Recent News

CIM WELCOMES NEW MEMBER PROFESSOR JOELLE PINEAU by Marlene Gray — last modified 2009-11-03 11:29

We are most pleased to report that our colleague, Professor Joelle Pineau from the School of Computer Science, joined CIM as a full member in May 2009, after having been a CIM Associate member for four years. Joelle is also a member of Regroupment REPARTI.

CIM Welcomes new Associate Member Professor Paul Kry by Marlene Gray — last modified 2009-10-26 18:39

We were very pleased that Paul Kry, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, joined CIM as an Associate member this past year.

NEW CIM Associate Member Dr. Renzo Cecere by Marlene Gray — last modified 2009-10-25 17:37

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Renzo Cecere has recently been accepted as a new Associate Member of CIM.

GAZETTE: Feb. 20/09: Teaching the World to Sing as One - Live Opera in Cyberspace with CIM's Jeremy Cooperstock by Marlene Gray — last modified 2009-03-04 11:56

TEACHING THE WORLD TO SING - AS ONE An ambitious experiment at McGill University is trying to bring live opera to cyberspace, through an unlikely pairing of engineers and classical singers. The idea is to simulate what it would be like if each were performing in different countries simultaneously over the Net for millions of spectators. The World Opera Project, the brainchild of Norwegian historian and opera aficionado Niels Lund, who was also on hand for the experiment Wednesday, hopes to be able to broadcast such an online opera by 2012. For the engineers, the project is about serving the artists' technological needs. But opera's jump into 21st century technology would also provide lessons for less challenging cyber-endeavours, improving everything from video conferencing to telesurgery, said Jeremy Cooperstock, an engineer with McGill's Centre for Intelligent Machines.

CIM IN THE NEWS: GAZETTE July 21, 2008: SURVIVAL OF THE MACHINES: SINGULARITY by Marlene Gray — last modified 2009-03-04 11:50

SURVIVAL OF THE MACHINES: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SINGULARITY In the movie The Terminator, set in the not-too-distant future, computers become smart enough to break free of the tyranny of their human masters. Of course, the computers round up and kill the humans. It doesn't look like a lot of fun in the movie. A few researchers at McGill's Centre for Intelligent Machines are working toward a moment that feels inspired by science fiction: a tipping point when smart computers themselves become capable of creating smarter computers, at a speed and in a direction we cannot predict. That moment is the Singularity. Among the scientists who see the Singularity as, at least, plausible is Benoit Boulet, a robotics researcher and director of the McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines. Boulet's colleague at CIM, Jeremy Cooperstock, teaches AI at McGill. He has a more guarded view of the Singularity than does Boulet, but, as he explains, "The potential for one of these areas to do harm is such that we should look at these doomsday scenarios and consider them."

CIM's Haptics Lab featured in New Scientist Oct. 25/08! by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-11-05 08:00

I am thrilled to announce that some of the work done by Vincent Levesque and members of our Haptics Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Vincent Hayward, is featured in the New Scientist Print Edition, 25 October 2008. The article features joint work being done by our Haptics group and colleagues at UdeM on tactile graphics for the blind. The article is entitled: "Pinching display lets you feel the data", and is based on a paper presented at ASSETS 2008.

Positions available in the Shared Reality Lab of CIM by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-04-03 11:16

The Shared Reality Laboratory of CIM, under the direction of Professor Jeremy Cooperstock, has numerous positions available.

CIM PhD student Vincent Levesque wins IEEE Haptics Award by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-03-20 11:43

We are most proud to announce that one of our CIM PhD students, Vincent Levesque, was the winner of the "IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Best Demonstration Award" at the 16th Symposium on HAPTIC INTERFACES (March 2008).

Former CIMite Julie Payette returns to space by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-03-04 13:41

Julie Payette, who pursued studies in a PhD program with Profs. Vincent Hayward and Renato DeMori of CIM, will be aboard the space shuttle Endeavour for a mission planned for April 2009.

CIM Professor Clark and PhD student featured in New Scientist Magazine! by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-02-06 15:25

Congratulations are in order for CIM member Professor James Clark, Director of the Visual Motor Systems Lab, and his PhD student Li Jie. The "New Scientist" magazine has posted an article about their work on its website. Professor Clark and Ji Lie have designed a novel way to think about designing games to control how players notice enemies and other features.

CIM student Michele Faragalli selected for Mars Analog Mission on Feb. 2, 2008 by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-01-21 13:26

We are proud to announce that Michele Faragalli, Master's student under the supervision of Prof. Inna Sharf, has been selected to participate in Expedition Delta to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) located in Utah.

PhD Openings in Medical Imaging at CIM and MNI by Marlene Gray — last modified 2008-04-19 12:39

These positions have been filled. Check back again sometime for future oppotunities at CIM.

FELLOW OF THE IEEE awarded to Dr. Vincent Hayward of CIM by Marlene Gray — last modified 2007-11-15 12:08

Congratulations to Dr. Vincent Hayward, Director of the Haptics Laboratory of CIM!

BRAVO to our CIM Precarn Scholars of 2008! by Marlene Gray — last modified 2007-11-13 11:46

Our CIM Students continue to do us proud. Please join me in congratulating our CIM students who were awarded Precarn scholarships for the year 2008.

CIM Welcomes Dr. Louis Collins of the Montreal Neurological Institute as Associate Member by Marlene Gray — last modified 2007-11-13 11:05

We are extremely pleased to announce the addition of Louis Collins, PhD, Faculty member of the Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of the Montreal Neurological Institute, to our Associate Membership affiliates of CIM.

CIM Welcomes Dr. Bruce Pike of the Montreal Neurological Institute as Associate Member by jan — last modified 2007-11-13 11:10

It is a both a pleasure and an honour to welcome Gilbert Bruce Pike, PhD, Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute to our CIM community as an Associate Member. Dr. Pike has a long and established history with our Centre, collaborating with CIM Faculty member Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi on numerous publications, co-supervised students and grants.

Professor Vincent Hayward, Director of the Haptics Laboratory of CIM, is giving a talk as part of the Royal Society Lectures in Science by jan — last modified 2007-09-14 16:23

 

V Couture and M Langer win best paper award at CRV by Gregory Dudek — last modified 2007-06-14 13:46

Vincent Couture (PhD student in SOCS) and Michael Langer (CIM member) won a best paper award at the Computer and Robot Vision Conference for their paper: "Can Lucas-Kanade be used to estimate motion parallax in 3D cluttered scenes?"

CIM Member Siddiqi wins graduate supervision award by Gregory Dudek — last modified 2007-06-14 10:14

CIM member Kaleem SIddiqi won the McGill University Carrie M. Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Supervision.

CIM-Precarn Video Kiosk Unveiling on Jan. 08/07 by jan — last modified 2007-11-13 16:54

 

KUDOS TO OUR CIM STUDENTS AND PROFS by Marlene Gray — last modified 2006-12-05 11:22

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J Angeles named IEEE Fellow. by Gregory Dudek — last modified 2006-06-05 12:48

Jorge Angeles, CIM member, was named a fellow of the IEEE.

CIM paper wins CHI award by Gregory Dudek — last modified 2006-04-29 13:20

A paper authored by researchers at McGill's CIM and UBC (jointly) won a best of CHI award in 2006 at the prestigious conference

CIM on National News by Gregory Dudek — last modified 2006-04-25 14:09

CIM's AQUA project was featured on CanadaAM, a nationally-broadcast news shown on the CTV network.