Science and innovation in times of a pandemic
Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight... Read More
COVI: Protecting the health and privacy of Canadians
In recent weeks, people from various backgrounds have expressed concern about using the mobile application COVI to help combat COVID-19. Encroachment on... Read More
Press release: Louise Arbour and Louise Otis to head COVI Canada
Montreal, May 26, 2020 – The Honourable Louise Arbour and the Honourable Louise Otis join the COVI mobile application project, respectively as... Read More
A smart and ethical contact-tracing app to fight COVID-19
As part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, like nearly 100 countries around the world, Canada is considering the use of... Read More
Yoshua Bengio and his collaborators unveil the name of their COVID-19 tracing application and launch a White Paper
Posted on18/05/2020
The team led by Professor Yoshua Bengio, Scientific Director of Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, is pleased to announce that its... Read More
Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19
Posted on25/03/2020
Social distancing works but in its simplest form it is brutal and economically very damaging. We have already seen how tracing and... Read More
Mila and its partners rally the scientific community to develop novel data-driven solutions to assist with COVID-19 outbreak
Posted on20/03/2020
In light of the challenges that COVID-19 presents to our society, Mila is bringing its machine learning expertise to the scientific community... Read More