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Our community of researchers, and members of our executive team, are regularly featured in the world's most trusted news outlets, including the BBC, The Economist, The Globe & Mail, the Hill Times, National Geographic, Nature, the New York Times, and Science.
Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond
New Scientist
Profile of work by Joseph Michalski
Prior COVID Infection Doesn't Guarantee Good Immunity: Study
HealthDay
Profile of work by Thomas McDade
The Poop About Your Gut Health and Personalized Nutrition
WIRED
Profile of work by Brett Finlay
Human Brain Patterns May Help Build a Better AI System
Medscape
Profile of work by Blake Richards
New Approach Could Boost the Search for Life in Otherworldly Oceans
Scientific American
Profile of work by Heather Graham
Physicists See Light Echoing From Behind a Black Hole for the First Time
Gizmodo
Profile of work by Roger Blandford
Breastfeeding for any amount of time linked to lower blood pressure in toddlers, study finds
CNN
Profile of work by Meghan Azad
India has become an ‘electoral autocracy.’ Its covid-19 catastrophe is no surprise.
Washington Post
Op-ed by Prerna Singh
Waabi, the rare autonomous vehicle startup with a woman CEO, raises $83.5 million
The Verge
Profile of work by Rachel Urtasun
Quantum computers are already detangling nature’s mysteries
WIRED
Profile of work by Alan Aspuru-Guzik
NASA sends squids from Hawaii into space for research
The Washington Post
Profile of work by Margaret McFall-Ngai
Astronomers work out when the first stars shone
BBC
Profile of work by Richard Ellis
Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings
Science
Profile of work by Catherine Tallon-Baudry
Canada must act fast to prepare for the quantum age
iPolitics
Cites the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy as a model for a national quantum strategy
Earth’s underground worlds may run on radioactive decay
The Atlantic
Profile of work by CIFAR's Earth 4D Program
How AI can help Canada’s post-pandemic recovery
The Hill Times
Opinion by Elissa Strome
Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World
Scientific American
Interview with Arturo Casadevall and Matthew C. Fisher
AI has a compute problem. There’s a Canadian approach to solving it.
The Globe and Mail
Opinion outlining the role of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy in addressing the need for compute capacity
Federal council on COVID-19 variants gets to work
Global TV's The West Block
Interview with Alan Bernstein
Covid Lockdowns Prevented Other Infections. Is That Good?
WIRED
Interview with Tamara Giles-Vernick, Brett Finlay and Martin Blaser
Damage to a Protective Shield around the Brain May Lead to Alzheimer’s and Other Diseases
Scientific American
First-person account by Daniela Kaufer
Federal budget promises more funding for innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence, genomics research and quantum computing
The Globe and Mail
Notes federal investment in the CIFAR Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
How Plant 'Vaccines' Could Save Us From A World Without Fruit
Discover Magazine
Interview with Hailing Jin
To Close the Gender Gap in Wages, We Need to Start Young
Scientific American
Opinion by Katherine McAuliffe
The taste for fermented food goes back a long way
The Economist
Interview with Katherine Amato
Can AI Combat COVID-19?
TVO's The Agenda (video)
Interview with Marzyeh Ghassemi
Governments investing in new vaccine-manufacturing plant in Toronto
Toronto Star
Interview with Alan Bernstein
Which COVID-19 vaccine is best? Experts say it’s the first one that’s offered to you.
Toronto Star
Interview with Alan Bernstein
Ottawa’s $40-million D-Wave funding part of forthcoming quantum strategy: Source.”
The Logic
Notes CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy as a model for a quantum strategy
Montreal, Centre of the A.I. World. (3-part podcast series)
Radio-Canada (English).
Interviews with Elissa Strome, Doina Precup, Joelle Pineau, Yoshua Bengio, Blake Richards, Yann LeCun
“Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn.”
Quanta Magazine
Interview with CIFAR fellows Konrad Kording, Blake Richards, Yoshua Bengio
Isolation and sanitation during COVID-19 may affect human microbiome, scientists say
CTV News
Interview with Brett Finlay
Exercise vs. Diet? What Children of the Amazon Can Teach Us About Weight Gain.
New York Times
Interview with Samuel Urlacher
Is it possible to mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines?
Maclean's
Interview with Alan Bernstein
Science gave us excellent vaccines. Why bend the rules?
Globe & Mail
Opinion by CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein
Life on Mars? Billion-year-old water found near Timmins could offer glimpse into the past
Toronto Star
Profile of work by CIFAR program co-director Barbara Sherwood-Lollar
America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
New York Times
Opinion co-authored by CIFAR fellow Dan Breznitz
We need a homegrown solution for making enough vaccines for every Canadian
Globe & Mail
Opinion by CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein
What Loneliness Looks Like in the Brain
HealthDay
Profile of work by Canada CIFAR AI Chair Danilo Bzdok
Comparing COVID-19 vaccines: What’s the difference between the Pfizer and the Moderna dose?
Toronto Star
Interview with CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein
Loon sollicite l'expertise en intelligence artificielle de Google Montréal
Radio-Canada (en français)
Profile of work by Canada CIFAR AI Chair Hugo Larochelle
Minister Bains says orgs committed to diversity will get “preferential access to government programming”
BetaKit
CIFAR’s participation in Canada’s 50 – 30 Diversity Challenge
What Pfizer’s promising COVID-19 vaccine results mean for Canadians
Toronto Star
Interview with CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein
Understanding the future of AI and society
Apolitical
Opinion by CIFAR Advisor, Government and Public Policy Gaga Boskovic
Irina Rish, de l’Ouzbékistan à Montréal
Le Devoir (en français)
Profile of Canada CIFAR AI Chair Irina Rish
Here’s what you need to know from this week’s COVID-19 vaccine news
Toronto Star
Interview with CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein
Building blocks of language learning formed in infancy, and video chats can help later on
Globe and Mail
Opinion coauthored by CIFAR advisor Janet Werker
Canadian AI sector developing growing reputation as world leader
IDG Connects Magazine
Interview with CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy director Elissa Strome
Coronavirus antibody tests have had plenty of problems. Hopkins is developing a better, at-home version
Baltimore Sun
Interview with CIFAR fellow Thomas McDade
Wall Street Journal
Interview with CIFAR advisor Arturo Casadevall
Efficace l’application Alerte COVID?
CBC Radio-Canada (en français)
Interview with CIFAR program co-director Yoshua Bengio
A.I. algorithms had to change when COVID-19 changed consumer behavior
Fortune
Interview with Canada CIFAR AI chair & advisor Joelle Pineau
Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways
Washington Post KidsPost
Interview with CIFAR fellow Karen Guillemin
COVID-19 task force worries Trump’s rush to approve vaccines will spook Canadians
Toronto Star
Interview with CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein
Why Are Plants Green? The Answer Might Work on Any Planet
WIRED
Profile of work by CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Nathaniel Gabor
Deep-Sea Microbes Exert the Least Amount of Energy Possible to Survive
Smithsonian Magazine
Profile of work by CIFAR advisor Jan Amend
Researchers warn that a longterm pandemic could spell disaster for children
CBC Radio
Profile of work by CIFAR fellow Michael Kobor
Puberty can repair the brain’s stress responses after hardship early in life
Science News
Profile of work by CIFAR fellow Megan Gunnar
FDA Made the Right Call on Covid Plasma Treatment
Bloomberg Opinion
Opinion by CIFAR advisor Arturo Casadevall
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