Amal Javed Abdhullah
AI summer camp aims to encourage high school girls to get involved in STEM
Peak Web August 3, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer The SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences held Invent the Future, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) summer camp, to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. During the two weeks of the camp, 24 eleventh-grade girls from all over the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, and even two from as far as Toronto, gathered to learn about AI, experiment with STEM, and work with mentors to create their own AI projects. In the first week, the girls learned about computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics. They also…
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Why are Vancouverites so afraid of homeless people?
Peak Web August 1, 2018Written by: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer At the end of last year, the City of Vancouver faced backlash and protests when one of the locations for its temporary homeless housing project was claimed to be too close to an…
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