Public Outreach and Education Presenters:Michael Bowling and Brant Coghlan

Vision Impact the local and global knowledge economy through the training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) for now and into the future.             Public    Pre-University      University    HQP

3 Pre-University Outreach Generate excitement about science and technology among: Soon-to-be university students Elementary and middle school students Their teachers Address the problem of declining enrollments and growing demand

Current Activities 4 Summer camps School presentations School for the Deaf Young Scientists Conference … many others Women in science and technology WISEST WIT Department open house Fragapalooza High school teachers

5 Spotlight: Summer Camps Recommended by our Scientific Advisory Board Support and leverage the department’s efforts Week long (1 day devoted to ML) The experience: Hands-on AIBO gait control Hands-on Mindstorm programming RMP d emo and presentation Brain tumour project

Vision Impact the local and global knowledge economy through the training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) for now and into the future.             Public    Pre-University      University    HQP

University Expose undergraduates to research 23 undergraduate summer researchers (NSERC/STEP) 8 IIP students (16 month internships) Impact on course curriculum Undergraduate machine learning course Development of 8 new courses, redesign of 5 courses 7

Spotlight: Robotics Challenge New graduate course 12 students together build a robotic system for a difficult task Teaches the gamut of robotics technology Unique training with a large team Fall 2005: Robot Geocaching Featured on Daily Planet Basis for ML project on sensor bootstrapping Fall 2007: Robot Minigolf

Vision Impact the local and global knowledge economy through the training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) for now and into the future.             Public    Pre-University      University    HQP

Excellence 10 Attract the best students in Canada and abroad Increase in number of strong applicants from the US Prestigious summer internships at Google, Max Planck Institute, and NICTA Ph.D. student won the inaugural Alberta Ingenuity Bill Bridger Award of Excellence Best student paper prizes (UM2003, ADPRL07) Attracted 18 PDFs from top universities Hebrew University, CMU, Waterloo, UBC

11 Impacting the Economy Impacting Alberta (46 placed, mostly staff): Invidi Bioware Biotools YottaYotta IBM (Edmonton) ChenomX Smart Technologies EDS Sirrus Solutions Xymbiant (Startup) EzSeer (Spinoff) Teaching at UofA’s Augustana campus in Camrose

12 Impacting the Economy Beyond Alberta (35; mostly grads and PDFs): Yahoo! Google Microsoft PARC NICTA University of Waterloo Electronic Arts IBM (Toronto)

Spotlight: Invidi Alberta company Intelligent targeted advertising Application of machine learning 3 HQP directly from AICML Andrew Hiew, Mark Trommelen, Alden Flatt Future collaboration is planned 13 “The knowledge and experience I gained [at the AICML] has been a great benefit in my career as a software developer.” Alden Flatt, Invidi

Spotlight: Finnegan Southey Post-Doctoral Fellow 2.5 years at AICML 11 quality publications 16 different AICML co-authors Now at Google Highly sought position 14 “[My stay at AICML] led very naturally to my current work at Google… Best career move I ever made… ” Finnegan Southey, Google

Vision Impact the local and global knowledge economy through the training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) for now and into the future.             Public    Pre-University      University    HQP

Public Outreach Making the public aware of ML and its potential as a transforming discipline Extensive media coverage 158 total media reports This month: Scientific American This week: Page 2 of Edmonton Journal Public presentations Telus World of Science iCore Lecture, iCore Debates Celebrating Ingenuity Super Research Saturday MLA Visit Alberta at the Smithsonian

Spotlight: Smithsonian Smithsonian Folklife Festival Alberta at the Smithsonian AICML alone selected to represent Alberta research Outdoor public demonstration Dan Lizotte (Ph.D. student) 11 days Over 900k visitors 17

The Future Increase our K-12 outreach to students Replicate local successes across the province Increase our K-12 outreach to teachers Develop learning objects for teachers to use in the classroom Alberta Ingenuity Summer Scientist Program Partnering with the department on new initiatives

The Future Seek to expand our graduate applicant pool Entrepreneurial training Planned seminars for students and staff Developed with TEC Edmonton and the Faculty of Business Seeking further opportunities for outreach Telus World of Science exhibit Turkey Trot event

Questions? Impact the local and global knowledge economy through the training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) for now and into the future.             Public    Pre-University      University    HQP