News Pick – Canada tries to turn its A.I. ideas into dollars – NYT
April 9, 2017 – “Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada — backed by the Canadian government and universities — were laying the groundwork for today’s boom in artificial intelligence. But the center of the commercial gold rush […]
News Pick – Silicon Valley Investors Look North
October 8, 2015 – “Canada’s big tech companies used to be hardware makers, but that era is over. Nortel, once a telecommunications and networking-equipment giant, is a memory, and BlackBerry’s phones are an endangered species. From 2009, when Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection, to 2014, the year almost half of BlackBerry’s 85 million subscribers abandoned the phones, […]
