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Announcement
CIFAR receives Google.org grant to bolster key research in sustainability and responsible AI
In support of Canada’s thriving AI ecosystem, CIFAR has received a Google. org grant of $1 million USD to bolster crit...
March 18, 2024
AI and Society
CIFAR’s AI for Health Solution Networks hold first meetings
Two new CIFAR Solution Networks, Integrated AI for Health Imaging and AI for Diabetes Prediction & Prevention, recently...
March 13, 2024
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Jan Amend
The CIFAR community is mourning the loss of Jan Amend. Amend was the inaugural Chair of CIFAR’s Earth 4D: Subsurface S...
February 20, 2024
CIFAR Talks
Women in Research: A conversation with CIFAR’s Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
February 15, 2024
Announcement
CIFAR welcomes five new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Today CIFAR announced five new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs who will join the more than 120 Chairs already appointed at Canada...
February 13, 2024
CIFAR Talks
Women in Research: A conversation with CIFAR’s Jessica Metcalf
February 07, 2024
AI Science
AI Canada! Premier global AI conference includes strong Canadian representation
This year hosted in New Orleans, NeurIPS 2023 once again featured strong Canadian representation, with more than 170 acc...
December 15, 2023
Announcement
Industry leaders gather for CIFAR + RBC Generative AI Leadership Forum
Participants heard from a range of experts about how generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges for Canadi...
December 12, 2023
Announcement
CIFAR receives renewed federal support through Canada’s Strategic Science Fund
The Strategic Science Fund’s multi-year support will allow CIFAR to pursue long-term scientific questions facing scien...
December 06, 2023
Announcement
Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt joins CIFAR’s Research Council
CIFAR is pleased to announce Brian Schmidt has joined its Research Council. Schmidt is the outgoing Vice-Chancellor and...
December 05, 2023Brilliant Minds
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Jan Amend
The CIFAR community is mourning the loss of Jan Amend. Amend was the inaugural Chair of CIFAR’s Earth 4D: Subsurface S...
February 20, 2024
CIFAR Talks
Women in Research: A conversation with CIFAR’s Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
February 15, 2024
CIFAR Talks
Women in Research: A conversation with CIFAR’s Jessica Metcalf
February 07, 2024
In Memoriam
Remembering Gerald Heffernan
Gerald Heffernan, former CIFAR Board member and one of our cherished supporters, recently passed
August 23, 2023
Award
Dr. Alan Bernstein named U of T Professor Emeritus
The title reflects Bernstein’s past and continued substantive contributions to the University of Toronto community
October 31, 2022
Award
CHIME team wins Brockhouse Canada Prize, CIFAR members among recipients
Key members of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) team are CIFAR researchers in the Gravity & th...
October 27, 2022Artificial Intelligence News
AI and Society
CIFAR’s AI for Health Solution Networks hold first meetings
Two new CIFAR Solution Networks, Integrated AI for Health Imaging and AI for Diabetes Prediction & Prevention, recently...
March 13, 2024
Announcement
CIFAR welcomes five new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Today CIFAR announced five new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs who will join the more than 120 Chairs already appointed at Canada...
February 13, 2024
AI Science
AI Canada! Premier global AI conference includes strong Canadian representation
This year hosted in New Orleans, NeurIPS 2023 once again featured strong Canadian representation, with more than 170 acc...
December 15, 2023
AI and Society
Policy advice for navigating regulation in the age of AI: think bigger
New report from the CIFAR AI Insights Policy Briefs series cautions that current efforts to regulate AI are doomed to fa...
November 21, 2023
AI Science
Canada’s foundational role in generative AI
Canada’s strong competitiveness in the generative AI field has its roots in longstanding Canadian support of responsib...
October 20, 2023
AI and Society
Generative AI doesn’t have to generate climate disaster
A new report published by CIFAR outlines basic steps for policymakers on how to measure and address the environmental im...
September 25, 2023Research & Advances
Advances
The racial wealth gap: How it started and how we can fix it
The racial wealth gap in the United States hasn’t changed in 70 years. CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Ellora Derenoncour...
September 06, 2023
Advances
Social media fuelling youth mental health crisis? CIFAR researcher cites other causes
In May, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory about the impact of social media on adolescent mental health, refuel...
August 25, 2023
Advances
CIFAR members among team to find first evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves
Astrophysicists have found first evidence for gravitational waves that oscillate for periods of years to decades. This n...
June 29, 2023
Advances
Believe the Impossible: The future of… human consciousness
From making neurons play Pong, to studying how psychedelics alter states of consciousness, Adeel Razi is taking non-trad...
February 09, 2023
Advances
Behind the headlines: Will the nuclear fusion breakthrough save the planet?
Curtis Berlinguette, clean-energy researcher and program co-director of the Bio-Inspired Solar Energy program at CIFAR,...
January 10, 2023
Advances
Believe the Impossible: The Future of…Treating Infectious Fungal Diseases
Leah Cowen, co-director of CIFAR’s Fungal Kingdom program, discusses the often overlooked fungi, from new opportunitie...
November 03, 2022
Brief
The Future of Fungi: Threats and Opportunities
CIFAR and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund held a workshop to help chart the future challenges and opportunities presented by...
October 19, 2022
Advances
Believe the Impossible: The Future of… Fairness in AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is extremely prevalent, but is it fair? Dhanya Sridhar, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, d...
September 12, 2022
Advances
Believe the Impossible: The Future of… human gut health
Carolina Tropini, a fellow in CIFAR’s Humans & the Microbiome program, gives insights in studying the human microbiota...
August 11, 2022
Brief
CIFAR Workshop on Astronomy/Cosmology and Artificial Intelligence
Optimizing AI/ML use in astronomy/cosmology, applying (astro)physics to AI's theoretical underpinnings
July 19, 2022In the News
A selection of international news coverage of the global CIFAR research community.
CIFAR in the News
Slate | Those Beautiful James Webb Space Telescope Images Are Just the Beginning
July 13, 2022
CIFAR in the News
Toronto Star | Can we make artificial intelligence less racist?
June 22, 2022
CIFAR in the News
The New York Times | ‘It’s Life of Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
April 23, 2022
CIFAR in the News
Financial Post | Lunch with Dan Breznitz: 'Our kids will have a worse life than us, unless we change Canadian business'
April 19, 2022
CIFAR in the News
The Verge | Keywords from hallucinogenic experiences can help find parts of the brain affected by drugs
March 16, 2022
CIFAR in the News
New Scientist | There are neurons in the brain that only seem to respond to singing
February 22, 2022Support Us
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