Computer science professor, Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown , joins eight other UBC faculty this year (including two others from the Faculty of Science) to receive the…
It was July 2017 when UBC Professor Laks V.S. Lakshmanan was invited by his colleague abroad — Professor Reynold Cheng — to visit the University of Hong Kong…
Data, data, data. We use it for just about everything. Today’s world is often interpreted and improved upon by recording and analyzing data. For example…
According to a 2018 whitepaper by the International Data Corporation of Canada (IDC), by 2025 every connected person in the world will, on average, engage with…
While voice user interface agents (VUIs) like Siri and Alexa are now commonplace, their designers are still striving to make them sound more natural and…
Beginning a new job in another country in the middle of a pandemic is never going to be a fantastic experience. But Danica Sutherland is grateful to be here. It…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used increasingly in the workplace and has even extended to our social lives and relationships. From seeking cures for diseases…
Three researchers at UBC from the Computer Vision Lab (CVL) are seeing the fruits of their labour. That’s because an impressive eight papers have been accepted…
When UBC Computer Science researcher Dr. Raymond Ng and his collaborators at The PROOF Centre and UBC Medicine applied for two US patents, he was enthusiastic…
There is no doubt COVID-19 has brought out the best and the worst of us. One glance at COVID-related comments and discourse on Twitter illustrates that clearly…