Ontario Tech University at the forefront of artificial intelligence research

For decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has been depicted in popular culture, literature and film as a concept for a future generation. Fictional AI characters such as the HAL 9000 computer in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey helped entrench AI in the public conscience. As the computer system aboard a spacecraft, the HAL 9000 was capable of mimicking cognitive functions of the human mind, including language processing, interpreting emotional behaviour, reasoning, lip reading and more.

But well into the 21st century, the future has long arrived. What was once fiction is quickly becoming a facet of everyday life. AI has asserted a rapidly growing presence in society, with applications in industries ranging from manufacturing to education. AI has the potential to revolutionize how the everyday world works.

As part of Ontario Tech University’s commitment toward improving lives through the application of technology, Ontario Tech researchers explore how AI influences digital security, gaming, health care and our online social connections, among many other disciplines. On Wednesday, November 13, Ontario Tech’s Faculty of Business and Information Technology will host free public lectures and an expert panel to discuss real-life AI examples during AI and the Everyday Life, an event to highlight how AI can support your business and personal life.

AI and the Everyday Life workshop presentations:

• How is artificial intelligence learning from premature infants, astronauts, tactical operators and firefighters to improve all our everyday lives? (Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology)
• Applications of AI in managing the Internet (Dr. Shahram Heydari, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology)
• Applications of data analytics in health care (Dr. Amir Rastpour, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology)
• Ethics in the age of artificial intelligence (Dr. Stephen Jackson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology)
• PathOS: Testing games with artificial Intelligence (Samantha Stahlke, Research Assistant and Instructor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, and 2018 recipient of the Vector Institute Scholarship in AI)

Did you know?

• If you cannot attend AI and the Everyday Life, the event will be available on the MediaSite livestream.

What
AI and the Everyday Life

When
Wednesday, November 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Where
Ontario Tech University
Software and Informatics Research Centre (SIRC), Room 1350
40 Conlin Road West
Oshawa, Ontario
Free parking is available behind SIRC.

Itinerary

• 6 p.m. – Welcome and introductions
• 6:10 to 7 p.m. – Individual presentations
• 7 to 7:25 p.m. – Panel discussion
• 7:25 to 7:30 p.m. – Closing remarks

AI and the Everyday Life is sponsored by Meridian Credit Union.

Media contact
Bryan Olivver
Communications and Marketing
Ontario Tech University
905.721.8668 ext. 6709
289.928.3653
bryan.oliver@ontariotechu.ca