Events

Apr
2
Thu
April 2020 Ottawa Section Meeting @ Algonquin College, Police Building (P), Room P105
Apr 2 @ 18:30 – 22:00

Schedule:

  • Meeting 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
  • Networking, Food & Refreshments, Work etc. – 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM to 10:00 PM

The IEEE Ottawa Section meetings consists of:

  • Call To Order and Introduction
  • Acceptance of the Agenda of the Meeting
  • Acceptance of the Previous Meeting Minutes
  • Scheduled New Business
  • Officer Reports
  • Student Reports
  • Chapter Reports
  • Conferences
  • Affinity Group Reports
  • Committee Reports

If you are interested in presenting to the Section, please email our secretary: Abdulhak Nagy (abdulhak.nagy@carleton.ca)

Apr
6
Mon
Discussion on possible COVID-19 response – IEEE-Ottawa SIG Humanitarian Technology
Apr 6 @ 16:30 – 18:00

​Dear Ottawa Section members,

the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level of urgency that needs an “all hands on deck” approach..If you are still waiting to play a role by contributing your academic, professional or personal skills to find technology-based solutions: please join us on a web call to organise a response:

Organiser: IEEE-Ottawa SIG on Humanitarian Technology
Date: Friday April 10

Time: 16h30

URL: Google Meet invitation

       https://meet.google.com/wep-xofb-uzo?authuser=1&hs=122

 

Tentative agenda:

(5min) Introductions

(15min) Sharing of IEEE-specific COVID-19 resources

(25min) Roundtable of local resources

(15min) Roundtable of known needs

(* min) Open discussion & wrap-up

Please RSVP by emailing: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org : this will enable us to prepare the agenda and round table with a number of participants in mind.

Apr
10
Fri
Web call to discuss possible COVID-19 response (IEEE Ottawa section)
Apr 10 @ 16:30 – 18:00

​Dear Ottawa Section members,

​​the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level of urgency that needs an “all hands on deck” approach​. If you are still ​waiting to play a role by contributing your academic, professional or personal skills to find technology-based solutions: please join us on a web call to organise ​a response​:

Organiser: IEEE-Ottawa SIG on Humanitarian Technology

Date:         Friday April 10

Time: 16h30

URL: Google Meet invitation

​       https://meet.google.com/wep-xofb-uzo?authuser=1&hs=122​

Tentative agenda:

  1. (5min) Introductions
  2. (15min) Sharing of IEEE-specific COVID-19 resources
  3. (25min) Roundtable of local resources
  4. (15min) Roundtable of known needs
  5. (* min) Open discussion & wrap-up

Please RSVP by emailing: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org​ :​ this will enable us to prepare the agenda and round table with a number of participants in mind.

Apr
22
Wed
IEEE Ottawa Seminar Series on AI and Machine Learning
Apr 22 @ 12:00 – 13:30

IEEE Ottawa Seminar Series on AI and Machine Learning

IEEE Ottawa Section, PHO
Chapter, CS Chapter, SP Chapter, TEMS Chapter

Jointly with Vitesse
Reskilling

The Rise & Foreseeable Future of
Artificial Intelligence:
Observations from a Commercial Pioneer

Peter MacKinnon

Synergy Technology
Management

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

On-line Webinar

112:00 non – 13:30

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly in the news
with stories of promise and peril.
Political leaders have declared it a national priority, the global high
tech industry is racing AI apps to markets and policy and governance implications
of AI are in their infancy.  We will
explore where this is all heading.

We will begin with some definitions and a bit of
history behind the rise of AI.  The talk
will then place AI in the context of being a potentially disruptive technology
on society. This will lead to a discussion about ethics and moral issues
regarding the development and use of aspects of AI as a dual-use
technology.  Time permitting, the role of
AI in defence and security will be used as an example for appreciating the complexity
and ethical issues brought on by AI. We will then turn to the role of the
engineer in this new world being enabled by AI.

Finally, we will review potential governance and
policy issues and options to address the rapid unchecked development and
application of AI within society at large; and, ultimately end with a
precautionary note.

 

Biography

The speaker was
a pioneer in the commercialization of AI in the 1980s and today is actively
involved in ethical and policy issues related to AI.  Peter has an extensive background on the
forefront of scientific and technological breakthroughs around disruptive
technologies and their impacts on society.
He was an early proponent in the development and promotion of Big Data
and data analytics using High Performance Computers, and was a major
contributor in creating the Internet in Canada, among other accomplishments.

Peter has a
background as a scientist, business manager, entrepreneur, domestic and
international bureaucrat, executive, diplomat, management advisor, and
academic; including most recently affiliation with both Telfer School of
Management and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa and the
Faculty of Engineering at Carleton University.
Peter also blogs on AI for the Institute on Science, Society and Policy,
an interfaculty organisation at uOttawa.

 

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Event
is free, but space is limited.  All
participants must register in advance.   

Please
follow the link to register

https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/226058

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For more information,
please contact: Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org

May
7
Thu
May 2020 Ottawa Section Meeting @ Algonquin College, Police Building (P), Room P105
May 7 @ 18:30 – 22:00

Schedule:

  • Meeting 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
  • Networking, Food & Refreshments, Work etc. – 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM to 10:00 PM

The IEEE Ottawa Section meetings consists of:

  • Call To Order and Introduction
  • Acceptance of the Agenda of the Meeting
  • Acceptance of the Previous Meeting Minutes
  • Scheduled New Business
  • Officer Reports
  • Student Reports
  • Chapter Reports
  • Conferences
  • Affinity Group Reports
  • Committee Reports

If you are interested in presenting to the Section, please email our secretary: Abdulhak Nagy (abdulhak.nagy@carleton.ca)

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