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Richard S. Sutton FRS FRSC is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta and a research scientist at Keen Technologies. [ 1 ] Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, [ 2 ] having several significant contributions to the field, including ...
Jonathan Schaeffer. Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer FRSC [1] (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess ...
Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Canadian-American computer scientist and digital activist formerly based at the MIT Media Lab. [2] She founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), an organization that works to challenge bias in decision-making software, using art, advocacy, and research to highlight the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI).
On May 28, 2013, the Province of Alberta launched the Alberta Open Data Portal with approximately 244 datasets. [11] In August 2015 a new portal open.alberta.ca was released to the public, adding further content to the datasets including Government of Alberta publications, a blog, descriptions of how both datasets and publications are chosen ...
Data science is an interdisciplinary field [10] focused on extracting knowledge from typically large data sets and applying the knowledge and insights from that data to solve problems in a wide range of application domains. The field encompasses preparing data for analysis, formulating data science problems, analyzing data, developing data ...
University of Toronto (MA, PhD) Occupation. College administrator, French professor. Barbara K. Altmann (born January 31, 1957) is a Canadian academic and college administrator. She became the 16th president of Franklin & Marshall College, and she is the first female to fill that role. Altmann was previously a provost at Bucknell University.
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta) (French: Université de l'Alberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, [8] the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, [9] the university's first president.
Social data scientists use both digitized data [22] (e.g. old books that have been digitized) and natively digital data (e.g. social media posts). [23] Since such data often take the form of found data that were originally produced for other purposes (commercial, governance, etc.) than research, data scraping, cleaning and other forms of preprocessing and data mining occupy a substantial part ...