artificial intelligence
New fashion app combines AI and sustainability
February 15, 2023Bintu Alkassoum wants to change the way people shop. Her up-and-coming app, Shopinspo, fuses sustainability and convenience to bring users a unique mood board-inspired online shopping experience. The Peak sat down with Alkassoum to learn more about the process of designing this advanced app, which has its soft launch planned for early March. Shopinspo works using AI and a 3D printer to make its curated designs come to life. Alkassoum described it as a “circular shopping app;” the user uploads a picture into the app for inspiration, be it clothing or something else. Then, the user navigates algorithm-generated options to…
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SFU student creates his own chess engine
November 20, 2021Editor’s Note: Gabriel Kitsos and Vincent Yu are both affiliated with SFU’s chess club. Vincent Yu, a fourth-year computing science student, received recognition for his chess computer in August 2020. Today, Yu’s chess computer is among the top 100 in…
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Technologies of Speculation: a School of Communication book talk
March 21, 2021Sapere aude! Translated from Latin, it means “dare to know,” and was a featured phrase within Dr. Sun-ha Hong’s recent book, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society. Dr. Hong, an assistant professor in SFU’s School…
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Research Roundup: SFU researchers develop AI tool to better diagnose COVID-19 cases
July 1, 2020SFU Researchers and Providence Health Care (PHC) are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better understand how to detect COVID-19 cases. The tool, which is currently under testing in St. Paul’s Hospital, will help clinicians distinguish between COVID-19 pneumonia and non-COVID-19…
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Blurring faces and leaping salmon
September 3, 2018Anonymizing faces without losing emotion A team of researchers, which includes those from SFU, are working to improve the way individuals are anonymized for television. Anonymizing faces in news broadcasts or documentaries usually involves pixelating, blurring, or blacking out…
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Artificial intelligence could rob us of our humanity
June 1, 2015From basic communication tools to space exploration, the strides made yearly in science and technology are absolutely astounding to say the least. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments, societies around the world must now come to terms with its implications in…
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