is, what is the most cost-effective and efficient AWS platform service for a new system to use for ingesting data?"

A New, Official Dask API for XGBoost
Training gradient boosted trees in a distributed environment has often been a challenging task. Different distributed frameworks all provide varying user interfaces, and the overhead of syncing data between worker nodes can become significant for wide datasets or deep trees. To provide an efficient distributed training solution over multiple GPUs, XGBoost relies on CUDA and Dask. This post will provide a deep dive into the updated Dask API that simplifies the process of training XGBoost models.

YouTuber Used AI to Upscale a Classic 1896 Short Film to 4K and 60fps
YouTuber Denis Shiryaev used publicly available AI-based technology to take a grainy, low-resolution short film from the year 1896 and upscale it all the way to 4K and 60 fps. The results, while not perfect, are downright astonishing.

MIT Technology Review: How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilization
Could we wake up one morning dumbstruck that a super-powerful AI has emerged, with disastrous consequences? Books like Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, as well as more recent articles, argue that malevolent superintelligence is an existential risk for humanity. But one can speculate endlessly. It’s better to ask a more concrete, empirical question: What would alert us that superintelligence is indeed around the corner?

Meena is Google’s attempt at making true conversational AI
To share progress towards deep learning designed to carry a conversation, Google today introduced Meena, a neural network with 2.6 billion parameters. Meena can handle multiturn dialogue, and Google claims it’s better than other AI agents built for conversation.

The Analytics Engineer
The landscape of the data and analytics world is shifting rapidly. In many companies, the roles and responsibilities of data engineers, analysts, and data scientists are changing. This change has created the need for a new role on the data team which some have taken to calling the “analytics engineer”.

Learn HiPlot in 6 mins — Facebook’s Python Library for Machine Learning Visualizations
About three weeks ago, Facebook open-sourced its homegrown lightweight interactive visualization library/tool for AI Research — HiPlot. It enables ML researchers and Data Scientists to analyze correlations and observe patterns in high-dimensional data, mainly using parallel plots.